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Sponsor:
2017 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
from Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott BWV 127 (1725) Lord Jesus Christ, true Man, and God arr André Papillon (b1960) for oboe and piano 3 Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Sonate pour hautbois et piano en ré majeur, Op 166 1 Andantino 2 Ad libitum - Allegretto - Ad libitum 3 Molto Allegro Gilles Silvestrini (b1961) Horae Volubiles for solo oboe (2006) Hamish Brown (b1993) Our Love Is Here To Stay world premiere performance |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Amy Roberts
Amy Roberts is a young oboist with a rich and varied career. She freelances all over the UK and recently played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Last academic year saw her join the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Foyles Future Firsts and she performed with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra on their 2016 Summer Tour including a BBC Prom. Future highlights include recitals in the Three Choirs Festival, Malcolm Arnold's Concertino with the Janus Ensemble in the autumn and a tour of George Benjamin's opera Written on Skin to Russia with Melos Sinfonia.
Amy recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music where she received a 1st Class MA with Chris Cowie, Melanie Ragge and Ian Hardwick. Previously she studied on the prestigious Joint Course between the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester studying oboe with Jonathan Small and baroque oboe with Tony Robson. She received a 1st from both institutions and won the 2015 RNCM Concerto Competition resulting in a performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds with the RNCM Chamber Orchestra. At the Academy she has won the Evelyn Rothwell Oboe Prize and the Janet Craxton Memorial Prize, and was a finalist for the Academy Patron's Award in a duo with Abigail Sin.
She is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and baroque oboist having recently recorded the solo oboe part in Villa Lobos' Concerto Grosso with RNCM Wind Orchestra (Chandos Records) and performing as a resident ensemble in the Wigmore Hall Chamber Tots series with her quintet Moriarty Winds. They have performed across the UK in a variety of concert and educational contexts and will be CAVATINA Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music this September.
Amy's studies have been supported by the Drapers’ Company, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Philharmonia MMSF Award, the Dorothy Grinstead Memorial Fund and the Charlotte Fraser Award.
Amy recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music where she received a 1st Class MA with Chris Cowie, Melanie Ragge and Ian Hardwick. Previously she studied on the prestigious Joint Course between the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester studying oboe with Jonathan Small and baroque oboe with Tony Robson. She received a 1st from both institutions and won the 2015 RNCM Concerto Competition resulting in a performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds with the RNCM Chamber Orchestra. At the Academy she has won the Evelyn Rothwell Oboe Prize and the Janet Craxton Memorial Prize, and was a finalist for the Academy Patron's Award in a duo with Abigail Sin.
She is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and baroque oboist having recently recorded the solo oboe part in Villa Lobos' Concerto Grosso with RNCM Wind Orchestra (Chandos Records) and performing as a resident ensemble in the Wigmore Hall Chamber Tots series with her quintet Moriarty Winds. They have performed across the UK in a variety of concert and educational contexts and will be CAVATINA Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music this September.
Amy's studies have been supported by the Drapers’ Company, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Philharmonia MMSF Award, the Dorothy Grinstead Memorial Fund and the Charlotte Fraser Award.
Oliver Till
Oliver Till is a conductor and repetiteur praised by The Times for 'ambitious, intelligent programming'. His musical life started as a chorister at Westminster Cathedral. Having studied composition and piano at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, Ollie gained his bachelor's at the University of Manchester and received further training at Dartington, RNCM and the Järvi Academy, Estonia.
He has conducted Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni for St Paul's Opera, Clapham, and regularly accompanies recitals, recordings, choral workshops and assists other operatic productions. Ollie is Musical Director of the Asyla Ensemble, Queens Park Singers and Trinity Hospice Community Choir. He has also conducted the London Sinfonietta Academy, Dartington Festival Orchestra, Nottingham Philharmonic, the Baltic Academy Orchestra, Vaganza Ensemble, St Bartholomew's Orchestra and St Albans Rehearsal Orchestra.
Dedicated to new music Ollie has conducted over 50 works by living composers including 37 premières. Recent highlights include his completion of Janacek’s Schluck und Jau and The Messiah on period instruments. Upcoming projects include Monteverdi’s Tancredi (conductor), Janacek's The Cunning LIttle Vixen at Grimeborn (conductor), CPE Bach's Concerto in A minor wq 7 (soloist), and Brahms’s A German Requiem (conductor).
Ollie has produced chamber reductions of major works by Mozart, Sullivan, and Mahler; future commissions include Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers for mixed quartet. Recent arrangements for choir include works by Bruckner, Scriabin, and Schreker.
He has conducted Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni for St Paul's Opera, Clapham, and regularly accompanies recitals, recordings, choral workshops and assists other operatic productions. Ollie is Musical Director of the Asyla Ensemble, Queens Park Singers and Trinity Hospice Community Choir. He has also conducted the London Sinfonietta Academy, Dartington Festival Orchestra, Nottingham Philharmonic, the Baltic Academy Orchestra, Vaganza Ensemble, St Bartholomew's Orchestra and St Albans Rehearsal Orchestra.
Dedicated to new music Ollie has conducted over 50 works by living composers including 37 premières. Recent highlights include his completion of Janacek’s Schluck und Jau and The Messiah on period instruments. Upcoming projects include Monteverdi’s Tancredi (conductor), Janacek's The Cunning LIttle Vixen at Grimeborn (conductor), CPE Bach's Concerto in A minor wq 7 (soloist), and Brahms’s A German Requiem (conductor).
Ollie has produced chamber reductions of major works by Mozart, Sullivan, and Mahler; future commissions include Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers for mixed quartet. Recent arrangements for choir include works by Bruckner, Scriabin, and Schreker.
Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the videos or recordings below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the videos or recordings below:
Our concert opens with André Papillon's oboe setting of the soprano aria Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen - my spirit rests in Jesu's hands - from Bach's cantata BWV 127 'Lord Jesus Christ, true Man, and God'.
If you are a player you might like to link to see the piano and oboe parts on IMSLP (on Arrangements tab).
When it comes to online recordings, we have the original Bach work with boy treble Sebastian Hennig (later a baritone). Henning was a member of Knabenchor Hannover - Hanover Boys' Choir - under his father Heinz. This recording is probably from the Bach Cantatas produced by Gustav Leonhardt and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
If you are a player you might like to link to see the piano and oboe parts on IMSLP (on Arrangements tab).
When it comes to online recordings, we have the original Bach work with boy treble Sebastian Hennig (later a baritone). Henning was a member of Knabenchor Hannover - Hanover Boys' Choir - under his father Heinz. This recording is probably from the Bach Cantatas produced by Gustav Leonhardt and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
After you have listened to the next 12 minutes performance of Saint-Saëns' Oboe Sonata just look back to this bit of text where I tell you: that boy lives in Seoul, South Korea, and he was 14 years old at the time of the recording! It's such an accomplished performance that it is hard to believe these two performers were so young.
It is exciting for us to host a premiere of a work, such as this week's first performance of Hamish Brown's Our Love is Here to Stay. However, for you the lone listener this poses a problem. Clearly we cannot bring you a recording in advance of a premiere!
I hope the offerings below will help to give you some context for the young pianist, oboist and composer Hamish Brown, who I believe is at the Royal College of Music at the moment.
Here he is playing the upper part (or primo) in this recording of Debussy's Petite Suite, in a lunchtime concert from Rochdale. The secondo pianist is our accompanist today - Ollie Till !
If you have plenty of time their recording continues (after approx 13 minutes) with
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (a further 34 minutes).
I hope the offerings below will help to give you some context for the young pianist, oboist and composer Hamish Brown, who I believe is at the Royal College of Music at the moment.
Here he is playing the upper part (or primo) in this recording of Debussy's Petite Suite, in a lunchtime concert from Rochdale. The secondo pianist is our accompanist today - Ollie Till !
If you have plenty of time their recording continues (after approx 13 minutes) with
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (a further 34 minutes).
Here is Hamish playing oboe and keyboards, and producing, with Magnus Rowbotham on other reeds.
This is Chick Corea's La Fiesta.
This is Chick Corea's La Fiesta.
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
LINKS:
Directions to
Leatherhead Methodist Church |
Emmanuel Bach
violin Jenny Stern, piano 3 Aug 2017 |
Two concerts next week in the
Chapels of St John's School
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Wednesdays at
Christ Church Organ Diary Music on Thursdays
2017 Season Diary |
