Concert Details
| Title: | Lunchtime Concert St Leonard's Church Seaford Noelle Casella, ViolonCello & Sebastian Grand, Piano |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 31 May 2014, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Noelle Casella-Grand, 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. Alongside her classical performances, Noelle is an active teacher of cello to young students both privately and at festivals. Noelle has taught chamber music instruction, music theory, and private lessons at both the Laurentian Summer Music Festival run by the Laurentian String Quartet in New York and the Strings International Music Festival in Philadelphia. Ms. Casella can also be heard on a number of albums of pop artists both in the United States and in the UK and has been described by musician Peter Joseph of Peter Joseph and the Roaring Twenties as “simply the best musician he has ever worked with” (www.54mag.com). Noelle enjoys an active recording and performing career for many bands in London, New York City and Philadelphia. A recent review of an album inclusive of her cello playing raved about Ms. Casella’s playing praises: “Casella’s du Pre worthy cello lines”. (www.PhiladelphiaAtHome.com). © 2012 Noelle Casella www.noelle-casella.com 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. www.sebastiangrand.com They will be performing: Beau Soir by Claude Debussy arrangement by Aleksadr Grechaninov. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 and Aleksandr Glazunov Chant du Ménestrel Op. 71. |
| Tickets: | Admission free with a retiring collection, concert lasts approximately an hour. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
