Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music 2017/18 by Leeds International Concert Season

Leeds Lunchtime

Chamber Music / 2017 18

Wednesdays at 1.05pm

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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.

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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?

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.

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This season’s highlights include the welcome return of the Opera North String Quartet performing Shostakovich and Borodin, a french horn and piano recital by 2016 BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist Ben Goldscheider with Richard Uttley, and solo piano recitals by international prizewinners Tamila Salimdjanova, Ning Hui See, Hector Docx, and James Willshire.

The Venue

Leeds College of Music, Quarry Hill (next to the West Yorkshire Playhouse)

Wednesdays 1.05pm – 1.55pm Free admission

Leeds Lunchtime

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4 October 2017

11 October 2017

18 October 2017

Arcturus

Camilla Bisengaliev

Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Claire Osborne violin Colin Honour clarinet Andrew Fairley cello Michael Cleaver piano Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time The Quartet for the End of Time is Messiaen’s most frequently recorded composition, and may be regarded today as one of the great examples of 20th Century music. Messiaen composed and premiered the Quartet in 1941 when he was a prisoner of war in Silesia. The piece was inspired by the following passage from The Revelation of St John the Divine, chapter 10: And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire… and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth…and the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever… that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished.

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Vito Nicola Paradiso guitar

Vito Nicola Paradiso Three Concert Studies Night Prayer Night in Venice Eight Latin American Dances Three Neapolitan Songs Born and educated in Almaty (Kazakhstan), Camilla comes from a famous musical family. She graduated from the Kazakh Special Music School with distinction. She has won many prizes and came to Leeds in 1999 to study with Richard Hewitt, principal oboe of Opera North. She also studied with Stephane Rancout, principal oboe of the Hallé and Emily Pailthorpe. She has given many concerto performances and recitals in Kazakhstan, Italy and England. In 2006 Camilla toured Belgium, Switzerland and Italy as principal oboe and soloist with European Vacation Chamber Orchestra. Born in Puglia (southern Italy) in 1964, Vito Nicola Paradiso studied various musical genres before graduating in guitar in 1987. As a performer he has given concerts across Europe, America and Asia. As a chamber musician, he has been part of several ensembles from duos with flute, violin, harp, and voice to percussion quintet with strings, as well as collaborating with internationally acclaimed artists. As a composer, he is the author of a best selling beginner guitar teaching book and has published several descriptive, original pieces for solo guitar and guitar and orchestra.

Christopher Vettraino oboe Emma Baird violin Gavin Johnson tuba Charlotte Jennings voice Programme to be confirmed – please check www.leedsconcertseason.com for updates. Christopher Vettraino has studied with Stephen West at the Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland since 2012. Since the age of ten, Chris has been a member of National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and is also a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Emma is currently studying violin with Andrea Gajic at the Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has won numerous prizes including the conservatoire’s 2016 concerto competition resulting in a performance of the Bruch Violin Concerto. Gavin Johnson, seventeen, has been playing tuba since the age of twelve. During that time he has become Principle EEb Bass with the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland and recorded a CD to commemorate the life and work of Malcolm Arnold. Charlotte Jennings is seventeen and studying at the High School of Dundee where she won Dux of Voice competition. Charlotte has been singing for five years, and in 2017 she came second in the Junior Conservatoire Glasgow Grand Opera Society Cup for Voice, and won the district 1010 Young Vocalist of the Year award.

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1 November 2017

8 November 2017

15 November 2017

22 November 2017

29 November 2017

Tamila Salimdjanova

Eun Cho

Junior Royal Northern College of Music

Royal Northern College of Music

Royal Academy of Music

Ning Hui See

Chloë Ellen Jones flute Ceferina Penny voice Ellis Thomas piano David Jones piano accompanist

Chroma Harp Duo Lucy Nolan Rebecca McIlroy

Thomas Freeman-Attwood trumpet Timothy End piano

John Thomas Scenes of Childhood Monika Stadler Preseli Skies Debussy arr Salzedo Clair de Lune Tournier Prélude No 3 pour harp Damase Sonatine pour deux harpes: i Presto Respighi Siciliana Bach arr Salzedo Two Dances from French Suite in E major Salzedo Pentacle: Steel Patterson Scorpions Chertok Around the Clock Suite – Ten Past Two Salzedo Rumba

Programme to include music by Saint-Saëns, Sampson, Planel and Telemann.

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Schubert Four Impromptus D899 Franck Prélude, Chorale and Fugue Tamila Salimdjanova was born in Tashkent and began her studies at the Uspensky Music School. She made her orchestra debut at the age of nine with the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan led by conductor Kuvanch Usmanov. In 2007 Tamila entered the Moscow Central Music School and continued her education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the guidance of Professor Irina Plotnikova. She finished her Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal College of Music in 2016 studying with Dmitry Alexeev. Tamila won First Prize and the Audience Award at the BNDES International Piano Competition in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and the Massarosa International Piano Competition a year later. More recently she was awarded Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Birmingham International Piano Competition. She has been invited to perform with the Orquestra Experimental de Repertório, Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica da Bahia, and Philarmonic Orchestra of Morocco. She has also appeared at the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, Festival Pianos-Folies du Touquet and Festival de Inverno Campos do Jordao. Her previous awards include prizes at the Animato International Piano Competition in Paris and Chopin International Competition for young pianists in Moscow.

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Alison Rhind piano

Locatelli Sonata Schumann Fantasiestücke Britten Sonata Eun Cho was born in 1992 in Seoul and began playing the cello at the age of six years old. She went on to study at the Korea National University of Arts and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music aged eighteen. She completed her Master’s in Performance graduating with Distinction in 2013, and also completed her Artist Diploma in Performance in 2014, studying with Professor Alexander Boyarsky at the Royal College of Music, London. Eun has performed in masterclasses with renowned cellists including Frans Helmerson, Miklós Perényi, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Jens Peter Maintz and Julian LloydWebber. She has also worked with David Geringas and Arto Noras at the Kronberg Academy Festival and Wiener Meisterkurse. Since 2011 she has studied under Professor Natalia Gutman at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy and at the Konservatorium Wien. Eun was an RCM Scholar supported by a Leverhulme Postgraduate Studentship and was awarded the Borsa di Studio Aldo Fiesoli for her studies in Italy. Eun is currently teaching at the Royal College of Music as a deputy of Professor Alexander Boyarsky.

Programme to be confirmed – please check www.leedsconcertseason.com for updates. Chloë Ellen Jones is sixteen years old and has been playing the flute for nine years. She has been studying for the last four years at the Junior RNCM under the guidance of Jonathan Rimmer and is Principal Flute of the JRNCM Symphony Orchestra and the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and plays for the National Youth Chamber Orchestra of Great Britain. Ceferina Penny is a sixteen year old Soprano, who is now in her second year with the JRNCM, where she is the vocalist for the New Music Ensemble. She has performed since 2011, both at home and abroad, with the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain. At the JRNCM she studies voice with Jenny Heslop, who formerly taught her at Manchester High School for Girls, where Ceferina is a year twelve pupil. Ellis Thomas is sixteen years old and lives in Llandudno, North Wales. He has been playing piano since the age of six and is in his fourth year at the JRNCM where he currently studies piano with Manola Hatfield and violin with Mary Hofman. Next April he will make his concerto debut, performing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1 with the St John’s Festival Orchestra in Chester.

After graduating from Oxford University with a BA in Music, Lucy returned to study for a Master’s in Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music. Lucy really enjoys the intimacy of chamber music and set up the Chroma Harp Duo, along with fellow RNCM student Rebecca McIlroy, to explore the versatility of the harp. As well as performing, Rebecca has a passion for outreach work, and has recently worked on Streetwise Opera Manchester's Easter production. She has also been involved in the RNCM's Young Performers series, performing with an orchestra to introduce children to the classical music world.

Thomas Freeman-Attwood became a member of the National Youth Orchestra (NYO) when he was fifteen in the Philip Jones Memorial Chair, having won the Bang & Olufsen Schools Competition. As part of NYO Tom played under the baton of Paul Daniel and Vasily Petrenko, among others. He gained further orchestral experience performing regularly with the York Guildhall Orchestra under Simon Wright, touring and performing with the London Schools’ Symphony Orchestra and playing Principal Trumpet for the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra. Having won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 2013 for his undergraduate studies, Thomas has just begun a master’s degree programme at the Royal Academy. Pianist Timothy End is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Julius Drake. A multiple first-prize winner, Timothy was awarded both the Pianist Prize and Jean Meikle Duo Prize at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition. Further prizes include the Gerald Moore Award, the Accompanists’ Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards, the Parnell Award for an Accompanist at the ROSL Annual Music Competition and the MBF Accompanist Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Competition.

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Bach Keyboard Partita No 1 Beethoven Sonata No 26 (Les Adieux) Chopin Etude Op 10, No 12 (The Revolutionary) Chopin Fantasie Op 49 Ning Hui See is a young pianist from Singapore. Born in 1996, she began her musical journey at the age of five. She studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts before receiving a Bachelor of Music with First Class honours from the Royal College of Music in London, studying with John Byrne and Dmitry Alexeev. Ning Hui has performed extensively in the UK, giving recitals at Steinway Hall, Regent Hall, St Martin-in-theFields, Victoria & Albert Museum, Leighton House Museum, Pallant House Gallery, Wells Cathedral School and the Yehudi Menuhin School. Additional concerts have taken her to Padua and Venice in Italy and the Harris Hall in Aspen, Colorado. International competition successes include First Solo and Second Concerto Prizes at the ‘Citta di Padova’ Competition in Italy, and Second Prize at the Cesar Franck Piano Competition in Belgium. She was a 2014 BBC Young Musician of the Year keyboard finalist and the Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year. Besides her solo engagements, Ning Hui is a passionate chamber musician and music teacher. She enjoys composition and research, possessing a particular interest in the interrelationship between history, literature, and music.

Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music 2017/18

6 December 2017

13 December 2017

10 January 2018

17 January 2018

24 January 2018

31 January 2018

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RNCM Songsters

Ben Goldscheider

Pro Corda

Arcturus

Keertan Kaur voice Shahbaz Hussain tabla

A Celebration of Women Composers of Song

Richard Uttley

Charlotte Saluste Bridoux

Oscar Holch viola Emma Purslow violin Andrew Quartermain piano

Claire Osborne violin Howard Breakspear viola Andrew Fairley cello Genna Spinks double bass Michael Cleaver piano

As the winter days grow darker and Christmas is on the horizon our hearts still yearn for bird song and that first sound of spring! SAA-uk and Leeds International Concert Season have teamed up and invite you to bring an open heart and ears to listen to the sweet voice of rising star Keertan Kaur accompanied by Shahbaz Hussain. Together they will present Midday Raga and Taal of North Indian music and a whisper of spring.

Programme to include music by Clara Schumann, Alma Mahler, Pauline Viardot, Cecile Chaminade, Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Liza Lehman and Madeleine Dring. The RNCM Songsters is a specially selected group of pianists and singers from The Royal Northern College of Music, all of whom are students that excel in the performance of art song. The group comprises of a variety of voices, allowing for exciting and creative repertoire programming. The artistic direction is led by RNCM staff pianist Jonathan Fisher and RNCM Head of Vocal Studies Lynne Dawson, with further guest tutors including Julius Drake and Alice Coote. The RNCM Songsters has performed in many of the Royal Northern College of Music’s festivals, recitals in London, and in several recitals for music societies across the north of England.

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Beethoven Horn Sonata Schumann Three Romances Hindemith Alto Horn Sonata Bozza En Forêt Ben has quickly emerged as one of the most exciting horn players of his generation. He reached the concerto finals of the 2016 BBC Young Musician Competition at London’s Barbican Hall, where he performed Strauss’ Horn Concerto No 2 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Mark Wigglesworth. In autumn 2016, Ben took up a sought after place at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin, where he studies with Radek Baborák. Recent concerto highlights include Strauss with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Mozart with the European Union Chamber Orchestra. His debut CD featuring works by composers including Schumann, York Bowen, Kalevi Aho and Esa-Pekka Salonen will be released later this year. Sought after as an orchestral musician, Ben has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and joins the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as guest principal on tour in December. Born in Bradford, Richard Uttley studied piano with Ian Buckle, then Music at Clare College, Cambridge and at Guildhall School. Richard is noted for the integrity and breadth of his musicianship as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist.

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Alison Rhind piano

Schubert Violin Sonata (Grand Duo) Ravel Violin Sonata No 2 Charlotte had an early start when she begged her parents for a violin at the age of two. At Montpellier’s Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional she was taught by François Gilles and Aude Périn-Dureau, she has received masterclasses from violinists including Ana Chumachenco, Zakhar Bron, Pavel Vernikov, Olivier Charlier, and Alina Ibragimova. In 2009 Charlotte entered the Yehudi Menuhin School to study with Natalia Boyarsky and is further pursuing her studies with Natalia at the Royal College of Music, as a recipient of both a Geoff and Carole Lindy Award and Abel G Halpern and Helen Chung-Halpern Award. In her free time Charlotte enjoys running, cooking, reading, and sight-reading Beethoven Quartets with her friends. Charlotte recently participated in the International Musicians Seminar masterclasses as well as the Open Chamber Music Seminar. Charlotte is currently playing a Matteo Goffriller violin kindly loaned to her by the RCM.

Programme to include: Brahms Viola Sonata No 1 Born in Yorkshire, Oscar started learning the violin through Wakefield Music Service and then continued at Yorkshire Young Musicians with Penny Stirling. He graduated in the summer of 2017 from the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Mateja Marinkovic, Yuko Inoue and Juan-Miguel Hernandez. He now studies with Professor David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Oscar is hugely passionate about teaching and works for Pro Corda as assistant conductor at its Young String Experience Programme and holds one of its Leverhulme Fellowship posts. Violinist and violist Emma Purslow was born in the Peak District and is now based in London following her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music studying with Daniel Rowland and Sasha Rohzdestvensky. Emma is a passionate chamber musician, and her ensemble the Vasara String Quartet has appeared in multiple venues throughout the UK and abroad.

Simon Holt everything turns away Glière Duo Mozart Piano Quartet No 2 Simon Holt’s piece everything turns away is a response to Breughel’s painting The Fall of Icarus. Icarus has flown too close to the sun, and the wax glueing his feathery wings has melted. The painting shows him falling into the sea close to the shore, but no-one notices, and life on shore goes on without interruption. Holt has conceived his work much more theatrically than is usual in chamber music: the strings play in the manner of folk going about their own business, then comes the catastrophe... A selection from Glière’s fine Duo provides us with a great opportunity to hear what has become a rare showcase for double bass, in partnership with the violin. Mozart’s Second Piano Quartet is a prime example of its composer’s championing of the new-fangled pianoforte and the somewhat unappreciated viola. Mozart confounded amateur performers with something too difficult for them to play, and too complex for their listeners to enjoy. The piano quartet, therefore, struggled to get off the ground. How things have changed – today this quartet is much-loved and widely accepted as a masterpiece.

Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music 2017/18

7 February 2018

14 February 2018

Sarah Bennett

Royal College of Music Opera North String Quartet Emily Sun violin

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Andrew Dunlop piano

Hamilton Harty In Ireland John Stanley Solo No 4 Takemitsu Voice Tchaikovsky Lensky’s Aria: Eugene Onegin Prokofiev Flute Sonata Sarah Bennett recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a distinction, and the prestigious DipRAM award. She studied with Michael Cox, Karen Jones and Patricia Morris. Sarah is currently on trial for the SubPrincipal flute position of the Hallé. She has played Guest Principal flute with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Northern Ballet Sinfonia and BBC National Orchestra of Wales and also freelances with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Scottish Opera, Opera North and London Sinfonietta. Sarah has played under the baton of many prestigious conductors, including Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda, Semyon Bychkov, Vladimir Jurowski, Vasily Petrenko and Mark Elder. Equally at home in chamber music, song, and solo recitals, Andrew is a versatile musician who has performed across the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Switzerland and New Zealand. He received his Doctorate from the Eastman School of Music in New York, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar under the guidance of Professor Barry Snyder.

Jennifer Hughes piano

Mozart Violin Sonata No 26 Faure Violin Sonata No 1 Rosenblatt/Bizet Carmen Fantasy Australian violinist Emily Sun is rapidly gaining international recognition as a rising soloist. Emily made her concerto debut with the East-West Philharmonic Orchestra at age ten, and has since been a regular soloist with the Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmanian, Queensland and Canberra Symphony Orchestras and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. During her studies Emily won numerous prizes at the Royal College of Music including the Violin Competition 2012 and Concerto Competition 2015. She recently performed the Bach Double Violin Concerto with Maxim Vengerov in the 2017 Royal Gala, hosted by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. Jennifer Hughes studied with Hilary Coates as a DfES Scholar at Wells Cathedral School and completed her master’s at the Royal College of Music in 2012 where she was a Drapers’ Company Scholar studying with John Blakely and Roger Vignoles. Jennifer is now much in demand as an instrumental duo partner and song pianist. She has performed across the UK and internationally at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Oslo Opera House, and St James’ Piccadilly.

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David Greed violin Katherine New violin David Aspin viola Jessica Burroughs cello Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 Borodin String Quartet No 2 The Opera North String Quartet gave its premier recital in the Howard Assembly Room, Leeds Grand Theatre, in May 2011, recent appointments to the Orchestra of Opera North having created a wonderful opportunity for such an ensemble to be formed. David Greed has been Leader of the Orchestra of Opera North since its inception in 1978. He is well known throughout the area as a soloist and chamber player. Katherine New first joined Opera North in 1991, becoming Section Leader of Second Violins in 1998. After a busy life freelancing and playing in every orchestra and ensemble you could possibly think of, David Aspin joined as Section Leader of Violas in 2007. Jessica Burroughs is currently Principal Cello having freelanced with the orchestra for many years as well as having guest led many other orchestras in the UK and abroad. All members of the quartet are crazy about chamber music so it seemed the most natural thing in the world to form a quartet, and start to immerse themselves in the gigantic world of the quartet repertoire.

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7 March 2018

14 March 2018

The Purcell School

Chetham’s School of Music

Leeds College of Music

Polina Makhina violin Paganini Nel cor più non mi sento Kroll Banjo and Fiddle

Sean Payne saxophone Paganini Caprice No 5 Bozza Aria Yoshimatsu Fuzzy Bird Sonata: i. Run, Bird

Francesca Lauri Menta piano Chopin Fantaisie Op 49

Daniel Swain piano accompanist Polina Makhina was born in Voronezh, Russia, in 2000. She started playing the violin aged four, inspired by her older sister. In September 2013 Polina was accepted into The Purcell School, where she studies violin with Nathaniel Vallois and piano with Lidia Amorelli. Sean Payne is sixteen and comes from North London. He started playing the saxophone aged eight after being inspired to take up a wind instrument by a recorder project at his primary school. In 2014, Sean was a finalist in the first ever BBC Young Musician of the Year Jazz Award. Francesca Lauri Menta was born in 2000 and started studying the piano at the age of five with Neil Rollings. The next year Francesca made her debut in piano concerts organised by the Bromley Youth Music Trust. She has since performed at various venues, including the Fazioli Hall in Italy, and the Glasgow Conservatory.

Programme to be confirmed – please check www.leedsconcertseason.com for updates. Chetham’s is the largest specialist Music School in the UK and is the only one based in the north of England. The School is also a national and international resource for music education – welcoming teachers, professional players, composers and conductors, community groups, school children and other young musicians, both experienced and novices, to come together and make music. This is the result of many different qualities that permeate the fabric of Chetham’s: the warm and welcoming atmosphere, the daily creative buzz, admirable academic standards, its history and heritage, its superb teaching and performance spaces, the city of Manchester as a cosmopolitan location, its many different backgrounds and personalities – and of course, the music.

Northern Contemporary Collective Millie Stonehouse flute Mikey Sluman oboe Lara Jones saxophone Danny Barley trombone Lauren Hinds violin Alexandra Marshall cello Andy Leggett bass Kieran Gunter guitar Max Gregory piano Oscar Abela electronics Programme to be confirmed – please check www.leedsconcertseason.com for updates. The Northern Contemporary Collective was formed in 2017 by some of Yorkshire’s finest young professional musicians. The aim of the collective is to bring innovative and collaborative performances across the creative arts, challenging audience perception and enhancing imagination through various art forms. The wide range of musical backgrounds and education makes for an incredibly exciting and diverse ensemble that is able to work in many genres including classical, jazz, popular music, improvisation, avant-garde, and graphic notation.

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The Genovia Quartet is a fresh, all female group which formed in 2015 with three main goals – to challenge the traditionalist perception of the bassoon, to expand the repertoire for this unique ensemble, and to share its passion and joy for its work with a diverse audience demographic. While studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Victoria Lopez, Gillian Horn, Ana Rodriguez Garcia and Rhiannon Carmichael, formed a close friendship which has continued into their performances as a chamber group ensemble. Their desire to share the fun together with their audiences is obvious and is helping the group establish its reputation to an expanding audience. In November 2016, Genovia was accepted onto the Live Music Now Scotland initiative. This work has been invaluable to the group, which has enjoyed challenging itself in new settings and delivering a wide range of recitals and outreach work around Scotland.

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Programme to include music by Piazzolla, Bernstein, Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Raymond Scott.

James Willshire performs internationally as soloist and chamber musician. He appears regularly at the major UK concert halls, including Bridgewater Hall, Barbican, Glasgow City Halls, and Royal Festival Hall, and has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. James’ recordings of contemporary British piano music have been reviewed extensively, receiving universal acclaim. Festival appearances include performances given by James at the 2015 The Piano Festival at Glasgow Royal Concert Halls, the Lichfield, Cheltenham and Winchester Festivals, the Hebden Bridge Piano Festival, the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Cantilena Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, the Roman River Festival, ‘Il Festival di Londra’, the Victoria International Arts Festival and the Paxos International Festival. A regular performer of contemporary music, James has given world premiere performances of works by Ronald Stevenson, John McLeod, Rory Boyle, Jay Capperauld, Euan Ferguson and Richard Greer. This concert forms part of James’ Debussy 2018 project, which sees him performing the complete solo piano music of Debussy throughout the year.

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The nearest stop to The Venue is at Leeds Bus Station.

Ana Rodriguez Garcia

Presenting England’s traditional songs with a bold and fresh approach, The Dovetail Trio explores familiar narratives with infectious energy and a passion for musical heritage. The new collaboration effortlessly combines the distinctive voices and acclaimed instrumental talents of BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominee Jamie Roberts, Fred Jordan Memorial Award winner Rosie Hood, and Newcastle Folk Degree alumnus Matt Quinn. The relaxed performance has a less formal atmosphere. Audience noise and movement in the auditorium are acceptable. Everyone is welcome.

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Hector Docx is a British pianist and composer, currently based in Hamburg, Germany. Born in Manchester, he attended Chetham’s School of Music before moving to Hamburg in 2010 to begin his undergraduate studies. He is currently completing his master’s degree in the class of Hubert Rutkowski and Mauro Lo Conte. At the centre of his work is a drive to reinvent the role of the PianistMusician in the modern world and to actively bring an appreciation of classical music to a wider audience. He dedicated much of 2016 to rediscovering and performing the forgotten piano works of the ‘Russian Avant-Garde’, a group of composers which was prolific in Russia before the 1917 October Revolution. His work culminated in April 2016, when he directed and founded his own music festival, Sound of Unease. During his piano studies he took an interest in both conducting and composing which led to a desire to work closely with living composers, performing their works and also getting his own works performed. In 2014 Hector conducted newly composed works by students of the composition department in a concert aimed at showcasing the new faces of modern music.

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Debussy Reverie (1890) Masques (1904) Mazurka (1890) Images 1 (1905) Ballade (1890) Images 2 (1908) L’Isle joyeuse (1904)

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11 April 2018

4 April 2018

28 March 2018

21 March 2018

Enjoy more free lunchtime concerts in Leeds Leeds Town Hall Organ Recitals Mondays, 1.05pm at Leeds Town Hall

City Organist Darius Battiwalla curates the popular series of lunchtime recitals showcasing the magnificent organ at Leeds Town Hall. Visit www.leedsconcertseason.com for details. Call 0113 378 6600 for a free brochure.

University of Leeds School of Music Concert Series

Fridays, 1.10pm at Clothworkers Hall, Leeds University Lunchtime and occasional rush-hour performances bringing you the very best in almost every genre of music, from world music to jazz via baroque. Visit www.leeds.ac.uk/music for details. Call 0113 343 2583 for a free brochure.

Talk to us! If you have any questions or comments about Leeds International Concert Season please contact us: Leeds International Concert Season Leeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD General Enquiries: 0113 378 6600 Email: music@leeds.gov.uk Whilst every effort is made to avoid changes, Leeds International Concert Season reserves the right to change artists and programmes without notice if unavoidable.

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