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City Music Foundation Wallace Collection Programme 2020 CITY MUSIC FOUNDATION SUMMER RESIDENCY 2020 Broadcast Live Online From St Pancras Clock Tower Monday 20th July - Anna Cavaliero, Soprano Tuesday 21st July - Rosalind Ventris, Viola Wednesday 22nd July - Iyad Sughayer, Piano Thursday 23rd July - Gwenllian Llyr, Harp Friday 24th July - Echéa Quartet Watch every concert live on the City Music Foundation YouTube Channel & Facebook Page Monday 20th July, 1pm ANNA CAVALIERO ‘Life’s Parade’ Soprano Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Natalie Burch - Piano Fanfare from Les Illuminations Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Il Pleure dans mon Coeur – Green Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Interlude from Les Illuminations Erich Korngold (1897-1957) Sterbelied - Gefasster Abschied (both from Vier Lieder des Abschieds) Richard Strauss September from Vier lestzte Lieder Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Depart from Les Illuminations British-Hungarian soprano Anna Cavaliero is a Samling Artist, City Music Foundation Artist, and Handel House Talent Scheme Artist, as well as former Britten-Pears Young Artist. In 2019, Anna won the Opera Prelude Singer’s Prize, and was a semi-finalist in the London Mozart Competition. In 2018-19, Anna joined the opera studio of the Opéra National de Lyon, and she returns in 2021 to perform the roles of Bergère/ Chouette/ Chauve-souris/ and Pastourelle in Ravel’s L'Enfant et les sortilèges. Recent concert engagements include baroque recitals for Handel House; song recitals with Sholto Kynoch for Oxford Lieder; Mozart Exsultate, jubilate with the London Mozart Players and Rutter Requiem at Eton College Chapel. Anna has also performed operatic roles at Waterperry Festival Opera, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, Longborough Festival Opera & Snape Maltings. Anna held scholarships to Trinity College, Cambridge, the Royal College of Music, and Rice University, Houston, before completing her vocal training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with soprano Barbara Bonney. www.annacavaliero.com Widely in demand as a song pianist across London and the UK, Natalie won the accompaniment prize at the 2015 Maureen Lehane Awards, was a finalist alongside the 2nd Prizewinner in the 2017 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and is a Britten-Pears, Leeds Lieder and Samling Artist. Performance highlights include Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer at Wigmore Hall, recitals at the Little Venice Festival, The Red House, Aldeburgh and the Oxford Lieder Festival and a commission for St John’s Smith Square. She runs multi-voice ensemble, Song Spiel, programming recitals and commissioning music incorporating other art forms and exploring the possibilities and boundaries of an online space for song. Natalie previously studied at Chetham’s School of Music and King’s College London where she gained a 1st in musicology. She gained her masters with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and continues her studies in Paris with Susan Manoff. www.natalieburchpiano.com Franz Hoffmeister (1754-1812) Tuesday 21st July, 1pm Etude No. 4 ROSALIND VENTRIS Georg Telemann (1681-1757) Viola Fantasia Joseph Fort - Piano York Bowen (1884-1961) Romance in Db major Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Romance 3 (arr. Rosalind Ventris) Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000) El sampedrino (arr. Kim Kashkashian) Lillian Fuchs (1901-1995) Sonata Pastorale Lionel Tertis(1876-1975) Sunset Thea Musgrave (1928- ) In the Still of the Night Edward Elgar(1857-1934) Salut d’amour (arr. Rosalind Ventris) Rosalind Ventris (viola) leads a varied career as a soloist and chamber musician. As a recitalist, she has appeared at the Bozar, Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Flagey, Aldeburgh Festival, Slovak Philharmonic and the Concertgebouw. She has performed as a soloist with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Cymru and the Belgian National Orchestra, and she recorded Richard Blackford’s Kalon for string quartet and orchestra with the Czech Philharmonic. Rosalind also had the privilege to collaborate with Mitsuko Uchida at Marlboro Festival, the Arcanto Quartett at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, and Tabea Zimmermann at the Wigmore Hall. She released recordings with Delphian, Signum and Navona. Projects postponed during the coronavirus pandemic include performing at the Aldeburgh festival and recording with the Piatti Quartet for Delphian records, a recording with the London Mozart Players, and performances for the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival, Nexus Festival Chicago, and klangkunst Klassik in Germany. She regularly performs with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and she is the violist of flute, viola and harp ensemble Trio Anima. Rosalind read Music at Cambridge and studied with David Takeno, Miguel da Silva and Kim Kashkashian. Rosalind teaches at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. www.rosalindventris.co.uk Joseph Fort is the College Organist & Director of the Chapel Choir and Lecturer in Music at King’s College London. He took up this position in 2015, upon completing his PhD at Harvard University, and is active as a conductor and musicologist. Joseph has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. His conducting debut with Britten Sinfonia in 2017 was met with acclaim from The Times, and a recent CD of the Double Masses of Leighton and Martin was described in Gramophone Magazine as ‘a performance of astonishing intensity and musicality’. In demand as a chorus master, he has prepared choirs for John Eliot Gardiner and Roger Norrington. Joseph’s research focuses on eighteenth-century music and dance, and he is currently completing a monograph on Haydn and minuets. He has published in the Eighteenth-Century Music journal, and has chapters in books with Cambridge University Press and Leipzig University Press. In 2017, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Wednesday 22nd July, 1pm W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) IYAD SUGHAYER Sonata in D major i) Allegro Piano ii) Adagio iii) Allegretto Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Impromptus D. 889 No. 2 Eb major No. 3 Eb major No. 4 Ab major Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) 3 movements from Masquerade Suite Waltz Nocturne Galop (Polka) Chosen as ‘One to Watch’ by International Piano Magazine, pianist Iyad Sughayer’s debut album, the Khachaturian Piano Works, on BIS Records received critical acclaim when it was released in November 2019. The album was described by Gramophone as ‘exhilarating and delivered with perfect clarity’ and ‘He captures the music’s essence with such a close sense of recreative identity that it feels on occasion as though he could be composing it as he goes along. An outstanding debut’ by BBC Music Magazine. Sughayer has appeared as a soloist with many leading orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the European Union Chamber Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata. He has performed on the stages of Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and the Stoller Hall, the Laeiszhalle, Hamburg; Steinway Hall, New York; Castleton Festival, Virginia; Kings Place and Wigmore Hall in London. Born in Amman in 1993, Iyad received his early musical education in Jordan and went on to study at Chetham’s School of Music. He then graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music as a scholar and from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where he was awarded the College’s prestigious Gold Medal. In 2018, he returned to the RNCM to complete the International Artist Diploma. In 2019, Iyad was selected as a City Music Foundation Artist. www.iyadsughayer.com Thursday 23rd July, 1pm Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) GWENLLIAN LLŶR Impromptu Caprice, op. 9 Harp Sue Rothstein Ar Drywydd Glas y Dorlan (world premiere) Carlos Salzedo (1885-1961) Variations on a Theme in Ancient Style, op. 30 Gwenllian Llŷr Strawberry Moon William Mathias (1934-1992) Improvisations for Harp, op. 10 Allegro Moderato Lento – Sonore Allegro non Troppo Gwenllian Llŷr Ffantasi ar Calon Lan (world premiere) Pearl Chertok (1918-1981) Around the Clock Suite Ten Past Two Beige Nocturne Harpicide at Midnight Welsh harpist Gwenllian Llŷr is gaining international recognition for her charismatic and engaging performances. In 2013, Gwenllian was a prize-winner at the USA International Harp Competition in Bloomington where she was highly praised for her musicianship. She has also won many prizes more locally, including the Len Lickorish Memorial Prize for a String Player of Promise at the Royal Over-Seas League AMC 2018, as well as becoming an Artist with City Music Foundation in 2017. Gwenllian’s career has already taken her across the globe, with performances in prestigious venues such as St. David’s Hall, Buckingham Palace, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, and alongside renowned artists such as jazz legend Al Jarreau, pianist Imogen Cooper, and international opera singer Bryn Terfel. Following the successful release of her debut solo album, ‘Dusk to Dawn’, in which her playing was hailed as “magnificent” and “powerful”, Gwenllian is currently working on the release of her new CD alongside Ty Cerdd. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, The Juilliard School and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Gwenllian is based in London where she is enjoying a busy and varied freelance career. Recent performances would have included an appearance at Wales Harp Festival, a concerto performance of Gliere’s Harp Concerto with Orpington Symphony Orchestra and three world premieres at various recitals. gwenllianllyr.co.uk Friday 24th July, 1pm ECHÉA QUARTET Haydn Alberga Beethoven String Quartet Op.76 No.1 in G major String Quartet No.2 String Quartet No.12 Op.127 1st & 2nd movement 1st movement Prizewinners of the International Anton Rubinstein Chamber Music Competition (2018) and finalists in the Royal Overseas-League Music Competition (2019), the Echéa Quartet was formed in 2017 at the Royal Academy of Music, London. They are currently Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy and artists for the Concordia and City Music Foundations (2019/20). The quartet are recent recipients of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Albert and Eugenie Frost Chamber Music Prize (2019/20). The quartet studies with John Myerscough, Levon Chilingirian, Mathieu Herzog, Simon Rowland-Jones and David Waterman.
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