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 Russell Gilbert |
 Fiona Fawssett |
Russell Gilbert was born in Leicester, began playing the violin at the age of 11, and by 15 was playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto regularly with the Leicestershire Schools’ Symphony Orchestra. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music for 6 years with David Martin, during which time he won several prizes and was appointed leader of the Academy 1st Orchestra. At 21 he travelled as guest soloist with the LSSO to Switzerland and Wales giving numerous performances of Paganini’s Violin Concerto No.1, and a later performance of Beethoven’s Concerto in London earned him Outstanding Student of the Year. At the age of 25 he was appointed Principal 2nd Violin in the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and later co-leader of English National Opera. Russell is currently a member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and has been guest leader of the LPO, RPO, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, London City Ballet, Sadler’s Well Royal Ballet, Orchestra National du Porto in Portugal and is co-leader of the National Symphony Orchestra. Russell travels extensively throughout the world playing concerts and gives recitals regularly in the local area.
Fiona Fawssett studied piano and composition at the Royal College of Music and subsequently gave recitals around London including the Wigmore Hall and Sussex. Marriage and the birth of four children plus two step-daughters took up her time for some years but gradually Fiona became involved in being accompanist for several local choirs as well as piano teaching and giving smaller recitals. She is now organist at Staplefield church and St Augustine's in Scaynes Hill.
The programme will include works by Brahms and Dvorak.
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Marino Nahon. Italian pianist Marino Nahon graduated with honours in piano at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, where he also specialized in vocal chamber music. He continued his studies with Piero Rattalino, Pietro Soraci and Michele Fedrigotti. He attended courses at Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, Académie de Villecroze, Académie de musique de Lausanne and elsewhere, under such artists as Paul Badura-Skoda, Dalton Baldwin, Antonio Ballista, Bruno Canino, Irwin Gage, Alexander Lonquich, Norman Shetler.
Joo Cho
Marino Nahon
Joo Cho. The South Korean soprano Joo Cho graduated with a degree in singing from Chung-Ang University in Seoul. She then went on to complete two degrees summa cum laude in Singing and Vocal Chamber Music at the “Verdi” Conservatoire in Milan (Italy). She continued her studies with artists such as Peter Schreier, Jaume Aragall and Ernesto Palacio. She won the first prize in many competitions, such as the “Giulio Neri” International Singing Competition in Torrita di Siena (Italy) and the “Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition” (UK); her performane tonight is part of the prize for this. She sang leading roles in several productions at the Opera House in Seoul including: Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), La Bohème (Musetta), Un ballo in maschera (Oscar). In Austria she participated in the 2006 e 2007 Tiroler Festspiele Erl in Das Ring des Nibelungen (Woglinde) and Parsifal (Erste Blumenmädchen), under Gustav Kuhn.
Cho also has an active concert career in Oratorio and Sacred Music. She has sung Elias by Mendelssohn, Mirjams Siegesgesang by Schubert (under Romano Gandolfi), Betulia liberata by Mozart, Stabat Mater and Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini, Mozart’s Requiem (under Donato Renzetti), Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler (under Kevin Hill), Chants d’Auvergne by Canteloube, Mahler’s 4th Symphony (under John Anderson), Beethoven’s Mass in C and Schubert’s Mass in G (under Christopher Fifield). Joo Cho is particularly interested in Lied repertoire, and she has participed in Masterclasses held by such specialists as Helmut Deutsch, Irwin Gage and Dalton Baldwin. She has sung Lied Concerts worldwide in venues such as: Großer Saal der Musikhochschule in Lübeck (Germany), Mozarteum Wiener Saal in Salzburg (Austria), Salle Cortot in Paris (France), Sala della Musica in Lugano (Switzerland), Museum of Art National University in Seoul (South Korea), Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon (UK), Salone del Conservatorio in Torino, Casa della Musica in Parma and Festival MITO in Milano (Italy).
Joo Cho has also been noted for her ability to sing twentieth century and contemporary music. Her repertoire includes not only 20th century classics such as Pierrot Lunaire by Schönberg but also many world premieres such as Nel tuo silenzio by Giacomo Manzoni (Milano, 2010), Sette by Niccolò Castiglioni, for soprano and orchestra (Erl, 2005: conducted by Tito Ceccherini) and Milano 2005 by Gustav Kuhn, for soprano, violin and orchestra (Milano, Sala Verdi, with Salvatore Accardo violin).
He has performed as a soloist, as a chamber musician and as a Lied accompanist in various concert halls in Italy (Milan, Venice, Turin, Parma, Alessandria, Como, Orvieto, Stresa, Brescia, Naples, Piacenza, Florence), France (Paris, Aix-en- Provence, Biot), Germany (Lübeck), UK (Stratford-upon-Avon, Steyning, Godalming, Colchester, Ely), South Korea (Seoul), Japan (Kyoto), Turkey (Ankara). He is also an active performer of twentieth century and contemporary music, and he took part to several world prémières. He has recorded for labels Milanocosa- Excogita, Rohm Music Foundation and Sarx Records, and for the Italian broadcasting station Radio Classica.
Marino Nahon has studied composition with Bruno Zanolini and musicology with Emilio Sala: he is the author of several musicological essays, where he focused mostly on eighteenth century Italian opera.
The programme will include:
Mozart
SchumannDans un bois solitaire
Oiseaux, si tous les ans
Der Zauberer
Das Veilchen
Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen
Liebhabers verbrannte
Die Alte
An Chloe
Frauenliebe und -leben op. 42Berg
Wolf
R StraussSieben frühe Lieder
Elfenlied
Verborgenheit
Unfall
Lied der Mignon: Kennst du das Land
Winterweihe
Ständchen
Befreit
Cäcilie
 Cara Berridge |
 Elizabeth Burgess |
Cara Berridge enjoys her career as a chamber musician. Graduating from the Royal College of Music in 2002 with First Class Honours, Cara continued her studies as the Amaryllis Fleming Scholar, receiving her Postgraduate Diploma and Advanced Diploma with Distinction in 2003 and 2004. Whilst at College Cara won some of the major cello prizes including the Anna Shuttleworth Prize for solo cello and the Helen Just Prize for cello. As a soloist Cara has performed throughout the UK and Europe, performing concertos by Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, Saint-Saens and JC Bach. Past teachers include Anna Shuttleworth, Alexander Boyarsky, Melissa Phelps, Jenny Ward-Clarke and Sue Lowe, and she has participated in masterclasses with Alexander Baillie, Johannes Goritzki and Louise Hopkins.
Cara is a founder member of the Sacconi Quartet. Since its formation in 2001 at the Royal College of Music, the Sacconi Quartet still consists of its four founder members. In the past decade they have enjoyed a highly successful international career, performing regularly throughout Europe, at London’s major venues, in recordings and radio broadcasts. They have travelled extensively throughout the rest of the UK and Europe to venues including Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Musikverein in Vienna, Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, L'Auditori in Barcelona and Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid as well as many venues in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Finland, Norway and the Czech Republic. In 2008 the Sacconi made their debut at the Liceo de Cámara Madrid, and in 2009 at the Concerts du Midi, Brussels and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. The Sacconi is Quartet in Association at the Royal College of Music and Quartet in Residence at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre. The Sacconi won 1st Prize at the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition and the Kurtág Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in 2005, as well as 1st Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League Chamber Music Competition. The Quartet won second prize, the Sidney Griller Award and the Esterhazy Prize at the 2006 London International String Quartet Competition.
Last year Cara performed at Kings Place as a duo with jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock. Gwilym also wrote a suite for cello and piano. They perform this together on his latest CD, Blues Vignette.
For further information, visit www.sacconi.com
Elizabeth Burgess is an accompanist and chamber musician based in London and active throughout the UK. She has recently appeared in recital at the Wigmore Hall, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Lake District Summer Music Festival, St John’s Smith Square and King’s Place, and is an alumnus of both Young Songmakers’ Almanac and the Britten-Pears Young Artist Scheme.
Born in Sussex, Elizabeth became Organ Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, where she read for a music degree, before taking up a postgraduate scholarship in piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music. Here she performed with the Academy’s prestigious Song Circle, won the accompaniment prizes in both the Major van Someren-Godferey English song competition and the Elena Gerhardt Lieder competition, and was awarded the coveted DipRAM for a particularly high distinction mark in her final recital.
Part of the first-prize-winning duo of the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition 2009 and the Chelsea Schubert Festival Song Competition 2009, she has since broadcast several times on Radio 3 and has been pursuing a busy recital schedule with a range of singers and instrumentalists. Elizabeth was additionally Musical Director for last summer’s opera productions at the Ryedale Festival, presenting a double-bill of Britten’s The Prodigal Son and Mendelssohn’s newly-revived The Homecoming, which received excellent national press.
She is currently a Samling Scholar, holds the inaugural Lucille Graham Opera Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music for the year 2010-2011, and teaches piano part-time at Eton College. Elizabeth has forthcoming recitals at the Buxton Festival, the Oundle Festival, and for the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme.
For further details see www.elizabethburgess.com.
Their programme will include:
Schumann
Beethoven
Bloch
Adagio and Allegro Op 70
Sonata in C Major Op 102 No 1
(i) Andante - Allegro Vivace
(ii) Adagio -Tempo d'Andante - Allegro Vivace
Jewish Life
(i) Prayer
(ii) Supplication
(iii) Jewish Song
Rachmaninov
INTERVAL
Sonata in G minor Op 19
(i) Lento - Allegro Moderato
(ii) Allegro Scherzando
(iii) Andante
(iv) Allegro mosso
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Janet Canetty-Clarke, B.Mus(London), ARAM, GRSM, LRAM, ARCMJanet trained at the Royal Academy of Music, and was soon involved in the musical life of South- East England. She recently completed thirty-seven years as Conductor and Musical Director of the Ditchling Choral Society (later re-named Sussex Chorus) having performed most of the major choral works with them, together with prestigious orchestras and soloists including The Philharmonia Orchestra, Josephine Barstow and Anthony Rolfe-Johnson in a performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. Janet has been made Conductor Emeritus of the Choral Society.
She lectures throughout the year for the Continuing Education Department of Sussex University, for the Workers' Educational Association, for the University of the Third Age and presents lectures for Cambridge University at Madingley Hall and for London University through Birkbeck College. In 1984 she was appointed lecturer for the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies, visiting organisations in the UK and across Europe, touring Australia in 1994 and 2001, and South Africa in 1997.
In 1984 Janet was appointed Guest Conductor of The First All Women Chamber Orchestra of Austria, giving concerts in Vienna. She continues links with the orchestra today, especially through her role as Deputy Secretary General of "Femmes Maestros", an organisation to promote women conductors based in Brussels. In 2009 Janet completed a second series of lectures entitled "Invitation to the Opera" organised by Birkbeck College, London University, and plans are being considered for another series this autumn. In June 2010 she gave two pre-performance talks before Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Her lecture recital is entitled "Venice and her Music":
Following on from last season's lecture, which explored correlations between Music and Painting, Janet now turns to links between Music and Architecture, to be found, where else, but in Venice? Starting in 1520, when the current Doge invited a famous composer Adrian Willaert to travel from the Low Countries to "La Serenissima" to revitalise the waning music at St. Mark's, Janet will demonstrate how he realised the musical potential of the many galleries in the Basilica, and filled them with singers and instrumentalists. His two pupils, the Gabrielis, uncle and nephew, inherited this ingenious use of sound and space, to be followed by Monteverdi and opera. Antonio Vivaldi and the Concerti of the Pieta ended in 1797 when the final act of The Serene Republic was played out in the Doge's Palace, and Napoleon's ultimatum to surrender was accepted: "Ruined, Venice had long outlived her days of wealth and glory."
So, who could restore "La Serenissima" to her former glory? Well, it was, of course, the creative artists: Turner, Monet and Whistler, Wagner, Stravinsky and Benjamin Britten, they restored Venice!
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This is an opportunity to listen to some of the best young musical talent in the district. The Young Musicians' Showcase was established in 1941 to give musicians under the age of 18 the opportunity of a public platform for their performances. Several of the young people featured in previous years have gone on to make a name for themselves in the professional world: examples include Alexis White, Pavlos Carvalho, Russell Hepplewhite and Caroline Tyler. (And one of the players in the original concert is now on the Music Society committee!)
For further information, visit www.richarduttley.com
The concert will include:
| Bach Chopin Debussy Thomas Adès Chopin ------------------------- Debussy Beethoven |
Partita
No.1 in B flat, BWV 825 5 Mazurkas, op.7 Images Book I Mazurkas, op.27 Polonaise in A flat, op.53, "Heroic" ----------------------------------------------- Suite bergamasque Sonata in C sharp minor, op.27 no.2, "Moonlight" |
 The Rose Trio
Suzanne Thorn (oboe), Rebecca Thorn (clarinet), Tamsin Thorn (bassoon) |
| Mozart Tansman Françaix Szalowski Gordon Jacob Farkas |
Divertimento
No. 1 k.439b Suite Pour Trio D’Anches Divertissement Divertimento Trio Serenade |
