LUNCHTIME SERIES
Monday 4 - Friday 8 October
12 noon, Stratford Town Hall, Sheep St, Stratford on Avon
The always-eagerly-awaited Lunchtime Series will take place once more this year between Monday 4th - Friday 8th October.
All tickets £8; student concessions £5; children £2
LUNCHTIME CONCESSIONARY ROVER TICKET: come to all five lunchtime concerts for just £30, saving a total of £10 over the week.
Free glass of sherry or cup of coffee included in ticket price - available from 11.30am.
Monday 4 October
SARAH THURLOW, Clarinet
TOM HANKEY, Viola
JAMES YOUNG, Piano
MOZART - Trio in E flat major K498 (Kegelstatt)
DEBUSSY - Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano
BRUCH - Three pieces for clarinet, viola and piano from op.83
Sarah Thurlow and James Young both studied at the Royal College of Music. Sarah made her concerto debut with the Philharmonia whilst still a student and has performed with major London orchestras as well as with English National Opera. James Young has appeared at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall, as a Park Lane Group Young Concert Artist, and as a recording artist for NMC Records. Tom Hankey is a member of the Aronowitz Ensemble, and a founding member of Ensemble Na Mara, which won the 2006 Royal Over-Seas League ensemble prize.
Tuesday 5 October
EDGAR BAILEY, Violin
MARIA MARCHANT, Piano
MOZART - Sonata for Violin and Piano in A
DVORAK - Romance
BRAHMS - Scherzo from FAE Sonata
DEBUSSY - Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor
Born in Cheltenham in 1987, Edgar Bailey studied at Chetham's School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. Funded by the BBC Performing Arts Fund, Maria Marchant completed the Mmus Advanced Piano Performance Course at the Royal college of Music and is currently active as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician. Maria has been selected as a young artist on the Concordia Foundation, Park Lane Group and Tillett Trust schemes.
Wednesday 6 October
OLGA STEZHKO, Piano
MOZART - Sonata in A, K331
CHOPIN - Ballade no.2
RACHMANINOV - Etude-tableaux Op.39, no.8
BEETHOVEN - Sonata Op.57 Appassionata
Olga Stezhko was born in Minsk, Belarus and started to play the piano at the age of five. In 2002, she was awarded a scholarship to study at the United World College in Italy, where her teachers were Alberto Miodini and the legendary Trio di Trieste. In 2004, she came to the Royal Academy of Music in London on a Scholarship.
Olga has won many international piano competitions including the Grand Prix at the first European Piano Competition Halina-Stefanska in Memoriam in Poland; 1st prize at the Bradshaw & Buono International piano competition in the USA; 1st prize at the Stefano Marizza Piano Competition in Italy; 1st prize at the N. Rubenstein International Piano Competition in Paris and 1st prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition for young pianists in Poland.
Thursday 7 October
AOIFE NIC ATHLAOICH, Cello
CLIODNA SHANAHAN, Piano
BEETHOVEN - Variations in E flat on Mozart's Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen
SCHUMANN - Fantasiestücke
FAURE - Sonata for cello and piano No.2
Aoife began her musical studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and went on to study at the Royal College of Music in London graduating with a first class honours degree in performance.
Cliodna Shanahan attended the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music. She holds the position of pianist in the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Future Firsts scheme and has formed a piano/cello duo with Aoife Nic Athlaoich.
Friday 8 October
RHODES PIANO TRIO
MICHAEL GUREVICH - Violin
DAVID EDMONDS - Cello
ROBERT THOMPSON - Piano
MOZART - Piano Trio in B flat K502
MENDELSSOHN - Piano Trio in D minor
The Rhodes Piano Trio was formed at the Royal Northern College of Music in September 2003 and went on to win the RNCM's major chamber msuic prizes. They have also won a coveted place on the Tunnell Trust Awards Scheme and were awarded the Elias Fawcett Award in the Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Awards Finals. The trio has also performed abroad in the United States, the Netherlands and Lithuania. The ensemble has received tuition on the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme with the Florestan Trio and was awarded a major scholarship to work with Andre Emelianoff at the Bowdon International Music Festival in the USA. The Rhodes Piano Trio is represented by the Young Concert Artists Trust.