Concert Details
| Title: | St Leonard's Church Seaford Lunchtime Concert given by James Shenton Violin & Ellie Blackshaw Viola |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 15 June 2013, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | James Shenton was born in Leicester, England in 1954 and studied violin, piano & composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, winning the Gold Medal there in 1976. After working as a freelance musician in London for a number of years with the likes of the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta and Ballet Rambert he became disillusioned with contemporary classical music. and drifted towards folk music, learning the tin whistle, bodhran and mandolin along the way. However, a call from Alexander Balanescu changed all that and inspired by his music and with his encouragement began to compose again, throwing off the shackles of atonality and incorporating his love of folk music into a new and unique style. Ellie Blackshaw had a formal musical training at the Royal College of Music in the ‘80s, Ellie has built up a considerable musical life for herself in and around Sussex. She is in demand as a chamber musician and plays violin and viola in several ensembles. Some of her most recent memorable musical experiences have been performing Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (on both violin and viola), being soloist in Mozart Violin Concertos 3,4 and 5 and the Sinfonia Concertante (either violin or viola part). In 2009 she was soloist in Kurt Weill’s Concerto for Wind Orchestra and Solo Violin. She does her bit to promote new music and performs each Autumn in London for the London New Wind Festival as guest violinist and locally for the “Tacet Ensemble”. Her quartet undertook a concert in 2006 performing eight new quartets in one concert for New Music Brighton. Solo and chamber pieces have been dedicated to her by Michael Finnissey, Dudley Hyams and Patrick Harrex. She also has a full teaching practice. They will be performing music by Mozart, Leclair, Wieniawski and Shenton. The concert lasts approximately and hour, has free admission with a retiring collection. |
| Tickets: | Admission free with a retiring collection |
| Contact: | John Baker |
