Concert Details
| Title: | Lunchtime Concert St Leonard's Church Seaford. Anne Marshall - Piano. Niall O’Riordan - Flute |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 22 August 2015, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | South African born pianist Anne Marshall has established herself as a leading accompanist based in London. Anne is a regular accompanist for Sir James Galway and often appears in concert with him, including the Sherborne Abbey Festival and the Slovenian Flute Festival, both in May 2014, Koerner Hall, Toronto in October 2014 and St John Smith Square London as part of the Gramophone Magazine Awards Ceremony in September 2014. Anne is the principal accompanist at the Galway Flute Conventions in Atlanta, USA and Weggis, Switzerland and a regular accompanist for various other flute festivals, including Whole Musician London. Anne has accompanied many distinguished artists in concert, including Samuel Coles - principal of the London Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorna McGhee - principal of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Hoskuldsson - principal of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra New York, Joanna Westers - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Julie Stewart-Lafin and Marina Piccinini. Recent broadcasts include accompanying Sir James Galway in February 2014 and August 2012 live on the BBC Radio 3 program “In Tune”, and appearing on Summit TV, South Africa, in April 2011. The concert in Slovenia with Sir James Galway was broadcast on Slovenian National Radio and the concert in Toronto was broadcast live on Classic 96FM. Anne has a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal College of Music in Advanced Performance, with accompaniment as principal study, where her teachers were Andrew Ball and Roger Vignoles. She was a recipient of an Associated Board Scholarship, and received bursaries from both the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and the Apollo Music Trust going on to become an Accompanist Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music, supported by the Anthony Saltmarsh Trust. Previous studies include a Masters degree in performing arts from Pretoria University, studying under Professor Joseph Stanford. Anne obtained licentiates from the University of South Africa (UNISA) in chamber music and in performance as well as winning the SAMRO/UNISA/Brenda Rein Overseas Music Scholarship (chamber music). As a solo pianist, Anne has performed with a number of international orchestras including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, the Youth Festival Orchestra of the Czech Republic, and the Orchestra of the University of Pretoria. Niall O’Riordan described by critics as, ’dazzling’, ‘tonally ravishing and technically flawless’ (British Flute Society) Irish flutist Niall O’Riordan enjoys an international career as soloist and teacher. In 2014 he was awarded the rising star award by Sir James Galway at the Galway International Flute Festival, Weggis, Switzerland, where he was presented with a 14K gold headjoint by Nagahara Flutes Boston. As a soloist Niall has appeared at the First Canadian Flute Convention (2013) and the British Flute Society Convention (2014) and performs regularly in Europe and with duo partner Anne Marshall. He is a co-founder of Whole Musician, a collective of five international flutists offering unparalleled holistic retreats. In 2014 they held retreats at Big Bear Lake California, and Notting Hill London. Niall is an experienced and passionate teacher, and holds advanced qualifications in flute pedagogy from Lund University, Sweden, where he was later visiting lecturer. He has also taught at University College, Cork, and the Cork School of Music, assisted at the Oxford Flute Summer School (2006-2010), and gave workshops at William Bennett’s Summer School (2011). Niall is a certified Feldenkrais Method awareness through movement teacher and uses the method to help musicians reach their potential by learning about their functioning and how to act efficiently. He has taught Feldenkrais classes at the Galway International Flute Festival since 2013. He is internationally recognised for his completely holistic approach to flute playing and teaching drawing inspiration from yoga, psychology, voice work, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), metaphysics and visualization. He has given workshops at the last four British Flute society Conventions on his pioneering style. Niall O’Riordan was awarded his MA and BMus from Cork School of Music, Ireland, where he received consecutive scholarships to study with Evelyn Grant and Sabine Ducrot. Since 2011, Niall has been mentored by Sir James Galway in Switzerland. He writes regularly for PAN magazine, the Journal of the British Flute Society. Plans for later this year include performing the San Francisco International flute festival and in 2015 performing at the Adams Flute Festival, Netherlands, performing and presenting at the second Canadian Flute Convention, Toronto and appearing as soloist at the Galway Flute festival, Weggis, Switzerland. |
| Tickets: | Free Admission with a retiring Collection. Concert lasts approximately an hour. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
