YCAT 2014 New Artists Presentation Concert programme

New Artists Presentation Concert Monday 29 September 2014 Purcell Room

Amy Harman bassoon Peter Moore trombone Alexander Ullman piano

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Welcome Welcome to our 2014 New Artists Presentation Concert marking the opening of our exciting 30th Anniversary Season. Tonight’s concert is the first glimpse of our wonderful new artists, selected earlier in the year at the Public Final Auditions at Wigmore Hall.

They are already creating quite a “buzz” with concert promoters around the country, and their future diaries are starting to look encouragingly busy. Anyone wishing to book them should contact us sooner rather than later!

To arrive at this presentation concert, these artists underwent two gruelling audition rounds before appearing in the Final Auditions in May. The juries across the rounds included some of our most seasoned and experienced performers alongside senior figures in the music industry. Of course, technical excellence and musical understanding were a given throughout the process. However, even more importantly, our jurors were asked to listen and look out for qualities that suggested to them a unique international potential as well as evaluating which artists they felt would benefit most at that time from the valuable, intense and personal management service which YCAT offers.

YCAT is a unique charity, offering selected artists a vital opportunity to forge solid and structured career foundations. Tonight’s artists are embarking upon a really rewarding journey and we look forward to sharing in their unfolding careers with immense excitement. Details of how you too can support these artists are available in the enclosed leaflet and I encourage you to join our thriving and enthusiastic family of friends and donors.

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Robert Schumann

Three Romances, Op. 94

(1810–1856) i. Nicht schnell ii. Einfach, innig iii. Nicht schnell

Reynaldo Hahn

Le Printemps, A Chloris

(1874–1947)

Henri Dutilleux

Sarabande et Cortège

(1916–2013)

Amy Harman, bassoon Amandine Savary, piano

Robert Schumann

Liederkreis, Op. 24

(1810–1856)

Benjamin Appl, baritone Jonathan Ware, piano

INTERVAL Beethoven

Horn Sonata, Op. 17

(1770–1827) i. Allegro moderato ii. Poco adagio iii. Rondo: Allegro molto

Stjepan Šulek

Sonata “Vox Gabrieli”

(1914–1986)

Peter Moore, trombone Jonathan Ware, piano

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka i. Danse russe ii. Chez Pétrouchka iii. La semaine grasse

Alexander Ullman, piano

Biographies of 2014 YCAT Artists AMY HARMAN bassoon

JONATHAN WARE piano

Born in London, Amy Harman studied at the Royal College of Music with Andrea de Flammineis and Martin Gatt, and with František Herman at the Akademie Múzických in Prague. On graduating she became Principal of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and in 2011 was appointed Principal of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Born in Texas, Jonathan Ware studied at the Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, and at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’. He won the Pianist’s Prize at the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Song and Das Lied Competitions, and now divides his time between the UK and Germany.

Passionate about bringing the bassoon to a wider audience, in 2012 Amy appeared as a ‘flying soloist’ in Birmingham Opera’s premiere of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht where she performed from a trapeze suspended above the audience.

Engagements this season include a performance of Strauss’s Concertino with the English Chamber Orchestra and recitals in Hamburg and the UK. As a chamber musician Amy is member of Ensemble 360 and has collaborated internationally with artists including Radovan Vlatkovic, Natalia Gutman, Charles Neidich and the Chilingirian Quartet. She has appeared as guest principal with the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Scottish Chamber Orchestras.

Sought after as a song accompanist and chamber musician recent concerts include Alice Tully Hall, Wigmore Hall, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Lincoln Center and the Ravinia Festival. He has toured North America with mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught, and appeared at the Französischer Dom Berlin and Rheingau Festival with baritone Benjamin Appl.

Passionate about the song repertory, during the 2012/13 season Jonathan was co-artistic director of a festival in New York devoted to the performance of the complete Schubert Lieder.

Engagements this season include the Berlin Midsummer Festival, return visits to the Samling and Meistersinger Academies, and recitals at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room, Saffron Hall and The Sage Gateshead with Peter Moore and Benjamin Baker.

PETER MOORE trombone

ALEXANDER ULLMAN piano

In 2008, at the age of 12, Peter Moore became the youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Musician Competition. He studied with Philip Goodwin at Chetham’s School of Music, and with Ian Bousfield. In 2014 he was appointed co-principal trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra, a role he will perform alongside an Advanced Performance programme at the Royal Academy of Music.

Born in 1991 in London, Alexander studied at the Purcell School and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Leon Fleisher, Ignat Solzhenitsyn and Robert McDonald. He now embarks on his Master’s at the Royal College of Music. He has won 1st Prizes at the Liszt (2011), Lagny-sur-Marne (2013) and Tunbridge Wells International Competitions.

As a soloist Peter has appeared with the BBC National Orchestra Wales, Northern Chamber, the Polish Chamber Orchestra at the Rheingau and MecklenburgVorpommern Festivals, and at the Slide Factory in Rotterdam. In 2010 his recording for Chandos of the Gregson Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra was released.

Passionate about pushing the boundaries of the trombone and bringing it to a wider audience, Peter has given recitals at major venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, The Sage Gateshead and Proms in the Park Belfast. Further afield he has toured extensively in Australia and New Zealand.

Alexander has given recitals throughout Europe, Asia and America. Recent highlights include the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Archive Nationales (Paris), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen) and La Jolla Arts Festival (California). In 2014 he undertook a European tour collaborating with the Dover Quartet.

As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the Philadelphia, New Jersey, Fort Worth and Montréal Symphony Orchestras, the Oxford Philomusica, Southbank Sinfonia and Budapest Radio Orchestras.

Engagements this season include return visits to China, Italy and the USA. He takes part in the Montreal Chamber Music Festival and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany.

AMANDINE SAVARY piano

BENJAMIN APPL baritone

Amandine Savary is an accomplished pianist and chamber musician and now Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. As pianist of the Dalí Trio, she won first prize at the Osaka Competition, Frankfurt Competition, and Second Prize at YCA in New York.

German baritone Benjamin Appl has been accepted for the BBC New Generation Artists scheme until the end of 2016, and during the 2015/16 season he will also be an ECHO Rising Stars artist, appearing in recital at major concert venues throughout Europe.

YCAT gratefully acknowledges financial support from the following: AD Power Trust The Olav Arnold Charitable Trust Basingstoke Concert Club The Nancy Bateman Charitable Trust Cavatina Chamber Music Trust The John S Cohen Foundation The John Ellerman Foundation The Joyce Fletcher Charitable Trust The Foyle Foundation Harriet's Trust Help Musicians UK Dolly Knowles Charitable Trust The Monument Trust The Paul Morgan Charitable Trust Goulding Murray Fund Kathleen Beryl Sleigh Charitable Trust The Thistle Trust The Estate of Desmond Tice Sir Siegmund Warburg's Charitable Settlement In Memory of In Memory of In Memory of In Memory of In Memory of In Memory of

Miss H. Castell Mrs Sylvia Davis Louise Honeyman Sir Kenneth James Mr Richard Oake Mr Gareth Walters

We are grateful to the continued generosity of Help Musicians UK for making this concert possible, with special support from the Goulding Murray Fund

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