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Surrey Piano & Percussion Quartet
Featuring Brian Wilshere, percussion Alan Brown, piano
Programme to include works by Bartok, Stravinsky and Wilshere
This concert of music for two Pianos and Percussion is a first for the Society, and draws together two of Surrey's best known musicans in a programme full of local connections.
Composer and Percussionst Brian Wilshere is well known to audiences in the area, having collaborated with both the Croydon and Epsom Symphony Orchestras, the Surrey Sinfonetta and the Fine Arts Sinfonia. His music has won many awards and has been performed at the Guildford Festival. He is a former student of the late James Blades OBE, who was a resident of Cheam for years.
Pianist Alan Brown has a reputation throughtout Europe for his finely-honed, expressive performances of both traditional piano repertoire and contempory music, including that of Brian Wilshere
The combination of pianos and percussion, pioneered by Stravinsky in Les Noces, was explored by Bartok in the 1930s with his Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, which features in this concert, The work has become a 20th century classic and was performerd by the quartet at Epsom Playhouse in 2003.
Stravinsky's name needs no introduction; the piansts will perform his delightful neo-classical Sonata for Two Pianos, written in the 1940's.
This event will be held at the Concert Hall
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Wu Qian, Piano
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Piano Sonata No. 2 |
Prokofiev |
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Iberia Book 1 |
Ableniz |
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Five Pieces, Op. 3 |
Rachmaninov |
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Piano Sonata No. 2 |
Rachmaninov |
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Pictures from an Exhibition |
Mussorgsky |
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Wu Qian was born in Shanghai in 1984 and began her training at the Shanghai Conservatoire of Music. Hearing her perform at the age of eleven Professor Malcolm Troup secured a scholarship for her Menuhin, School, where she studied with Irina Zaritskaya.
While still only 15, Qian performed Mozarts's Piano Concerto in E flat major (k449) in the Queens Elizabeth Hall, London and later at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland. She performed the Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2 at St John's Smiths Square, in 2000.
In 2002 Qian gave recitals at the Royal Festival Hall, in Hanover, Amsterdam, and in the Steinway Halls in Hamburg and New York. The following year she played at Wigmore Hall and at the International Music Festival in Koblenz. In 2004 she played the Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto in G minor in St John's Smith Square, London.
2005 saw a second successful Wigmore Hall solo recital and this year she has played at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall and the Purcell Room. She is currently studying on a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton.
This evening will be held in the Recital Room.
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The Ruskin Ensemble
Music of the period interspersed with reading from letter, novels and poems, chosen to create the ambience of a musical soirée
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Piano Trio in G Major K564 |
Mozart |
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Nocturne |
Field |
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Adagio D897 - Noturno in E flat |
Schubert |
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Andante Favori |
Beethoven |
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Song without Words opus 19 no.1 |
Mendelssohn |
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Piano Trio op. 17 - Andante |
Clara Schumann |
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Trio op. 11 |
Beethoven |
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Piano Trio in G - Gypsy Rondo |
Haydn |
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The Ruskin Ensemble was formed in London from a group of friends and talented musicans, with whom Musical Director, Jan Gomm has worked over the years. They have given concerts in music clubs, arts centres, castles and country houses. They are regular visitors at National Trust houses and Gardens and have given many charity concerts
They performed at the British Embassy in Paris and No. 11 Downing Street, undertaken a successful tour of Netherlands and were featured live on the BBC from Edinburgh Festival.
The Ruskin Ensemble is committed to taking music into the community, performing to audiences that normally do not have access to live classical music, such as schools, hospitals and hospices.
This concert will be held in the Concert Hall.
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Harriet and Caroline Adie
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Sonata for Harp and Oboe |
Rust |
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Fantasy in C Minor op. 35 |
Spohr |
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Algues |
Andres |
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Einsame Blumen op. 28 no. 3 |
Schumann |
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On Wings of Song |
Mendelssohn |
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Reverie |
Debussy |
In line with our remit to provide a platform for up and coming young artisits we have invited Harriet and Caroline Adie to play for us, courtesy of The Countess of Munster Musical Trust recital Scheme.
Harriet was an Instrumental Exhibitoner at Balliol College, Oxford, where she read Music and continues her studies with Imogen Barford at Trinity College of Music
She appeared at the Swaledale Festival and played aboard the QE2, with the Dart Festival Orchestra and the Ten Tors Orchestra. She has also travelled to the Lebanon with Young Janáček Orchestra, as Principal Harp.
Caroline attended Exeter Cathedral School, where she was awarded both musical choral scholarships. She studied the oboe with Melanie Ragga at the Purcell School where she took part in many concerts in the school, playing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room.
She is currently reading music at Kings College, London, and studying the oboe at The Royal Academy of Music. She plays Principal Oboe with both the Kings College of London Orchestra and the University of London Symphony Orchestra.
This concert will be held in the Recital Room.
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