SUPER STRING SUNDAY Sunday 24 April 2016, 11.00am Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall AN INTRODUCTION TO TODAY’S EVENT

Welcome to Super String Sunday 2016.

As the runners of the London Marathon make their way around the course we have our own marathon, and one that is a lot more relaxing!

We fling open the doors of the Royal College of Music and invite you in for a musical buffet which encompasses all the performances here in our wonderful Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, as well as our string quartets battling for the first prize in our quartet competition in the Recital Hall and a fascinating look into the physical aspects of playing the violin in our Violinist in Balance International Symposium up in the Parry Rooms.

Please feel free to drop into any of these activities, and I hope you will make it back to the Concert Hall for our grand finale of Elgar’s amazing Introduction and Allegro featuring our very own Vasara Quartet.

I know you will have a wonderful day today; enjoy Super String Sunday 2016.

Mark Messenger RCM Head of Strings SUPER STRING SUNDAY Sunday 24 April 2016, 11.00am | Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Threes and Fours

J S Bach Concerto in F minor BWV 1056 i Allegro ii Adagio iii Presto

HP31 Jan Gorjanc harp Lisa Hilditch harpsichord

Mendelssohn String Quartet no 2 in A minor op 13 i Adagio - Allegro vivace

The Banks Quartet Osian Dafydd violin Bethan Allmand violin Philippa Bint viola Indigo Hicks cello

Haydn Piano Trio in D major Hob XV:16 i Allegro ii Andantino piu tosto allegretto iii Vivace assai

Aliqui Piano Trio Alexandru-Ioan Lazar piano Tingwei Tan violin Kristiana Ignatjeva cello

Mendelssohn String Quartet no 6 in F minor op 80 MWV R37 i Allegro vivace assai

Samt Quartet Saaya Ikenoya violin Eloise MacDonald violin Gerardo Mendez viola Angela Lobato cello

Shostakovich Piano Trio no 2 in E minor op 67 i Andante - moderato ii Allegro non troppo

Trio Rouge Nurry Lee piano Sophie-Louise Phillips violin Meera Priyanka Raja cello

Ones and Twos

Prokofiev Sonata for two violins in C major op 56 i Andante cantabile ii Allegro

Line Faber violin Esther Abrami violin

Piazolla Le Grand Tango

Maja Horvat violin Eleanor Kornas piano

Myaskovsky Cello Sonata no 2 in A minor op 81 i Allegro moderato ii Andante cantabile iii Allegro con spirito

Jo Dee and Ning Duo Jo Dee Yeoh cello Ning Hui See piano

Schumann Adagio and Allegro op 70

Jamal Aliyev cello Maria Tarasewicz piano

Szymanowski Violin Concerto no 2 op 61 i Moderato - Molto tranquillo

Carolina Blaskovic violin Aleksandar Djermanovic piano

Schumann Romance in A major op 94 i Nicht schnell ii Einfach, innig iii Nicht schnell

Kroll Banjo and fiddle

Duo Astra Emma Arizza violin Ana Bursac piano

Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C major op 119 i Andante grave ii Moderato

Cecilia Chan cello Ning Hui See piano

Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor op 82 i Allegro: Risoluto ii Romance: Andante iii Allegro non troppo

Maria Gilicel violin Maria Tarasewicz piano

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

Line Faber violin Maria Tarasewicz piano

Prokofiev Sonata for two violins in C major op 56 i Andante cantabile ii Allegro iii Commodo (quasi allegretto) iv Allegro con brio

Prokofiev Duo Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux violin Sofia Kolupov violin

Schumann Adagio and Allegro op 70

Yaroslava Trofymchuk cello

Ysaÿe Poème élégiaque op12

Maxime Morise violin

Milstein Paganiniana

Bar Markovich violin

Weird and Wonderful

Tom Johnson Two bedtime stories

Le duo croustillant Alun McNeil-Watson percussion Paul Milhau violin

Mayuzumi Bunraku

Kieran Carter cello

Bottesini Elegia in Re V Ciardelli Ninna Nanna...... mi raccomando Zappa Zappa

The Girls In The Magnesium Dress Valentina Ciardelli double bass Anna Quiroga harp

Stephen Goss Park of Idols i Jump Start ii Cold dark matter iii Fractured loop iv Malabar Hill v The Raw vi Sharjah

Jo Dee Yeoh cello Chloe Murphy guitar

Villa-Lobos Bachianas brasileiras no 1 ii Preludio (Modinha)

Cellobration Lydia Dobson, Kieran Carter, Nina Kiva, Ariane Zandi, Meera Raja, Zara Hudson, Lily Hope, Naomi Tran, Alexa Palmer-Campiglia, Amanda Zhu, Andrew Harsley, Johanna Blake & Arjun Ganguly cellos

4.00pm

J S Bach Concerto for two violins in D minor BWV 1043 i Vivace ii Largo ma non tanto iii Allegro

Elgar Introduction and Allegro op 47

James Longbottom conductor Vasara Quartet Emma Oldfield violin Jessica Coleman violin Emma Purslow viola Jobine Siekman cello RCM Strings

RCM STING QUARTET COMPETITION Recital Hall, 11.00am

Angus Gibbon adjudicator

11.00am Cairdeas Quartet Wilford Goh, Inês Delgado, Liam Johnson & Lily Hope

12.00pm Quartet Rocamora Lasma Taimina, Alexandra Isted, Duncan Commin & Carolina Bartumeu Rocamora

1.00pm The Banks Quartet Osian Dafydd, Bethan Allmand, Pippa Bint & Indigo Hicks

2.00pm Break

3.30pm Samt Quartet Saaya Ikenoya, Eloise MacDonald, Gerardo Mendez & Angela Lobato

4.30pm The Four Quartet Freya Goldmark, Maja Lundin, James Douglas & Atida Munthe Stahlhammer

5.30pm Adjudication

THE VIOLINIST IN BALANCE SYMPOSIUM Inner Parry Room, 11.30am

Crissman Taylor (Utrecht Conservatory) & Berent Korfker (RCM) presenters

11.30am Presentations on the latest innovative equipment that is available and how to get the greatest benefit from fitting players skilfully.

1.30pm Lunch

2.30pm Open discussion chaired by Peter Buckoke, Head of Alexander Studies at the RCM, asking the question: What are the influences of comfort, balance and freedom of movement on the results achieved in violin and viola playing? Everyone present will be welcome to contribute to this discussion.

RCM STRING SHOWCASE: REFLECTIONS Sunday 3 July 2016, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP

Yaroslava Trofymchuk cello Laia Braun violin Yume Fujise violin Jian Ren violin Jamal Aliyev cello Emily Sun violin Bryony Gibson-Cornish viola Yoon-Kyung Cho cello Hin-Yat Tsang piano Jon Mikel Valganon double bass

Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat major op 70 Prokofiev Violin Sonata in D major op 94bis Szymanowski Paganini Caprices op 40 Schubert (trans Ernst) Erlkönig D328 Martinů Variations on a Theme of Rossini H 290 Schubert Piano Quintet in A major D667 'Trout'

Our annual summer concert at Wigmore Hall showcases some of the RCM’s most outstanding string musicians. This year’s programme features works where the composer himself has rearranged either one of his own pieces such as Schubert's ever popular Trout Quintet, or the work of another composer.

Tickets: £10, £12, £14, £18, £20 RCM Box Office 020 7591 4314 | www.rcm.ac.uk/events

In the interests of safety, sitting or standing on the steps, gangways or floors in any part of the auditorium is strictly prohibited.

Please turn off your mobile phone to avoid any disturbance to the performance.

All private sound and video recordings are prohibited.

Photography before and during performances is not permitted. You may take photographs only during applause.

Latecomers will not be allowed into the auditorium until there is a suitable break in the performance.

Smoking is not permitted in any part of the building. Your co-operation is appreciated.