Event Programme - Laura Snowden - 8 February 2024

OUR 2023-24 SEASON

We are pleased to welcome you to our 2023-24 International Concert Series at Royal Holloway.

We, at the Department of Music, cannot wait to showcase the varied talent of our students and staff, but also bringing internationally renowned musicians to the College. For 2023-24, we are back and better than ever with more student and staff opportunities through the creation of 'The Platform', an open opportunity for the community at the Department of Music to share with you what makes us so special. Alongside our popular Midweek Music and Pocket Concert Series, we are excited to continue our special partnerships with the Young Classical Artists Trust and BBC New Generation Artists and continue our alumni recital series by bringing back the epoch ensemble. We are pleased to also bring a wealth of international artists to our series, including pianists Pina Napolitano, Mary Dullea, Sholto Kynoch, Alexander Soares, and Joseph Havlat, violinist Darragh Morgan, guitarist Laura Snowden, clarinettist Jonathan Leibovitz,

sitarist James Pusey, mezzosoprano Helen Charlston, jazz group Solstice, and the London Mozart Players. 2023 also marks the final season for our quartet-in-residence, the Tippett Quartet, as we say farewell to this stellar group with their final concert at Royal Holloway.

All in all, this season is representative of the world-class talent our community at the Department of Music has fostered as we showcase our students and the range of music performance we programme and encourage; from jazz to world music, orchestral performance to solo piano, as well as presenting performers from the international stage We look forward to welcoming you to our series this year.

Dr Nathan James Dearden Music Performance Manager & Curator of the International Concert Series

Laura Snowden at Royal Holloway

International Concert Series 2023-24

Thursday, 8 February 2024

Picture Gallery, Founder’s Building

EVENT PROGRAMME

Trad arr. Laura Snowden Black is the Colour

François Couperin (1668 - 1733) Les Barricades Mystérieuses

Johann Sebastian Bach (16851750)

Adagio and Fugue from Violin

Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001

Laura Snowden This changing sky

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)

Preludes Nos. 1, 2 and 3

Laura Snowden The Trap

Estimated finish time: 9.00pm

There will be a short rest break during this evening’s performance.

Please no flash photography or visual/audio recording throughout the event.

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Trad arr. Laura Snowden Carrickfergus The Parting Glass

Agustin Barrios (1885 - 1944)

Vals, Op. 8, No. 4

EVENT PERFORMER

Hailed a ‘string sensation’ by BBC Music Magazine, British-French guitarist and composer Laura Snowden is acclaimed for her ‘poise and intensity’ (Guardian) and playing of ‘extraordinary depth’ (Strings, Classical Music Magazine).

Laura studied with Julian Bream, during which time she gave two concerts at Wigmore Hall featuring premieres of his recent commissions. This led to international recognition and festival debuts across Europe, China and the US, as well as concerto debuts with Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Münchener Kammerorchester, and a recording of Lisa Streich’s guitar concerto Augenlider with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester.

As a composer, Laura’s music has been performed at Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall and Sadlers Wells, commissioned by the Park Lane Group, Birmingham Symphony Hall and International Guitar Foundation, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland and Hong Kong Radio 4.