Season 2011/12
Wednesday 12 October 2011 at 7.45pm
Wednesday 9 November 2011 at 7.45pm
Wednesday 14 December 2011 at 7.45pm
Wednesday 11 January 2012 at 7.45pm
Wednesday 8 February 2012 at 7.45pm
Wednesday 14 March 2012 at 7.45pm
Wednesday 11 April 2012 at 7.45pm
Wednesday 9 May 2012 at 7.30pm
Annual General Meeting starting at 7.30pm
After the AGM at
8pm there will be a piano recital by
Olga Stezhko website
Olga Stezhko was born in Minsk, Belarus. She studied with the famous Belarusian pianists Oleg Krimer and Evgeny Pukst. In 2004 she came to the Royal Academy of Music in London on a scholarship, graduating with 1st Class Honours in 2008. She comes to us as as one of the three winners of the Tillett Trust Young Artists' Platform scheme
To include music by Bach arr.Busoni, Chopin, Prokofiev, Debussy & Rachmaninov
Brodowski Quartet website
David Brodowski - violin
Catrin Win Morgan - violin
Felix Tanner - viola
Vanessa Lucas-Smith - cello
First Prize Winners of the 2008 Royal Overseas League Competition, “the brilliant Brodowski are a group to watch out for” The Independent. The quartet members, originating from Germany, Wales, Scotland and England are based in London. They are making a return visit, having played for us previously in October 2008.
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
Piazzolla Four, for TangoSchubert
Death and the Maiden
THIS CONCERT IS SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM
THE LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Olivia Sham - piano website
Young Australian pianist Olivia Sham is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She recently completed a Master of Music there on full scholarship with Professor Christopher Elton, and has now begun doctoral studies in Liszt performance practice. Olivia previously studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Elizabeth Powell, graduating with First Class Honours and the University Medal.
Miriam
Kramer – violin website
Nicholas Durcan -
piano website
Born in
Connecticut, though now living in London, violinist, Miriam Kramer won the
United Kingdom's Jewish Performer of the Year 1995. Her grandfather was a Cantor
and two of her uncles were concert violinists. Coupling these musical genes with
the encouragement of violinist, Henryk Szeryng, who straightaway recognized her
talent, she began her studies at the age of four. Three years later, she gave
her first public performance of the Mozart G. Major Concerto.
To include
music by Mozart, Elgar, G Gershwin / Durcan & Brahms
Galini
Piano Trio
Andrew Watkinson -
violin
Shuna Wilson - cello
Soula Petridou -
piano
The Galini
trio has been in existence for seven years. Galini means peaceful in Greek -
this is something the trio aspires to rather than something they think they have
achieved!
To include music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and
Ireland
The John Ireland Charitable Trust
Galliard
Trio
Andrew Morris -
flute
Martin White - oboe and cor anglais
Alec Forshaw - piano and bassoon
During the past thirty years, the Galliard Trio has
established a reputation for presenting programmes of great variety. Its
repertoire is wide, partly because of the different combinations of instruments
available and partly because of its arrangements of music from the eighteenth,
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The
members live in North London, but the Trio performs regularly outside the
capital in churches, arts centres, country houses and schools.
To include
music by J.S. Bach, Grieg, Dvořák and Madeleine Dring
Matthew
Featherston – flute
Philipp Shannon –
piano
Matthew Featherstone started playing the flute at the age of six, in France, where he was brought up. From 1999 he studied at the Orléans Conservatoire with Arlette Biget, where he achieved his "premier prix" for flute in 2004, and his "premier prix" for chamber music the following year. Matthew graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with a first-class degree
Sponsor: The Countess of Munster Musical Trust
Ashok
Klouda - cello website
John Reid -
piano website
Ashok Klouda was winner of the 2006 J. & A. Beare Solo Bach Competition and the 2007 Royal College of Music Cello Competition, and made his solo Wigmore Hall debut in 2010, having won the Worshipful Company of Musicians/Concordia Foundation Young Artists Fund competition. Ashok has studied under some of the world’s finest teachers including Colin Carr, Jérôme Pernoo and Louise Hopkins at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and Hochschule der Künste Bern.
To include
music by Beethoven, Debussy and Chopin