Our aim at Ferrandou Musique is twofold. For the best young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music we aim to generate an atmosphere in which they can work at high intensity on three different wide-ranging programmes during a residency of one week. They eat well, sleep well, practice well, enjoy the pool and surroundings and come up with some splendid music making.
This is where you, our faithful audience, comes in. We value your presence as much as theirs, and are so happy to see and feel the warmth of your welcome to these young players.
We try to find new and interesting venues for our concerts in churches and villages that we have recently discovered, and which we hope you too will visit, maybe for the first time, to sample our annual selection of stars in the making.
Watch our Ferrandou Youtube channel.
Friday 19 March at 20h30
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Haydn Piano Trio No.43, Hob XV:27 in C major (20’)
Debussy Sonata for violin and piano ------------- Lutoslawski "Subito" for violin and piano Mendelssohn Piano Trio Op.66 in C minor |
Monday 2 April at 16h00
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Bach Suite No 2 for Cello
Brahms Piano Trio Op.101 in C minor ------------- Ysaÿe Sonata for solo violin in G major Ravel Piano Trio in A minor |
Tuesday 3 April at 20h30
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C. Schumann 3 Romances for violin and piano, Op.22
C. Schumann Piano Trio in G minor, Op.17 ------------- R. Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op.73 R. Schumann Piano Trio Op.63 in D minor |
Saturday 19 May at 20h30
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Susato - Suite
Ewald - Quintet No. 3 Rachmaninoff - Bogoroditse Devo Bozza - Sonatine ------------- Longworth - Quintet Tavener - The Lamb Take 6 - A Quiet Place Pirchner - L’homme au marteau dans la poche |
Sunday 20 May at 17h00
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Bach arr. Canadian Brass - Fugue in G minor
Ewald - Quintet No. 1 Ravel arr. Taillard - Pavane pour une infante défunte Howells arr. Aaron Akugbo - A Spotless Rose Plog - Four Sketches ------------- Crespo - Suite Americana Bruckner - Libera me in f minor Nilsson - Wendepunkt Schubert - Adagio in G Gershwin arr. Taillard - American in Paris |
Monday 21 May at 20h30
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Rameau - Dardanus Suite
Bach - Toccata and Fugue in d minor Arnold - Quintet Gershwin arr. Jack Gale - Porgy and Bess ------------- Hillborg - Quintet Bruckner - Christus Factus Est Messiaen - O Sacrum Convivium Ewald - Quintet No. 2 |
Friday 13 July at 20h30
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Dvorak - 4 Pièces Romantiques
Franck - Sonata for violin and piano ------------- Clara Schumann - 3 Romances for violin and piano Op.22 Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit - piano solo Rachmaninov - Vocalise Waxman - Carmen Fantasie |
Sunday 15 July at 17h30
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Dvorak - 4 Pièces Romantiques
Franck - Sonata for violin and piano ------------- Clara Schumann - 3 Romances for violin and piano Op.22 Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit - piano solo Rachmaninov - Vocalise Waxman - Carmen Fantasie |
Monday 16 July at 20h30
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Dvorak - Pièces Romantiques n° 3 and 4
Schubert - Fantasie in C ------------- Ysaÿe - Sonata Franck - Sonata |
Tuesday 17 July at 21h00
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Schubert - Impromptu n° 3 (Arr. Heifetz/Kilian van Rooij)
Schubert - Fantasie in C ------------- Ysaÿe - Sonata Franck - Sonata |
Monday 20 August at 20h30
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Naylor - Vox dicentis: clama
Stanford - Three Latin Motets (Justorum animae : Coelos ascendit hodie : Beati quorum via) Howells - I heard a voice from heaven Walton - Set me as a seal Walton - Where does the uttered music go Harris - Faire is the Heaven ------------- Britten - A Hymn to St Cecilia Hewitt Jones - Drop, drop, slow tears Murrill - The souls of the righteous Leighton - Drop, drop, slow tears Stanford - I heard a voice from heaven Harris - Bring us O Lord God Howells - Take him earth for cherishing (Motet on the death of President Kennedy) |
Friday 31 August at 20h30
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Mozart Divertimenti en Ré
Ligeti "Métamorphoses nocturnes" Dohnanyi Quatuor n° 3 en La Mineur |
Saturday 1 September at 20h30
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Haydn Quatuor Op 77 n° 1
Louise Drewett Quiver (création) Samuel Barber Dover Beach pour baryton et quatuor à cordes Beethoven Quatuor Op 18 n° 1 |
Sunday 2 September at 17h00
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Samuel Barber Adagio
Samuel Barber Dover Beach pour baryton et quatuor à cordes Andrew Norman Sabina Miguel de Aguila Presto II Brahms Quatuor en Ut mineur Op 51 n° 1 |
Saturday 10 November at 5pm
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Beethoven Quartet in F Op 18 n° 1
Samuel Barber Adagio Samuel Barber Dover Beach for baritone and string quartet Brahms Quartet in C minor Op 51 n° 1 |
Sunday 11 November at 4pm
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Haydn Quartet in G Op 77 n° 1
Stravinsky Three pieces for string quartet (1918) Debussy Quartet in G minor Op 10 Samuel Barber Adagio |
Friday 19 April at 20h30
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Schumann Fantasiestücke, op 88
Rebecca Clarke Trio (1921) Schubert Trio no 1 in B flat , op.99 (D898) |
Sunday 21 April at 16h00
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Schumann Adagio & Allegro, op 70
Chopin Sonata for cello and piano in G minor, op 65 Haydn Trio in D minor Hob XV:23 Beethoven Trio no 4 in B flat, op 11 |
Monday 22 April at 16h00
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Chopin Ballade no 4, op 52
Fauré Sonata for violin and piano in A, op 13 Beethoven Trio no 7 (The Archduke) in B flat, op 97 |
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Sonata for flute
Sonata for oboe Sonata for clarinet Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano Duo for clarinet and bassoon Sextet |
Sunday 9 June at 16h00
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Ravel Tombeau de Couperin
Villa Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras no.6 for flute and bassoon Françaix Quintet no.1 Ibert Trois Pièces Ligeti Six Bagatelles Nielsen Quintet |
Monday 10 June at 16h00
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York Bowen Sonata for flute and piano
Malcolm Arnold Three Chanties Elliot Carter Gra Schifrin La New Orleans Barber Summer Music Edwin Roxburgh Stardrift Gershwin Porgy and Bess for wind quintet |
Saturday 22 june at 20h30
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Sunday 23 June at 16h00
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Monday 24 June at 21h00
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Tour repertoire to include:
Magnificat
Nunc dimittis Exsurge Domine Tunes from Archbishop Parker’s Psalter Settings from the Genevan Psalter Die mit Tränen säen Schaffe in mir, Gott Three motets: - Beati quorum via - Justorum animae - Coelos ascendit hodie Salve regina Exultate Deo Lord thou hast searched me out Gaudent in coelis Organ works tbc |
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt William Byrd (1538-1623) Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) Claude Le Jeune and Claude Goudimel Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Joanna Marsh (contemporary) Sally Beamish (contemporary) |
Saturday 13 July at 20h30
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Debussy Reverie for piano
Debussy Valse ‘La plus que lente’ for cello and piano Debussy Beau Soir for violin and piano Debussy G major trio Smetana G minor trio |
Sunday 14 July at 20h30
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Haydn E flat major trio
Ravel Pièce en forme de habanera for cello and piano Ravel Duo for violin and cello Ravel Trio in A minor |
Tuesday 16 July at 20h30
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Beethoven C minor trio Beethoven Archduke trio |
With Monique Sicard, Christophe Vautier (piano) and David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
There are different pianists.
Artists delivering uncompromising music, clear and bright,
go closer to an incandescence, an inner fire, go to the heart of a work.
« It's been years since I'd seen him get up like this ». György Cziffra's wife, secretly and emotionally, thanks Christophe who has just played in front of the Master. In addition to becoming a laureate of his Foundation, Christophe Vautier was to be his last student. The Master will make him work the last year of his life.
Christophe began his solo career with Rachmaninov's second concerto. A concert tour in France, of course and in Italy, China, Mexico or Africa. Meetings and exchanges…
The pianist Cécile Edel-Latos, who introduced him to music, will remain an echo in every moment. Christophe goes to work in England with pianist Sulamita Aronowsky. Pure piano. At the slightest note in which she does not recognize Haydn, she will ask him to stop playing. The authenticity of the sound. He finds her 15 years later and plays for her: "This is the progress I was expecting from you".
The "job of living", cross roads, feed on all that creates matter and dreams. Do not play to play, but to have something to tell, to transmit. One of his teachers will say to him: "If we all have the same technique, we will never have the same sound, because we do not have the same story".
From the first note, recognize the composer. Sound and orchestration. This is where everything is played out. A music rid of all meandering and all irrelevant matter. And today be ready, finally, to convey that.
The music performed by Christophe Vautier is a music that feels good. His concerts are and will always be a moment apart. Something that hangs and leaves a trace.
Wednesday 14 August at 20h30
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Rameau Dardanus suite Ewald Quintet no 1 Messiaen O Sacrum Convivium Gershwin American in Paris Gershwin 3 Preludes Bruckner Christus Factus Est Take 6 A Quiet Place Bernstein West Side Story |
Thursday 15 August at 16h00
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J S Bach Little fugue in G minor Mathias Summer Dances Rachmaninoff Ave Maria Gershwin Porgy and Bess J S Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor Ewald Quintet No 4 - Jive for Five |
Saturday 17 August at 20h30
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Susato Suite Tilson -Thomas Street Song Rimsky-Korsakov Procession of the Nobles Dukas Fanfare to "La Péri" Bruckner Libera Me Ravel Pavane pour une Infante défunte Gershwin Someone to watch over me |
Monday 19 August at 16h00
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Holst Jupiter Faure Pavane Crespo Suite Americana Rossini Largo al factotum Plog Quintet Longworth Movement 4 Ewald Quinet No2 |
Friday 29 May at 20h30
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Beethoven Trio Op.1 n°1 in E flat major Toru Takemitsu “Between Tides” Schubert Trio in B flat major n°1 |
Sunday 31 May at 16h00
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Schumann Fantasiestücke Trio Op.88 Ravel Duo for violin and cello Brahms Trio in B major Op.8 n°1 |
Monday 1 June at 16h00
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Schumann Fantasiestücke Trio Op.88 Toru Takemitsu "Between Tides" Brahms Trio in B major Op.8 n°1 |
Trio Opal
The prize-winning Trio Opal was founded in 2017 during each member’s study at the Royal Academy of Music. They were nominated to represent the RAM in the 2018 Intercollegiate Piano Trio Competition in Birmingham, in which they were awarded first prize. They were also finalists in the inaugural Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Festival in November 2018. Recently, they were awarded the Commission and the Audience prizes in the Trondheim International Chamber Music competition 2019 and have been reinvited for the 2020 Festival.
They have performed at Wigmore Hall, Colston Hall, the Ivor Gurney Hall in Gloucester, the Royal Academy of Music, St Mary’s Perivale, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and many more in the U.K.
In April 2018 and July 2019 they were invited to Ferrandou, France, where they performed a wide range of repertoire in six concerts. In Summer 2019 they were also invited to the Lake District Summer Music Festival, Rye Arts Festival, Dartington International Summer School and live broadcast on the BBC radio 3 “In Tune”.
Their future engagements include concerts at the RAM, the Royal Birmingham Conservatory, St. Mary’s Perivale, Barnes Music Society and in Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh.
Trio Opal receive coaching from world-renowned professors violinist Gyorgy Pauk, cellist Christoph Richter and pianist Michael Dussek. Their extensive performing experience has led them to win competitions, play with the top London orchestras such as LPO, LSO and RPO, to perform on live radio and Wigmore Hall and more. After graduating, they were invited to be Cavatina-Trio-In-Residence at the Royal Academy of Music and are continuing their work as Chamber Music Fellows in the academic year 2019/20.
Eriko plays a violin by Nicolo Gagliano, Naples, 1755 and Joel plays a cello by Giulio Degani, Venezia, 1906 kindly on loan from the Royal Academy of Music.
Programme
Requiem Four motets - Ubi caritas - Tota pulchra es - Tu es Petrus - Tantum ergo Vinea mea electa Timor et tremor Magnificat Primi toni O clap your hands Salve regina Hail, gladdening light Bring us, O Lord God Selections from ‘O’ Antiphons Nunc dimittis |
Maurice Duruflé Maurice Duruflé Francis Poulenc Francis Poulenc Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Orlando Gibbons Tomás Luis de Victoria Charles Wood William Harris Christopher Fox Gustav Holst |
Saturday 20 June at 20h30
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Sunday 21 June at 16h00
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Monday 22 June at 21h00
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St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, boasts a distinguished and varied musical tradition, in which the College Choir plays a major role.
With musical activities ranging from intimate chamber/consort singing to large-scale choral consorts, from Anglican Evensong to Choral Compline, members of St Catharine’s College Choir have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of musical activities; and in its role as an ambassador for St Catharine's outside the College walls, the Choir’s concerts and recordings, educational and community work, has earned it a reputation for innovation and excellence.
The focus of the Choir’s activities is the Chapel, with one of the est acoustics in Cambridge, and the regular weekly services of Evensong, Eucharist and Compline. At Sunday Evensong we sing the Anglican liturgy in its traditional form, while at Thursday night Compline we use Medieval Gregorian chant, choral and instrumental chamber music to create a more intimate atmosphere. The Choir gives regular concerts, often of major choral works such as the Monteverdi Vespers and Mozart's Requiem, in collaboration with professional instrumentalists. The choir is also embarked on a series of recordings for the Resonus label, the latest of which - Gaudent in Coelis - was released in March 2017.
The Choir is made up of approximately 24 singers, drawn mainly from undergraduate and graduate students at St Catharine’s College, but also open to students from other colleges. Prospective singers may wish to apply for a Choral Scholarship in advance of their arrival at Cambridge; singers can also audition when they arrive in Cambridge as freshers. The Choir is a lively and sociable group, a characteristic of the College as a whole. This is enhanced by the opportunities provided for choir members to share meals together, tour and record together and play a part in some of the most significant events in the College’s calendar. St Catharine's aims to attract talented and ambitious singers who are nevertheless not wanting to devote all their energies to this one activity. Members of the Choir have the opportunity to be involved in a wider range of musical and non-musical activities such as running the College Music Society, playing for, singing in and even producing musicals and operas.
Friday 17 July at 20h30
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Misha Mullov-Abbado Winter Blues (2020 commission) Brahms String Quartet No.2 in A minor Ravel String Quartet |
Sunday 19 July at 21h00
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Webern Langsamer Satz Beethoven String Quartet in A major, Op.18 No.5 Mendelssohn String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op13 |
Monday 20 July at 21h00
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Suk Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn “St Wenceslas” Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op.76 No.1 Korngold String Quartet No.2 in Eb Op.26 |
The Hill Quartet is made up of four postgraduate students from the Royal Academy of Music:
Newly formed in September 2018, the quartet were recently awarded the Royal Academy’s Sir John Barbirolli prize in recognition of the achievements during their first year and are scholars of the Academy’s ASSET Scheme, a chamber music fast track course. They are mentored by John Myerscough, cellist of the Doric String Quartet, and have been coached by Jon Thorne, the Piatti String Quartet, Hartmut Rohde, and Levon Chilingirian.
Following recent recitals at the Marylebone and Petworth Chamber Music Festivals, the quartet has enjoyed performances at St Martin-in-the-Fields and St James’s Piccadilly Church this autumn. Their 2019/20 season will feature a varied recital series at the Royal Academy of Music, exploring lesser known quartet works, and including a new jazz-influenced commission by composer Misha Mullov-Abbado.
Website www.hillquartet.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hillquartet/?hl=en
Twitter https://twitter.com/HillQuartet
Friday 14 August at 20h30
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Ligeti Six Bagatelles Bozza Oboe Sonata Thuille Sextet Poulenc Flute Sonata Bozza En Irlande Saint-Saëns Bassoon Sonata Poulenc Sextet |
Sunday 16 August at 16h00
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Bozza Image for solo flute Francaix Quintet no.2 Mozart Piano Quintet Bozza Scherzo for wind quintet Taffanel Wind Quintet Beethoven Piano Quintet |
Monday 17 August at 21h00
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Barber Summer Music Bozza Quartet Cambini Quintet Bozza Variations sur un theme Ibert Wind Quintet Pierné Bucolique variée Nielsen Wind Quintet |
Members:
all met during their time playing with the National Youth Orchestra and, discovering they would all be studying at the same conservatoire and knowing that they wanted chamber music to be a big part of their careers, they decided to start a group. Upon meeting Phil in their first week at the Royal Academy of Music, Lyrus Winds was started.
They are now in their fourth year of playing together and the group has been fortunate enough to receive coaching from musicians including Keith Bragg, Michael Cox and John Orford, as well as from the Academy Fellows, Moriarty Winds.
They were highly commended in the Nicholas Blake Prize at the Academy, and have enjoyed covering a variety of repertoire in exciting concert opportunities. These include playing Janacek’s ‘Mladi’ as part of the Academy’s festival with the Czech Philharmonic, and a lunchtime recital at the Royal Academy, playing Barber, Nielsen and Ligeti. Their third year at the Academy has seen Lyrus Winds explore more contemporary music. They collaborated with academy conductor Elias Brown to perform Ligeti’s ‘Chamber Concerto for 13 Instruments’. This was followed by the opportunity to perform Priaulx Rainier’s ‘six pieces for wind quintet’. In the future they hope to continue exploring more varied repertoire. Upcoming concerts include a concert for the RAM lunchtime concert series per-forming Poulenc’s sextet and the lesser known Thuille sextet with pianist Julian Chan.
Friday 14 August at 20h30
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Silvestrini - Étude
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Saturday 15 August at 19h30
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Nielsen - Chaconne
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Sunday 16 August at 16h00
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Malcolm Arnold - Trois Shanties
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Members:
The Daphnis Wind Quintet was formed in 2017, with students from RAM and RCM who had previously played together in the National Youth Orchestra and the University of London Symphony Orchestra. They are the winners of the Nicholas
Blake Prize 2018 at the Academy. Daphnis have received coaching from Keith Bragg, Robin O’Neill, Mel Ragge, Sam Coles, Moriarty Winds and Notus Winds. The last couple of years have seen some of its members appear as concerto
soloists in genres ranging from baroque to contemporary. As orchestral musicians, they are also on the extras list or trialing with Sinfonia Cymru, BBC SSO, RSNO, RLPO, RPO and Philharmonia. Recent engagements have included
performances at The Purcell School and at the Royal Academy of Music. Daphnis have an interest in outreach work and all types of music, from orchestral transcriptions to jazz.
Saturday 19 September at 20h30
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Gretchaninov cello sonata in E minor Op 113 |
Sunday 20 September at 15h00
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Wagner (Liszt) Tannhauser Ouverture |
Tuesday 22 September at 20h30
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Mozart Trio in G K 496 |
Jack Greed is a violinist from Leeds currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Joshua Fisher. Jack plays regularly with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Sinfonia of London and the John Wilson Orchestra, and was named on the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme in 2019. He is also first violinist of the Kirkman Quartet, who are currently the St Peter’s Fellowship quartet at Eaton Square, and Quartet in Residence at the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival. Jack’s Master’s degree is generously supported by the Drake Calleja, Countess of Munster, and Craxton Memorial trusts. He plays on a 1710 Giofredo Cappa violin on loan from the Academy.
Yurie Lee is quickly gaining recognition as a versatile cellist. This past season saw her as Principal Cello with the Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra under the batons of Jac van Steen and Edward Gardner. She is also a member of the Kirkman Quartet. Yurie began playing the cello at the age of five before joining the Junior department at the Royal Academy of Music with a scholarship. She later received a scholarship for her studies with Jo Cole on the Bachelor of Music Degree in which she graduated with First Class Honours. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts Degree at the RAM under the guidance of Nadège Rochat, kindly supported by a Scholarship and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Derek Butler Award.
Harry Rylance is a pianist studying at the Royal Academy of Music under Head of Piano, Joanna MacGregor. He has performed as a soloist and collaborative musician in the UK, USA, Canada, Hungary, Germany, France, Korea and New Zealand. Recent engagements in the UK have included performances at the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Foreign Office, and live on BBC Radio 3. During his time at RAM he has been the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Christian Carpenter Recital Prize. He was also awarded the Skelton Scholarship for his studies, generously supported by the Grand Duo Charitable Trust.
Saturday 28 August at 20h30
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Tielman Susato arr. Agnas Dance Suite
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Sunday 29 August at 16h00
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Jan Bach Rounds and Dances
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Tuesday 31 August at 20h30
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Jan Bach Rounds and Dances
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A “thrilling young ensemble at the start of what is sure to be a major international career” (Great Birmingham Brass Fest), Connaught Brass are quickly making a name for themselves as a fresh talent in the chamber music world.
They are all recent graduates from the RAM or the Guildhall School of Music and have already been awarded many distinguished prizes.
Connaught Brass’s commitment, camaraderie and collective ability has won them many friends and fans through their recent broadcasts for the BBC and it is a joy to see them living up to the huge promise they showed on their first visits to Ferrandou.
Having been principal players in the European Union Youth Orchestra and National Youth Orchestras of Great Britain, Scotland, and Wales, members are now appearing on the professional circuit. This includes freelancing with the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, English National Opera and Ulster Orchestras, as well as recording with and supporting artists such as Bruno Mars, Stormzy, Jamie Cullum, Rag‘n’Bone Man, Hazel Iris and Gregory Porter.
Connaught Brass’ ambition is to explore and share the broadest range of musical repertoire with as wide an audience as possible, bringing brass chamber music to the forefront of today’s musical world.
They are appearing at Ferrandou before making their debuts in several Swiss Festivals and some of the worldś finest halls. Jumbo thinks the KKL hall in Lucerne is the best in the world and we will be there cheering them on.
Saturday 16 April at 20h30
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Brahms Sonata E minor Op 38
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Sunday 17 April at 20h30
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Debussy Sonata
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Monday 18 April
private concert Kristian Chojecki and Mark Rogers
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Kristian Chojecki is a Swedish cellist currently completing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Mats Lidström after studying with Andreas Brantelid at the Malmö Academy of Music. He has played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the RAM chamber orchestra under Lorenza Borrani, and played the Brahms double concerto with VÄGUS Orchestra. He is pursuing his studies with a generous support from the Guido Vecchi Scholarship and the Borås Symphony Orchestra. This spring he will be returning to Malmö for a recital in the Konzerthaus.
Mark Rogers is an American pianist specializing in vocal and chamber music. He was a 2020 Britten-Pears Young Artist, a 2021 Leeds Lieder Young Artist, and has three times won the Hester Dickson Lieder prize at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he has recently finished his undergraduate studies with Graeme McNaught. He was awarded the Alex Menzies Memorial prize for accompaniment, and will be a staff pianist at the Oxenfoord summer school run by Malcolm Martineau. He also recently won first prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society for his article on Samuel Barber in their new Young Classical Writers competition. Mark is currently studying for a masters in piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music with James Baillieu and Michael Dussek.
Friday 27 May at 20h30
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Paul Patterson Comedy for Five Winds
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Saturday 28 May at 20h30
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Barber Summer Music
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Sunday 29 May at 16h00
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Ibert 3 Pièces brèves
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Members:
Formed by students and recent graduates of the Royal Academy of Music, Sylva Winds is a versatile and passionate chamber ensemble with a vision of revolutionising the perception of the wind quintet. They won the prestigious Blake Prize in March 2020 and the Digital Chamber Music Prize in March 2021. Sylva Winds created a virtual cross-media performance of an original composition by Zoë Tweed (horn) inspired by the poem ‘Jabberwocky’, with Drake Gritton (oboe) as narrator.
The ensemble have performed in various venues in and around London and enjoy performing the rich traditional wind quintet repertoire, whilst also finding great value in the performance of music in innovative and experimental ways. Recent performance highlights include premiering Bernado Simoes’ Blurred at the Brunel Museum in 2019 and Chelsea Becker's Intermission during the first COVID lockdown, via Zoom in June 2020.
In addition to this, Sylva Winds collaborated with the Brazilian Embassy in Spring 2021, to produce a recital series entitled Marés, where they recorded their performance of Martin Butler’s Down Hollow Winds, featuring experimentation and manipulation of lighting, filming and acoustic space. Future engagements for the ensemble include collaborating with award-winning composer Ellis Howarth, as well as residencies in France with Ferrandou Musique and on the Isle of Coll with the Tunnell Trust in 2022.
Friday 15 July at 20h30
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Bach Chorale
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Saturday 16 July at 20h30
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Bach Chorale
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Monday 18 July at 20h30
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Ligeti Sonata for Solo Cello
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Their playing described as "brilliant and well connected ", the Edenis Quartet , formed in 2020, comprises some of the most talented students now at the Royal Academy of Music. They have all won various international prizes and already have glowing careers which continue to flourish.
Mio Takahashi (violin), born in Japan , now living in London started the violin aged 4 and has since won the Grumiaux Competition in Brussels and the Premio Francesco Geminiani in Verona.
Kynan Walker ( violin) also comes from Japan via Birmingham and was chosen to be the leader (first violin solo) of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at age 16. He has since given countless concerts and was recently invited by the Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla ! Queen Consort to be ) to perform at Clarence House ( her home with Prince Charles).
Inis Oirr Asano, viola and recorder player, played in the NYO as leader of the viola section and now plays with the European Union Youth Orchestra, so far in nine different countries and venues including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Berlin and the Royal Opera House of Muscat..
Gerard Flotats, a 21-year-old cellist from Catalonia, Spain is currently the youngest member of the Spanish National Orchestra . He works with Steven Isserlis and recently was engaged by the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.
All four musicians have scholarships from the RAM and play on priceless instruments on loan to them by the RAM., and seem destined for illustrious international careers.
Their extensive repertoire for the three concerts will be varied in each venue. Works by Bach preface each concert followed by quartets by Beethoven, Dvorak, Haydn, Ligeti, Mozart, Florence Price and Webern. In addition I have asked the Edenis Quartet to include pieces by the Ukrainian composer Felix Blumenfeld ( contemporary in style to Mendelssohn ) who was born in Kharkov and died in Moscow. Inevitably these performances are sure to be passionate and profoundly felt by performers and listeners alike.
ÉMILE ZOLA PHOTOGRAPHER
That Émile Zola is a writer of extraordinary power, we know. That he is also a passionate, talented photographer, we now find out!
A few years ago, more than 2,000 photographic negatives on glass made by Émile Zola were rediscovered during an auction.
Ferrandou Musique offers an exhibition of some of these works. Guided tours by two researchers will be proposed, accompanied by the presentation of text, inviting us all to understand the extraordinary lucidity and courage of a man of the XIXth century, aware of many issues that are amply echoed in the world of today.
Exhibition conceived by the CNRS and the Media Library of Architecture and Heritage.
Spoken contributions from distinguished Zola specialists, Jean-Sébastien Macke and Monique Sicard.
Saturday 8 October at 20h00
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Mogens Andresen Norwegian Dance mvt 1
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Sunday 9 October at 10h00
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Live radio broadcast on NPO Radio 4 Spiegelzaal presented by Hans van den Boom. |
Sunday 9 October at 20h00
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Stravinsky (arr. Steven Verhelst) Pulcinella 2.0
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Friday 7 April at 20h30
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Saturday 8 April at 16h00
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Monday 10 April at 18h00
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From a Franco-Scottish family, Clara Orif started singing at a young age, joining the choir of la Maitrise de Radio France at 8 years old. During those years, she performed under the direction of Sofi Jeannin, Myung-Whun Chung, Kurt Masur, Daniele Gatti, Christoph Eschenbach, among others... While studying both as an organist and a singer, she also graduated in music theory at the Conservatoire of Paris and has a Bachelor in Musicology at La Sorbonne University in Paris.
Clara recently graduated with her Master's Degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2022. She was the winner of the Richard Lewis / Jean Shanks Award, and the Isabel Jay prize and has now joined the Royal Academy Opera, She is also working with the English Touring Opera on their Handelfest productions of Tamerleno and Agrippina.
Recent concerts have included the Fauré Requiem and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus She made her London solo recital debut in 2022 in the Blackheath Halls with pianist James Cheung, following a masterclass with Christian Gerhaher.
Dmytro Fonariuk was born near Kyiv in 1994 and started playing the clarinet when he was 7 years old. He studied at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine (Kyiv) and received his bachelor’s and masterś degree and won a vast array of competitions and prizes.
He has played numerous projects in Moldova, Poland, Austria and from 2019 to 2022 was a member of the National Ensemble Kyivska Kamerata.
Now studying at the Royal Academy of Music for his final Masterś degree he plays first clarinet in the RAM Symphony Orchestra, most recently in a performance of Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony under maestro Semyon Bychkov.
Jack Redman is a pianist, singer and composer based in London. He recently completed a masters in piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Michael Dussek and James Baillieu. Graduating with a DipRAM and Regency prize, he won the Marjorie Thomas Art of Song Prize.
His two years at the Academy produced many highlights with some extremely talented soloists. He earned a place on the Oxford Lieder Young Artist’s programme with soprano Clara Orif, performed as part of the Academy’s Song Circle, and performed at Wigmore Hall.
Jack has acted as repetiteur for a range of productions, most recently Madama Butterfly and Werther for Lyric Opera Ireland, and elsewhere with productions of Carmen, L’enfant et les sortilèges, and Adam Gorb’s 2018 opera The Path to Heaven.
He also sings professionally for choirs and opera chorus, including under Carlo Rizzi for Opera Rara’s performance of Mercadante’s Il Proscritto at the Barbican, and as a member of the Voices of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Friday 19 May at 20h30
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Frank Bridge Quartet No 1 in E minor ( "Bologna")
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Saturday 20 May at 20h30
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Beethoven Quartet in F , Op.18 No 1
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Tuesday 23 May at 20h30
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Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Quartet in E flat major
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The Asaka Quartet is a prizewinning string quartet formed in 2021 at the Royal Academy of Music in London where they are currently Chamber Music Fellows for 2022/23. Hailing from China, Hong Kong and Scotland, the Asaka’s each bring with them their own identities. They pride themselves on communicating their enjoyment of making music together and sharing this with their audiences, with a keen interest in music by underrepresented composers.
Upcoming highlights include an International Women’s Day recital featuring all female composers, a residency with Ferrandou Musique in May 2023 and the opening concert of the Dinard Festival in August 2023.
In November 2023, they will embark on a tour of Hong Kong as part of the Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme.
Iona McDonald violinist recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music. She has been a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester since 2019. While studying, she regularly led the Academy Symphony Orchestra and Opera Orchestra. Iona has been a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland ensembles since the age of 8. In July 2022 she was invited back as a soloist to perform Bruch Violin Concerto no.1 with the NYOS Junior orchestra.
Iona is passionate about music education and has been working with the Benedetti Foundation since January 2020 where she currently works as a Senior Lead Ambassador.
Eriol Guo Yu studied her Masters degree on a scholarship at Royal Academy of Music . She has performed in renowned venues across Asia and Europe, including Royal Festival Hall, Tokyo Opera City, Berlin Konzerthaus and Wigmore Hall. In 2022 Eriol was invited to Encuentro de Santander and Dartington Summer Festival.
She works with many orchestras such as London Sinfonietta, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra, etc. As a former member of Asian Youth Orchestra and NYO-China, she has enjoyed working with many renowned conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Ludovic Morlot, James Judd et al.
Also a passionate baroque violinist she has been offered a place on the OAE scheme for 2023.
Eriol had received help and guidance from Yo-yo Ma, Midori, James Ehnes and more.
Susie Xin He, grew up in China and began playing the viola at age of 12 in Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory of Music with Donglei Hou. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Xin won the RNCM Concerto Competition of 2021 and performed Bartok Viola Concerto with RNCM Chamber Orchestra in October 2021. In March 2022, she performed Enescu Viola Concertstück in Bridgewater Hall of Manchester.
Since September 2022, Xin started her postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music and joined the celebrated Asaka Quartet.
Jonathan Ho Man Fong is currently a Chamber Music Fellow at Royal Academy of Music, where he finished his Masterś diploma in cello performance with Distinction. He previously completed his undergraduate study in Hong Kong Baptist University.
He won the Eastern Music Festival Concerto Competition in 2019, many other prizes and toured extensively with the Asian Youth Orchestra. He now works with Sir Mark Elder and Semyon Bychkov and the RAM Symphony Orchestra. In the past two years, he has been invited to premiere two new solo cello pieces to celebrate the Bicentenary of the RAM. and now pursues an active career in chamber music with the Asaka Quartet.
Friday 16 June at 20h30
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Igor Stravinsky 3 Pieces for solo clarinet |
Sunday 18 June at 16h00
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Beethoven 3 Duets for Clarinet and Cello |
Tuesday 20 June at 17h00
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Maurice Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit for solo piano |
The HYGGE TRIO is an up-and-coming trio, consisting of Japanese clarinetist Tomomi Kubota, Hong Kong-born cellist Hei Chit Wong and British-born Chinese pianist Helen Meng, who recently made their official Angela Burgess Recital Hall debut as part of the Royal Academy of Music Lunchtime Concert Series. As the name suggests, Hygge strives to bring happiness and satisfaction to the audience through its warm and fiery playing. |
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Friday 21 July at 20h30
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Ligeti Six Bagatelles
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Saturday 22 July at 20h30
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Valerie Coleman Tzigane
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Monday 24 July at 20h30
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Taffanel Wind Quintet
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Members:
Formed by students and recent graduates of the Royal Academy of Music, Sylva Winds is a versatile and passionate chamber ensemble with a vision of revolutionising the perception of the wind quintet. They won the prestigious Blake Prize in March 2020 and the Digital Chamber Music Prize in March 2021.
In addition to this, Sylva Winds collaborated with the Brazilian Embassy in Spring 2021, to produce a recital series entitled Marés, where they recorded their performance of Martin Butler’s Down Hollow Winds, featuring experimentation and manipulation of lighting, filming and acoustic space. Future engagements for the ensemble include collaborating with award-winning composer Ellis Howarth, as well as residencies in France with Ferrandou Musique and on the Isle of Coll with the Tunnell Trust in 2022.
Im Wald - solo piano recital
Benedetto Boccuzzi, piano
Music by R. Schumann, J. Widmann, B. Boccuzzi, F. Schubert, W. Rihm and H. Lachenmann
Im Wald (Into the woods) is the title of Benedetto Boccuzzi’s second solo piano album for the Italian label Digressione Music. In this project Boccuzzi intertwines the music of the Romantics Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert with that of the contemporaries Jörg Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm and Helmut Lachenmann, showing, through a play of reflections and an intergenerational aesthetic dialogue, a multifaceted and "augmented" reality. In the programme, divided into two parts as if they were two Lieder cycles without a singer, the listener/wanderer, is invited to explore an imaginary enchanted forest where reality is repeatedly torn apart by uncanny fantastic hallucinations. In the first half of the programme Robert Schumann's Forest Scenes (1849) are punctuated by JöImrg Widmann’s Eleven Humoresques (2007). The second half is based on a selection of Lieder from Franz Schubert's Fair Maid of the Mill (1824) (in August Horn's essential piano transcription), which are commented on first by Wolfgang Rihm's dreamlike Ländler (1979) and then by Helmut Lachenmann's Five Variations on a theme of Franz Schubert (1956). The transition between these two cycles is provided by Boccuzzi's interlude for solo electronics Im Wald (2022). In this piece the piano is first "timbrically extended" and then "filtered through electronics", revealing a new acoustic space. The programme is multidimensional: the interaction between the real and the fantastic, already present in the poetics of Romantic composers, is "augmented" by the hallucinatory visions of contemporary composers and finally extended further through the electronic acoustic space.
Benedetto Boccuzzi (New York, 1990) is an eclectic musician: pianist, composer, improviser and teacher. His repertoire as a solo and chamber pianist ranges from Frescobaldi and Bach to the latest contemporary compositions via Schubert, Debussy and Shostakovich. He performs regularly in Italy and Europe and collaborates with flutist Alessandra Rombolà, contemporary dance company Equilibrio Dinamico (Bari), and dancer/choreographer Riccardo Buscarini. He specialized in contemporary music performance working with Zahir Ensemble (Seville), Orchestra Sinfonica del Molise and the ensemble of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale "A. Belli" (Spoleto); he worked as an accompanist at the Escola Superior de Música do Porto in Portugal and is currently teaching piano at the Conservatorio "V. Bellini" in Caltanissetta. In 2016, he completed with highest honours his academic studies in piano under the mentorship of Prof. Roberto Bollea at the Conservatorio "N. Rota" in Monopoli. He studied with Prof. Óscar Martín Castro at the Conservatorio "M. Castillo" in Seville, and perfected his studies with M° Carlo Guaitoli at the Piana del Cavaliere Festival. He studied composition with Prof. Marco della Sciucca and Prof. Federico Gardella and harpsichord with Prof. Marco Bisceglie. His music, published by Digressione Music and UCLA Music Library, has been performed in Italy, France, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Spain and Romania. In 2019 he composed and performed the solo piano stage music for Oscar Wilde's Salome directed by Michele Suozzo (Teatro Palladium, Rome). In 2022 he composed the music for Maxence Dinant's short film TEONA. In 2021 the Digressione Music label released his debut album Á Claude (music by C. Debussy O. Messiaen, G. Crumb, T. Takemitsu, D. Rotaru, and B. Boccuzzi), and in 2022 his second album Im Wald (music by R. Schumann, J. Widmann, B. Boccuzzi, F. Schubert, W. Rihm and H. Lachenmann) receiving for both works excellent reviews from international music critics. Also, in 2022 the Stradivarius label published a monograph dedicated to Kurtág containing the Bagatelle op. 14d for flute, piano and double bass, recorded in Oslo with flutist Alessandra Rombolà and double bassist Håkon Thelin. In 2023 Digressione Music released as a digital single his Otto Lamenti for solo violin recorded by Paride Losacco, and also for the same label he participated in the recording of pieces for ensemble by D. Scia and L. Malossi for the album Note di Donne edited by P. Vania.
Friday 11 August at 20h30
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Giovani Pergolesi (1732) Sonata no 4 |
Saturday 12 August at 20h30 |
Beethoven, arr. Robert King (1963) Trio op. 87 |
Sunday 13 August at 20h30
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Ewazen (2004) arr. Eliza Talman (2022) Philharmonic Fanfare |
Hannah, Meggie and Eliza formed the Solis Trio in 2018 as students at Wells Cathedral School. Their shared passion and enthusiasm for music inspired them to establish the ensemble when they were just 16 to pursue a high standard of chamber music. In 2020 Eliza and Hannah joined Meggie at the Royal Academy of Music and are now a London based group, enjoying the opportunities that the city brings. In June of 2021 the trio won the prestigious ‘Brass Ensemble Musicians Company Prize’. Since then they have performed in many concerts, such as the Lord Mayor of London’s Big Curry lunch, a lunchtime concert in Regents Hall, and in brass showcases at the Royal Academy of Music. They also work doing outreach, where they have performed at the royal hospital of neuro-disability and the Signature care home in Barnet, as well as leading a masterclass with the Harrow on-the-Hill students. The brass trio formation is not particularly common, so they have arranged their own works and have been able to record a lot of their repertoire; some of which has been broadcasted on radio! This lack of recognition for the brass trio has spurred them on to bring an awareness to the ensemble, and they are always in the process of creating exciting new commissions, including a piece written by their fellow RAM student Owen Spafford! |
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Saturday 9 september at 20h30
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Sunday 10 september at 16h00 |
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Monday 11 september at 20h30
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A “thrilling young ensemble at the start of what is sure to be a major international career” (Great Birmingham Brass Fest), Connaught Brass are quickly making a name for themselves as a fresh talent in the chamber music world.
They are all recent graduates from the RAM or the Guildhall School of Music and have already been awarded many distinguished prizes.
Connaught Brass’s commitment, camaraderie and collective ability has won them many friends and fans through their recent broadcasts for the BBC and it is a joy to see them living up to the huge promise they showed on their first visits to Ferrandou.
Having been principal players in the European Union Youth Orchestra and National Youth Orchestras of Great Britain, Scotland, and Wales, members are now appearing on the professional circuit. This includes freelancing with the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, English National Opera and Ulster Orchestras, as well as recording with and supporting artists such as Bruno Mars, Stormzy, Jamie Cullum, Rag‘n’Bone Man, Hazel Iris and Gregory Porter.
Connaught Brass’ ambition is to explore and share the broadest range of musical repertoire with as wide an audience as possible, bringing brass chamber music to the forefront of today’s musical world.
They are appearing at Ferrandou for the fifth year, recently made their debuts in several Swiss festivals, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and during the last twelve months have undertaken several international tours... and a coronation.