The Young Musicians (piano, trombone, violin) 24th & 25th June 2011
Don’t miss this remarkable opportunity to hear these three brilliant young prize winning prodigies shine in an evening of dazzling musical fireworks.
No se pierdan esta oportunidad única para escuchar a estos tres brillantes y galardonados jóvenes talentos, en una noche de fuegos artificiales musicales.
Verpassen Sie nicht diese einmalige Gelegenheit, diese drei bemerkenswerten, brillianten und preisgekrönten Wunderkinder zu hören, die den Abend zu einem glänzendem msikalischem Feuerwerk machen.
24th June 2011, Bodega Stratvs. |
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| Bodegas Stratvs |
Ctra. La Geria - Uga km.18 |
| Concert starts 19:30, ticket price 30€ includes wine & cheese tasting (collect tickets by latest 19:15) | |
| FRANK MARTIN | Ballade |
| MICHAEL NYMAN | “If” from the film score of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ |
| KAZIMIERZ SEROCKI | Sonatina |
| Allegro, Andante molto sostenuto, Allegro vivace | |
| HENRI DUTILLEUX; | Choral, Cadence et Fugato |
| STJEPAN SULEK | Sonata (Vox Gabrieli) |
| ARTHUR PRYOR | La Petite Suzanne |
| Performed by Peter Moore – trombone and Nicholas Oliver – piano | |
| INTERVAL | |
| CHOPIN | Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise - Brilliante |
| Performed by Yuanfan Yang – piano | |
| BRAHMS | Sonata in D minor op.108 - 1st movement: Allegro |
| BRAHMS TRANSCRIBED HEIFITZ | Contemplation |
| WIENIAWSKI | Variations on an original theme op. 15 |
| Performed by Callum Smart – violin and Nicholas Oliver - piano | |
25th June 2011, Camel House Concerts. |
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| Camel House Concerts |
Camel House Concerts |
| Concert starts 19:30, ticket price 25€ includes an aperitif (collect tickets by latest 19:15 | |
| BEETHOVEN | Sonata in D minor op.31 no. 2 “Tempest” 1st movement: Largo – Allegro |
| DEBUSSY | Images book 1 - Reflets dans L’eau, Hommage a Rameau, Mouvement |
| SCHUMANN | Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival from Vienna) |
| Performed by Yuanfan Yang – piano | |
| INTERVAL | |
| BEETHOVEN | Sonata in F op 24 “Spring” 1st movement: Allegro. 4th movement: Rondo - Allegro ma non troppo |
| WIENIAWSKI | Variations on an original theme op.15 |
| Performed by Callum Smart – violin and Nicholas Oliver – piano | |
| EUGENE BOZZA | Ballade op.62 |
| JAN SANDSTROM | Christian Song |
| ARTHUR PRYOR | La Petite Suzanne |
| Performed by Peter Moore – trombone and Nicholas Oliver – piano | |
All the artists appearing are from Chetham's School of Music - for more information visit http://www.chethams.com/
Yuanfan Yang (piano)
Born in Edinburgh in 1997 before moving to Leeds, Yuanfan Yang began playing the piano aged 6 and went on to pass Grade 8 with distinction at the age of 8, after which he gained the DipABRSM diploma aged 10. Yuanfan currently studies with Murray McLachlan at Chetham’s School of Music.
Yuanfan has won first prizes in a number of competitions. In December 2010 after performing Chopin’s E minor concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in Manchester he was awarded the first prize of £4,000 in the under 19 category of the James Mottram International Piano Competition. In addition Yuanfan was awarded first prizes in the 2009 Manchester International Piano Competition for Young Pianists (age 16 and under category), 2009 Chetham’s Yamaha Piano Competition and the 2009 Ryszard Bakst Chopin Prize (junior division). As the youngest of all finalists in the 2010 BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, his performances earned him the Walter Todds Bursary. 2010 also saw Yuanfan winning both his category prize and the sole overall prize of the EPTA UK Piano Competition.
Recent engagements have included the Chopin E minor Concerto with the Manchester Camerata in 2009, lauded as a “splendid performance” by Music Web International. In 2008, Yuanfan played in the BBC Radio 3 Pianothon, broadcast in ‘Performance on Three’.
Yuanfan is also a prolific composer – his Fantasy in G was broadcast on BBC Two and his arrangement of ‘Scarborough Fair’ was premiered in the Keyboard Final of the 2010 BBC Young Musician Competition. His own piano concerto in E flat minor was first performed at the Composers’ Concert of Chetham’s in June 2010, which was hailed warmly by the audience.
Callum Smart (violin)
Concerto Finalist BBC Young Musicians Competition 2010 and prize-winner in the 2010 Yehudi Menuhin Competition in Oslo
Callum Smart, aged 14, lives with his family in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He began his violin studies at the age of six and was a pupil at the Royal Junior College of Music, London. At the age of nine he entered the Yehudi Menuhin School where he joined the class of Maciej Rakowsi. During this time he performed recitals and concerts in the Menuhin Hall, Dorking and Cobham, including the Delius Festival with Tasmin Little in Bradford and the Bach Double Violin Concerto with the National Children’s Orchestra in the Anvil, Basingstoke.
Over the last three years Callum has been a student at Chetham’s School of Music, where he continues his studies with Maciej Rakowski. His concerto work has included appearances as soloist with the Chetham’s String Orchestra, the Charnwood, Liverpool Mozart and Warwickshire Symphony Orchestras and a performance of the Vieuxtemps Concerto No.5 at the Valdres Festival in Norway. He has given numerous recitals around the UK including the International Lake District Summer Music Festival and Leeds International Concert Series.
In April 2010 Callum was a prize-winner in the 2010 Menuhin Competition in Oslo. He immediately went on to win the string section and to be selected as one of three concerto finalists in the BBC Young Musicians Competition. In the finals he performed Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Vasily Petrenko at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff broadcast on BBC 2 and Radio 3. He also performed in the Oslo Conservatory of Music with an orchestra from the Norwegian Academy of Music and with the Barratt-Due Music Institute conducted by Per Kristian Skalstad.
2010 also saw Callum give a series of recitals with Gordon Back including a Radio 3 broadcast from Carreglwyd, a concert at the Cheltenham Festival, and an appearance as a concerto soloist at Cadogan Hall and Queen Elisabeth Hall with the National Children’s Orchestra. In December Callum returned to Cardiff to perform the Glazunov Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Grant Llewelyn broadcast live by BBC Radio 3. He also performed with the orchestra as a soloist in their series of Christmas concerts around Wales. Future plans include recitals in the New Year Music Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland, the Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, and concertos with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra.
Callum has taken part in master classes with Andras Keller, Piotr Janowski, Alf-Richard Kraggerud, Stephan Barrat-Due, Almita Vamos, Peter Zazovfsky, and Gordon Back. He is passionate about chamber music and is a member of a string quartet with whom he has had coaching from Levon Chillingirian, Simon Rowland-Jones, The Carducci Quartet, Andras Keller, Christoph Richter, Johannes Meissl, Thomas Riebl, Marc Johnson, and Pavel Fischer. They have given performances in the London String Symposium at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern Chamber Music Festival, the 2009 Greenwich International String Quartet Festival, and the North Norfolk Music Festival.
Callum plays on a Carlo Bergonzi violin that has been generously loaned by J&A Beare
Peter Moore (trombone)
Since becoming the youngest ever BBC Young Musician of the Year in May 2008, Peter Moore has appeared in many prestigious events. He performed a specially arranged solo by the eminent composer Michael Nyman at the Cadogan Hall in London, accompanied by the composer himself at the piano. He also featured in the London Olympic Handover Concert and Proms in the Park from Belfast. In October 2008 Peter made his much-acclaimed Wigmore Hall debut and returned to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to perform the Tomasi concerto. He has performed recitals at London’s Conway Hall, St. George’s, Bristol, Leeds College of Music and Guildford Guildhall in addition to concertos and recitals at many music festivals and societies, including the Newbury International Festival.
In March 2009 Peter was invited to perform at the European trombone Festival ‘The Slide Factory’ in Rotterdam where he featured as soloist in two concerts, and in April 2009 he took part in a special performance to members of the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace.
He featured as a soloist in the Manchester Festival in July 2009, performing an unaccompanied Bach cello suite on his trombone. July and August 2009 saw Peter undertake a five week tour of Australia where he featured as soloist with orchestras and brass bands, performed solo recitals with piano accompaniment, and also led many workshops and schools concerts. In March 2010 Peter made his debut CD recording for Chandos records - the premiere recording of Edward Gregson’s Trombone Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
In August 2010 he featured in two concerts during the internationally acclaimed Rheingau Festival, performing concertos by Nino Rota and Lars Eric Larsson, and in October 2010 performed the Buxton Orr Concerto as part of the Royal Northern College of Music Festival of Wind and Percussion.
Future engagements include a performance of the Gregson Concerto in February 2011 to launch the release of the CD with Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra and trips to Poland and Germany to perform with the Polish Chamber Orchestra.
Peter was awarded the DipABRSM with distinction in March 2009. He is also an accomplished pianist and achieved a score of 144 in his Grade 8 piano in 2008.
Peter is in receipt of a scholarship from Yamaha Musical Instruments and plays a Yamaha Xeno trombone.
Nicholas Oliver (piano)
Nicholas Oliver was born in London. He spent four years at the Purcell School for young musicians before gaining a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Jean Anderson. Postgraduate studies continued at the Royal Northern College of Music with Marjorie Clementi, Martin Roscoe and Ka Kit Tam. He won several prizes at both colleges for solo and chamber music performances including the R.A.M.’s Elsie Cross prize for performance of twentieth century piano music and the Christian Carpenter award for piano accompaniment.
He won the Young Pianist of the Year Award in 1984 and second prize at the 1991 Dudley International Piano Competition, since when he has been enjoying a successful and varied performing career.
He is particularly active in the field of chamber music and is a member of several different ensembles. He has given numerous recitals with instrumentalists and singers for music societies and festivals throughout the UK, has appeared several times at London’s South Bank and at most of Britain’s major concert halls. A performance of the Elgar Sonata for violin and piano in a Purcell Room recital was acclaimed in the “Strad” magazine for its “whimsical playing, powerful, serene and grand with immaculate ensemble and balance”. He and cellist Richard May were prize-winners in the inaugural EMI Jacqueline Du Pre competition for cello and piano duos. Following one of their many recitals, a critic for “The Times” wrote of the Shostakovich Sonata “simply one of the most gripping performances I have heard”.
Nicholas has undertaken concert tours in many European countries and has also performed in the Americas, Australia, Africa and Asia. He has broadcast frequently on radio and released several recordings.
In addition to his performing career, Nicholas is much in demand as a tutor and coach on music courses and festivals; is an experienced adjudicator and undertakes examining work for the Associated Board. He has taught piano and ensembles at the Junior School of the R.N.C.M. where he was also on the accompaniment staff at the senior college. He is currently joint head of piano accompaniment at Chethams School of Music in Manchester.
Nicholas was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 1997 and was elected to the Royal Society of Musicians in 2000.
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