Friday 12 September 2014 8.30 pm | Jerwood Hall | LSO St Luke’s

Melles, Concertino for Piano Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5

“Emperor” Op. 73

Evening concert organised by

Melles Classical Music Foundationand NIIOS

Tobias Haunhorst, SoloistChloe van Soeterstede, Conductor

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Acknowledgements

The Arch Sinfonia team would like to address a warm thanks to the Melles Clas-sical Music Foundation, NIIOS, Gerrit Melles, Monique Vonk, Simon Frais, Peter O’Kelly, Laura Furlan, Aylin Elçi, Jason Kokkinakis, Samuel Tibi, Martin Haunhorst and Matt Horn for their substantial contribution.

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Evening Concert

‘The first, the last, the best’…

After writing the Emperor Concerto, Bee-thoven did not write another concerto, despite (a year before he died) intend-ing to write ‘an oratorio or a concerto every year’. During Beethoven’s era, the composer was his own soloist, and the chaos of the performance of the Choral Fantasia, Op. 80 in 1808, had convinced the master Beethoven that his concerto playing days were over. The Emperor Concerto was premiered by Johann Schneider in 1811, and was deemed a ‘brilliant success’.

Why was this concerto given the title, “Emperor”? Beethoven had greatly ad-mired the ideal of Napoléon Bonaparte (before he declared himself emperor), but his feelings towards him were am-bivalent. An admirer of Beethoven had said to a French Officer, “If I knew as much about strategy as I do about coun-terpoint, I’d give you something to think about!” As a result, Beethoven saw Na-poleon as his equal, and that he was an emperor of his own music.

Gerrit Melles, Concertino for Piano

Ludwig Van Beethoven, Piano Concerto N.5 ‘Emperor’ Op. 73

AllegroAdagio Un Poco MossoRondo- Allegro

The concerto opens rather flamboyant-ly, setting the grandiose mood with the foundations of tonality; chords I, IV and V – each one interrupted with virtuosic runs in the piano that sound improvised. The orchestra ritornello that follows includes a succession of five thematic ideas that are used in the rest of the movement.

The second movement is in the distant key of B major, and is a calm reflection. When at last these waves die down, and nothing is left but a cold grey octave in the bassoons; this sinks down a semi-tone into the horns, and becomes glow-

ing. The piano appears to exper-iment with ideas, until the material for the rondo is found, and takes us into the gallop-ing finale.

Matthew Horn (Second Horn)

Sources1. Programme book for the Promenade

Concert held on 8 September 1975, at the Royal Albert Hall, London

2. Wood, Hugh: Staking out the territory (London : Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust

in association with Plumbago Books, 2007)

--Interval--The Arch Sinfonia projects

The Arch Sinfonia was founded in 2012 by its dynamic Artistic Director, Chloé van Soeterstède. The orchestra is sup-ported by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, all of whom are passionately committed to Chamber Music, solo and orchestra performance. It is a sympho-ny orchestra building different bridges between young professional musicians, contemporary composers and both es-tablished and emerging solo performers, enabling them to share their passion with a variety of audiences in stimulating and enjoyable environments.

Considering all opportunities for col-laboration, the Arch Sinfonia welcomes talented composers and soloists to join the project and perform with a high qual-ity orchestra. Aims of the Arch Sinfonia

include enabling its players to broaden their musical repertoire, from classical music to the very latest contemporary music. The Arch Sinfonia builds pro-fessional bridges by creating solid links between the students involved and pro-fessionals willing to participate in the project; it is dedicated to provide any member with the opportunity to enjoy some informal and authentic exchange with the professionals, getting to know more about the profession at any stage of their musical training.

As well as performing in the concert hall, the Arch Sinfonia aims to reach a wider variety of audiences by introducting clas-sical music into the community, and to people who may not easily have access to it.

The Arch Sinfonia Ltdcontact@archsinfonia.co.uk

Sunday 5 October 20147.30 PM

Minn Majoe, Violin

Copland, Fanfare for the Common ManBruch, Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major, Op. 46

Sibelius, Finlandia, Op. 26Schubert, Symphony No 5 in B-flat major, D 485

St Philip’s Church Earl’s Court Road, Kensington

London W8 6QH)

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Born in 1988, Chloe van Soeterstede studied the violin and the viola at Con-servatoire Regional of Paris and while over there Chloe entered Nicolas Bro-chot’s conducting class, obtaining her final diploma in 2010 combining subjects as musical analysis and chamber music as well as solo performance.

Since 2010, she has been a student at the Royal Academy of Music studying viola and conducting with Raymond Hold-en and Paul Brough. She is also attending conducting classes with Sian Edwards, head of conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, as well as Prof. Peter Stark at the Royal College of Music. In September 2012, Chloe created the Arch Sinfonia, an emerging dynamic orchestra in London supported by stu-dents and graduates from Royal Acade-my of Music, Royal College of Music and Guildhall School of Music, aiming to lift the boundaries between the musicians on stage and the audience.

In April 2013, Chloe was selected to participate in an international conducting masterclass in France and as a result, conducted the United Strings of Europe chamber orchestra in April and in No-vember 2013. She was accepted to con-

duct the Berlin Sinfonietta for later in the year and participating to the Manchester conducting masterclasses in May 2014. Chloe was chosen to conduct the Har-mony Sinfonia for its summer concert. Futur engagements include a recording with the Orchester Solingen in Germa-ny in November 2014, a concert in Rot-terdam. She is currently supported rom Daniel Harding who invited her to attend some of his rehearsals.

Chloe was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) and the past two years, she gave a recital in the famous Wig-more Hall with the Stella Quartet (in which she is currently the viola player) and played at the Royal Opera House featuring a new ballet.

She also played under the baton of pres-tigious conductors as Mark Elder, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Trevor Pinock, Mistuko Ushida, Franck Ollu, Marine Alsop, Se-myon Byckov, Krysztof Urbanski among others. In summer 2014, Chloe toured in Japan within the Pacific Music Festival (PMFO) and was invited to play with the Birmingham Festival Orchestra as the viola section leader.

August 2014

Chloe van Soeterstede, Conductor

Tobias Haunhorst was born in Solingen, Germany in 1993. To date he has per-formed in numerous prestigious venues including Philharmonie Essen, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, Stadthalle Wuppertal, Zeche Zollverein Essen (UNESCO World Cultural Heri-tage), Palácio Nacional de Queluz (Lis-bon), Beurs van Berlage (Amsterdam) and at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival.

He has played in Germany, Poland, Por-tugal, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and performs regularly as a soloist with orchestras such as the Ber-gische Symphoniker, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Bayer Philharmon-iker and the Wuppertal Sym-phony Orchestra. Winner of numerous awards and prizes including first prizes in the German national competition “Jugend musiziert” for best solo performance, the Rotary Piano Competition, the West-phalian Van Bremen Piano Competition, the Lions Musical Competition in Rem-scheid (Germany) and the Ferdinand Trimborn-Promotional Competition of the Ratingen Corporation, Tobias also received the North Rhine-Westphalian Savings Banks’ and Senioren-Union NRW’s Advancement Awards as well as the Illies-Scholarship (Stiftung Musikle-ben) and a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Society, Dortmund.

He is currently studying piano at the Roy-al Academy of Music under Ian Fountain with the generous support of arteMusi-

ca-Stiftung, Kluth-Stiftung Jugend und Kultur and a Gerd Bucerius-Scholarship awarded by Deutsche Stiftung Musikle-ben.

Tobias spent six years under the tutelage of Josef A. Scherrer (professor at Hoch-schule für Musik und Tanz Cologne) prior to coming to the United Kingdom, during which he was also selected for the Pre-College-Cologne (Junior depart-ment of the HfMT Köln). He has attended lessons and masterclasses with Yevge-ny Sudbin, Christopher Elton, Carole Presland, Manfred Aust, Ilja Scheps, Georg Friedrich Schenck, Gerald Fauth,

Bernd Goetzke, Jura Margulis, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Robert Levin and Paul Badura-Skoda.

His particular interest for contem-porary music has been reflected by awards and prizes: “Best In-terpretation of Ostracised Music”, and “Classical Modern Music”

(WESPE - special awards weekend), first prize - “New Music” at “Jugend musiziert”, the “Stefan Heucke” award at the seventh Van Bremen Piano Com-petition and the special award “Modern” at the Rotary Piano Competition. He en-joys collaborating with composers who hold him in high esteem for his perfor-mance of their works. He was awarded a masterclass scholarship by Ensemble Modern and - as a member of Studio musikFabrik NRW, played in the Interna-tional Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt.

August 2014

Tobias Haunhorst, Piano

Melles Classical Music Foundation

The Melles Classical Music Founda-tion (MCMF) was initiated after Martin Haunhorst (concert master at the Ber-gische Symphoniker in Remsheid) and Gerrit Melles (ophthalmologist and am-ateur composer) met each other in 2010. Their mutual interest in classical music initially led to several projects, for which the music was written by Gerrit Melles and the performances were directed by Martin Haunhorst.

After having started with two string quartets in 2010, the ensemble slowly grew into a small chambre orchestra of 15 members, and now has reached the size of a ‘half’ full orchestra with about 30 members.

The aim of the MCMF orchestra is to continue organizing performances of self composed symphonical music, two or three times a year. Most scores are written for a soloist on a given instrument

accompanied by the MCMF orchestra. For the solo parts, preferably young, starting musicians (< 21 years of age) are invited, to enable them to get public exposure and to gain experience in play-ing with an orchestra.

We feel priviledged to acknowledge all people who supported the MCMF intia-tive in the past years, and to thank all of them for their time and energy: Doris Lange, Bernhard Schwarz, Peter van der Hof, and Gosse Hoekstra.

Martin Haunhorst Gerrit Melles

Melles Classical Music FoundationMCMF Chamber Orchestra

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Musicians

ViolinLukas HankAnais PontyAnne HopfmullerAmy FurfaroDora ChatzigeorgiouClaire SleddEmily DavisHoucheng KianJuliette GreggKirsty LovieMorane Cohen LambergerNihat AgdacSalome RateauLara Sullivan

ViolaMarie De Bry

Carl AustinJoe Bronstein

Joe Griffin

CelloAnais LaugenieCharlotte Kaslin

Tatiana Chernyshova

Double-bassFelix LashmarHannah Dacey

TimpaniEmmanuel Joste

ConductorChloe van Soeterstede

The Arch Sinfonia Members

FluteLuke O’Toole

Ruth Harrison

OboeJames HulmeTom Blomfield

ClarinetAusias Garrigos Morant

Ben Aldren

BassoonGreg Topping

Emily Newman

HornJonathan Quaintrell-Evans

Matthew Horn

TrumpetJames Fountain

Kaitlin Wild

Filming & Photography

Jason KokkinakisSamuel Tibi

Aylin Elçi