SELECTED ARTISTS Outstanding musicians specially chosen for Making Music members Young Artists 2018–20 Selected Artists 2019–20 Contents What is the Selected Artists Guide? 03 About Selected Artists 16 Subsidies and Advice 03 Selected Artists 2018–19 17 About the Philip and Dorothy 04 Sources of affordable artists 52 Green Young Artists and other financial support Young Artists 2018–20 05 Index of Young Artists 2018–20 Lewis Banks 05 Toby Hughes 10 Emma Halnan 07 Alexandra Lomeiko 11 Catriona Hewitson 08 Ugnius Pauliukonis 12 St Martin's Winner 2018 Barbican Quartet 15 Index of Selected Artists 2018–19 Trio Volant 33 Artesian Quartet 34 Dinara Klinton 17 Consone Quartet 35 Luka Okros 19 Emily Askew Band 36 Raphaela Papadakis 20 Laefer Quartet 39 Joo Yeon Sir 21 Cavendish Winds 41 Andrey Lebdev 23 The Bach Players 42 Jamal Aliyev/Jâms Coleman 24 Kosmos Ensemble 43 Lawrence Power/Simon Crawford Phillips 25 Papagena 44 Alexandra Ridout 26 NYJO Ambassadors 45 Dominic Alldis Trio 29 Pleyel Ensemble 46 Effra Music 30 Prince Regent's Band 47 Minerva Piano Trio 31 Christopher Strange 48 Pelléas Ensemble 32 Index of Advertisers Matthew Scott & friends 14 Concert Royal 28 Sara Stowe & Matthew Spring 6 David Owen Norris 18 Classico Latino 37 She'Koyokh 6 Enceladus Ensemble 18 Engegård Quartet 37 Photo: Timothy Ellis The Piatti Quartet 6 Handel Festival 22 Flaugissimo Duo 37 Phileas Flute 9 Kathleen Linton-Ford 27 The Juniper Project 37 Richard Saxel 9 Palisander 27 Aurora Ensemble 38 The Thorne Trio 13 Passacaglia 27 Siriniu 38 Prince Bishop's Brass 13 Sara Stowe 27 Brook Street Band 38 Ruth Rogers 13 Albany Trio 28 Boxwood & Brass 38 Cover photo: Cavendish Winds 2 What is the Selected Artists Guide? Subsidies: small promoters (income under INFORMATION Welcome to the 2018 edition of the Selected £14,500) can claim two subsidies: Artists guide. Whether you are a promoter looking for artists or a performing group • Selected Artist Subsidy: £100 towards the looking for soloists, this guide will help you booking fee for any Selected Artist featured. find excellent, affordable musicians and ensembles. • Artists Expenses Subsidy: £50 to £125 towards the expenses of the artist. It’s not just a list of great artists; there are subsidies available for every artist or Did you know? The Artists Expenses ensemble listed. The guide is split into three Subsidy can be claimed when booking sections: any professional artist, not just the ones 1. The Philip & Dorothy Green Young in this guide. More information is Artists (orange pages 4-12) have been available in the relevant sections at auditioned and chosen by a distinguished makingmusic.org.uk/subsidies panel of experienced musicians. We would like to say a huge thank you to the Subsidy: £150 subsidy for booking a solo Selected Artists Panel for their hard work and artist and £250 with an accompanist expertise in putting this guide together. They 2. The St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber are: Glynne Stackhouse (Chair), George Music competition winners (red pages 15): Wolfe, Kumi Smith-Gordon, Alexandra Scott, Stephen Leeder, Suzanne Connor, Jolyon Subsidy: available at a fixed fee of £250 per Dodgson, Stuart Isaac and Clive Walkley. performer for the first 12 engagements. Ben Saffell 3. Our Selected Artists (purple pages Membership and Services Manager 16-18) are recommended by the Selected Making Music Artists Panel (formed of Making Music promoter members). About Making Music Since 1935, Making Music has championed leisure-time music groups across the UK with William Howard 40 practical services, artistic development Trio Derazey / Chaconne Brass 49 opportunities and by providing a collective YCAT 50 voice for its members. We now represent over Abel Selaocoe 51 3,300 groups made up of around 180,000 Charivari Agreable 51 musicians of all types, genres and abilities. Fontanella 51 We help them run their group so they can get Anneke Scott 54 on with making music! James Lisney 55 makingmusic.org.uk Warren Mailley-Smith / Picadilly Piano Trio / 56 [email protected] Susan Parkes 020 7939 6030 3 Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists The Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists How to book the Young Artists award celebrates the best of the UK’s young musical talent, at the same time as A limited number of subsidies are available providing Making Music member groups so you must check before booking an artist. with an affordable way of booking the stars • Contact us to check a subsidy is of tomorrow. Each year the award is available (telephone 020 7939 6030 or presented to six of the UK’s most talented email [email protected] young musicians. Making Music members can book these Young Artists for a set fee of • Once this is confirmed, book the artist £250 (or £500 with accompanist) and then as you usually would claim a £150 subsidy for a solo artist or • Once the booking is confirmed, let us £250 if the soloist comes with an know the date of the concert accompanist. • After the concert pay the artist(s) and The award was created in 1961 and has contact us to claim the subsidy helped to launch the careers of dozens of young musicians including Steven Isserlis, Please note you can only claim a subsidy Elizabeth Watts and Craig Ogden. It is made for one P&DG Young Artist in this guide; possible by the generosity of the Philip and contact us for advice if you would like to Dorothy Green Music Trust, which book more than one, as sometimes promotes young artists and composers. exceptions apply. You will have to follow certain guidelines to acknowledge the subsidy in your promotional material and send in a copy of the signed contract to secure the subsidy. If you would like to pay the artist more than £250, it is fine to do so, but please note the subsidy remains the same. 4 Saxophone Lewis Banks Fee £250 Subsidy available. See page 4. SAMPLE REPERTOIRE See full repertoire details at www.makingmusic.org.uk/PDGYA RECITAL PROGRAMMES 1. Debussy 'Prélude à l'après midi d’un faun'; MacMillan 'After the Tryst'; Creston Sonata; Piazzolla 'Histoire du Tango'; Fitkin Gate; Ravel Sonatine; Schuman Adagio and Allegro; Libby Larsen 'Holy Roller' PHILIP AND DOROTHY GREEN YOUNG ARTISTS 2018–20 PHILIP AND DOROTHY GREEN YOUNG ARTISTS 2. Villa-Lobos 'Fantasia'; Debussy 'Syrinx'; Ravel 'Piece en forme de Habanera'; Francaix 'Cinq Danses Exotiques'; Schulhoff 'Hot Sonata'; Jolivet 'Fantasie Impromptu'; Bozza Photo: John Cooper Photography Aria; Baez 'L’Arlesienne Fantasy Scottish saxophonist Lewis Banks studied at the Concerto' Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he won 3. David 'Heath On Fire'; Rachmaninov 'Vocalise'; Ryo Noda most major prizes and was awarded full marks Mai; Andrew Norman 'The Garden of in his final undergraduate recital, graduating Follies'; Debussy 'Prélude à l'après with a Bachelor of Music with Honours (First midi d’un faun'; Fitkin 'Glass'; MacMillan 'After the Tryst'; Rorem Class). In the same year, while still an 'Picnic on the Marne'; Muczynski undergraduate student, Lewis appeared with Sonata the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as soloist CONCERTOS in Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da Camera. Lewis Ibert, Glazunov, Baez, Capperauld, has since continued his masters studies at the Larsson, Graham, Villa-Lobos and Conservatoire, during which time he became a Jacob ter Veldhuis Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of EDUCATIONAL WORK Musicians. In March 2019, Lewis will appear in Lewis is saxophone tutor at Hamilton recital at the Southbank Centre's Purcell Room. College School and has taught as a deputy teacher of saxophone at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Junior Department, in addition to taking performance classes. Find Lewis on: Glasgow 07526 572206 @lewisbankssax [email protected] www.lewisbankssax.com 5 Advertisement Sara Stowe and Matthew Spring ‘Shall we go walk the woods so Wilde?’ Popular Songs and Instrumental Variations from the Elizabethan Court and the London Stage “Performances throughout are exemplary, with Stowe’s bright captivating voice, full of longing and loss, life and lustiness”. CD Review of their Chandos CD £250 per artist. For further details see www.stoweandspring.com and call 07986 933532 S h e ´ K o y o k h “ “Breathtaking instrumental skills… …great musicianship” BBC Music Magazine *****Evening Standard **** The Guardian **** fRoots ****Songlines She'Koyokh is "one of London's musical treasures playing the best klezmer and Balkan music in Britain" (The Evening Standard). The band's performances include WOMAD, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Cheltenham festival, Purcell Room, LSO St Luke’s, the Snape Proms and live sessions on BBC radio. www.shekoyokh.co.uk 6 Flute Emma Halnan Fee £250 Subsidy available. See page 4. SAMPLE REPERTOIRE See full repertoire details at www.makingmusic.org.uk/PDGYA RECITAL PROGRAMMES 1. Donizetti Sonata; Tchaikovsky 'Lensky’s Aria' arr. Braunstein; Karl Jenkins 'Ryers Down' (written for Emma, 2016); Martinu Sonata; James Francis Brown Sonatina (commissioned by Emma, 2018); Debussy 'Syrinx'; Prokofiev Sonata in A major No. 6 PHILIP AND DOROTHY GREEN YOUNG ARTISTS 2018–20 PHILIP AND DOROTHY GREEN YOUNG ARTISTS 2. Hüe 'Fantasy'; Burton Sonatina; Barber 'Canzone'; York Bowen Sonata; CPE Bach 'Hamburger' Sonata; Clara Schumann 'Three Romances'; Brotons Sonata; Borne Photo: Ian Dingle 'Carmen Fantasy' Emma first came to prominence when she won 3. JS Bach Sonata in G minor; the BBC Young Musician of the Year's Woodwind Mozart Andante in C major; Mácha 'Variace'; Taffanel 'Freischutz award. She has performed worldwide and played Fantasy'; Lili Boulanger 'Nocturne' concerti with orchestras including BBC NOW, the Berio Sequenza No.1; Franck Sonata in A major (arr. flute/piano) EU Chamber Orchestra and London Mozart Players. Emma studied at the Royal Academy of CONCERTO Music, where her flute-viola-harp trio held a Arnold, CPE Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Chaminade, Reinecke, Ibert, prestigious fellowship from 2014-16.