MUSIC AT WESLEY

TUESDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERT WESLEY CHURCH CENTRE, ST JOHN STREET, CHESTER April 23rd 2019, 12.45pm HAYLEY PARKES - Piano

The Seasons Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) 1. January: At the Fireside (A major) 2. February: Carnival (D major) 3. March: Song of the Lark (G minor) 4. April: Snowdrop (B-flat major) 5. May: Starlit Nights (G major) 6. June: Barcarolle (G minor) 7. July: Song of the Reaper (E-flat major) 8. August: Harvest (B minor) 9. September: The Hunt (G major) 10. October: Autumn Song (D minor) 11. November: Troika (E major) 12. December: Christmas (A-flat major)

Forthcoming ‘Music at Wesley’ Concerts

Tuesday Lunchtime Concerts, 12.45pm. Retiring Collection April 30th: Chetham’s School of Music Brass Ensembles May 7th: Justine Gormley (piano) May 14th: Jonathan Guy (clarinet), Leanne Cody (piano)

Saturday Lunchtime Organ Recitals, 12.45pm. Retiring collection May 18th: John Evans (Hoole Methodist Church)

Thank you for supporting this recital. The retiring collection (suggested minimum donation £3 per person) covers performer, performing rights and other direct expenses, with the balance in aid of Wesley Church funds. If you are a taxpayer it would be much appreciated if you would donate using a Gift Aid envelope (just add your name, address & post code).

The Wesley Church Centre, Chester: part of the world-wide Methodist family Registered Charity No. 1138016

January May September A little corner of peaceful bliss, What a night! What bliss all about! It is time! The horns are sounding! the night dressed in twilight; I thank my native north country! The hunters in their hunting dress the little fire is dying in the fireplace, From the kingdom of ice, from the are mounted on their horses; and the candle has burned out. kingdom of snowstorms and snow, in early dawn the borzois are jumping. (Alexander Pushkin) how fresh and clean May flies in! (A. Pushkin, Graf Nulin) (Afanasy Fet) February June October At the lively Mardi Gras Let us go to the shore; Autumn, our poor garden is all falling soon a large feast will overflow. there the waves will kiss our feet. down, (Pyotr Vyazemsky) With mysterious sadness the yellowed leaves are flying in the wind. the stars will shine down on us. (Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Aleksey Pleshcheyev) March July November The field shimmering with flowers, Move the shoulders, In your loneliness do not look at the road, the stars swirling in the heavens, shake the arms! and do not rush out after the troika. the song of the lark And the noon wind Suppress at once and forever fills the blue abyss. breathes in the face! the fear of longing in your heart. (Apollon Maykov) (Aleksey Koltsov) (Nikolay Nekrasov) April August December The blue, pure snowdrop — flower, The harvest has grown, Once upon a Christmas night and near it the last snowdrops. people in families cutting the tall rye the girls were telling fortunes: The last tears over past griefs, down to the root! taking their slippers off their feet and first dreams of another happiness. Put together the haystacks, and throwing them out of the gate. (A. Maykov) music screeching all night from the (Vasily Zhukovsky) hauling carts. (A. Koltsov)

Hayley Parkes. As an alumna of the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham’s School of Music, Hayley is an active performer, playing across the country as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and collaborator. Appearances include solo performances at the Bridgewater Hall, The Sage Gateshead and on BBC Radio 3, as well as performances at BBC Proms and at the Royal Festival Hall. As a competition participant she performed in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Category Final, won first prize at the Beethoven Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition and was a prize winner at the Bromsgrove International Musicians Competition 2017. She is also the recipient of various awards including The Vernon Farley Piano Prize, The Peter Donohoe Prize, The Marjorie Pennington Prize and The James Oncken Song Prize for Accompanist. As an orchestral pianist Hayley has appeared at prestigious venues across the country under Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, Paul Mann, Gábor Tákacs-Nagy, En Shao and Jamie Phillips.

Hayley made her concerto debut with the Northern Chamber Orchestra in 2013, has since appeared as a concerto soloist with orchestras across the North and has held positions at The Royal Ballet School and Northern Ballet. Hayley has performed for many prestigious musicians including the pianists Kathryn Stott, Stephen Hough, Richard Goode, Philippe Cassard, Robert Levin and Martin Roscoe. As an advocate for Arts Education she has delivered various outreach projects around the UK as a recipient of funding from Arts Council England and The Leverhulme Trust. She has also collaborated with Opera North and Northern Ballet Academy on their Outreach programmes. Hayley has had the privilege of appearing as a guest artist and speaker at Thinking Digital, The Sage, TEDx Liverpool, Manchester and WhitehallWomen at the Foreign Office. In 2017 she was named on the Futures List for Northern Power Women UK.

Thanks to the generous support from The Helen Mackanass Award, The Clayton Family and as a Supported Artist with Yamaha Music Group Europe, Hayley obtained her degree with First Class Honours in 2016. She continued to become the Student Union President at the RNCM during which time she founded the RNCM Film Orchestra. In July 2017 Hayley hosted the first TEDxRNCM conference and became the first recipient of the Sir John Manduell Entrepreneurship Award. Hayley studies with Miss Dina Parakhina Masters Diploma, Postgraduate Diploma (Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire). Hayley is now a Projects Manager for the Hallé Concerts Society, committed to exploring how music can have an impact on people’s lives across the North of England.

The Wesley Church Centre, Chester: part of the world-wide Methodist family Registered Charity No. 1138016