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CATHERINE CHEUNG JIAN REN ST LAWRENCE JEWRY A night of usi m THE PROGRAMMEc NOTES ON THE PERFORMERS The Programme CATHERINE CHEUNG CATHERINE CHEUNG PIANO PIANO HAYDN SONATA IN C MINOR, HOB XVI/20 BORN IN LONDON, CATHERINE CHEUNG BEGAN Catherine has also had several successes with HER STUDY OF THE PIANO AT THE AGE OF FIVE her compositions. In 2007, the Purcell School RAVEL AND ALSO TOOK UP A STUDY OF THE VIOLIN Sinfonia performed her ‘Orchestral Suite’, and ‘UNE BARQUE SUR L’OCEAN’ FROM ‘MIRIORS’ AT THE AGE OF EIGHT. In September 2003, her piece for solo piano, ‘Anonymous’, was Highly CHOPIN Catherine began studying at the Purcell School Commended at the EPTA Composers Competition where she worked with Ilana Davids, while also in 2009. In 2010, Catherine won the Purcell School BALLADE NO.1 studying composition there with Haris Kittos, Dai Composition Competition, with the premiere of her Fujikura and Jonathan Cole, and held a scholarship orchestral piece ‘Fragmented Expanse’, performed under the Government’s Music and Dance Scheme. by the Purcell School Symphony Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. In the Catherine recently graduated with a Bachelor same year, ‘Fragmented Expanse’ was also chosen degree from the Royal College of Music, London, as a winning entry for the BBC Young Composers’ where she studied piano with Gordon Fergus- Competition 2010, leading to a commission by JIAN REN Thompson and composition with Alison Kay and BBC Inspire and MFY and a Radio 3 broadcast Haris Kittos. She is currently at the RCM pursuing of ‘Fragmented Expanse’. VIOLIN a Masters degree in performance. Catherine was awarded the EPTA Cup in the North In 2011, this commission, ‘Alter Ego’, was performed BACH London Festival, as well as winning the Open in an MFY Prom and ‘Fragmented Expanse’ was SONATA FOR SOLO VIOLIN NO.2 BWV 1003 Concerto Class. recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon conducting. Recently, Catherine’s YSAYE In 2009, she was a finalist in the ‘2nd International latest work for saxophone quartet ‘Suspend/ SONATAS NO. 2 FOR SOLO VIOLIN Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists’. Coruscate’ was shortlisted at the Herne Hill Music Catherine also had a concert tour around New Festival Composition Competition 2012, and was PAGANINI Zealand that same year. She has performed consequently chosen as the winning work. CAPRICE NO. 11 at venues including St. Mary Abbott’s Church (High Street Kensington), St. Stephen’s Church Recent projects included an appearance with (Gloucester Road), St. Lawrence Jewry (Guildhall, Harrow Young Musicians Orchestra performing London), Steinway Hall (London), Regent Hall Shostakovich 2nd Piano Concerto, and being (Oxford Street), Purcell Room (Southbank invited to the prestigious International Musicians Centre), Louis Vuitton Maison (Bond Street) and Seminar at Prussia Cove. Catherine has also been in 2011, took part in the Lang Lang Inspire scheme working closely with soprano Beatrice Weiss, with performing at the Royal Festival Hall. She also recent engagements at The Foundling Museum, performed as a soloist at the State Apartments at St. Paul’s Church (Covent Garden), and St. Michael St. James’s Palace for the Elgar Foundation, in the at the Northgate (Oxford). Catherine is kindly presence of HRH The Prince of Wales. Catherine supported by a Drapers’ Company Award. has worked with eminent pianists including Vanessa Latarche, Peter Nagy, Dimitri Alexeev and Rita Wagner (IMS Prussia Cove). NOTES ON THE PERFORMERS JIAN REN 任健 VIOLIN REN JIAN BEGAN PLAYING THE VIOLIN String Quartet Competition, and went on to win IN SHANGHAI AT THE AGE OF FOUR. HE the CAVATINA Intercollegiate String Quartet STUDIED WITH PROFESSOR BURKHARD Competition. As 2nd Violin of the Fontanelli GODHOFF FROM 2002 TO 2006, AND THEN Quartet, he has performed for the Park Lane ENTERED CHETHAM’S SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN Group Young Artist series in London, and appears MANCHESTER TO STUDY WITH PROFESSOR regularly at the Arte Amanti Chamber Music JAN REPKO. Festival in Belgium. Whilst there, he won the Chetham’s concerto His competition success and awards include Third competition and subsequently performed Prize at the “Ginette Neveu” International Violin Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.1 with Chetham’s Competition, RCM Concerto Prize, MBF Manoug Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Parikian Prize, and the Hattori Foundation’s Junior McCreesh. At present, Jian is studying at the Award. He was also highly recommended at the Royal College of Music in London as an RCM Violin Competition in 2014. He has attended Evelyn Tarrant Scholar, kindly supported by masterclasses with violinists such as Pierre the Stanbridge Drake-Brockman Award. Amoyal, György Pauk, Maxim Vengerov, Roland Daugareil and Henning Kraggerud. Jian has performed extensively in the UK, most notably at Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, and the As an orchestral musician he has been a member Royal Northern College of Music’s Concert Hall. of the Lucerne Festival Academy orchestra and He has collaborated with orchestras to perform the RCM Symphony Orchestra, where he has many violin concertos, including Mendelssohn’s worked with conductors including Simon Rattle, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Paganini’s Violin Bernard Haitink and David Robertson. Concerto No.1 and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major. Abroad, he has given performances in France, Italy, Poland, Norway, and the USA. Jian is a keen chamber musician, having performed string quartets at the Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room, St James’s Piccadilly and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, among other venues. As 1st Violin of the Manon Quartet, he won the Helen Just & Susan Connell RCM CHINESEWELFARETRUST.ORG.UK Charity No. 1126505 Company No. 06526776 (England and Wales).