LIVE-STREAMED CONCERT!
Friday 26 March, 1.10pm

Join us ONLINE for a beautiful lunchtime concert featuring Manu Brazo (saxophone), Prajna Indrawati (piano) and Claudia Gallardo (violin) streamed from St James’s Church, Piccadilly.

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PROGRAMME

JS Bach (1685-1750)

Allemande, from Partita in A minor, BWV 1013

Manuel de Falla (1770-1827)

La vida breve: Spanish Dance No.1

 José Elizondo

Otoño en Buenos Aires

Traditional, arr. Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)

Danny Boy (Farewell to Cucullain)

Ralph Martino

A Gershwin Fantasy

 Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)

Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana

Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)

Sevilla

Jean Matitia (b.1952)

Devil’s Rag

Vittoria Monti (1868-1922)

Csárdás

BIOGRAPHIES

MANU BRAZO - saxophone

Manu Brazo is a young Spanish saxophonist who has established himself as one of his generations most versatile young musicians. At ease on the stage he is often praised for his unique sound and virtuosity as well as having the ability to have a close and intimate relationship with his audience. He regularly mixes a musical and often technically challenging performance with anecdotes about himself or the composers.

Over the last few years Manu has been a regular recitalist at British and international music festivals such as Leeds International Concert Season, Tetbury Music Festival, Newbury Spring Festival, Aegean Arts Festival in Crete and Risor Kammermussikkfest in Norway. He has also given solo performances throughout the UK and Europe and played with the London City Orchestra, RCM Philharmonic, Orquesta Betica de Camara and Orquesta Filarmonia. In 2018 he was selected to take part in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme where he performed at the Snape Maltings Proms conducted by Marin Alsop. Manu has also been a regular guest on BBC Radio 3 In Tune.

Last summer Manu, accompanied by pianist Bryan Evans MBE, was invited by promoters Live Nation to be the opening act for Sir Cliff Richard at Greenwich Music Time Festival and to open Downton Live at Highclere Castle to audiences of around 12,000 people.

The global pandemic in March saw all his forthcoming concerts, masterclasses and debut recording in Italy cancelled.Determined not to give up Manu took a different route and built his own recording studio, learnt how to edit to a professional standard and recorded his debut album Solo Dialogue which was released in June 2020. A collection of five solo saxophone tracks with accompanying videos the aim is to express the different emotions that Manu experienced when the world shut down and to show there is still hope and optimism. The recording and videos have been supported by Classic FM on their social media sites as well as BBC Radio 3 In Tune.

Born in Seville, Spain, Manu started to play saxophone at the age of 9. He studied in Seville and was accepted and funded to study at Royal College of Music, where he graduated from his Master in Performance and Artist Diploma with Distinction and won numerous awards.

PRAJNA INDRAWATI - piano

Indonesian pianist Prajna Indrawati honed her Master of Performance degree in Piano Accompaniment (2018) at the Royal College of Music under tutelage of Roger Vignoles, Kathron Sturrock, and Simon Lepper. She performed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Festival Hall, for BBRadio3 “in Tune”, in St. James Picadilly, Kings Place London, Newbury Spring Festival, Alderney Music Festival, etc; as well in Seville (Spain) and Creete (Greece). She was awarded second place for Accompanist Prize in “Brooks- van der Pump” English Song Competition and Joan Chisell Schumann Competition and Titanic Memoriam Award for accompanist in Lies Askonas Competition 2018. Recently, she joined Jakarta City Philharmonic as a soloist in Mozart Piano Concerto c minor. She achieved her Diploma in Piano Performance and Grade 8 Singing from ABRSM. Prajna has worked as an accompanist for singers and choirs across Asia and Europe.

CLAUDIA GALLARDO - violin

Claudia was born in Cadiz (Spain). She started playing the violin at the age of 5 years in the International School of Algeciras. She studied in her bachelor in music at Conservatorio Superior de Música de Sevilla and just finished her Master in Performance at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Jacqueline Ross. Claudia has performed with many youth orchestras in Spain, including the Orquesta Joven de Andalucia for which she has been concertmaster. She has played under the baton of Michael Thomas, Arturo Tamayo and Manuel Hernández-Silva.

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PROGRAMME

Schumann - Frauenliebe und Leben
Horowitz - Lady Macbeth: A Scena
Howells - King David

BIOGRAPHIES

British born mezzo soprano Lauren Joyanne Morris is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio (RCMIOS), having completed her Master of Vocal Performance (Distinction) at the Royal College of Music, London. During her time at the RCMIOS she studied under Tim Evans-Jones and was a Fishmongers’ Company Beckwith Scholar supported by a Douglas and Hilda Simmonds Scholarship and The John Clemence Charitable Trust. She now studies with Mary Plazas and is a Concordia Foundation Artist.

Performance highlights include covering the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni for Garsington Opera and covering the role of Johanna in Sweeney Todd for Welsh National Opera. Lauren Joyanne has also had the pleasure of performing the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni for British Youth Opera and singing the roles of Young Tree and Narrator in Paul Bunyan for Welsh National Youth Opera: a production which received a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award.

For the RCMIOS Lauren Joyanne performed the roles of Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (under the direction of Sir Thomas Allen), Susan Wheeler in In the Locked Room, Hermia in The Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fox (cover), Grasshopper, Dog and Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen and Childerico in Faramondo (in association with The London Handel Festival).

Concert experience includes performing selections of music by Stephen Sondheim at Cadogan Hall, performing the role of Johanna in Sweeney Todd alongside Bryn Terfel at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod and singing in a performance of Serenade to Music at Buckingham Palace, under the baton of John Wilson.

Future engagements include singing the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte for Hurn Court Opera and covering the role of Isolier in Le Comte Ory for Garsington Opera.

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Jo Ramadan began his music studies as a chorister at Chapel Royal, St James Palace. After graduating from Durham University, he studied as a postgraduate pianist at the Royal College of Music, under John Blakely and Roger Vignoles. Jo is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and a Samling Scholar.

Jo has accompanied various masterclasses, including those of Gerald Finley, Kiri Te Kanawa, Angelika Kirchschlager, Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray and Simon Keenlyside, as well as a Liszt masterclass with Leslie Howard. He has received major awards from both the MBF and the Neuby Trust and was the winner of the Joanina Trust Awards Accompanist Prize.

A keen conductor, Jo was Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor for British Youth Opera’s tour of L’Elisir d’Amore with Southbank Sinfonia. He also conducted Walton’s The Bear and Rossini’s L'Occassione Fa il ladro for Minotaur Music, as well as Così fan tutte for Woodhouse Opera. More recently, Jo was Assistant Conductor of Handel’s Ariodante at Drottningholm Festival.

Jo is currently an Associate Artist and Principal Assistant Conductor and Repetiteur for Classical Opera Company. In addition, he is Director of Music at St Vedast Foster Lane, a listed Accompanist and Professor of Vocal Repertoire at the Royal College of Music and a featured conductor and pianist at Oxenfoord International Summer School. Jo is also a coach and course leader for Samling Academy. 

Future plans include Assistant Conductor on Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Grange Festival, as well as recitals with Mary Bevan, Martha Jones, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Kitty Whately and Roderick Williams.  

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PROGRAMME

Claude Debussy arr. Heifetz - Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune L.86 

César Franck - Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major 
I - Allegretto ben moderato
II - Allegro
III - Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia
IV - Allegretto poco mosso 

Emily Sun

Possessed of ‘a superb talent’ (The Advertiser), with ‘a perfect balance of expressivity and formidable strength’ (The Australian), violinist Emily Sun is in demand internationally for her compelling and captivating interpretations of both new and classic repertoire. Her impressive versatility as soloist, chamber musician and recitalist and genuine connection with her audiences allows Emily to perform with leading orchestras and festivals across Europe, the USA, Asia and Australasia.A multi international prize winner, Emily was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal from the Royal College of Music, presented to her by HRH Prince of Wales. She won the 2018 ABC Young Performer of the Year (Australia), and the 2016 UK Royal Overseas League Commonwealth Musician of the Year, and international competition prizes at Brahms International Violin Competition (Austria), Yampolsky International Violin Competition (Russia), and Lipizer International Violin Competition (Italy). She was selected as a Young Concert Artist for the Concordia Foundation, The Worshipful Company of Musicians, and is a City Music Foundation Artist.

Emily has performed recitals in some of the world’s major concert venues including Sydney Opera House, Wigmore Hall London, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Tchaikovsky Great Hall Moscow, Auditorium du Louvre Paris, and Flagey Brussels. She performed at Buckingham Palace alongside Maxim Vengerov in Bach’s Double Violin Concerto, in the presence of HRH Prince of Wales, and at the Royal Palace of Brussels in the presence of the King and Queen of Belgium.

As a concerto soloist, Emily has appeared with orchestras worldwide including the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Tasmanian Symphony, Queensland Symphony and Canberra Symphony Orchestras in Australia; Arlington Symphony, Arizona Symphony and Garland Symphony Orchestras in USA; European Union Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Royal Wallonie and Orchestre de Chambre Namur in Belgium.

An active chamber musician, Emily has collaborated with musicians such as Maxim Vengerov, Gary Hoffman, Miguel da Silva, Marc Coppey, Danny Driver, Gemma Rosefield and is regularly invited to perform at music festivals across Europe.

As a teen, Emily shot to national fame after being featured in the acclaimed award-winning Australian documentary ‘Mrs Carey’s Concert’. Her media presence continues as the ABC Artist-in-Residence, BBC Introducing Artist, with regular broadcast on Classic FM, BBC Three (UK), Kol Hamusica (Israel), WXQR (USA), and Musiq 3 (Belgium).

Emily studied with Dr Robin Wilson at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and continued with Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music London, where she now serves on the faculty. She was mentored by Pinchas Zukerman, Maxim Vengerov, Ivry Gitlis and was Artist-in-Residence at Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth Belgium, mentored by Augustin Dumay.

Ashley Fripp

British pianist Ashley Fripp has performed extensively as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist throughout Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and Australia in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls. Highlights include the Carnegie Hall (New York), Musikverein (Vienna), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Philharmonie halls of Cologne, Paris, Luxembourg and Warsaw, the Bozar (Brussels), the Royal Festival, Barbican and Wigmore Halls (London), the Laeiszhalle (Hamburg), the Megaron (Athens), Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Gulbenkian Auditorium (Lisbon) and the Konserthus (Stockholm).

He has won prizes at more than a dozen national and international competitions, including at the Hamamatsu (Japan), Birmingham and Leeds International Piano Competitions, the Royal Over-Seas League Competition, the Concours Européen de Piano (France) and the coveted Gold Medal from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 2013, Ashley won the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ highest award, The Prince’s Prize was chosen as a ‘Rising Star’ by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO). He has also performed in the Chipping Campden, Edinburgh, Brighton, Bath, City of London and St. Magnus International Festivals as well as the Oxford International Piano Festival and the Festival Pontino di Musica (Italy). A frequent guest on broadcasting networks, Ashley has appeared on BBC television and radio, Euroclassical, Eurovision TV and the national radio stations of Hungary, Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and Portugal. He has collaborated with orchestras including the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, the Milton Keynes City Orchestra and the Kammerorchester der Universität Regensburg (with whom, in 2012, he recorded Chopin Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2). He has worked with conductors including Semyon Bychkov, James Judd, Vasily Petrenko, Robertas Šervenikas, Hilary Davan Wetton, Jonathan Bloxham, Graham Buckland and Peter Stark.

Ashley Fripp studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Ronan O’Hora. He is currently studying with Eliso Virsaladze at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Italy) and undertaking doctoral studies into the piano music of Thomas Adès at the Guildhall School.

Raphael Lang (cello) and Mina Beldimanescu (piano) will give a recital for the New North London Synagogue from their own home - by Zoom. They will be performing Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Franck's Violin Sonata (for cello), and Popper's Hungarian Rhapsody.

Invitation for Zoom Concert on 27 August

Zoom meeting opens at 12.45. Concert starts at 1.00pm

https://zoom.us/j/98871571574

Meeting ID: 988 7157 1574

The NNLS team will be providing a link for those who wish to donate directly to the Artists.

Raphael has won a raft of major international prizes.  He studied in Paris and then at the Royal Academy of Music where he participated in masterclasses with, among others, Raphael Wallfisch, Robert Cohen, and Christoph Henkel. Sub-Principal Cello with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Raphael also performs regularly with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, and United Strings of Europe. 

Born in Bucharest, Mina Beldimanescu performs regularly as soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and the USA. She graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. A multiple prize-winner at numerous international piano competitions throughout  Europe, such as Val Tidone, and Larnaka-Grand Prix, she has also been awarded the Lilian Davies, Douglas Cameron and Harold Craxton prize.

PROGRAMME

Nikolai Medtner - Sonata Reminiscenza from Op.38

Johannes Brahms - Sonata for Piano and Violoncello Op: 38 No: 1 E minor

Vickers Bovey Guitar Duo delight patients, staff and visitors at UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre with a programme of mixed-genre favourites.

PROGRAMME

Piazzolla – Tango No.1

Rameau –

Pièces de Clavecin:

Le Rappel des Oiseaux

Musette en Rondeau

Les Cyclopes

Albeniz – Cadiz

The Beatles – Penny Lane

De Falla –

Danza Espanola No. 1

from La Vida Breve

Piazzolla – Tango No. 2 & 3

The Beatles – Here Comes The Sun

Vickers Bovey Guitar Duo have been described as performers ‘with truly uncanny unanimity’ (Ivan Hewett, Daily Telegraph) and ‘with astounding exquisiteness’ (Paul Driver, Sunday Times).  Julian and Dan first met studying at Birmingham Conservatoire, continuing their studies with a joint Masters at the Royal Academy of Music, London.  The duo have been featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and Late Junction and have performed extensively both in the UK and internationally.
They are proud to be Concordia Foundation Artists.

PROGRAMME

Dvorak -Silent Woods

Dvorak - Rondo

Franck - Cello and Piano Sonata

Ben Tarlton

Born in 1995 in Wales, Ben studied with Sharon McKinley and Alexander Baillie before attending the Yehudi Menuhin School in 2011 to study with Thomas Carroll. In 2014, he received a scholarship to The Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study with Louise Hopkins. As of September 2018, he has been continuing his studies with Louise as a Postgraduate Student, kindly supported by The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Help Musicians UK and The Countess of Munster Trust. He was recently awarded the 2019 Suggia Gift by Help Musicians UK, The David Goldman Award from The Worshipful Company of Musicians and was the recipient of the 2019 John Fussell Award.

In May of 2016 Ben was selected as a Fellow to participate in the Piatigorsky cello festival in Los Angeles and in April 2017, he participated in the masterclasses at IMS Prussia Cove, attending Open Chamber Music the following September. He was invited as a soloist to perform with the Youth Classics Orchestra for their gala concert at Zurich’s Hochschule Der Künste in the autumn of 2017. After being selected as their Young Artist, he gave a recital at The 2018 Cowbridge Music Festival. Ben was recently chosen to be a 2019 Concordia Foundation Artist and a 2019/20 Park Lane Group Artist.

Whilst at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Ben has performed in numerous solo and chamber music concerts in Milton Court and The Barbican Hall. He has also performed on three occasions in a BBC ‘Total Immersion’ broadcast as part of The New Music Ensemble. In November 2016, he was one of two soloists to play for The LSO’s Donatella Flick conducting competition semi-finalists, playing Schumann’s cello concerto with The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra. Ben is Artistic Director of The Llantwit Major Chamber Music Festival.

Stephen Gutman

British pianist Stephen Gutman has performed in the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Weill Hall in New York, Ueno Bunka Keikan in Tokyo, and throughout Europe. After graduating from the Royal College of Music in London, he was awarded first prizes in the Brant Competition and the British Contemporary Piano Competition. He has performed as soloist with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, and in various ensembles including the Verbier Festival Ensemble. Passionately committed to the music of our time, Stephen has encouraged new work in a series of projects which have placed large-scale commissioning in the context of significant but possibly neglected repertoire. Some of the many composers who have written pieces for him include Julian Anderson, Tansy Davies, Michael Finnissy and Colin Matthews.  

Stephen's enthusiasm for French music including the French Baroque led to his recording of the complete keyboard works of Rameau played on the modern piano for Toccata. There have been enthusiastic reviews;  the final CD was chosen as CD of the month by  MusicWeb International and received 5 stars in BBC Music Magazine. Other recordings are available on NMC and Avid Records, and his performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Deutsche Rundfunk and France Musique. Stephen has given masterclasses in the UK and internationally. He has led courses at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Northern College and Dartington Summer School, and regularly gives a class on French piano repertoire at Benslow Music. His contribution to a new book on the music of Simon Holt, a chapter on the piano music, was published in 2017.

Julia Hwang violin; 
James Drinkwater piano; 
Ben Tarlton cello; 
Jâms Coleman piano

Beethoven, Janáček, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

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Vickers Bovey Guitar Duo delight patients, staff and visitors at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital with a programme of mixed-genre favourites.

PROGRAMME

Piazzolla – Tango No.1

Rameau –

Pièces de Clavecin:

Le Rappel des Oiseaux

Musette en Rondeau

Les Cyclopes

Albeniz – Cadiz

The Beatles – Penny Lane

De Falla –

Danza Espanola No. 1

from La Vida Breve

Piazzolla – Tango No. 2 & 3

The Beatles – Here Comes The Sun

Vickers Bovey Guitar Duo have been described as performers ‘with truly uncanny unanimity’ (Ivan Hewett, Daily Telegraph) and ‘with astounding exquisiteness’ (Paul Driver, Sunday Times).  Julian and Dan first met studying at Birmingham Conservatoire, continuing their studies with a joint Masters at the Royal Academy of Music, London.  The duo have been featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and Late Junction and have performed extensively both in the UK and internationally.
They are proud to be Concordia Foundation Artists.

Guy Murgatroyd (piano) delights patients, staff and visitors at UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre with a programme of mixed-genre favourites.

PROGRAMME

Bach - 
Prelude in C major BWV846/1
Prelude in C minor BWV847/1
Prelude in C sharp major BWV848/1

Mozart - 
Sonata in C Major K545

I. Allegro II. Andante III. Rondo. Allegro

Chopin - 
Nocturne Op. 9, No. 3
Prelude Op. 28, No. 15
Berceuse Op. 57

Debussy –
Reverie
Bruyères
Arabesque No. 1

British pianist Guy Murgatroyd has recently performed as a soloist at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St Martin-in-the-Fields church. Guy trained at the Royal Academy of music in London under Michael Dussek and is musical director for independent London company Opera Rogue.

PROGRAMME

Schumann—Symphonic Variations
Couperin—The wandering shadows
Rameau—GaVottes and 6 doubles
Granados—Maiden and the Nightingale from Goyescas
Liszt—Nuages Gris and Campanella

Concordia Artists delight patients and staff at the UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre.

PROGRAMME

Emile Paladilhe - Solo

Clara Schumann - Romance no. 1 in D-flat major "Andante molto"

Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo in B-flat minor "Andante non troppo e con molto espressione"

Clara Schumann - Romance no. 2 in G minor "Allegretto"

Ronald Binge - Watermill

Jonathan Pease - Westbourne Nocturne

Marina Dranishnikova - Poem

Edward Elgar - Salut d'amour

PROGRAMME

Roger Quilter                                       My life’s delight from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics

Roger Quilter                                       Five Shakespeare Songs                                               

                                                                        1. Fear no more the heat o’ the sun

                                                                        2. Under the Greenwood tree

                                                                        3. It was a lover and his lass

                                                                        4. Take, o take those lips away

                                                                        5. Hey, ho, the wind and the rain

Franz Schubert                                     Du bist die Ruh                                                

Franz Schubert                                     Suleika I                                                                      

Richard Strauss                                     Morgen! from Op. 27, 4 Lieder                        

Robert Schumann                                 Widmung from Op. 25, Myrthen                       

Lerner and Loewe                                I could have danced all night from My Fair Lady

Rogers and Hammerstein II                   If I loved you from Carousel                                        

Rogers and Hammerstein II                   Mister Snow from Carousel                                         

Ivor Novello                                        We’ll gather lilacs from Perchance to Dream                

Johann Strauss II                                  My dear Marquis from Die Fledermaus

BIOGRAPHIES

Caroline Taylor graduated with Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music. She is delighted to be a Concordia Foundation Artist, with whom she recently made her solo recital debut at St Martin in the Fields. This summer, Caroline is an Emerging Artist at Longborough Festival Opera, performing Chocholka and covering Vixen Sharp-Ears in The Cunning Little Vixen.

British pianist Guy Murgatroyd enjoys a reputation as one of a leading generation of adaptable pianists, at home as a soloist, song pianist and répétiteur. Initial studies were with scholarship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, following which he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a Master of Arts (Distinction). Guy is the Musical Director for independent company Opera Rogue.

PROGRAMME

Debussy - En Bateau
Bizet - Entr’acte from Carmen 
Weiss and Thiele - What a Wonderful World
Faure - Sicilienne 
Telemann - Menuet 
Boccherini - Menuet
Mancini - Moon River
Bizet - L’Arlezienne 
Gershwin – Summertime from Porgy and Bess
Debussy - Beau Soir 
Faure - Berceuse 
Chopin - Nocturne in E Flat Major
Debussy - La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin 
Rimsky-Korsakov - Song of India from Sadko
Gluck - Dance of Blessed Spirits 
Saint-Saens - Romance  
Loewe - I could have danced all night from My Fair Lady

Anna Kondrashina is a prizewinner of several prestigious international competitions in China and Japan. In 2018 she has joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra Foyle Future Firsts Development Programme and the Philharmonia Orchestra MMSF Instrumental Fellowship Programme the following year. In 2019 Anna completed her Masters Degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London with William Bennett.

Marina Kan Selvik is currently student at the Royal Academy of Music in London in the class of Prof. Ian Fountain. She is a Prizewinner of several international piano competitions, and has performed with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian State Orchestra and the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Both Anna and Marina are proud to be Concordia Foundation Artists.

PROGRAMME

Brahms — Cello Sonata No. 1
Janacek — Pohadka
Beethoven — Bei Mannern Variations

BIOGRAPHIES

BEN TARLTON - CELLO

Born in 1995 in Wales, Ben studied with Sharon McKinley and Alexander Baillie before attending the Yehudi Menuhin School in 2011 to study with Thomas Carroll. In 2014, he received a Scholarship to The Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study with Louise Hopkins. As of September 2018, he has been continuing his studies with Louise as a Postgraduate Student, kindly supported by The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Help Musicians UK and The Countess of Munster Trust. He was recently awarded the 2019 Suggia Gift by Help Musicians UK, The David Goldman Award from The Worshipful Company of Musicians and was the recipient of the 2019 John Fussell Award.

Ben was recently selected to be a 2019 Concordia Foundation Artist and a 2019/20 Park Lane Group Artist; regularly performing for both organisations in major London venues. In May of 2016 Ben was selected as a Fellow to participate in the Piatigorsky Cello Festival in Los Angeles. In April 2017, he participated in the masterclasses at IMS Prussia Cove and has frequently attended The Open Chamber Music Seminar since. He was invited as a soloist to perform with the Youth Classics Orchestra for their gala concert at Zurich’s Hochschule Der Künste in the autumn of 2017. After being chosen as their Young Artist, he gave a recital at The 2018 Cowbridge Music Festival.

Ben has performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Casa da Musica in Porto, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, West Road Concert Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Muziekegebouw in Amsterdam and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. He has played in masterclasses for Frans Helmerson, Ralph Kirshbaum, Colin Carr, Raphael Wallfisch, Heinrich Schiff and has had chamber music coaching with Andras Keller, Rita Wagner, Ralf Gothoni, The Takacs Quartet, The Brentano Quartet, The Gould Piano Trio and The Endellion Quartet.

Whilst at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Ben has performed in numerous solo and chamber music concerts in Milton Court and The Barbican Hall. He has also performed on three occasions in a BBC ‘Total Immersion’ broadcast as part of The New Music Ensemble. In November 2016, he was one of two soloists to play for The LSO’s Donatella Flick conducting competition semi-finalists, playing Schumann’s cello concerto with The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra.

Ben is Artistic Director of The Llantwit Major Chamber Music Festival and as of September 2019, is an Assistant Professor at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

ROSIE RICHARDSON - PIANO

Rosie Richardson studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Senior Professor Joan Havill. During this time, she became a recommended soloist for the Philip and Dorothy Green Making Music Award which led to recital and concerto performances around the UK.

Rosie has become well known for her work with string players, particularly cellists and last season gave recitals at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and Jacqueline du Pre Hall, Oxford, with Bartholomew Lafollette, as part of the YCAT Presentation Concert series.  Other recital venues included St. Margaret’s Westminster, St. James’ Piccadilly, The Rose Theatre, Tewkesbury and Winchester College.  Rosie recently recorded a selection of music for cello and piano with Brian O’Kane at the Menuhin Hall. They have just completed work with the ABRSM on recordings for the 2011-2015 Grade 7 and 8 cello syllabus.

Rosie recently formed the Millwood Piano Trio with Catherine Myerscough and Richard Birchall and gave recitals in the 2009 Ealing Proms. They look forward to recitals in 2010 in London and Cambridge.

Alongside her recital work, Rosie works at the Guildhall with pupils of cellist Louise Hopkins and she is on the peripatetic teaching staff at the Godolphin and Latymer School for Girls in Hammersmith.