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| Saturday, October 9th 2010 |  |
| Trinity Methodist Church, price: £15.00 |
| CORDELIA WILLIAMS (PIANO) |
Programme |
| Beethoven : Six Bagatelles op. 126 | | Schumann : Fantasie in C op. 17 | | Ravel : Gaspard de la Nuit | | Chopin : Two Waltzes (op. posthumous) | | Chopin : Fantaisie in F minor op. 49 |
Hearing her mother teach piano, Cordelia wanted to learn to play too, and began lessons at home as soon as she could climb onto the piano stool. She gave her first public piano recital to celebrate her eighth birthday. Since then, she has given many recitals in Great Britain, France and Italy, and always enjoys introducing the music to the audience.
Cordelia spent seven years at Chethams School of Music in Manchester, studying with our president, Bernard Roberts. She went on to read Theology at Clare College, Cambridge, while also having piano lessons with Hamish Milne in London. She graduated with a First this summer and now studies as a postgraduate with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is fortunate to have received an Ian Fleming Award, administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, to assist her in her studies, and is also supported by the City of London Corporation.
Cordelia regularly gives concerto and recital performances throughout Britain. Highlights have included a Wigmore Hall debut in 2006; in the same year she made her first foreign tour in the Gulf States, with concerts and workshops in Oman, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. She has given recitals at Turner Sims Hall, Southampton, at St. George’s, Bristol, and at the Guiting Festival, and appeared at the Thaxted Festival playing Beethoven’s 3rd Concerto with the City of London Sinfonia. Her ‘BBC Young Musician 2006 Final’ performance of Saint-Saens 2nd Concerto with The Northern Sinfonia under Yan Pascal Tortelier led to an invitation from the orchestra to return in 2008 for Shostakovich’s 1st Concerto with conductor Thomas Zehetmair.
Cordelia is also a passionate chamber musician – she held an Instrumental Award for Chamber Music throughout her time at Cambridge and is now enjoying getting to know the piano quartet repertoire and the song cycles of Schubert. In May 2008 she appeared with the Endellion String Quartet to play Brahms’ Piano Quintet and will give future chamber performances with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet and the London Mozart Players.
Cordelia is interested in working with contemporary composers and has commissioned three new piano pieces by the Australian composer Wendy Hiscocks. The 2001 world premiere of the third piece, Tarantella, was recorded by Naim Audio and released on CD, along with her performances of Bach and Debussy at the same concert. She also recently commissioned Oxford composer Hugh Brunt to write for her. She premiered his ‘Absentia’ in a BBC television broadcast performance at The Sage, Gateshead. ‘Sphere’ was premiered at her London debut at the Wigmore Hall in September 2006, and a third piece, ‘Fracture’ was first performed this spring.
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