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Leeds LunchtimeChamber Music2014/15Wednesdays at 1.05pmThe VenueLeeds College of MusicQuarry Hill, Leeds
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.
This season’s highlights include a performance of Beethoven’s Archduke Trio by Arcturus, a song recital by renowned international baritone and Opera North favourite Roderick Williams, a recorder recital by BBC Young Musician 2012 finalist Charlotte Barbour-Condini and piano recitals by international prize-winners Kausikan Rajeshkumar and Ammiel Bushakevitz.
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.
1 October 2014
Kausikan Rajeshkumarpiano
Beethoven Sonata No 30Schumann Carnaval
Kausikan was born in London in 1990 and began to learn the piano at the age of seven. In 1999, he won a scholarship to attend the Purcell School, where he studied the piano under Tessa Nicholson. He was offered top scholarships from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, but instead took up a place to read Music at Cambridge University, where he graduated with First Class Honours.
He has performed extensively across the UK and abroad, has been broadcast on BBC television and radio and was a Piano Finalist of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in both 2006 and 2008. Kausikan won the Weimar International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists in 2009 and more recently, First Prize at the Maria Herrero International Piano Competition 2013 in Spain, Second Prize at the Darmstadt International Chopin Piano Competition 2013, the McCallum Prize at the Royal Overseas League Music Competition 2013 and First Prize at the RCM Schumann Competition.
Future engagements include recitals in Spain and at the Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, and concerto appearances in Hanover and at St John’s, Smith Square.
8 October 2014
Pro CordaLeverhulme Fellow:Alice Pinto pianoProgramme to include works by Britten and Chopin.
Prize winners in Pro Corda’s National Chamber Music Festival for Schools:
Nottingham High School Trombone QuartetJacob Suite for Four Trombones Tomasi Être ou ne pas être LaRocca/Gale Tiger Rag
Shrewsbury School Senior Saxophone QuartetRavel/Enzel Le Tombeau de Couperin: PreludeKaren Street Tango Gershwin/Wood An Americanin Paris
British pianist Alice Pinto gained her MMus degree in Piano Performance and Research from the Royal Academy of Music in 2012. She currently teaches at Junior Guildhall and holds a Leverhulme Fellowship with Pro Corda.
Nottingham High School has one of the busiest and most vibrant music departments in the Midlands. The Trombone Quartet has been together for four years.
The Senior Saxophone Quartet from Shrewsbury School has performed in numerous concerts. The saxophonists have all gained their ATCL diplomas and are taught by Maria Eglinton.
15 October 2014
Amy Tressviolin
Alison Rhindpiano
Beethoven Violin Sonata No 6Schumann Fantasy in C major Debussy Violin Sonata
Amy Tress recently completed her Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, studying with Maciej Rakowski, winning both First Prize and Unaccompanied Bach Prize in the Violin Competition.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Amy has performed in venues such as St Martin-in-the-Fields, Royal Festival Hall, Cadogan Hall, Conway Hall, the Purcell Room, and the Royal Albert Hall, Elgar Room.
Amy performs regularly around the UK with duo partner Anyssa Neumann and her ensemble the London Chamber Collective. Her performances with orchestra include the concertos of Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Korngold, Schnittke and the Bach Double, as well as Ravel’s Tzigane, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade and Sibelius’s Humoresques.
In recent years Amy has played with the London Sinfonietta, the LPO Future Firsts scheme and English National Opera.
Amy is very grateful for the support of the Musicians Benevolent Fund, Albert Cooper Memorial Trust, Kathleen Trust, St Marylebone Foundation and Stephen Bell Charitable Trust.
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The VenueLeeds College of Music(next to the West Yorkshire Playhouse)
Wednesdays 1.05pm – 1.55pmFree admission
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22 October 2014
Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Isabel Kent oboeLaura Williamson celloIain Clarke pianoSuzanne Murphy voice
Isabel started playing the oboe at the age of eight and joined the Junior Conservatoire when she was thirteen, studying oboe with Stephen West as well as piano with Marika Slater. She is currently a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland.
Laura, aged sixteen, is a pupil at Prestwick Academy in Ayrshire and has been learning cello with David O’Connell since the age of eight. She has attended the Junior Conservatoire since 2008 and hopes to become a professional musician in the future.
Iain attends the Junior Conservatoire for piano, taught by Professor Heather Slade-Lipkin, and saxophone, taught by John Miller. He has passed his Grade 8 piano and saxophone and Grade 7 clarinet. He recently won the Moray Piano Competition in Elgin.
Suzanne is currently studying at Craigholme School in Glasgow and is being trained as a classical singer at the Junior Conservatoire under the tuition of Margaret Izatt. In May 2014 she won the Glasgow Grand Opera Society Cup for Voice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
5 November 2014
Nathalie Shawviolin
Sebastian Müllerviolin
Julian Shawviola
Dvorák TerzettoMozart String Duo No 2Kodály Serenade
Nathalie is a seasoned recitalist and concerto soloist in Europe and the USA. She is currently Solo Violin of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (USA) and Ensemble Stravinsky (Metz, France). She holds a professorship at the Conservatoire Municipal Darius Milhaud (Paris).
Sebastian is professor of violin at Leeds College of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Universities of Sheffield and Chichester. He appears as soloist both in, and outside Europe and has been principal leader and soloist of the German String Orchestra.
Julian is ex-solo viola of the Zurich Opera, London Philharmonic and English Chamber Orchestras. He is a well-known chamber musician, soloist and jurist in the UK, across Europe and in the USA.
Nathalie and Julian are Artistic Directors of the ‘Festival International de Musique de Chambre en Charente’ in France.
12 November 2014
Ji Liupiano
Busoni Sonatina No 6(Carmen Fantasy)Schubert Fantasie in C (Wanderer)Gershwin/Wild Three Virtuoso Etudes: Man I Love, Embraceable You and I Got RhythmLiszt/Gounod Waltz from Faust
Born in 1990, Ji studied at the Shanghai Conservatoire of Music.In 2005 and 2006 he took part in the Verbier Festival and Academy where he received the Tabor Piano Award and CUBS Prize. He went on to study at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia with Dmitri Bashkirov and at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton, graduating in 2013.
Ji has appeared as soloist at major venues and festivals internationally including Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Concertgebouw, Auditorium du Louvre, Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), Rachmaninov Hall (Tchaikovsky Conservatoire), Stavanger Chamber Music Festival and the Gstaad Festival where he performed JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Engagements during 2013/14 included his debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra, a performance of Liszt’s Totentanz at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and recitals at the Purcell Room and The Sage Gateshead. His first CD recorded for Classic FM was released in January 2014 and was No 1 in the Classical chart for several weeks.
19 November 2014
Zelkova String QuartetMozart String Quartet No 16Ravel String Quartet
The Zelkova String Quartet was founded in 2010 at the Royal Northern College of Music under the guidance of Petr Prause, of the Talich Quartet. In 2012 it won the Christopher Rowland Chamber Ensemble of the Year Prize, receiving both First Prize and the Audience Prize.
The Quartet performed in the RNCM Chamber Music Festival in both 2011 and 2012 and in the 2013 RNCM Beethoven Festival. It also made its debut at St Martin in the Fields and St John’s Smith Square with recitals at both venues last season.
The Quartet has received coaching from Gábor Takács-Nagy, Levon Chilingirian, Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Peter Cropper, Richard Ireland, Avedis Kouyoumdjian and members of the Talich, Navarra, Barbirolli and Heath Quartets to name but a few.
The members of the quartet have recently been made European Chamber Music Academy associates and have attended sessions in Paris and Vienna with forthcoming sessions in both Manchester and Oslo. The group was also one of four quartets selected internationally to participate in the Trondheim International String Quartet Academy 2012.
26 November 2014
Royal Northern College of MusicDaphnis DuoHolly Melia flute Alice Kirwan harp
Piazzolla Bordel 1900, Cafe 1930 from Histoire du tangoAndres NarthexJongen Danse LenteDodgson Duo Traditional Atholl Highlanders Alwyn Naiades
Holly and Alice formed the Daphnis Duo in 2009 at the RNCM. The duo’s first performance was at St George’s Park, West Sussex in the summer of 2009 and last year the ensemble performed Toward the Sea by Takemitsu at the British Flute Convention. The duo has taken part in master classes with Hansjorg Schellenberger and Eira Lynn Jones and has received coaching from Richard Davis and Melinda Maxwell.
Born in Ilkley, Holly recently graduated with a first class honours degree from the RNCM. She currently holds one of the flute positions in Southbank Sinfonia – Britain’s young professional orchestra.
Alice is an upcoming and dynamic harpist based in Manchester, about to complete a Master of Music at the RNCM. She gained a BMus with first class honours in 2012 from the RNCM and has performed with professional ensembles such as the Ryedale Festival Opera Orchestra.The Daphnis Duo appears by kind permission of the RNCM.
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29 October 2014
Leeds Collegeof MusicAshley Henry pianoProgramme to feature music of the legendary Jazz pianist/composer Thelonious Monk, as well as some original compositions.
Adam Gouldin baritoneSchubert Frühlingsglaube Purcell The Cold Song (‘What power art thou’) from King Arthur Finzi The Clock of the Years Donizetti Bella siccome un angelo
Lily Scott sopranoMozart E Susanna non vien!Dove Sono i bei momenti fromThe Marriage of FigaroMozart Come Scoglio fromCosi Fan Tutte
Ashley recently completed his studies at LCM with jazz educator Les Chisnall. He is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music for a master’s degree in Jazz Performance & Composition.
Adam is a 22-year-old baritone in his second year at LCM where he studies with Tim Ochala-Greenough. He is the proud winner of the Margaret Markland Scholarship from the Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir.
Lily is a soprano in her final year at LCM where she studies with Tim Ochala-Greenough and Jeremy Powell. She won Best Female Actress at the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton in 2010.
3 December 2014
Junior Royal Northern Collegeof MusicArtists and programme to be confirmed – please checkwww.leedsconcertseason.comfor updates.
Every Saturday students travel from as far afield as North Wales, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and the Midlands to be part of the Junior RNCM’s vibrant community, to study in a welcoming and stimulating environment, and to soak up the creative atmosphere of one of the world’s best conservatoires.
Students at the Junior RNCM study a personalised timetable including theory, composition, improvisation, musicianship and ensemble sessions and of course individual lessons on their first, second and sometimes even third study instruments.
The teaching staff are highly qualified and supportive and many are experienced performers with such ensembles as The Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; many are also tutors at the senior college. This is an important link and Junior RNCM students are often invited to perform in RNCM festivals and concerts, as well as having the opportunity to regularly attend senior college masterclasses.
10 December 2014
SAA-ukJasdeep Singh Degun sitarSukhmani Kaur Rayat tabla
Come and celebrate Leeds’ ownup-and-coming musicians presenting a beautiful rendition of an afternoon rag on this December afternoon. Re-charge the mind, body and soul, and allow yourself to escape the hustle and bustle of life.
Jasdeep is a promising young sitarist and Sukhmani a tabla player. Both began their individual musical journeys in Leeds and have seized opportunities to develop their talents and appreciation of music broadly, which is evident in their playing. Both have performed internationally in the USA, Europe, Qatar and across the UK.
17 December 2014
Morag Brownviolin
Lewis Powell-Reidaccordion/guitar
A programme of traditional and new folk material with a seasonal twist.
Morag and Lewis have over the years developed a rich and expanding repertoire of music from a number of folk traditions. On fiddle and bouzouki or accordion, they are at home performing both traditional Celtic music, and music from Europe, the Balkans and Greece. Together, their shared intuition and love of spontaneity enables them to freely move between melody, harmony and improvisation.
Morag’s fascination with music from other cultures has grown out of the colourful and varied music scene of her Edinburgh home where she played in bands with musicians from many places, in particular Eastern Europe and the Middle East. She is now based in Newcastle, having recently achieved a distinction for her masters degree at Newcastle University.
Lewis is nearing completion of the Folk and Traditional Music degree at Newcastle University, though he maintains regular contact with his home in the Scottish Borders, and continues to perform with various projects, including in the bands of Hungarian violin virtuoso Jani Lang, and Borders bagpiper Matt Seattle.
21 January 2015
Joseph Devalleviolin
Alison Rhindpiano
Beethoven Violin Sonata No 1Faure Violin Sonata No 1Szymanowski Nocturne and Tarantella
Joseph is 24 years old and comes from North Wales. He is currently completing his studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Maciej Rakowski. He began playing the violin aged seven and was taught by Jan Repko at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester until 2008. He has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK, at venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room, the Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room, St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Bridgewater Hall, as well as in Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Qatar and the US.
At the RCM, Joseph is the holder of the Lark Insurance Scholarship and was winner of the Jacqueline Ward Memorial Prize for Strings in 2013. He is the recipient of the Help Musicians UK Parikian Award and is also grateful for the support of the Albert Cooper, Elizabeth Evans, Henry Wood, John Fussel and St Marylebone Educational Trusts. Joseph plays a 1688 Tononi violin kindly on loan from the Royal College of Music.
14 January 2015
University of Leeds School of MusicArtists and programme to be confirmed – please checkwww.leedsconcertseason.comfor updates.
The University of Leeds School of Music brings together internationally acclaimed scholars, composers and performers to set the highest standards in music. It is one of the largest academic schools of its kind in the country and offers courses across a wide range of undergraduate and research interests.
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7 January 2015
CharlotteBarbour-Condinirecorder
David Gordonpiano
Anon Estampie Ortiz Recercada SegundaRiccio Canzona in FCastello Sonata No 2Corelli Sonata in F Op 5, No 4Bach Fantasia and FugueCouperin Le Rossignol en Amour& Le Rossignol VainqueurLinde Music for a BirdVan Eyck English NightingaleGordon Le Tombeau d’une TipulaBach arr Gordon Choro
Charlotte Barbour-Condini was the first recorder player to reach the concerto final of the BBC Young Musician Competition in 2012, performing Vivaldi's Recorder Concerto in C minor at the Sage Gateshead.
She was awarded a scholarship to the Junior Royal Academy of Music where she studies recorder with Barbara Law and violin with Ben Wragg.
As a concerto soloist, Charlotte has performed with the London Chamber Orchestra, London Octave, The English Chamber Orchestra, Skipton Camerata and the Amersham Festival Chamber Orchestra.
Charlotte is grateful for the support provided by YCAT (Young Classical Artists Trust).
28 January 2015
Roderick Williamsbaritone
Michael Cleaverpiano
Fauré MiragesPoulenc SongsCaplet Cinq Ballades Françaises
Roderick Williams encompasses a wide repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, in the opera house, on the concert platform and in recital.
He works regularly with the major British Opera companies, and is particularly associated with the baritone roles of Mozart.
Roderick has worked with orchestras throughout Europe and his many festival appearances include the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Cheltenham and Aldeburgh.
As an accomplished recital artist he can be heard at venues and festivals including the Wigmore Hall, the Perth Concert Hall, Howard Assembly Room, the Musikverein, Vienna and on Radio 3.
He has an extensive discography and his recordings of English song with Iain Burnside have received particular acclaim. He is also a composer and has had works premiered at the Wigmore and Barbican Halls, the Purcell Room and live on national radio.
11 February 2015
Royal Academyof MusicEmma Bassett tromboneYukiko Shinohara piano Programme to include:Rota Trombone ConcertoKenny Secret House
Emma was awarded scholarships from the Royal Academy of Music, Countess of Munster and Musicians’ Benevolent Fund for her current postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Having gained First Class Honours in her undergraduate degree at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance she was a finalist in Trinity Laban’s prestigious Gold Medal Competition. Emma studies with Graham Lee, Mark Templeton, Matt Gee, Dudley Bright and Ian Bowsfield as well as Mark Bassey and Gordon Campbell for jazz.
Yukiko was born in Ibaraki, Japan and studied at Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School for Arts and Music. She received her BMus from Goldsmith’s College (University of London) under the late Susan Bradshaw, and later studied with Douglas Finch at Trinity College of Music where she received a MMus Degree and Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Performance with Distinction. She is currently on the staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance in London.
4 February 2015
Royal Collegeof MusicJohn Fisher piano
Haydn Sonata No 47Brahms Variations on a Themeof PaganiniRachmaninov Sonata No 2(1913 version)
Born in Brisbane, Australia, John began piano studies with his mother at the age of four. At the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, John studied with Natasha Vlassenko and Oleg Stepanov and at the Hartt School, University of Hartford, USA, he studied with Oxana Yablonskaya and Boris Berman. He is currently undertaking an Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, where he is studying with Vanessa Latarche.
John received First Prize in the Yamaha Australian National Piano Competition. He has won the City of Sydney Piano Scholarship, the Queensland Piano Competition and the Hephzibah Menuhin Award. He has received Second Prize in the Australian National Piano Award and the Louisiana International Piano Competition. In February this year, he won the Chappell Medal for piano at the Royal College of Music.
John has also appeared as soloist with a number of Australian orchestras and has given many performances with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
18 February 2015
ArcturusKatherine New violinJudith Burgin celloMichael Cleaver piano
Beethoven Piano Trio (Archduke)
Arcturus is a chamber music group formed in 1999 by Michael Cleaver with colleagues from the English Northern Philharmonia, now the Orchestra of Opera North.
Beethoven’s Archduke Trio is one of the undisputed masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire. It is dedicated to the Archduke Rudolph, younger brother of the Austrian Emperor Franz II. Rudolph was an enthusiastic pianist who took lessons from Beethoven, composed music himself and, in 1809, the year in which Napoleon was besieging Vienna, became one of three patrons to provide Beethoven with a salary for the remainder of his life. This salary allowed Beethoven to concentrate on composition.
The trio, written in 1811, is on a grand scale full of musical innovations and surprises; cascades of decorations and then weird trills, aided and abetted by pizzicato strings, appear quite early on. The second movement is a catchy scherzo, and a serene slow movement leads to an exhilarating finale.
25 February 2015
Ammiel Bushakevitzpiano
SchubertThree ImpromptusTwelve Graz Waltzes Die junge Nonne (trans Bushakevitz)Die Sterne (trans Bushakevitz)Ständchen (trans Liszt)Auf dem Wasser zu Singen(trans Liszt)
Ammiel drew international attention in May 2013 when he was announced as the first recipient of the newly inaugurated Richard Wagner Prize.
He is internationally acclaimed as one of the up-and-coming pianists of his generation, having received top prizes at numerous competitions including both the Pianist Prize and the Schubert Prize at the 2013 Wigmore Hall, Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, London.
Ammiel has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist at notable venues across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. One of the last private students of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mr Bushakevitz was invited in 2011 by Fischer-Dieskau to accompany his masterclasses in Berlin and at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade in Austria.
In addition to his activities as a pianist, he is also active as a musicologist and specialises in research on Schubert and Wagner.
4 March 2015
The Purcell SchoolMatthew Higham fluteJenny Clarke piano
BowenSonata for flute and piano
Songeun Choi piano
Scriabin Piano Sonata No 2Schubert transcribed by LisztDer Müller und der Bach
Juhee Yang violinProgramme to be confirmed
Matthew was born in 1998 and lives in Harrow. He has been playing the flute since he was eight years old and the piano since he was eleven. In 2009 he joined the Purcell School where he studies flute with Anna Pope and piano with Alla Kravchenko.
Jenny was recently awarded Woking Young Musician of the Year 2014. She is a member of the Royal College of Music Junior Department which she joined in 2013 and currently studies with Emily Jeffrey. She has attended The Purcell School since 2008.
Songeun was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1997. She became a pupil at the Purcell School in September 2007 and currently studies piano with Carole Presland and William Fong.
Born in South Korea in 1997, Juhee has been playing the violin since she was seven years old and is currently in her second spell at the Purcell School. She first joined aged nine, before moving back to Korea a few years later, and has now returned for sixth form. She is currently studying violin with Alda Dizdari.
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11 March 2015
Chetham’s Schoolof MusicAlexandra WhittinghamguitarMartin Quatre pièces brèves Albeniz Sevilla
Cara Dawson harpGlinka NocturneHolliger Sequenzen über Johannes
Mina Middleton fluteNicholas Oliver staff accompanistMessiaen Le Merle Noir Pierre Sancan Sonatine
Alexandra is seventeen years old and lives in Manchester. She has been playing the guitar for eleven years and joined Chetham’s in 2008, where she studies with Wendy Jackson. She won Second Prize in the Carpathian Region International Youth Guitar Competition in Budapest.
Cara is seventeen years old and lives in Darlington. She took up piano at the age of six, but was always fascinated by the beauty of the harp. She started lessons on lever harp at the age of twelve, progressing to the pedal harp when she was fifteen.
Mina is seventeen years old and lives in Thrapston, near Kettering, in Northamptonshire. She joined Chetham’s in September 2011 and studies with Belinda Gough. She is currently a member of the National Youth Orchestra.
18 March 2015
Bartholomew LaFollettecello
Bach Suite for Unaccompanied Cello No 3Bach Suite for Unaccompanied Cello No 5
Bartholomew has been identified as “the most exciting young classical talent in Britain” after winning the Arts Club and Decca Records’ inaugural Classical Music Award in June 2013. Admired equally as a solo, duo and concerto performer, Bartholomew has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Aldeburgh amongst others and has appeared as soloist with the City of London Sinfonia, together with performances at the Bridgewater and the Royal Festival Halls. Bartholomew regularly collaborates with the Doric String Quartet and in 2011 recorded with them for Chandos.
Born in Philadelphia in 1984, Bartholomew has lived in Britain since the age of thirteen. Having studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Bartholomew was a YCAT musician from 2007-12 and was the first recipient of the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Ardan Award.
25 March 2015
Royal Conservatoireof ScotlandRoss Wilson guitar A selection of works byJohn DowlandPreludiumThe Right Honourable Robert,Earl of Essex, His GalliardSir John Smith, His Almain
Bach Chaconne in D minorMompou Suite CompostelanaGinastera Sonata for Guitar
Ross graduated with Honours in 2014 from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland studying classical guitar under Allan Neave. After developing a taste for finger-style jazz guitar when he was young, he was introduced to classical guitar and in 2005 successfully auditioned for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Junior department. There he received tuition from Alison Smith and Peter Stewart for four years and won the North East Guitar Society Junior Award twice.
During his time at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Ross was often asked to collaborate in the Conservatoire’s annual PLUG festival, premiering works by the RCS student composers. In 2014 Ross won the Governor’s Recital Prize for Strings and was offered a grant by the charity Help Musicians UK which has allowed him to continue studying with Allan Neave at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
1 April 2015
Jessica Wei Zhupiano
Haydn Variations in F minor(Un piccolo divertimento)Chopin 24 Preludes, Op 28Debussy From Préludes Book Two:Les fées sont d’exquises danseuseFeux d’artifice: modérément animè
Jessica made her orchestral debut in 2006 as a student of Nancy Weems at the University of Houston, when she played Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3 with the Houston Symphony. She has since performed with many orchestras in America. In 2009 Jessica was awarded the highly coveted Marshall Scholarship with which she completed a master’s programme with distinction at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, studying with Joan Havill. In 2011 she was awarded a Fellowship at the Guildhall studying with Paul Roberts and Ronan O’Hora. She has also worked in masterclasses with András Schiff, Ferenc Rados, Abbey Simon, Pascal Devoyon, Arie Vardi, Boris Berman and Robert McDonald.
Believing in using music to reach audiences without easy access to the arts, Jessica is a Live Music Now young artist, performing in hospitals, care homes and schools throughout the UK. In addition to the Wigmore Hall, Jessica has appeared at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Purcell Room in the Southbank Centre, St James’s Piccadilly, St Martin-in-the-Fields, among others around the UK and in Europe.
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City Organist Simon Lindley’s popular series of lunchtime recitals showcasing the magnificent organ at Leeds Town Hall.
Visit www.leedsconcertseason.com for details.Call 0113 247 8336 for free brochures.
University of LeedsSchool of Music Concert SeriesFridays, 1.10pm at Clothworkers Hall, Leeds University
Lunchtime and occasional rush-hour performances bringing youthe very best in almost every genre of music, from world musicto jazz via baroque.
Visit www.leeds.ac.uk/music for details.Call 0113 343 2583 for free brochures.
Why not take advantage of Metro’s CityBus to travel to and from The Venue?Buses run every few minutes between 6.30am and 7.30pm, each journey costs just 50p (season tickets, day tickets and concessionary passes (after 9.30am) are all valid).
The nearest stop to The Venue is at Leeds Bus Station.
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Leeds International Concert Season
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Leeds International Concert SeasonLeeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3ADGeneral Enquiries: 0113 247 8336Email: [email protected]
Whilst every effort is made to avoid changes, Leeds International Concert Season reserves the rightto change artists and programmes without notice if unavoidable.
