Catherine Edwards organ
Catherine Edwards pursues a varied career as pianist and organist, performing, broadcasting and recording as soloist, chamber pianist, accompanist and orchestral musician. She has been the principal keyboard player with the LPO since 1997 and plays regularly with chamber orchestras such as City of London Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square. As well as occasional appearances with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the BBC Symphony, the Philharmonia and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras, she is also a frequent guest of the London Symphony Orchestra, appearing as soloist with the latter in performances of Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony and The Carnival of the Animals, Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Reich’s Sextet, Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass. Her solo performances include BBC recordings, prize-winning CDs, appearances in London’s major concert halls, the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Brighton and Verbier festivals and at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. Her duo and chamber music experience with groups such as the Composers Ensemble, the Nash Ensemble, London Sinfonietta and Capricorn includes both standard and contemporary repertoire. She has worked closely with composers such as John Woolrich, John Adams, John Williams, Steve Reich, Michael Nyman, singers Anthony Rolfe-Johnson and Willard White, and in the dance field has performed with Second Stride, the Siobhan Davies Dance Company and the Richard Alston Dance Company.
The final concert in this year-long series
Wednesday 29 April 2015 | 7.30pm Rachmaninoff (arr. Butsko) Piano Works, Four Movements (arr. Jurowski) 10 Songs Symphony No. 3 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Vsevolod Grivnov tenor Rachmaninoff: Inside Out is presented in co-operation with the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation.
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The sound Jurowski coaxed from the LPO was exquisite.” performance of The Miserly Knight Matthew Right, The Arts Desk, January 2015
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Rachmaninoff’s Spring Cantata did credit to the LPO’s Rachmaninoff: Inside Out series.” Hilary Finch, The Times, February 2015, 4-stars
Tickets £9–£39 (premium seats £65) London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office 020 7840 4242 Monday–Friday 10.00am–5.00pm lpo.org.uk Transaction fees: £1.75 online, £2.75 telephone.
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