Concert Details
| Title: | Lunchtime Concert St Leonard's Church Seaford. Brighton Chamber Ensemble, Clarinet, Cello and Piano |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 24 October 2015, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Zoe Davies Clarinet Siriol Hugh-Jones Cello Steve Carroll-Turner Piano Brighton Chamber Ensemble was formed in 2011 by a group of friends who had originally met some years earlier as members of the Dartington Festival Orchestra. While they regularly played in other quartets and trios they were seeking an outlet for performing larger works of chamber music. With the addition of Steve Carroll-Turner on piano the ensemble now regularly performs in and around Brighton and elsewhere in East Sussex. Zoe Davies (clarinet) makes her first appearance with Brighton Chamber Ensemble at Seaford on 24 October. Zoe gained her undergraduate music degree at the University of Leeds, following which she completed two postgraduate courses, one at Birmingham Conservatoire (MA in music performance) and the Royal College of Music (PGDip orchestral musician). She won the Sullivan and Farrar prize for best performance of a new composition whilst at the RCM. She lives in Brighton where she plays principal clarinet with Sussex Symphony Orchestra, and has also played locally with contemporary ensemble Talkestra, Musicians of All Saints and Southern Winds. Zoe is a committed teacher, offering lessons in saxophone and piano as well as clarinet. She is a visiting instrumental teacher at two schools and also runs a private practice from home. PROGRAMME Paul Juon (1872 – 1940) Trio-Miniatures 1. Rêverie 2. Humoresque 3. Elegie 4. Danse phantastique Born in Moscow of Swiss parents, Paul Juon spent most of his adult life in Germany. He became a professor at the Berlin Music Academy in 1911, a post he held until 1934 when he retired for health reasons and moved to Switzerland. Despite spending most of his career outside Russia, his music is heavily influenced by the folk idioms he would have heard in the Russia of his childhood. His sense of form, melodic talent and rhythmical experimentation all contributed to the success his music enjoyed, particularly during the 1920s. It is even said that Rachmaninov referred to him as the “Russian Brahms”. The “Miniatures” date from around 1910 and are considerably lighter than much of his work. Alexander Glazunov (1865 – 1936) Arrangement for cello and piano of Chopin Etude Opus 25 No.7 Glazunov was a late Romantic Russian composer who served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued to head the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. The best known student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitry Shostakovich. Along with his many operas and symphonies he composed a number of works for cello including a concerto, sonata, the “Chant du Ménéstrel” and an “Elegie” dedicated to Franz Liszt. Ludwig can Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Clarinet trio in B flat major, Opus 11 Allegro con brio – Adagio – Tema con Variazioni Nicknamed the “Gassenhauertrio”, “Gassenhauer” being an old-fashioned German word for a popular tune, the trio is particularly notable for the way Beethoven takes a fairly mediocre theme from Joseph Waigl’s opera “The Corsair” of 1797 (the same year as the trio was written) and completely transforms it. Years later he would do the same in his “Diabelli” Variations Opus 120. |
| Tickets: | Free Admission with a retiring Collection. Concert lasts approximately an hour. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
