The Platform: Student Showcase - 22 March 2024 - Event Programme

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

The Platform: Student Showcase

International Concert Series 2023-24

Thursday, 22 February 2024 Picture Gallery, Founder’s Building

EVENT PROGRAMME

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 –1827)

Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, ‘Tempest’, Mvt 1

Performed by Hoi Hang Tang (piano)

Estimated finish time: 9 30pm

There will be two short rest intervals during this evening’s performance.

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

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Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934)

Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82, Mvt 1

Performed by Lydia Callomon (violin), Lliam Paterson (piano)

Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924)

Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120, Mvt 1

Performed by The Sapphire Trio: Clarise Chong (violin), Oliver Grimes (cello), Isabelle Curtis (piano)

Max Richter (b. 1966)

‘Spring – Recomposed’ , from Recomposed: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Astor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992)

‘Invierno Porteño’ , from Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

Performed by Lingling Bao-Smith (violin), Phedra Low (piano)

Bedřich Smetana (1824 – 1884)

Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15, Mvt 3

Performed by Trio Élégiaque: Lydia Callomon (violin), Katie Mair (cello), Ernest Lui (piano)

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César Franck (1822 – 1890)

Prélude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18 (arr. Bauer)

Performed by Ernest Lui (piano)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 –1893)

Overture from Nutcracker-Suite (arr. Economou)

Performed by Xiaojing Li (piano), Jilin Jiang (piano)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)

‘Benedictus’ , from Mass No. 7 in Bb Major (Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo)

Performed by Lucy Wheat (soprano), Henry Smith (piano)

Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)

La cathédrale engloutie

Performed by Neel Anand (piano)

Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856)

Romance, Op. 28, No. 2

Performed by Asia Bonuccelli (piano)

Gioachino Rossini (1792 – 1868)

‘Cruda sorte’ , from L’italaiana in Algeri

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)

‘Die Mainacht’ from The May Night, Op. 43, No. 2

Long Wang (b. 1985)

Spring Bloom and Autumn Moon

Performed by Xinwei Wang (voice), Lliam Paterson (piano)

Hikaru Utada (b. 1983) and Skrillex (b. 1988)

Face My Fears

Performed by Ashna Kandeepan (piano)

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)

‘Intermezzo in A major’ , Op. 118, No. 2

Performed by Catherine Dorairaj (piano) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

‘Il core vi dono’ , from Cosi Fan Tutte

Performed by Asia Bonuccelli (soprano), Joseph Morris (bass), Lliam Paterson (piano)