Programme for Season 2023
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Jaren Ziegler
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Ewan Millar
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Martin James Bartlett
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Sunday 2 April 2023 at 4pm
Jaren ZieglerViola
Lynn Arnold Piano
Aris Sabetai Cello on Pocket Concerto
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Artist BiographyIn 2022 Jaren Ziegler won the BBC Young Musician 2022 String Final becoming the first violist in the competition’s history to do so. In the Grand Final, he performed William Walton’s Viola Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. Jaren was the youngest semi-finalist in the 2021 Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition. Jaren has also been awarded 1st prize in the Junior Academy Viola Prize, Bromsgrove Young Musicians’ Platform and the North London Music Festival String Recital. In 2021 he joined and toured with the renowned international string ensemble LGT Young Soloists and has recorded with them at Abbey Road Studios. He will be performing with them in Sydney, Singapore and Bangkok later this year. He has also performed as a soloist at the Royal Festival Hall and as a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Jaren has won numerous awards with Parkview Chamber as well as performing at St John’s Smith Square with his UCS trio. Jaren began playing the viola at age 6 and joined the Primary and then Junior Royal Academy of Music, studying as a scholarship holder with Jacky Woods. He has participated in masterclasses with Nobuko Imai, Lawrence Power, Maxim Rysanov, Timothy Ridout, Thomas Selditz, Jonathan Barritt, Martin Outram and Juan Miguel Hernandez. He has also taken further studies with Matthew Jones, Professor of Viola at Guildhall School. Jaren is grateful to the Young Classical Artists Trust for their generous support in their aftercare scheme for BBC Young Musician finalists. Jaren plays a Stefano Scarampella viola, kindly loaned to him by the Beare’s International Violin Society.
Pianist Lynn Arnold is well-known for her collaborative musicianship and for her commitment to advocating and performing British music. Recognised for the breadth, scope and depth of colour of her interpretations, Lynn performs frequently both across the UK and internationally as a chamber musician, soloist and accompanist. Since 2009, Lynn has been the Founder Director of the Butlers Marston Concert Society, bringing outstanding chamber music to rural, and most recently, online, audiences since 2009. A founding member of the Warwick Piano Trio, the Arnold Ensemble and the piano duet "Four Hands" with Charles Matthews, Lynn also collaborates with individual artists including Roderick Williams, Gabriela Demeterova, Roger Coull and Peter Mallinson. “Four Hands: Lynn Arnold & Charles Matthews” have recently released two CDs for Albion Records, and Lynn is delighted to be collaborating with the Tippett Quartet for Dutton Epoch in a series of CDs. An alumna of Cambridge University where she held a celebrated Instrumental Award, Lynn won much recognition in various competitions during her subsequent study at the Royal Academy of Music, not least the prestigious Sir Henry Richardson Award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund. A former Park Lane Group Young Artist, Lynn studied with Vanessa Latarche, Michael Dussek and Patsy Toh. Lynn is on the staff of the Royal Academy of Music, Junior Department and has coached chamber music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. A member of the ABRSM grade examining panel, Lynn also nurtures her select private teaching practice.
Aris Sabetai is a 19 year old cellist and guitarist. He is currently in his second year of reading music at the University of Oxford. In his early years, Aris was the lead cellist of the National Children’s Orchestra, subsequently progressing to the National Youth String Orchestra. He has previously studied joint first study cello and composition under William Bruce and Jeffery Wilson respectively at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s junior department. He has played in venues such as the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall and Bridgewater Hall. In 2019 Aris featured as a cellist on post-rock band MONO’s ‘Beyond the Past’ live album, and since then has been working as a session cellist for up and coming bands in Oxford and London. In 2022, he had the honour of performing the first movement of Garth Knox’s ‘Pocket Concerto’ with contestant Jaren Ziegler in the BBC Young Musician Strings Final. Recently, Aris joined 00productions for their rendition of ‘An American in Paris’ at the Oxford Playhouse, and frequently contributes to both the classical and modern sides of musical life of his college, Lady Margaret Hall. His compositional work encompasses songwriting, ambient music and shoegaze, all of which incorporate the recording and manipulation of cello sound. Outside classical music, Aris plays guitar and bass in several funk and rock groups in Oxford. He is looking forward to playing bass with acoustic-indie band Iris and Steel this year in their opening slot for Gorge Ezra at Latitude Festival.
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Sunday 16 April 2023 at 4pm
Ewan MillarOboe
Tomos Boyles Piano
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Artist BiographyOboist Ewan Millar won the Woodwind Category Final of the BBC Young Musician competition 2020 at the age of eighteen. He performed ‘Legacy’ by Óscar Navarro with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth at Bridgewater Hall in the Finals, broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and 4. In 2022 he appears as soloist with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra having won their 2020 Senior Concerto competition. Previous highlights include performances at Windsor Festival and at The Royal Albert Hall in ‘Gabriel’s Oboe’ with Berkshire Youth Symphony Orchestra, in addition to concerto performances with Reading Symphony Orchestra and Windsor & Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra. Ewan is currently reading Music at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and performs regularly with numerous ensembles including Oxford University Orchestra, Oxford Sinfonietta, the Holywell Wind Trio, the Oxford Baroque Players, and contemporary music group ‘Ensemble ISIS’. Originally from Reading, Ewan has been playing the oboe since he was eight, firstly with Nicky Fairbairn and now with Melanie Ragge at Royal Academy of Music. He has participated in masterclasses with Gilles Silvestrini, Celia Craig and Jonathan Small in addition to one-off private lessons with Nicholas Daniel and Gordon Hunt. Ewan is grateful to the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) for their generous support in their aftercare scheme for BBC Young Musician Finalists.
Tomos Boyles is a young Welsh musician developing a career as a pianist. He has performed in numerous venues, including St Martin in the Fields, the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, the Wales Millennium Centre, Christ Church Cathedral, and the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. He has enjoyed success in competitions, having recently been awarded the first prize at the Wales International Piano Festival in Caernarfon; this came with a generous scholarship to help fund future studies. Other top prizes include the Blue Ribband at the National Eisteddfod, and first place in the EPTA competition. Tomos graduated from Christ Church, Oxford University in 2022 with a first-class degree in music, having been the recipient of an academic scholarship during his studies. While at Oxford, he gave recitals at many of the University’s colleges, including Christ Church, Mansfield, and Jesus; he also live-streamed recitals from Christ Church Cathedral during the Covid-19 pandemic when there were restrictions on live music-making. As a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music, Tomos studies under pianist Rustem Hayroudinoff, having previously studied with Alison Bowring at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama’s junior department. Tomos has also benefitted from one-off lessons and masterclasses with pianists such as Joanna MacGregor, Piers Lane, and Artur Pizarro, among others.
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Sunday 7 May 2022 at 3pm
Martin James BartlettPiano
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Artist BiographyIn the 2021/22 season, Bartlett gave a European tour with the LGT Young Soloists, performing Philip Glass’s ‘Tirol’ piano concerto at the Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein and Hamburg Elbphilharmonie culminating in a gala performance for the Prince and Princess of Liechtenstein in London. Bartlett also debuted with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in March 2022 and The Times wrote: “the performance that matters is Bartlett’s splendidly dashing and tender account of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”. This season, Bartlett also plays recitals at the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron, International Chopin Piano Festival at Duszniki Zdrój, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Salle Cortot Paris, Dresden Music Festival, Stadtcasino Basel and the Warsaw Philharmonic for the Ludwig Van Beethoven Easter Festival. Furthermore, Bartlett embarked upon an American tour in the Young Concert Artists Series this season, which included debut performances in New York and The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. His first album was released in 2019 and received 5 stars in The Times: “Bartlett's ability to think long-term, rather than give in to immediate excitement, is probably his most impressive trait. No.2 on his score card may be his unaffected delicacy of touch, colour and tone, brilliantly shown in the three Petrarch sonnet settings from Liszt's Années de pèlerinage... Everything works to illuminate the music." Martin James Bartlett’s early public success was as the winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2014. This led to engagements with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Ulster Orchestra and in 2015 Bartlett made his BBC Proms debut performing Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In the following year, he performed at Her Majesty The Queen's 90th Birthday thanksgiving service, which was broadcast live on BBC One from St. Paul's Cathedral. In August 2020, Bartlett was announced as the inaugural winner of the Virtu(al)oso Global Piano Competition by Piano Cleveland. In 2018 he was awarded 2nd prize and the Audience Award at the Kissingen Piano Olympiad. In 2021 he was awarded the Queen Mother Rosebowl by HRH Prince Charles and graduated with a first class Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree and an Artist’s Diploma from the Royal College of Music, having studied under Professor Vanessa Latarche. Bartlett is the RCM Benjamin Britten Piano Fellow from 2020 until 2022. Recent and future highlights include recitals at the Elbphilharmonie, Wiener Konzerthaus and Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent and invitations from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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