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JANUARY - APRIL 2024
SUN DA Y SER IE S chamber
music
March 3 Asta�ne Trio | piano, violin, cello
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March 24
concerts
Clare Hammond | piano
April 14 Hyeyoon Park | violin and Zlata Chochieva | piano
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Welcome to the 2024 Harrogate International Sunday Series Welcome to the 2024 Harrogate Interna�onal Sunday Series This is our first full length season of five coffee concerts since 2019, and we’re proud to announce our lineup of incredibly talented chamber musicians: Robert Plane and Tim Horton, Daniel Lebhardt, Asta�ne Trio, Clare Hammond, with Hyeyoon Park closing the season. The 2024 season brings an array of thrilling programmes that span four centuries, and feature composers from around the globe, performed by interna�onal acclaimed prize-winning musicians. We want to thank you, our audience, for your con�nued support of the Fes�vals. As the Season celebrates its 33rd year we look forward to welcoming you back to the beau�ful se�ng of the Old Swan Hotel.
Daniel Lebhardt | piano
Clare Hammond | piano
Sunday 18 February | 11am
Sunday 24 March | 11am
Tickets
Hungarian born pianist Daniel Lebhardt makes his Harrogate debut, presen�ng a programme featuring composers from his homeland. Daniel is a fast rising star, having given concertos with the Hallé, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Na�onal Philharmonic of Ukraine. He has won mul�ple prizes including 1st Prize at the Young Concert Ar�sts audi�ons in Paris and New York, and has performed at Wigmore Hall, St David’s Hall, and the Kennedy Center, Washington DC. His recent recording include music by Bartók, and violin sonatas by Copland, Prokofiev and Poulenc with Benjamin Baker.
Acclaimed pianist Clare Hammond joins us for the first �me, performing a beau�ful programme covering the late classical period to the 20th century. Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's 'Young Ar�st Award' in recogni�on of outstanding achievement in 2016, Clare has recently performed concertos with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. She has recorded six discs for BIS, most recently an album of Etudes by visionary French composer Hélène de Montgeroult, who features in Clare’s Sunday Series programme.
Band
Full price
Subscrip�on price
Band A
£24
£108
Band B
£23
£103.50
Band C
£21
£94.50
Brahms Lige� Scriabin Brahms Scriabin Lige� Bartók
Hélène de Montgeroult Etudes No. 62, 67, 104, 110, 111 Ravel Miroirs Clara Schumann 3 Romances, Op. 21 Edmund Finnis Youth Coleridge-Taylor 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 3 ‘Take Nabandji’ Coleridge-Taylor 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 8 ‘The Bamboula’ Coleridge-Taylor 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 10 ‘Deep River’ Isaac Albéniz Iberia Book 1, No. 1 ‘Evocación’ Isaac Albéniz Iberia Book 1, No. 2 ‘El Puerto’ Isaac Albéniz Iberia Book 2, No. 3 ‘Triana’
Four Ballades Op. 10 Études For Piano Book 1, No. 6, “Automne a Varsovie” Piano Sonata No. 3 in F# minor, Op. 23 Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 Vers la Flamme, Op. 72 Études For Piano Book 3, No. 15 “White on White” Out of Doors Suite, Sz. 81, BB 89
“…power, poetry and formidable technique” The New York Times
Asta�ne Trio Sunday 3 March | 11am
Book all five concerts in the same price band and receive a 10% discount UNDER 35s FOR £5 Just as we believe in suppor�ng musicians at all stages of their careers, we believe in making chamber music accessible to new genera�ons of audiences. To help ensure the future of chamber music, anyone under 35 can a�end for £5. CONCERT TIMINGS All concerts within the season will be approximately 2 hours in dura�on, including an interval. BOOKING INFORMATION
“A pianist of extraordinary gi�s” Gramophone
Robert Plane | clarinet Tim Horton | piano
Sunday 28 January | 11am Robert Plane joined us back in July as part of the Summer Residency and returns to Harrogate by popular demand to open the Sunday Series. His career as a solo and chamber clarine�st is rich and varied; he has appeared with interna�onal orchestras across Europe, Asia and North America. Previously principal clarine�st of the BBC Na�onal Orchestra of Wales, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia, Rob now holds the post of Head of Woodwind Performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is joined by pianist Tim Horton, a founding member of both Ensemble 360 and Leonore Piano Trio, with whom he tours widely. Witold Lutosławski Pamela Harrison Brahms Eleanor Alberga Josef Holbrooke Josef Holbrooke Paquito D’Rivera
Dance Preludes Dri�ing Away for clarinet and piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1 Duo from Dancing with the Shadow Eilean Shona, Op. 74 Selec�on from Mezzo-Tints, Op. 55 The Cape Cod Files
Berniya Hamie, piano Julia Błachuta, violin Riya Hamie, cello Our youngest musicians in the 2024 Sunday Series are the Asta�ne Trio, formed at the RCM in 2021, and are Bri�en Pears Young Ar�sts for the 2023/24 season. Making their Harrogate debut, the Trio have already won the First Prize and the Luigi Boccherini Prize at the Interna�onal Virtuoso & Belcanto Chamber Compe��on, and joint first prize at the Birmingham Interna�onal Piano Chamber Music Compe��on in November 2022. Most recently, the Trio were the youngest finalists of the 2023 Lyon Interna�onal Chamber Music Compe��on and were awarded the SEAM prize for contemporarymusic. They are mentored by the legendary Alfred Brendel and made their Wigmore Hall debut in 2022. Beethoven Shostakovich Haydn Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in D major, Op.70, No.1 Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op. 67 Piano Trio in E flat major, Hob XV:29 Piano Trio No.2 in C minor Op.66
“'real intelligence and richly communica�ve musicianship”
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Zlata Chochieva | piano Sunday 14 April | 11am
Violinist Hyeyoon Park returns to the Sunday Series, a�er her debut performance here in 2016. Her programme includes Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, in its original scoring for violin and piano, which she recorded for Decca Classics in 2022 to mark the composer’s 150th anniversary. Hyeyoon recently appeared with both the Hallé and Royal Northern Sinfonia alongside Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Benjamin Grosvenor in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. She is joined in Harrogate by her duo partner Zlata Chochieva, who studied under Mikhail Pletnev and has won ten interna�onal piano compe��ons. Mozart Toru Takemitsu Debussy Vaughan Williams Grieg
Violin Sonata No. 24 in F major, K. 376 Distance de fée Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano, L. 140 The Lark Ascending for Violin and Piano Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
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“Technical brilliance and rousing virtuoso fire, charmed by a unique natural sweetness in tone” Süddeutsche Zeitung
“…music making of the highest calibre” The Guardian
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Hyeyoon Park | violin
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