Chamber Orchestra Concert Friday 8th April 2016 Conducted by Robert Max King’s College School Wimbledon www.marryatplayers.com marryat players chamber music FESTIVAL 2016 marryat players Sunday 12th June, 10am - 1pm chamber music Education Programme Amy Tress, Alessandro Ruisi, Katherine Tinker tutors FESTIVAL Beginning with private rehearsals at Marryat Road on Sunday morning, three young string quartets will then have a public masterclass from 11.45am to 1pm. at 3 Marryat Road, Wimbledon Village Admission to listen to the masterclass is free. Friday 10th to Sunday 12th June Sunday 12th June, 4pm Come and listen to four exceptional concerts by our award-winning musicians as well as a lecture by Dr Katy Hamilton. Busch Trio - Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen, Ori Epstein Hieronymus Quartet - Clémence de Forceville, Matia Gotman, Jenny Lewisohn, Vladimir Waltham Friday 10th June, 7.30pm Joseph Haydn Piano Trio in E flat minor ‘Jacob’s Dream’ Jörg Widmann String Quartet No.3 ‘Jagdquartett’ (Hunt Quartet) Bartosz Woroch, Amy Tress, Clémence de Forceville, Matia Gotman, Alessandro Ruisi violins Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in C major Op.59 No.3 ‘Razumovsky’ Jenny Lewisohn, Francesca Gilbert violas Long supper interval from 5.15pm Vladimir Waltham, Bartholomew LaFollette cellos Mei Yi Foo piano Busch Trio - Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen, Ori Epstein Felix Mendelssohn String Octet in E flat major Op.20 Sunday 12th June, 7.30pm Erich Wolfgang Korngold Piano Quintet in E major Op.15 Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.2 in C minor Op.66 Alexander Sitkovetsky, Alessandro Ruisi, Bartosz Woroch, Amy Tress violins Friends’ drinks party after the concert Rosalind Ventris, Jenny Lewisohn violas Bartholomew LaFollette, Vladimir Waltham cellos Hieronymus Quartet - Clémence de Forceville, Matia Gotman, Jenny Lewisohn, Vladimir Waltham Saturday 11th June, 4pm Maurice Ravel Duo Sonata for Violin and Cello in C major Dr Katy Hamilton lecturer Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op.10 George Enescu String Octet in C major Op.7 Musical hometowns: Vienna, Leipzig, and their composers Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart and Haydn… Vienna and Leipzig were cities rich in musical history by the early nineteenth century. Dr Katy Hamilton explores the experiences of four composers featured in the festival – Mendelssohn, Korngold, Enescu and Elgar – in these towns, from the nineteenth into the twentieth century. We are pleased to offer the Friends of the Marryat Players ticket discounts as well as Supported by MusicTalks — www.musictalks.org.uk Priority Booking until Monday 18th April when General Booking will open. Friends are also invited to a drinks party to meet the artists after the concert on the opening night. Long supper interval from 5.20pm Saturday 11th June, 8pm All audience members will receive a complimentary festival programme and a glass of wine in the interval of the evening concerts. Boris Kucharsky violin Evening concerts: Friends £14, full ticket price £16, student concessions £7 Bartholomew LaFollette cello Afternoon concert/lecture: Friends £10, full ticket price £12.50, student concessions £5 Students from the Yehudi Menuhin School Festival Pass for all four concerts and the lecture: Friends £50, full ticket price £60, Busch Trio - Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen, Ori Epstein student concession £25. Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No.2 in E minor Op.67 Edward Elgar Salut d’Amour Op.12 Edward Elgar La Capricieuse Op.17 Edward Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op.84 www.marryatplayers.com Programme Arcangelo Corelli 1653—1713 elcome to this evening’s Spring concert with our young musicians aged from 10 to 18 Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No.4 in D Wand coming to us from 28 different schools. Adagio - Allegro Adagio - Vivace We have been privileged to work with our conductor Robert Max over the last five days at the orchestra’s home in Marryat Road. Robert first conducted the orchestra in 2002 and Allegro has returned regularly. We are also grateful to our team of music students and young professionals (some of whom were once young Marryat Players themselves) for their work Dag Wirén as mentors and coaches to our current generation of young musicians. 1905—1986 Pottery has become a regular part of our rehearsal week, thanks to Cherry Tewfik who has Serenade for Strings Op.11 been teaching how to use a potter’s wheel during the breaks of the rehearsals. Cherry’s Praeludium: Allegro molto pots, as well as those made by the orchestra, will be displayed at the Friends’ party after Andante espressivo the concert. Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio Marcia Looking ahead to the summer, we are delighted to announce our second Chamber Music Festival will be held at 3 Marryat Road from Friday 10th to Sunday 12th June. Full details are on the previous pages. The Friends of the Marryat Players have Priority Booking until Antonio Vivaldi 18th April when General Booking opens. 1678—1741 Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor This evening we are grateful to Nick Williams of Chromavision for filming and lighting. To order a DVD of tonight’s concert, please contact Nick whose details are advertised in the Allegro programme. Largo Allegro As always, we remain indebted to our very many Friends who loyally support the orchestra and to our Sponsors who have generously advertised in this evening’s programme, as well Nikos Skalkottas as to our audience for their unstinting support. 1904—1949 We are delighted to welcome you all here and hope you enjoy the evening. Five Greek Dances Epirotikos Anita Lewisohn Kretikos Tsamikos Arkadikos Kleftikos Johann Strauss 1825—1899 Neue Pizzicato Polka The Orchestra Robert Max — Conductor First Violins Violas Robert Max conducted his first Anna Brown Estelle Allen Marryat Players concert in 2002 Katerina Cabral Benjamin Aram and since then has selected music Nicole Dunnet Best Rachel Aram by a wide variety of composers Ioana Forna* Gabriella Cabral including Tippett, Stravinsky, Elgar, Iain Gibbs* Amy Clogston Arensky and Tchaikovsky for their Sophia Herbert Louisa Clogston programmes. In 2009 they gave the Giulia Lovrecich Francesca Gilbert* premier of T. K. Murray’s “Elegy” for Freya Lynges Jenny Lewisohn* piano and strings with soloist Piers Alexander Milner Alice Tobin Lane and on two occasions they Remi Norris George Tobin performed music by Bach with their Cameron Soo greatly missed friend Jacob Barnes. Tudor Trita Cellos As Musical Director of the Oxford Colin Alexander* Symphony Orchestra, Robert has Daniel Brandon Second Violins led performances of symphonies by Joshua Albuquerque Tiger Braun-White Mahler, Bruckner, Liszt, Walton and Sophie Bull Katarina Davies Elgar as well as major orchestral Sean Dunn* Indigo Hicks* pieces by Richard Strauss, Bloch, Ismael Foronda Alice Nunn Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov. Jimena Foronda Gareth Siddle The distinguished soloists he has Charlotte Harman Harry Vaughan worked with include Natalie Clein, Sophie Hinson Jennifer Pike, Tom Poster, Tim Hugh, Leo Norris Double Basses David Pyatt, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Max Reddy Max Ng Rachel Nicholls, Tim Crawford and Serena Reddy Katy Furmanski* Mathilde Milwidsky. Yohan Rodas Nathan Sivanithy Robert has visited Romania many times to conduct the Arad and Oradea Filharmonic Amy Tress* Orchestras and Choirs, was conductor of the Symphony Orchestra at Royal Holloway, Louis Whittell University of London between 2001 and 2014 and has conducted the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra on many occasions. He is the principal cellist of the London Chamber * denotes section coach/mentor Orchestra and has been the cellist of the Barbican Piano Trio for more than a quarter of a century, playing a beautiful cello made by Antonio Stradivarius in 1726 known as the “Comte de Saveuse”. Robert has performed at the Sangat music festival in Mumbai, coached and performed chamber music at Domaine Forget in Canada, is an Honorary Professor of the Rachmaninov Institute in Tambov, Russia and is President of the North London Festival of Music, Drama and Dance. He is also artistic director of the Frinton Festival. Robert greatly enjoys working with young musicians and as well as teaching at the Junior Academy for over twenty years, Robert coaches at MusicWorks chamber music courses. Soloists Arcangelo Corelli Tudor Trita — Violin Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.4 in D Tudor, aged 18, was born in Bucharest, and started playing the violin and piano at the age of three. He won 2nd Prize at the Valsesia Musicale competition and 3rd Prize at the Adagio – Allegro Kocian Violin Competition. He played Bruch’s violin concerto with the National Theatre Adagio – Vivace Orchestra in Mannheim, Germany at the age of 10 and with the National Radio Orchestra Allegro of Romania at the age of 11. He is currently a pupil of Jan Repko at Chetham’s School of Music and has been awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. Corelli was born near Bologna in Italy, but later settled in Rome where he was taken under the wing of music-loving Queen Christina of Sweden (who had abdicated her throne in Sophie Hinson — Violin favour of presiding over Rome’s cultural life). Conditions were precarious for musicians, but through the Queen’s patronage Corelli held some of the most prestigious posts in the Sophie is 18 years old and has studied the violin from the age of two with her mother city. His fame as a violinist, composer and teacher soon spread to the rest of Italy. Among Nadia. She is currently a student at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester where she his many students was the famed Antonio Vivaldi whose music we also hear this evening. is a pupil of Michael Gurevich. She also studies piano and voice. She has been a string finalist in Nottingham Young Musician of the Year, GDST Young Musician of the Year and The majority of Corelli’s works — trio sonatas, sonatas for solo violin and concerti grossi was awarded a Gold Medal Award by ABRSM for her outstanding mark in grade 8 singing — were published in six volumes containing twelve pieces each.