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.
