Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music 2019/20

Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music 2019/20

Wednesdays at 1.05pm The Venue

Leeds College of Music www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk

Welcome to another exciting season of lunchtime chamber recitals at The Venue, featuring some of the most talented young musicians at the start of their professional careers alongside students from the UK’s leading conservatoires and junior colleges.

Wednesdays at 1.05pm – 1.55pm The Venue

This season, rarely heard double reed instruments the bass oboe and hecklephone Leeds College of Music are featured as part of the Roseau Trio. SAA-uk (next to the West Yorkshire Playhouse) presents a concert of ‘Winter Sun’ to brighten FREE ADMISSION the dark days of December, and in February, Arcturus gives a concert of Spanish flavoured music for string quartet. Solo piano recitals are always a firm favourite, and this season we have performances from Maki Sekiya, Guiseppe Leeds Active Map - The Venue_85x85_D2_VECTOR.pdf 1 20/06/2019 16:27 Guarrera and by popular demand, Alison Rhind.

Whether you work in Leeds city centre, are a student or a senior member of the community, Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Series offers the perfect midday respite with a chance to hear world-class performances for free!

Each concert lasts fifty minutes so that it can easily fit into your lunch break or daily routine.

Leeds College of Music’s café bar stocks a range of drinks, sandwiches and light meals and is open before and after the concert. So why not make a lunch date with us this season?

We look forward to seeing you there.

Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music

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9 October 2019

16 October 2019

Maki Sekiya

Roseau Trio

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Gubaidulina Chaconne Chopin Nocturnes: Op 15, No 3; Op 27, No 1; Op 32, No 1; Op 27, No 2 Liszt La Campanella Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 Maki Sekiya is a Japanese virtuoso pianist developing a successful international career, based in Oxford (where she lives), Moscow and Tokyo. She is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire and the Purcell School. She is a remarkable talent whose playing has great power and subtlety, performing a repertoire that ranges from Baroque masterpieces, through Beethoven and Schubert to the transcendental works of the late romantic era, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and contemporary music.

Maki has recently been invited to give her debut recital at the Wigmore Hall. She is also a distinguished concerto artist and has performed with the Orchestra of St John’s on many occasions and with leading Russian orchestras: she performed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2 with the OSJ at this year’s Oxford Proms, as well as concerti by Mozart and Shostakovich. She is currently Musician in Residence at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, where she presents an annual series of recitals.

Michael Sluman bass oboe John McDougall hecklephone David Baker bassoon Bret Newton The Death of Myrddin Ell Kendal ** Mozart Divertimento K 439b, No 1 Desmond Clarke Meadowland Ben Gaunt Rustic Spellsphere Formed in 2019, the Roseau Trio is a unique ensemble celebrating the rarest of the lower double reed instruments. The trio brings together specialists of these instruments who have performed in the finest orchestras in the world.

Graduating from Leeds College of Music in 2016 with a master’s of music, Michael has performed as an international guest soloist at the Australian Double Reed Society Conference, Sydney and the International Double Reed Society Conference in Granada, Spain.

John McDougall was born and raised in Glasgow, and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He is currently Principal Bassoon with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

David studied at the Music Department of Huddersfield Polytechnic, specialising in performance and composition. In 1991, David became Sub Principal Bassoon with the Orchestra of Opera North based in Leeds, a post he holds to this day.

Fergus McCready oboe Julian Chan piano Telemann Sonata in E minor Silvestrini Six Etudes: iii Boulevard des Capucines v Scène de plage – Ciel d’orage vi Le ballet espagnol Rubbra Oboe Sonata Roslavets Sonata No 1 Kalliwoda Morceau de Salon Fergus McCready started playing oboe at primary school and attended many musical groups in Devon before attending Wells Cathedral School, where he was awarded a scholarship as a specialist musician on oboe and composition. Fergus was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he is now studying with Chris Cowie on the BMus degree programme. He is also involved in chamber groups at the Academy, further developing this aspect of his musical skills.

Born in Kuala Lumpur in 2000, pianist Julian Chan currently studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where he holds the full-fees Benjamin Dale scholarship. Julian began his studies on piano and composition at the age of three. In 2011, he continued his studies at Wells Cathedral School, at which he also received a full scholarship. He has received masterclasses from many internationally renowned pianists and has won most of the major solo piano classes at the MidSomerset Festival.

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27 November 2019

Junior Royal Northern College of Music

Back Chat Brass

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Music Curzon Brass

Meltemi Ensemble

Chetham’s School of Music

Flauguissimo Duo

Jacob Smith trumpet Matthew Tarrant trumpet Tom Hayes French horn Dan Price trombone Mark Dilley tuba

Devienne Trio Op 61, No 5 Mozart Divertimento Don Giovanni Beethoven Variations on Là ci darem la mano Ibert Cinq Pièces en Trio

Rachel Burnett voice Charlotte Addinall oboe Owen Spafford violin David Jones piano accompanist Concert to include music by Handel, Offenbach, Brahms and Cole Porter.

Rachel Burnett has studied singing at the Junior RNCM for four years and last December was awarded a high distinction for Grade 8 Singing.

Rachel also studies saxophone, and composition, for which she was a shortlisted finalist in BBC Young Composer of the Year 2017.

Charlotte is eighteen years old and lives in Holmfirth, near Huddersfield.

She is currently taking a gap year before attending the University of Birmingham to read Music, and is studying under Kenny Sturgeon.

Although her greatest passion lies in music-making, she intends not to be a professional musician, but plans to campaign fervently for a child’s right to music education due to its vast array of benefits.

Owen Spafford discovered traditional folk music at the age of eight, and it has been at the centre of his musical life ever since. He has been a member of the National Youth Folk Ensemble for three years, and in 2018 was selected from the ensemble to play with Sam Sweeney at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting at Buckingham Palace.

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Relaxed performance Programme to include: Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Justin Bieber Love yourself Jackie Wilson Higher and Higher Beyonce Single Ladies Back Chat Brass is an exciting and dynamic, New Orleans-inspired ensemble. From playing on the streets of Leeds, the band has gone on to perform at prestigious festivals and venues across the UK and Europe. Back Chat Brass now brings the life and soul of a New Orleans carnival parade to various Live Music Now events, entertaining audiences of all ages with its mix of traditional and popular repertoire.

Relaxed Performances allow members of the audience to move around freely, leave or enter the auditorium as needed, lights never go completely dark and sound effects are softened.

These performances are open to all and are designed to welcome people with an autistic spectrum condition, learning disability, dementia or sensory and communication disorder.

Sousa The Liberty Bell Arnold Suite for Brass Quintet No 1: Allegro vivace Bach arr Powell Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659 Walton Popular Song Downes Suite for Brass Quintet No 1 Presley Can’t Help Falling in Love Gershwin arr Bulla Quintessential Curzon Brass is a quintet made up of students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Its players originate from all corners of the country; from Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Manchester and Birmingham.

As a group, the quintet has had opportunities to perform in various venues including Birmingham Cathedral and St John Smiths Square, as well as performing at various festivals including the Chipping Camden Music Festival and the Lichfield Festival. The group is also current winner of the Leamington Music Prize.

Dr Jo Lewis flute Dr Rachael Gibbon clarinet David Baker bassoon

Formed in 2014, the Meltemi Ensemble is a flexible group brought together by an ethos of promoting high standard, wind-based chamber music in an accessible and informative way. From formal recitals to background music for a mathematics conference, Meltemi has given many and varied performances with piano, harp, chamber organ, harpsichord and also as a wind trio, which is its chosen combination for this recital.

Jamie King bassoon Telemann Bassoon Sonata in E flat: i Cantabile, ii Allegro Jolivet Bassoon Concerto: i Recitativo

Macie Wallis violin Programme tbc

Iona Russell cello Beethoven Cello Sonata Op 102, No 1: i Andante Hindemith Solo Sonata: iii Langsam Popper Concert Polonaise

Gemma Webster piano accompanist Chetham’s is the largest specialist music school in the UK and is the only one based in the North of England. The school is also a national and international resource for music education – welcoming teachers, professional players, composers and conductors, community groups, school children and other young musicians, both experienced and novices, to come together and make music. This is the result of many different qualities that permeate the fabric of Chetham’s: the warm and welcoming atmosphere, the daily creative buzz, admirable academic standards, its history and heritage, its superb teaching and performance spaces, the city of Manchester as a cosmopolitan location, its many different backgrounds and personalities – and of course, the music.

Yu-Wei Hu flute Johan Löfving theorbo Couperin Huitiéme Concert dans le goût Théâtral Anna Amalia von Preussen Sonata for flute and basso continuo Kapsberger Canario Hotteterre Prelude from L’art de Préluder Hotteterre Air de M de Bousset from Airs et Brunettes Barsanti Dumbarton’s Drums Barsanti The Lass of Pealie’s Mill Roman Sonata for flute and basso continuo Flauguissimo Duo was founded by flautist Yu-Wei Hu and guitarist Johan Löfving. Yu-Wei and Johan have dazzled audiences across the UK and beyond, performing in venues such as Kings Place, Cadogan Hall and St John’s Smith Square in London, Sage Gateshead in Newcastle and St George’s Bristol.

Recently Flauguissimo was invited to perform in the Stratford-onAvon, Kings Lynn and London Guitar festivals. Other highlights include the Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe in the Netherlands, selection for Brighton Early Music Festival Live, the International Guitar Foundation Young Artist Platform 2015, Concordia Young Artists and Live Music Now. Flauguissimo Duo’s performances were highly appreciated by both audience and music critics.

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11 December 2019

8 January 2019

South Asian Arts UK Academy Song Circle Sophie Kauer Henrik Linnemann flute John Ball tabla Winter Sun Be inspired to bask in the soft winter sun, gently carried through the dark days of December by the mellow sound of the flute and the paced rhythm of the tabla.

Henrik Linnemann and John Ball present a lunchtime recital which explores the melodies and the beat of Indian classical music. The pieces presented will be following the musical structure of ragas (melodic frameworks of Indian classical music), which traditionally reflect the season and time of day. Each raga will be set to specific rhythmic cycles (taals) played on tabla.

Henrik and John are both keen musical explorers who search for fresh expressions of the forms and flavours which are to be found in diverse musical traditions.

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The Academy Song Circle celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann with a recital of her complete songs.

Each year a small group of the Royal Academy of Music’s most accomplished performers of the song repertoire are selected to form the Academy Song Circle.

Since its inception in 2004, Song Circle has given over 50 concerts in venues including Wigmore Hall, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Oxford Lieder Festival (all annual events), the German Embassy, the Institut Français, the Chelsea Schubert Festival, Kings Place, the Bolivar Hall, the National Gallery, the Academy’s Duke’s Hall, the David Josefowitz Recital Hall, and in private houses across London and farther afield.

Valentine’s Day is celebrated each year at the Academy with a programme of English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish love songs; and there is an annual Schubertiade, given by candlelight and in 19th century costume, devoted to the songs of Franz Schubert. There have also been recitals dedicated to the songs of Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Quilter, Warlock and Britten; and also to French, English and Russian Song.

Song Circle has made three CD recordings: Songs of Spring, Songs of Seduction and Goethe’s Girls and Mörike’s Men.

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Alison Rhind piano

Programme to include: Shostakovich Cello Sonata Sophie was born in London in 2001 to a German-British family. She began cello lessons at the age of eight and entered the preparatory division of the Royal Academy of Music in London just eighteen months later. During her seven years at the Academy she held a scholarship and, by the age of sixteen, had won all prizes open to her, including the Senior Cello Prize, the Norma Simpson Lower Strings Prize and the Chamber Prize. Sophie has been a private pupil of renowned cello teacher Melissa Phelps since the age of fifteen.

Sophie has already performed in several countries including Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, the Czech Republic and Italy, as well as across the UK. She has been fortunate to receive masterclass tuition from cellists such as Johannes Goritzki, Andreas Brantelid, Henrik Brendstrup, Raphael Wallfisch and Guy Johnston.

Alison Rhind is recognised as one of the leading collaborative pianists specialising in the repertoire for piano and strings.

15 January 2020

22 January 2020

29 January 2020

Jonian-Ilias Kadesha

Pro Corda

Sebastian Müller

Filippo Gorini

Corinna Boylan cello Andrew Quartermain piano

Gerardo Gramajo

Enescu Menetrier for violin solo Beethoven Violin Sonata Op 30, No 3 Skalkottas Petite Suite No 2 Brahms Violin Sonata No 3

Beethoven Cello Sonata No 4 Debussy Cello Sonata Chopin Introduction et Polonaise Brillante

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Jonian is currently completing his master’s at the Kronberg Academy with Antje Weithaas. He has performed widely in Europe at Wigmore Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, the Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Progetto Martha Argerich, Heidelberger-Frühling, Lockenhaus, Musikdorf-Ernen and Hitzacker Festivals.

As a chamber musician Jonian has taken part in festivals across Europe, collaborating with Steven Isserlis, Ivry Gitlis, Nicolas Altstaedt, Thomas Demenga, Ilya Gringolts and Pekka Kuusisto. Jonian was selected by YCAT in 2018.

Jonian plays a Nicola Gagliano violin (18th century), kindly on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in Hamburg.

Filippo graduated with honours from the Donizetti Conservatory in Bergamo, and completed a Postgraduate Course at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

He continues his studies with Maria Grazia Bellocchio and Pavel Gililov, and is mentored by Alfred Brendel.

He has performed on many prestigious stages such as the Berlin Konzerthaus, Leipzig Gewandhaus and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

Corinna Boylan completed her MA at the Royal Academy of Music in September 2017 studying under Josephine Knight. In 2015, she received a BA from Columbia University in New York City. At the age of ten, Corinna was accepted to the Juilliard School’s Pre-College division as one of Minhye Clara Kim’s youngest students and received highest honours upon her graduation in 2011. Corinna has performed internationally at festivals and concerts across the world.

Corinna was a member of Southbank Sinfonia with the sponsored Leverhulme seat for the 2018 season and she is currently a Leverhulme Fellow with Pro Corda.

Andrew Quartermain is CEO and Artistic Director of Pro Corda Trust, one of the largest music charities and course providers in Europe. As a pianist, Andrew has collaborated with some of the world’s leading artists and was a prize winner at the Guildhall where he studied after Cambridge. His teaching stretches from coaching some of the UK’s most gifted instrumentalists, to specialist work for children with autism, through to an international film series for Adult Learners.

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Thomas Collingwood cello

Schubert String Trio D 471: Allegro Mozart Divertimento K 563 Sebastian Müller trained with Irina Goldstein in Hannover, Germany, before studying at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin, Germany, with Stephan Picard.

Under the tuition of Ina Kertscher he graduated with first class honours at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany, in 2006. Sebastian has recently been appointed to the faculty of the Royal Northern College of Music.

Gerardo Gramajo began his violin studies in Montevideo with Jorge Risi (Cuarteto Latino-Americano) at the ‘Escuela Universitaria de Música’ (Uruguay). He completed his postgraduate studies in Germany.

Gerardo is in high demand as a solo and chamber musician throughout Latin America and Europe, often premiering new works by composers of his native Latin-America.

Thomas Collingwood completed his studies in 2003 at the Royal Northern College of Music. Following his graduation, he studied for two years with Karine Georgian in London. He has a strong interest in the study of instrumental period performance and works with a variety of modern and baroque instruments.

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5 February 2020

12 February 2020

19 February 2020

26 February 2020

4 March 2020

11 March 2020

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Arcturus

Guiseppe Guarrera

Royal Northern College of Music Larisa Trio

Purcell School

Leeds College of Music Leeds Jazz Choir

Manu Brazo saxophone Prajna Indrawati piano Gershwin/Martino A Gershwin Fantasy Hindemith arr Brazo Viola Sonata Op 11, No 4 Verdi/Lovreglio La Traviata Fantasy Matitia Devil’s Rag

Claire Osborne violin Cristina Ocaña Rosado violin Ravel Miroirs Prokofiev Sonata No 7 Elizabeth Wyly viola In 2017 Giuseppe won 2nd Prize Andy Fairley cello Arriaga String Quartet No 1 Joaquín Turina La oración del torero Eduardo Toldrá Vistas al Mar

Juan Cristostomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (1806-1826) was an incredibly talented Spanish-Basque After completing his Bachelor in composer who died at just twenty Music in Seville, award-winning years of age. He is now called the Spanish saxophonist Manu ‘Spanish Mozart’ as he was just as Brazo moved to London in 2016 much of a prodigy as his Austrian where he made his concerto colleague half a century earlier. debut with Guildford Symphony Arriaga’s Quartet in D Minor is a Orchestra. Since then Manu has wonderful Schubertian musical toured extensively in the UK and landscape interwoven with Spanish internationally as a solo artist. A melodies, dances and ethnic BBC introducing artist, Manu’s rhythmic elements. radio credits include BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Manu is currently a Joaquín Turina (1882-1949) wrote Tillet Trust’s artist, Royal College of La oración del torero, Op 34 (The Music Scholar supported by Soirée bullfighter’s prayer) in 1925 for a d’Or and a Talent-Unlimited and quartet of ‘laúds’, the Spanish lute, Concordia Foundation Artist. a folkloric instrument similar to a mandolin. This composition catches Indonesian pianist Prajna Indrawati obtained her Master of Performance the atmosphere in a bullfighting arena and depicts the contrast degree in Piano Accompaniment at between the buzz in the arena, the the Royal College of Music under expectation of the public and a quiet tutelage of Roger Vignoles, Kathron prayer of the bullfighter in a chapel Sturrock, and Simon Lepper. In London she has accompanied singers nearby, preparing for the fight. In 1926 Turina arranged La oración del in venues such as the Victoria and torero for string quartet.

Albert Museum, Royal Festival Hall Southbank, and for the launch of The Catalan Eduardo Toldrá (1895Natasha Loges’ book Brahms and 1962) was a composer, a violinist and His Poets, at the Royal College of a conductor. His composition Vistas Music. As well as singers, Prajna al Mar is a set of three tone poems also accompanies instrumentalists which takes you on an exciting for concerts, exams and festivals journey of contrasts inspired by throughout Europe and Asia. three evocative verses about the sea taken from a poem by Joan Magarall.

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at the Montréal International Competition along with five other awards: the People’s Choice, best semi-final recital, the Bach, Chopin and compulsory work awards.

Born in Sicily, Giuseppe completed his studies in 2018 at the BarenboimSaid Academy in Berlin with Nelson Goerner. In the same year he won a Tabor Foundation Award at the Verbier Festival Academy, received a prestigious Klavier Ruhr Festival scholarship, and was selected by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT).

Solo highlights include appearances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted

by Vasily Petrenko, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, and the Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice.

As a chamber musician Guiseppe collaborates with Ramon Ortega Quero, Pascal Moragues, Benjamin Goldscheider and Elena Bashkirova at festivals in Jerusalem, Alderney and Berlin. He frequently works with violinists Mayumi Kanagawa and Jiyoon Lee and in autumn 2019 records with cellist Alexander Warenberg.

Eliette Harris violin Rosie Spinks cello Jasmin Allpress piano Haydn Piano Trio No 43 Brahms Piano Trio No 1 The Larisa Trio was formed in 2016 in Manchester with all members currently studying at the Royal Northern College of Music. Since then, various successes have included performing as part of the Monday Recital Series at the RNCM, as well as winning the RNCM Weil Prize. It receives regular coaching from Trio Gaspard and Jeremy Young, as well as Petr Prause, Donald Grant and Levon Chilingirian.

Recently the trio was selected along with one other RNCM chamber ensemble to play to tutors from the European Chamber Music Academy.

The Larisa Trio continually searches for new inspiration, regularly working with composers across the country. Recently the Trio was invited to premiere six new works for the Norfolk Composers Group, including a new trio by Michael Finnissy dedicated to the ensemble.

Sofiia Matviienko flute Liebermann Flute Sonata Carmen Sánchez Labrador

Miriam Ast director piano The LCoM Jazz Choir, directed by Schubert Impromptu D 899, No 3 Miriam Ast, is a newly formed Saint-Saëns/Liszt Danse Macabre ensemble, bringing together

students from across different pathways and year groups.

Students get to know a breadth of Tartini Violin Sonata contemporary as well as traditional (The Devil’s Trill) vocal jazz repertoire, by arrangers Sofiia Matviienko was born in a small such as Darmon Meader from town in central Ukraine. She started New York Voices, Kerry Marsh and Pete Churchill, allowing them to studying recorder at the age of five learn to blend their voices and to because of speech problems and discovered it was what she loved and sing challenging harmony lines in wanted to do. In 2017 she auditioned a large choral setting. The choir will be accompanied by a rhythm and received a full scholarship to attend The Purcell School where she section made up of jazz students from Leeds College of Music, and currently studies. the performance will feature solo Carmen Sánchez Labrador, born numbers from members of the choir and raised in Madrid, began piano and by Miriam Ast. and violin lessons at King’s College This performance is presented by Madrid aged just three, and four the 2020 Sounds Like THIS festival. years later joined the Arturo Soria Conservatoire. Through support Miriam Ast is a German jazz vocalist from her conservatoire, family and composer based in London. and friends she proceeded to be She directs her own band and duo accepted at The Purcell School of project with Spanish pianist Victor Music in 2018.

Gutierrez with whom she released Lina Jukneviciute was born in Vilnius, her debut album Secret Songs in July 2018. Miriam is a senior Lithuania in 2001. She joined The lecturer at Leeds College of Music, Purcell School in 2018 and studies teaching one-to-one lessons and with Aistė Dvarionaitė and Alla vocal ensembles, as well as teaching Kravchenko (piano). Lina made at Kings College London and the her solo debut aged ten at the University of Leeds.

Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall. Since then she continues to perform in Lithuania and other European countries.

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Opera North Horn Trio

Matas Ščerbauskas clarinet Madelyn Kowalski cello Maurizio Arroyo Reyes

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The Saorsa Trio was formed in Trio May was formed in early 2019 at autumn of 2018 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland around Shostakovich Trio No 2. Since where the group is currently studying. With members hailing from then, the trio has performed several times in venues such as Milton Court Europe, North and South America, Hall and LSO St-Lukes, as part of they have individually performed the London Symphony Orchestra all over the world, together sharing performance experience as soloists, Discovery Series. orchestral players, chamber Saorsa Trio has also worked with musicians and international several great musicians including prize-winners.

Tom Poster, Simon Rowland-Jones, Matthew Jones and Caroline Palmer, The Trio will perform two of the as well as members of firmly seminal works for this combination established ensembles such as the of instruments. Interestingly, Goldner String Quartet and the Beethoven’s light-hearted Clarinet Endellion String Quartet.

Trio was one of the composer’s earliest chamber works, having been composed in 1798, whereas the Clarinet Trio by Brahms was one of the composer’s last compositions, reflecting an autumnal feel. Brahms returned from a self-imposed exile in 1891 and played piano at the premiere of this work, having been inspired to compose again by the captivating sound of clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld.

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The regular and familiar duo of part of by service 5 Greed and Buckle isForms joined Times from Leeds Railway Station: Alex Hamilton for aMondays programme to Fridays 0607,of 0636, 0651, 0706 and every 10 mins until 1906 then trios written for piano, violin and 1942, 2012, 2042, 2112, 2212, 2312.

Saturdays 0749, 0804, 0819, 0834, horn. Alex is Principal Horn in the 0849, 0856 and every 10 mins to 1736, 1806, 1824, 1844 and 1904, then Orchestra of Opera1751, North.

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Continuo by Timothy Jackson 1 York Street for Bus Station (F7) (Principal Horn of the RLPO) is 2 Kirkgate (K13) 3 Boar Lane for Leeds Trinity (T7) a short single-movement piece.

4 Leeds Rail Station (S8) Timothy describes the work as 5 King Street (W4) a ‘collage’, being in turns lyrical 6 Headrow/Town Hall (Y15)* 7 Westgate/Courts (Y14)* and playful. The piece is based on 8 Leeds City College* music written by Corelli; Italian Road /Maternity Hospital* 9 Clarendonthe Institute* baroque master. 1011 Dental University of Leeds* 12 Leeds General Infirmary (LGI)* Brahms’ four movement Horn 12 LGI – Calverley St (Y11) evenings & Sundays only Trio was written in 1865, and 13 Leeds Beckett University (L7) Merrion Centre (L5) is considered one of1415 the great St John’s Centre (J6) ‘chamber music’ creations for horn.

16 City Square (P5) 17 Boar Lane for Leeds Trinity (T1) It commemorated the passing of 18 Corn Exchange (K5) Brahms’ mother Christiane.

Brahms 19 York Street for Bus Station (F4) (towards Halton Moor) wrote the work for *natural horn These stops not served on evenings & Sundays Evenings & Sundays only despite the fact that, at that time, the valve horn was becoming more common. Today the piece is generally played on the valve horn.

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Alison Rhind is recognised as one of the leading collaborative pianists specialising in the repertoire for piano and strings.

In 1994, she moved to the Yehudi Menuhin School where she worked for twelve years. During this period, she coached many young instrumentalists with whom she has since forged notable recital partnerships, particularly the violinists Alina Ibragimova and Nicola Benedetti with whom she toured the USA and Japan. Other recital partners include Johannes Goritzki, Francois Rabbath, Rinat Ibragimov, Dora Schwarzberg, Leonid Gorokhov and Charlie Siem with whom she has performed in all the major concert halls.

Due to increasing amounts of work outside of her job at the school, Alison left to become a freelance accompanist, often working with students at the London colleges.

The Royal College of Music recognised her work and in 2009 created a post for her as Coach for the String Department which she combined with freelance recital work. She left RCM in 2018 and is now concentrating solely on recital work which will include concerts in Germany and Norway next year.

David Greed violin Alex Hamilton horn Ian Buckle piano

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Why not take advantage of Metro’s Leeds citybus to travel to and from The Venue?

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Enjoy more free lunchtime concerts in Leeds

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Leeds Town Hall Organ Recitals Mondays, 1.05pm at Leeds Town Hall City Organist Darius Battiwalla curates the popular series of lunchtime recitals showcasing the magnificent organ at Leeds Town Hall.

Visit www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk for details.

Call 0113 378 6600 for a free brochure.

University of Leeds School of Music Concert Series Fridays, 1.10pm at Clothworkers Hall, Leeds University Lunchtime and occasional rush-hour performances bringing you the very best in almost every genre of music, from world music to jazz via baroque.

Visit www.leeds.ac.uk/music for details.

Call 0113 343 2583 for a free brochure.

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