29 April 2014
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Proms at St Jude’s Festival 2014 Piano Recitals
Proms at St Jude's is a community festival of music and culture taking place each June in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11. The 2014 season runs from 21-29 June. See details of the concerts likely to be of most interest to readers of <em>Pianist</em><br /> <strong>As a special promotional offer to readers of <em>Pianist</em>, a discount of £3 per ticket is available to the Llyr Williams and Barbican Piano Trio concerts on 24 and 25 June respectively. Enter code ‘pianist2014’ at the checkout when booking online.</strong><br /> ...
Proms at St Jude's is a community festival of music and culture taking place each June in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11. The 2014 season runs from 21-29 June. Details of the concerts likely to be of most interest to readers of Pianist are below
The venue
The church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Central Square, London NW11 7AH. This magnificent building is renowned for its acoustics and is considered to be one of Edwin Lutyens’s finest creations.
Website and box office
Tel: 020 3322 8123
As a special promotional offer to readers of Pianist, a discount of £3 per ticket is available to the Llyr Williams and Barbican Piano Trio concerts on 24 and 25 June respectively. Enter code ‘pianist2014’ at the checkout when booking online.
Monday 23 June
12.45pm ~ Cello and Piano Recital
Supported by the HGS Residents Association
Catherine Lee cello and Nadav Hertzka piano. Mendelssohn Song Without Words for Cello & Piano Op 109; Fauré Après un Rêve; Schumann Adagio & Allegro Op 70; Saint-Saëns The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals; Stravinsky Suite Italienne.
Catherine Lee, who studied the cello at the Purcell School and later in Basel and Stuttgart, is currently being mentored by the Trio Debussy at the Pinerolo Music Academy. She has given performances in Paris, Geneva and Turin as well as at the Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre.
Nadav Hertzka studied at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Wigmore Hall and the Shanghai Conservatoire.
Admission: Free
Tuesday 24 June
7.45pm ~ Llyr Williams Piano Recital
Haydn Piano Sonata in C major Hob XVI 50; Schubert Four Impromptus D899; Chopin Fantasie in F minor Op 49; Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.
Llyr Williams has worked with major orchestras around the world, appears at the BBC Proms in London and has given many remarkable performances at the Edinburgh Festival.
Highlights this season include recitals at the Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, St George’s Hall in Liverpool and three solo Beethoven programmes at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in the USA. This year he will also be performing complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycles at major UK venues and begin a three-season collaboration with the Elias Quartet. His recordings on the Signum Label include the 2010 solo CD of music by Mussorgsky, Debussy and Liszt and the 2012 disc devoted to Liszt. Also recently released is a live CD from the 2012 East Neuk Festival, the Fife festival where Llyr is a regular performer, containing Beethoven’s Op109 and Op110 sonatas, available at http://www.eastneukfestival.com/.
‘Williams combined virtuosic brilliance with his penetrating insight’ The Guardian
Tickets: £11 - £24
Wednesday 25 June
12.45pm ~ The Françoise-Green Piano Duo
Supported by the HGS Residents Association
Mozart C major sonata K451; Schubert Grand duo D812. Antoine Françoise pianist-composer and Robin Green pianist-conductor, both winners of the Royal College of Music contemporary piano prize, began their collaboration in 2008. They have since given performances at a number of European festivals and have been responsible for more than 30 world premières. Last year, they won the Royal Overseas League Competition for chamber music and are currently resident pianists for the conducting programme at the RCM.
Admission: Free
7.45pm ~ The Barbican Piano Trio and Friends
Supported by Godfrey & Barr
Barbican Piano Trio (Sophie Lockett violin, Robert Max cello, James Kirby, piano) and Friends (Beatrice Philips violin and James Boyd viola). Schubert Adagio and Rondo for Piano Quartet D487; Taneyev Quintet in G minor Op 30; Schumann Quintet in E flat Op 44.
In its 26 years, the Barbican Piano Trio has established a reputation with performances across four continents enhanced by broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and the World Service as well as on TV and radio in the USA and Europe.
Sophie Lockett joined the Trio in 2009 and enjoys a wide performing career which includes playing with the LSO and the Hallé and with McFly and Alison Moyet. Robert Max’s career combines solo performances, chamber music, conducting and teaching. He has performed concertos with the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Mozart Players, English Sinfonia and others.
James Kirby performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the UK and Europe. James studied at the Moscow Conservatoire and returns to perform in the former Soviet Union every year.
Beatrice Philips leads a number of ensembles and has given performances of concertos by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Sibelius, Bruch and Tchaikovsky with orchestras throughout the UK.
James Boyd, a member of some of the country’s foremost ensembles, formed the London Haydn Quartet whose recordings of Haydn have won critical acclaim. He also plays in the Ludwig String Trio and recorded the complete Beethoven trios in 2013.
Tickets: £11 - £24
Proms at St Jude’s background
Its founder is Susie Gregson MBE, who established Proms with others in 1993. Since then, we have provided entertainment for thousands of people and raised over £600,000 for charity.
It offer daily concerts with top national and international artists; free lunchtime music recitals; a LitFest weekend with best-selling authors; a series of Heritage Walks; a buzzing licensed refreshment marquee; and a LitFest café with delicious home-made cakes.
Almost everyone involved is a volunteer.
Proms at St Jude's gives all our surplus funds to charity. Three pounds in four go to the Aspire programme at Toynbee Hall help disadvantaged young people. The rest goes to the North London Hospice, which helps people in the London boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey to live with a potentially life-limiting illness.
The music programme is designed to cater for a wide range of tastes, and there are several piano recitals this year. Proms at St Jude's attracts world class artists and is proud to support rising talent in its lunchtime concerts.
Access is an important part of its credo, aiming to offer events available to all, regardless of age, financial means or health. Proms at St Jude's does its best to promote environmental responsibility. The festival brings together the community and attracts many visitors from other parts of the country and overseas.
The venue
The church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Central Square, London NW11 7AH. This magnificent building is renowned for its acoustics and is considered to be one of Edwin Lutyens’s finest creations.
Website and box office
Tel: 020 3322 8123
As a special promotional offer to readers of Pianist, a discount of £3 per ticket is available to the Llyr Williams and Barbican Piano Trio concerts on 24 and 25 June respectively. Enter code ‘pianist2014’ at the checkout when booking online.
Monday 23 June
12.45pm ~ Cello and Piano Recital
Supported by the HGS Residents Association
Catherine Lee cello and Nadav Hertzka piano. Mendelssohn Song Without Words for Cello & Piano Op 109; Fauré Après un Rêve; Schumann Adagio & Allegro Op 70; Saint-Saëns The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals; Stravinsky Suite Italienne.
Catherine Lee, who studied the cello at the Purcell School and later in Basel and Stuttgart, is currently being mentored by the Trio Debussy at the Pinerolo Music Academy. She has given performances in Paris, Geneva and Turin as well as at the Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre.
Nadav Hertzka studied at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Wigmore Hall and the Shanghai Conservatoire.
Admission: Free
Tuesday 24 June
7.45pm ~ Llyr Williams Piano Recital
Haydn Piano Sonata in C major Hob XVI 50; Schubert Four Impromptus D899; Chopin Fantasie in F minor Op 49; Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.
Llyr Williams has worked with major orchestras around the world, appears at the BBC Proms in London and has given many remarkable performances at the Edinburgh Festival.
Highlights this season include recitals at the Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, St George’s Hall in Liverpool and three solo Beethoven programmes at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in the USA. This year he will also be performing complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycles at major UK venues and begin a three-season collaboration with the Elias Quartet. His recordings on the Signum Label include the 2010 solo CD of music by Mussorgsky, Debussy and Liszt and the 2012 disc devoted to Liszt. Also recently released is a live CD from the 2012 East Neuk Festival, the Fife festival where Llyr is a regular performer, containing Beethoven’s Op109 and Op110 sonatas, available at http://www.eastneukfestival.com/.
‘Williams combined virtuosic brilliance with his penetrating insight’ The Guardian
Tickets: £11 - £24
Wednesday 25 June
12.45pm ~ The Françoise-Green Piano Duo
Supported by the HGS Residents Association
Mozart C major sonata K451; Schubert Grand duo D812. Antoine Françoise pianist-composer and Robin Green pianist-conductor, both winners of the Royal College of Music contemporary piano prize, began their collaboration in 2008. They have since given performances at a number of European festivals and have been responsible for more than 30 world premières. Last year, they won the Royal Overseas League Competition for chamber music and are currently resident pianists for the conducting programme at the RCM.
Admission: Free
7.45pm ~ The Barbican Piano Trio and Friends
Supported by Godfrey & Barr
Barbican Piano Trio (Sophie Lockett violin, Robert Max cello, James Kirby, piano) and Friends (Beatrice Philips violin and James Boyd viola). Schubert Adagio and Rondo for Piano Quartet D487; Taneyev Quintet in G minor Op 30; Schumann Quintet in E flat Op 44.
In its 26 years, the Barbican Piano Trio has established a reputation with performances across four continents enhanced by broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and the World Service as well as on TV and radio in the USA and Europe.
Sophie Lockett joined the Trio in 2009 and enjoys a wide performing career which includes playing with the LSO and the Hallé and with McFly and Alison Moyet. Robert Max’s career combines solo performances, chamber music, conducting and teaching. He has performed concertos with the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Mozart Players, English Sinfonia and others.
James Kirby performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the UK and Europe. James studied at the Moscow Conservatoire and returns to perform in the former Soviet Union every year.
Beatrice Philips leads a number of ensembles and has given performances of concertos by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Sibelius, Bruch and Tchaikovsky with orchestras throughout the UK.
James Boyd, a member of some of the country’s foremost ensembles, formed the London Haydn Quartet whose recordings of Haydn have won critical acclaim. He also plays in the Ludwig String Trio and recorded the complete Beethoven trios in 2013.
Tickets: £11 - £24
Proms at St Jude’s background
Its founder is Susie Gregson MBE, who established Proms with others in 1993. Since then, we have provided entertainment for thousands of people and raised over £600,000 for charity.
It offer daily concerts with top national and international artists; free lunchtime music recitals; a LitFest weekend with best-selling authors; a series of Heritage Walks; a buzzing licensed refreshment marquee; and a LitFest café with delicious home-made cakes.
Almost everyone involved is a volunteer.
Proms at St Jude's gives all our surplus funds to charity. Three pounds in four go to the Aspire programme at Toynbee Hall help disadvantaged young people. The rest goes to the North London Hospice, which helps people in the London boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey to live with a potentially life-limiting illness.
The music programme is designed to cater for a wide range of tastes, and there are several piano recitals this year. Proms at St Jude's attracts world class artists and is proud to support rising talent in its lunchtime concerts.
Access is an important part of its credo, aiming to offer events available to all, regardless of age, financial means or health. Proms at St Jude's does its best to promote environmental responsibility. The festival brings together the community and attracts many visitors from other parts of the country and overseas.
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