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| Saturday, January 22nd 2011 |  |
| Trinity Methodist Church at 7:30pm, price: £15.00 |
| EMANUEL ENSEMBLE |
Soloists |
| Anna Stokes : Flute | | Andrew Joyce : Cello | | Simon Callaghan : Piano |
Programme |
| Farrenc : Trio Op.45 | | Schumann : 5 Stücke im Volkston Op.102 (cello & piano) | | Sterndale Bennett : Scherzo from Sonata in F minor Op.13 (solo piano) | | Gaubert : Pièce Romantique (trio) | | Chaminade : Concertino (flute & piano) | | Kapustin : Trio Op.86 |
Anna Stokes RCM BMus (hons) is an orchestral, chamber and solo player. She has performed in recitals with the Emanuel Ensemble (which she founded in 2001) at the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Conway Hall, Leeds International Festival, Schubert Society of Britain, Villa D’este–Lake Como and numerous UK Concert Societies. The Emanuel Ensemble have also performed in the presence of HRH Prince Charles and Princess Alexandra. In 2006, they were featured on the sound track of the film “In A Day”.
As a soloist, she has given performances for the Qatar Foundation Concert Series–Doha, Beethovenhaus–Bonn, Cheltenham International Festival, UK concert societies and performed concertos/solo works by J. S. Bach, Chaminade, Mozart, Quantz, Reinecke and Rouse. In 2006-2008, she was selected to participate in the Sir James Galway International Masterclass and in the 2007 masterclass won a gold Nagahara headjoint for "Best Class Performer" by popular vote. Anna recently recorded solo works by the composer Tasoulla Christou and performed on the recording of Ben Woolf’s Cello Concerto “Etz Chayim”.
She freelances in orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Brandenburg Sinfonia, London Concert Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Janácek Philharmonic and Orpheus Sinfonia amongst others. Recent awards include the Marc Rich Scholarship for Artistic Achievement 2008, Haynes International Flute Competition 2007 Prize Winner-USA, LPO “Future Firsts” Place 2006-2007 and Solti Foundation Award. Other awards include Foundation for Sport and the Arts, EMI Sound Foundation and RCM Wilfred Brown Duo Prize. Anna has also given workshops in the UK, Hong Kong and Qatar.
Anna began studying the flute with Athanasios Kalimeris. She was then awarded a scholarship to the Purcell School of Music where she studied with Anna Pope for five years before being awarded a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music. Whilst at the RCM, she studied flute with Susan Milan and Stewart McLlwham and graduated in 2004 with First Class Honours, later studying privately with Celia Chambers and Paul Edmund Davies. She has also received coaching from an array of flautists including Susan Thomas, Kenneth Smith, the late Sebastian Bell and composers Edwin Roxburgh, Nicholas Maw and the late Jindrich Feld.
Anna plays on a Brannen Cooper flute that was awarded to her by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts.
British pianist Simon Callaghan is in much demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. His intelligent and compelling performances both on the concert platform and in the recording studio are earning him a reputation as an exciting and versatile young artist. Recent performances include a chamber music tour of South Korea, a début with the RLPO, a gala concert with ENO principals and appearances on ITV and BBC Television. He has also broadcast on BBC Radio.
Simon Callaghan is equally at home performing the mainstream repertoire as in lesser-known pieces, frequently presenting works by Sterndale Bennett, Parry and Kapustin among others, in his recital programmes.
Following his studies at Chetham’s School of Music with Bernard Roberts, Simon was awarded a full scholarship to study with Yonty Solomon at the Royal College of Music, from where he graduated with first class honours and won numerous prizes. He has also taken awards at the Bromsgrove International Competition, Jean Françaix Concours (Paris) and the Liverpool Young Musician of the Year and is grateful to the Craxton Memorial Trust and several anonymous benefactors for their continued support.
Engagements for the 2009/10 season include collaborations with the ‘cellist Tim Hugh, the Carducci Quartet and the actor Timothy West, a début at Birmingham Symphony Hall (playing Rachmaninov’s Concerto No.2), as well as concertos by Bach, Chopin, Grieg, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev and solo and chamber recitals throughout the UK.
Born in Norwich, Andrew Joyce pursued his musical studies at the Purcell School of Music with Amanda Truelove and Michal Kaznowski, the Royal College of Music with Alexander Boyarsky, where he won several prizes and was Principal Cellist of all the major ensembles and at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Troels Svane, as a holder of the coveted DAAD Scholarship. He has played in masterclasses with Alexander Baillie, David Geringas, Bernard Greenhouse, Alexander Rudin, Karine Georgian, Natalia Gutman, Leonid Gorokhov, the Kopelman Quartet, the Takacs Quartet and Gordan Nikolitch, who continues to be a source of inspiration in his artistic development.
In 2002 Andrew was invited to perform in Oviedo, Spain with Raine Sonne, Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic and Igor Sulyga, viola player of the Kopelman Quartet. Other concerts of note include a chamber music tour of Costa Rica and the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas with pianist Simon Watterton.
Andrew has performed all over the world with the London Symphony, London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras and also enjoys a busy career as both soloist and chamber musician, performing regularly with pianist Simon Watterton, the Jigsaw Players, an exciting and versatile group of musicians based in London and the Emanuel Ensemble.
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