Concert Details
| Title: | St Leonard's Church Seaford Lunchtime Concert, Noelle Casella(Cello) Sebastian Grand(Piano) |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 13 April 2013, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Noelle Casella, an American born cellist, has been praised for her “wonderful, rich tone”, her “particularly expressive and finely nuanced playing”, and diversified performance platforms spanning the classical world to pop, rock, and modern dance collaborations. Ms. Casella has recently completed her Masters degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London under the tutelage of Lionel Handy where she also received the LRAM Teaching Diploma with distinction. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in New York where she was a student of Chris Finckel and Judith Davidoff (viola da gamba) as well as having spent a year of her undergraduate career studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with cellist Doris Hochscheid. Noelle has performed with such ensembles as the Royal Academy of Music’s Symphony and Concert Orchestras, Guernsey Sinfonietta, Rehearsal Orchestra, London Arts Orchestra, CUNY New Music Ensemble in New York City, the New York Youth Symphony, the New York Consort of Viols, and the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. Ms. Casella has played under the batons of David Zinman, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Leif Segerstram, Ryan McAdams, and Louis Scaglione. Most recently, Ms. Casella was a Royal Overseas League Competition Semi-Finalist with the Tribulus Oboe Quartet for both 2012 and 2011 and was commended in the Harold Craxton Prize at the Royal Academy of Music in 2012 with her ensemble, the D’Avanzo Piano Trio. Recent collaborations include a UK premiere of solo cello work Intimation by Australian composer David Holyoake at the Royal Academy of Music as well as cello soloist for Scottish Daily Mail Edinburgh Festival Fringe Drama Award 2012 winning new musical The Picture House. Noelle is also actively involved in work with choreographers, dancers and has performed and recorded a piece performed at both the Mikhail Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City and at the Fringe Festival to reviews that praised, “my favourite of the entire showcase . . . this group has created true magic” (www.edfestmag.co.uk). Ms. Casella has performed the Elgar Cello Concerto as a competition winner at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and is currently collaborating with New York based photographer Don Freeman on a soundtrack for a documentary entitled, Living Art, sought after by the Sundance Channel and to be presented at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City. Sebastian Grand has already earned remarkable acclaim as a pianist and conductor. Raised in Guernsey, Seb is a First-class graduate of the Joint Course between the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and recently received a Masters with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London. A prizewinner at each institution, Seb’s notable awards include winning three Hargreaves Prizes and the Procter-Gregg Prize at the University, the Piano Duo Prize and the Clifton Helliwell Memorial Prize at the RNCM and the Dorothy Bryant Award at the Academy. He was also commended in the Christian Carpenter Piano Recital Prize and the Harold Craxton Piano Trio Prize whilst at the Academy and was a prizewinner at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in 2010. His formative years were spent learning with Mervyn Grand, and were followed by studies with Ian Fountain, Paul Janes and Vanessa Latarche. The Concert lasts approximately and hour, has free admission with a retiring collection. |
| Tickets: | Admission free with a retiring collection |
| Contact: | John Baker |
