City Music Society Lunchtime Concerts

19 January 2010 [FWS]
LUCY PARHAM piano

Chopin	Nocturne in C minor Op 48 No 1
Chopin	Nocturne in D flat Op 27 No 2
Schumann	Fantasiestücke Op 12
Schuman/Liszt	Widmung
One of the finest Schumann exponents and a Chopin interpreter of intuitive intelligence launches the bi-centenary celebrations of these two geniuses of the Romantic era.

26 January 2010 [YAS]
WU STRING QUARTET QIAN WU violin MATHIEU VANBELLEN violin MATTHEW KETTLE viola MAGDA TIETRASZEWSKA cello

David Matthews	String Quartet No. 10 (2001)
Schubert	Quartet in A minor Op. 29 D887 ('Rosamunde')
Founded in 2002 while students at Chetham's School in Manchester, the Wu Quartet has pursued its studies with the Wihan Quartet, with the Lindsay's Peter Cropper and with Gyorgy Pauk, Simon Rowland Jones and the legendary Bernard Greenhouse. For the academic year 2008/2009 they were string quartet in residence at Repton School with the Navarra Quartet. The Wu Quartet made their Purcell Room debut in October 2009, performing Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Naxos Quartet No. 8.
Pre-concert talk at 12.15 by David Matthews interviewed by Leslie East about his Tenth String Quartet

2 February 2010 [YAS]
FILIPCZAK PIANO TRIO MAGDALENA FILIPCZAK violin MATTHIJS BROERSMA cello LUKASZ FILIPCZAK piano
Winners of the 2009 Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Prize

Rachmaninov	Trio Elegiaque No. 1 in G minor
Shostakovich	Trio in E minor Op. 67
Polish brother and sister Lukasz and Magdalena Filipczak joined forces with Vashti Hunter to win the Society's Ivan Sutton Prize in May 2009 with a dramatic performance of Shostakovich's E minor trio. Now joined by Dutch-born Matthijs Broersma these postgraduate students at the Guildhall School are beginning to fulfil engagements in the UK and Europe.

9 February 2010 [YAS]

ELEANOR TURNER harp

The Eric Falk Award Concert
Spohr	Variations on 'Je suis encore dans mon printemps' Op.36
Fauré	Une châtelaine en sa tour
Hasselmans	La Source

de Falla arr. Marcel Grandjany	Spanish Dance No.1 from the opera 'La Vida Breve'
Piazzolla	Invierno Porteño; Verano Porteña (Winter and Summer)
Purcell	Ground in C minor
Gershwin arr. Fell	An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue
Parish-Alvars	Introduction, Cadenza and Rondo
Born in Essex, Eleanor Turner started learning the harp at the age of five. After studies at the Royal College of Music Junior Department she was inspired to make her career as a concert harpist and composer. She won the Royal Over-Seas League Award for Strings and Marisa Robles Harp Prize in 2002 and in 2007 Eleanor won First Prize, a £20,000 Salvi concert harp, in the European Harp Competition. She made her solo Wigmore Hall debut in October 2008.

16 February 2010 [FWS]

ANDY PANAYI QUARTET ANDY PANAYI saxophones & flute MARK NIGHTINGALE trombone STEVE BROWN drums SIMON WOOLF bass THE SOLAR CATS
Photo: Sarah Lever

A Gerry Mulligan inspired line-up plays originals from Panayi's Journey to the Planets suite mixed with great baritone saxophone jazz standards.

23 February 2010 [YAS]
GUILDHALL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Beethoven	Septet in E flat Op. 20
Making a break from visits of the Guildhall School Chamber Orchestra, we welcome an elite ensemble selected by new Head of Chamber Music Alasdair Tait, playing the remarkable Beethoven Septet of 1820 for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and double bass.

2 March 2010 [YAS]
BEN SCHOEMAN piano

Beethoven	Sonata in E flat major, Op. 27 No. 1 (Quasi una fantasia)
Chopin	Impromptu Op. 36
Chopin	Impromptu Op. 51
Chopin	Two Polonaises Op. 40
Chopin	Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31
Winner of the 2009 Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition, South African-born Ben Schoeman continues our celebration of Chopin's 200th anniversary. After studies in Italy and winning all the major competitions in his homeland, Ben is now pursuing a very successful career.

9 March 2010 [FWS]
SACCONI QUARTET BEN HANCOX violin HANNAH DAWSON violin ROBIN ASHWELL viola CARA BERRIDGE cello
Photo: Sussie Ahlburg
Barber	String Quartet
Dvorák	Quartet in F Op. 96 (American)
On the very day of the composer's birth a century ago the brilliant Sacconis play Barber's famous and emotionally-charged Adagio from his sole quartet. Continuing the American connection they combine it with one of Dvorák's most popular works, written while he was Director of the National Conservatory in New York.
Pre-concert talk at 12.15 by Anthony Burton on Barber's String Quartet

16 March 2010 [YAS]

ANNA PATALONG soprano
DUNCAN ROCK baritone
IAIN BURNSIDE piano

RPS Young Artist Recital

Songs by Duparc and Britten plus some popular operatic duets

Winners of Susan Chilcott Scholarships in 2008, Anna Patalong and Duncan Rock are joined by the pianist, broadcaster and teacher Iain Burnside in an entertaining programme of songs and duets.

Presented with the support of the Royal Philharmonic Society

23 March 2010 [YAS]
RCM WIND ENSEMBLE JANET HILTON director

Mozart	Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments K361/370a
Janet Hilton marks her last year as Head of the Woodwind Department at the Royal College of Music with a performance of one of the most extraordinary works in the whole of Mozart's canon, let alone the wind ensemble repertoire.

30 March 2010 [FWS]
THE FIDELIO TRIO DARRAGH MORGAN violin ROBIN MICHAEL cello MARY DULLEA piano
Photo: Sophie Dennehy
Mozart	Trio in B flat K502
Hans Werner Henze	Adagio, Adagio
Ravel	Piano Trio
Darragh Morgan's Dublin-based piano trio is fast establishing a reputation for its fine interpretations and advocacy for contemporary music, performing extremely diverse repertoire throughout Europe, Asia and South Africa and frequently broadcasting for BBC Radio 3. Henze's short Serenade contrasts beautifully with Ravel's ravishing trio written on the eve of the Great War
Pre-concert talk at 12.15 by Anthony Burton on Ravel's Piano Trio

For further information about these concerts please contact
Josephine Richardson, City Music Society Administrator, Tel. 020-8542 0950

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