SUMMER 2019 EVENTS WELCOME It is my pleasure as Director of Music to introduce this Events Guide for my first Summer Term at Purcell. I always enjoy building any artistic programme, and I hope that there is something here for everyone. We very much look forward to seeing you at any of the concerts and masterclasses in the booklet, either at school or in one of our prestigious London venues, including the Southbank Centre and Wigmore Hall. In a particularly exciting new venture, we shall be live streaming a series of concerts online, bringing The Purcell School Recital Room to you; enabling you to attend virtually, from wherever you are in the world. One of the joys of this place is the enormous range of work that happens every week, even in a term heavy with public exams. You will find every department of the school represented here, contributing to a rich menu of jazz, classical, romantic and 20th Century repertoire, alongside work by some of our many student composers. Solo recitals appear side by side with chamber ensembles, orchestras, choirs and many jazz ensembles. You will also see that we draw not only on the talents of our exceptional students: we also showcase some of our alumni, teaching staff, and world-renowned guest artists. I am looking forward to working with Stephen Isserlis at the Deal Festival in what will be my first public performance here as a conductor. I am also excited about the visits of Cambridge Professor John Rink and LSO oboist Juliana Koch. New collaborations this term include the Hertfordshire Festival of Music, and we continue to welcome longstanding friends such as Guy Johnston and Remus Azoitei. Every day at the Purcell School includes something extraordinary – please come and share it with us. Paul Hoskins Director of Music APRIL Wednesday 24 April Thursday 25 April ROSSETTI ENSEMBLE LIVE AT LUNCHTIME 7:00pm I Constance Pilkington Hall, 1:00pm I Recital Room, The Purcell School The Purcell School Free admission £10; £5 concessions Lutoslawski Paganini Variations (excerpt) On the door and in advance from Milda Daunoraite & Kasparas Mikuzis - piano rossettiensemble.eventbrite.co.uk McLearnon - Single Yellow Line Mozart - Piano Quartet No. 2 K493 Flute Ensemble: Francesca Biescas Rue Klughardt - Schilflieder, Op. 28 Sofiia Matviienko; Simone Qiu; Hannah Bridge - Phantasy Piano Quartet, H. 94 Capstick; Elise Furber; Lydia Cochrane Ravel - Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Messiter) Nihal - Ottmano Malcolm Messiter - oboe; Sara Trickey - violin Percussion Duo: Massimo Martone; Lewis Sarah-Jane Bradley - viola; Tim Lowe - cello Isaacs John Lenehan - piano Beethoven - Sonata No.8 for piano Formed in 2018 from long-standing and violin Op.30 (i) collaborations, the Rossetti Ensemble is Lina Jukneviciute - violin named after Dante Gabriel, the British poet Milda Daunoraite - piano and Pre-Raphaelite artist, and includes Purcell Watch live on the School’s YouTube channel. School viola teacher, Sarah-Jane Bradley. The Purcell School Thursday 25 April ALIM BEISEMBAYEV PIANO RECITAL 7:00pm I Constance Pilkington Hall, The Purcell School £10; £5 concessions On the door and in advance from alimbeisembayev.eventbrite.co.uk Former Purcell student, Alim Beisembayev, winner of the prestigious Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition (2015), and the Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition (2018), performs a programme of works by Scarlatti, Schumann and Stravinsky. Sunday 28 April Monday 29 April PURCELL CHAMBER PURCELL CHAMBER SOLOISTS SOLOISTS 3:00pm I Stanborough Park Church, Watford 1:00pm I St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar WD25 9JL Square, London WC2N 4JJ Free admission Free admission Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S.514 Brahms - Cello Sonata No 1 (i) Yumeka Nakagawa - piano Chea Woom Lee - piano; Rhys Herbert - cello Brahms - Cello Sonata No 1 (i) Elgar - Piano Quintet A Minor (i) Chea Woom Lee - piano; Rhys Herbert - cello Lina Jukneviciute & Alexandra Peel – violins Elgar - Piano Quintet A Minor (i) Hugo Max – viola; Chian-Chian – cello Lina Jukneviciute & Alexandra Peel – violins Yumeka Nakagawa - piano Hugo Max – viola; Chian-Chian – cello Schumann - String quartet in F major (i) Yumeka Nakagawa - piano Anya Robins & Rebeca Lazar – violins Schumann - String quartet in F major (i) Catherine White – viola; Tianao Pan - cello Anya Robins & Rebeca Lazar – violins Piazzolla - Libertango arr. for brass quintet Catherine White – viola; Tianao Pan - cello Brinley Heywood-Snell & Tristan Boldy – Piazzolla - Libertango arr. for brass quintet trumpets; Joseph Longstaff – horn Brinley Heywood-Snell - trumpet Carl Davis – trombone Ramon Branch - tuba Tristan Boldy – trumpet Lotti - Crucifixus; Morley - April is in my Joseph Longstaff – horn mistress’ face; Farmer - Fair Phyllis I saw Carl Davis – trombone Morley - My bonny lass she smileth Ramon Branch - tuba Vocal Ensemble: Emily Price; Gayatri Nair Elissa Street; Jaison Jeyaventhan; Ka Youn Yoo Monday 29 April Schumann Toccata in C, Op.7; Scriabin Etude in D FREDDY MORGAN PIANO sharp minor, Op.8 No.12; Schumann Novellette RECITALS in F sharp minor, Op.21 No.8; Liszt Grande étude 7:45pm I Purcell Room at Southbank Centre, de Paganini in E flat, S.141 No.2; Chopin Mazurka Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX in C sharp minor, Op.50 No.3; Scherzo No.4 in Tickets: £10 - £15. Booking fee: £3.00 (Members E, Op.54; Mendelssohn Variations serieuses in £0.00). Concessions 25% off (limited availability) D minor, Op.54; Albéniz El Albaicín from Iberia, southbankcentre.co.uk Bk.3; Chopin Berceuse in D flat, Op.57; Schumann No.1 (Des Abends); No.5 (In der Nacht) from Phantasiestücke, Op.12; Liszt Mephisto Waltz No.1 Pianists: Joachim Lim Bradley Ng Chindanai Nukulvutthiopas Carmen Sánchez Labrador Yumeka Nakagawa MAY Wednesday 1 May Wednesday 22 May MIDDLE SCHOOL LOWER SCHOOL CHOIR SOLOISTS AND SOLOISTS 7:00pm I Recital Room, The Purcell School 7:00pm I Constance Pilkington Hall, Free admission The Purcell School Programme to include Bach Partita No. 2 Free admission in C Minor and Glinka The Lark for piano, Programme to include Vieuxtemps Ballad and Falla Spanish Dance for violin, Schumann Polonaise Op.38 for violin, Brahms Rhapsody Fantasiestücke I & III for cello, Wieniawski No. 2 Op.79 for piano, and choral works: Légende Op.17 for violin Caccini/Vavilov Ave Maria, Morricone Nella Maddie Hunt - guitar Fantasia, and Rachmaninoff Spring Waters Anastasia Gould; Djordje Jovanovic; Alexandra Arunima Peshwe - bamboo flute Pereira - piano Hana Shah - violin; Tifany Rodas - viola Hana McDowell; Christine Amirashayeri - violin Adrian Eggleston and Shixin Zhang - piano Jennifer Baek - cello Rocca Dal Cin - guitar Freddie Faragher - trumpet Lower School Choir conducted by Irina Waters Thursday 23 May Tuesday 7 May LIVE AT LUNCHTIME LIVE AT LUNCHTIME 1:00pm I Recital Room, The Purcell School 1:00pm I Recital Room, The Purcell School Free admission Free admission Grieg - Violin Sonata No.3 (i) A lunchtime concert performed by The Purcell Ilai Avni – violin Jazz Ensemble. Carmen Sanchez Labrador - piano Sasha Scott - Tiger Teeth Watch live on the School’s YouTube channel. Sasha Scott & Mikako Shimatani - violins Hugo Max - viola; Fiore O’Sullivan - cello The Purcell School Watch live on the School’s YouTube channel. The Purcell School Wednesday 8 May LIFE GOES ON: Friday 24 May A CELEBRATION OF LOWER SCHOOL MUSIC AND DANCE ORCHESTRA, SOLOISTS & 7:00pm I Constance Pilkington Hall, COMPOSERS The Purcell School 2:30pm I Constance Pilkington Hall, Free admission The Purcell School Featuring new works written by Purcell Free admission students, choreographed by Holly Penny. Programme to include Chopin Nocturne No.1 Performed by dancers from Momentum Op.33 for piano, Sarasate Romanza Andaluza Performing Arts Academy and musicians No.1 Op.22 for violin, and orchestral works from The Purcell School. written by composition students from Year 9. Antonia Zadrag - violin, Yazdi Madon - piano, Angelica Coupland - voice, Lower School Orchestra JUNE Tuesday 4 June Wednesday 12 June LOWER SCHOOL LOWER SCHOOL SOLOISTS SOLOISTS 1:00pm I St. Mary’s Church, Watford 7:00pm I Constance Pilkington Hall, Free admission The Purcell School Programme to include Mendelssohn Rondo Free admission Capriccioso Op.14, Kramer Dedication to Programme to include Hindemith Sonata for Peterson (Etude), Rachmaninoff Elegie No.1 flute and piano (i); Scarlatti - Piano Sonata in C Op.3 for piano; Cardoso Milonga and Dyens Major; Debussy - First Arabesque for piano Fern Brooks - harp; Elise Furber - flute Tango en skai for guitar; Popper Polonaise de Tianyu Zhou & Gabriella Delia - piano Concert Op.14 for cello Theadora Griffiths - viola; Rhea Jo - oboe Phoebe Papandrea - piano Kokoro Ryu - Cello; Elijah Tolefe - Violin Chloe Jiang - piano Louis Richardson - double bass Melody Jiang - piano Da In Kim- cello Rebecca Nicolas - violin Sunday 16 June Polina Matyusheva - violin Ashton Hunt - guitar LEES CHAMBER RECITAL 3:00pm I The Ballroom, Lees Court, So-Hee Han - clarinet Sheldwich Lees, Faversham, ME13 0NQ Tickets: £15 including champagne. To reserve tickets, please call 01923 331109, or email [email protected] Wednesday 5 June Schubert - Piano Trio No.1, D.898 MIDDLE SCHOOL Alexander Gonzalez Pavlova - violin Anna McClean - cello; Bradley Ng - piano SOLOISTS Rachmaninoff - Trio élégiaque No.2, Op.9 7:00pm I Recital Room, The Purcell School Iohan Coman - violin; Chian-Chian Hsu - cello Free admission Joachim Lim - piano Programme to include: Sarasate Introduction and Tarantella for violin; Mark Glentworthh Blues