Tentative Programme for Season 2021
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Giuseppe Guarrera
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Jamal Aliyev
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Elodie Chousmer-Howelles
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Artist BiographyIn 2017 Giuseppe won 2nd Prize at the Montréal International Competition along with five other awards including the People’s Choice. Over the last year Giuseppe has won a prestigious Klavier Ruhr Festival scholarship and the Tabor Foundation Award at the Verbier Festival Academy. He completed his studies at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin with Nelson Goerner and has now joined the Faculty. This season Giuseppe makes his debut with the New Generation Orchestra in Florence, the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen in Cremona and at the Al Bustan Festival in Lebanon. Other highlights include recitals at Wigmore Hall, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Societa dei Concerti in Milan, Festival Armonie in Valcerrina and Lingotto Giovani series in Turin. Giuseppe has performed widely in Europe, recently giving recitals at the Boulez-Saal, Klavier-Ruhr Festival, the Luis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Estivales de Musique en Médoc and Lerici Festivals. Solo appearances include the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (with Vasily Petrenko), the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (with Claus Peter Flor) and the Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice. In 2017 he premiered a concerto by Benjamin Attahir with the Pierre Boulez Ensemble conducted by Daniel Barenboim. He was selected by YCAT in 2018.
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Artist BiographyIn 2019 Jamal made his debut with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the St. Magnus Festival broadcast by Radio 3. Other highlights include appearances as soloist with the City of Birmingham Symphony, Philharmonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, CBSO Youth Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra Simón Bolívar of Venezuela. He gave recitals across Turkey with renowned pianist Fazil Say including the Ataturk Culture & Congress Center and TIM Maslak Show Center, took part in the Istanbul Music Festival, and appeared as soloist with Presidential Symphony and Istanbul Symphony Orchestras. This season Jamal makes his debut performing the Elgar Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Trans-Siberian Festival with the Tomsk Philharmonia. He returns to Wigmore Hall, records with Fazil Say and gives recitals throughout the UK and in Turkey. In 2017 Jamal made his BBC Proms debut and won the Arts Club – Sir Karl Jenkins Music Award. His debut CD Russian Masters was released by Champs Hill Records to critical acclaim. He was selected by Young Classical Artists Trust in 2017 and Concerts Artists Guild in New York in 2019. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Jamal studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music. He is currently undertaking an Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. .
Hailed as 'a major new talent' International Piano and a ‘pianist of splendid individuality’ Arts Desk English pianist Sam Armstrong has made solo recital debuts at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York as well as at the Wigmore Hall in London, and as concerto soloist with the National Symphony of Ecuador. Passionate about chamber music, he has performed with musicians including Ralph Kirshbaum, William Bennett, Hannah Roberts, Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer and Randall Scarlata in festivals such as Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Mecklenburg-Vorpommen, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Ravinia and in venues such as Seoul Arts Centre, Esplanade Singapore, Kumho Art Hall Seoul, and Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. He has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Radio Suisse-Romande/Espace 2, WQXR New York, WFMT Chicago and Radio New Zealand. He was a prize winner in the Porto International Piano Competition, the Brant Piano Competition, Beethoven Society of Europe Competition, and was also laureate of the Epinal International Piano Competition in France. He has received awards from the Philharmonia Orchestra/MMSF, MBF/Help Musicians Fund, Wingate Foundation, Kirckman Concert Society and the Solti Foundation. He studied with Helen Krizos in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music and later in New York with Richard Goode at Mannes College of Music. He also worked with John O’Conor in Dublin and in masterclasses with Leon Fleisher, Murray Perahia, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Mitsuko Uchida.
Programme Noteswill be available at the concert.
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Artist BiographyElodie is a Calleva Trust scholar at the Royal Academy of Music where she studies with Sasha Sitkovetsky. A strings category finalist in the 2018 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, in November 2019, she was invited to give the UK premiere of Paul Drayton's arrangement of The Lark Ascending for solo violin and choir. The performance was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 from the Cutty Sark in concert with The BBC Singers and their chief conductor, Sofi Jeannin. Elodie has appeared alongside Mark Ronson and YEBBA with the Chineke! Quartet on BBC 1's Strictly Come Dancing 2019. As part of Blues Singer Connie Lush's 2019 Christmas Show at Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room, Elodie supported her sister, up-and-coming singer-songwriter Miss Satin Beige and Connie Lush.
Born in Chelmsford in 1999, Elodie began to learn the violin aged five, and went on to study at Chetham's School of Music in 2009 with Michael Gurevich and Jan Repko. In 2014 she left Chetham's to pursue studies with Maciej Rakowski at the Royal College of Music and the following year became Essex Young Musician of the Year. In 2016 she was announced as leader of The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, 2017. Elodie has made appearances with chamber groups at venues across London including The Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room, The Wigmore Hall and The House of Lords. In Spring 2019, Elodie made her debut at Edinburgh's Reid Hall performing Peteris Vasks' violin concerto with Edinburgh University's String Orchestra. She has been grateful to have received mentoring and guidance from distinguished artists Nicola Benedetti and Chloe Hanslip. Elodie has been fortunate to have received funding from musical charities: Future Talent, Awards For Young Musicians and The David Randall Foundation. Elodie plays on a Sam Zygmuntowicz violin on loan from The Royal Academy of Music.
Adam Heron is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of today’s foremost young musicians. Since his critically-acclaimed appearance in 2018 as a Piano Finalist on BBC Young Musician of the Year, he commands a demanding schedule of international performances. Especially renowned for his interpretations of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Adam is the 2020 winner of the prestigious Harriet Cohen Bach Prize, endowed by The Musicians’ Company. Born in Hong Kong in 1999 of Nigerian-Filipino descent, then adopted into an Irish family, Adam has performed in fifteen countries worldwide, including recent solo recitals at distinguished music festivals such as the Cheltenham Music Festival (United Kingdom), The Cayman Arts Festival (Cayman Islands), and The Aegean Arts International Festival (Greece). He received his formative musical training as a chorister in Gloucester Cathedral Choir under the directorship of Adrian Partington, and subsequently won a scholarship to attend Wells Cathedral School. Highlights of the Winter Season 2019/2020 included an invitation from the British Council in Egypt to perform at the International Center for Arts in Cairo, and a tour of India during which he presented a masterclass for the students of the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation, as well as a recital at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. In addition to his engagements as a soloist, Adam is a devoted collaborative pianist, composer, and conductor. Recent collaborative engagements include a tour of his native Hong Kong with British cellist Jamie Walton, and his New York debut alongside the Nigerian-American soprano Francesca Chiejina. Adam has performed as a concerto soloist with the lauded Chineke! Orchestra, and he has worked with eminent conductors such as Jonathon Heyward, David Curtis, and Pete Harrison. In 2019 he founded his own chamber orchestra, The Boyce Camerata, which he has since co-directed with the Moroccan conductor Yassine Taoudi Benchekroun. Adam is a laureate of both the Stefano Marizza International Piano Competition in Italy, and of the International Piano Competition HRH Princess Lalla Meryem in Morocco, where he additionally received the Special Prize from the Embassy of France in Rabat for his interpretation of French music. Further competition successes include the Irish Heritage Music Award, which he won following a performance at Wigmore Hall in London. He has gratefully received support from The Hattori Foundation, The Tillett Trust, and The Macfarlane Walker Trust. Adam has received tuition from several prominent pianists including Stephen Hough, Paul Lewis, Anne Queffélec, and John Lill. Generously supported by The Musicians’ Company Young Artists’ Programme and by The Talent Unlimited Foundation , he currently studies with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he holds the prestigious Hargreaves and Ball scholarship.
Programme Noteswill be available at the concert.
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