12.30 lunchtime, Thursday 10th November 2016
Atéa Wind Quintet Alena Lugovkina, flute • Anna Hashimoto, clarinet Alasdair Hill, oboe Chris Beagles, horn • Ashley Myall, bassoon Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church |
Sponsor:
2016 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Programme
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013)
17 Variations for wind quintet Op 22 (1951) Claude-Achille Debussy (1862-1918) from Preludes for Piano, Book 1 L117 (1909-1910) arr Jakub Kowalewski 6 Des pas sur la neige Footsteps in the snow 8 La fille aux cheveux de lin The girl with the flaxen hair Claude-Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) Quintet in G minor (1876) 1 Allegro con moto 2 Andante 3 Vivace |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Atéa Winds
The Atéa Quintet is the foremost British Wind Quintet of their generation. Internationally acclaimed, they recently became double prize winners at the 2015 Karl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition in Denmark. As the Associate Ensemble in Residence at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Quintet in Residence at the Purcell School, they mentor some of the finest up and coming musicians in the country.
Since it’s formation in 2009, the Atéa Quintet has performed in some of the finest halls in the world. Highlights include a critically acclaimed Friday night recital at the Wigmore Hall, performances at the Cheltenham, Brighton and Lake District Summer Festivals and concerts in St Martin in the Fields, Bridgewater Hall and St Johns Smith Square. Recent seasons have included a tour to Scotland, the Czech Republic and a residency at the Two Moors Festival.
Brought together by their communal love of wind chamber music, members of the Atéa Quintet have individually received several prizes in international competitions and played with all of the country’s leading orchestras. The Quintet is eternally grateful for the support that they have received from the Tunnell Trust, Kirckman Concert Society, New Dots and Live Music Now. They are looking forward to a tour of Japan in 2017 as well as many other recitals all around the world.
Since it’s formation in 2009, the Atéa Quintet has performed in some of the finest halls in the world. Highlights include a critically acclaimed Friday night recital at the Wigmore Hall, performances at the Cheltenham, Brighton and Lake District Summer Festivals and concerts in St Martin in the Fields, Bridgewater Hall and St Johns Smith Square. Recent seasons have included a tour to Scotland, the Czech Republic and a residency at the Two Moors Festival.
Brought together by their communal love of wind chamber music, members of the Atéa Quintet have individually received several prizes in international competitions and played with all of the country’s leading orchestras. The Quintet is eternally grateful for the support that they have received from the Tunnell Trust, Kirckman Concert Society, New Dots and Live Music Now. They are looking forward to a tour of Japan in 2017 as well as many other recitals all around the world.
Alena Lugovkina, flute
Flautist Alena Lugovkina is a recipient of numerous prizes such as the First prize at the British Flute Society’s Competitions, Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute Competition and the Royal Academy of Music’s flute competition. She has also won several prestigious awards including a Worshipful Company of Musicians shared recital, a Hattori Foundation Award, a Leverhulme Trust Award, a Philharmonia MMSF Award and a Wolfson Foundation Award.
Alena has performed joint recitals with such big figures in the flute world as Emmanuel Pahud and Denis Bouriakov. She has performed solo works with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra and has performed at the most prestigious UK venues including Royal Festival Hall, Buckingham Palace, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, King’s Place and at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She has played recitals in Canada, Japan, UK, USA, Russia, Germany, Austria and Spain.
Alena graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2011 with the highest woodwind exam mark, having studied with William Bennett OBE and Patricia Morris. She received her Master of Music with Distinction at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she studied with Philippa Davies, Sarah Newbold, Ian Clarke, Christopher Green and Sharon Williams.
Alena is an enthusiastic teacher and workshop leader, keen to share her knowledge and experience with the younger generation. In summer 2015 she was invited to be a flute professor at the Ponte Cultura summer festival in Corsica (France). In 2014 she was a coach at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and gave masterclasses at Conservatoire of Music and Theatre in Porto (Portugal) followed by a series of solo concerts. This upcoming March she was invited to give masterclasses and concerts at several universities in the United States, as well as performing flute&harp concerto in Pittsburgh. She is a visiting tutor and chamber music coach at the Birmingham Conservatoire, The Purcell School, London Russian Music School and the Junior Royal Academy of Music and has been a teaching assistant at the William Bennett International Flute Summer School. Recently she has been appointed flute teacher at the City University London.
Alena is a member of Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (Switzerland) and has appeared as a Guest Principal with the Philharmonia Orchestra, MusicAeterna, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is on extra lists with the Halle Orchestra, Royal Birmingham Ballet, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia , Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and has been a member of the Orpheus Sinfonia, London Mahler Orchestra and Britten-Pears Orchestra and Orchestra of Academy Ossiach (Austria).
Alena is also flautist of the Atéa Wind Quintet, currently the Associate Ensemble in Residence at Birmingham Conservatoire (since 2012) and Ensemble in Residence at The Purcell School. They have been selected for Tunnell’s Trust, Kirckman Society and Live Music Now schemes and have given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, The Brighton Festival and Cheltenham Festival. Their future engagements include recital at the Blackheath Hall and tours of Scotland and England. Their latest success was winning 3rd prize and Special Prize at The Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition in Copenhagen (Denmark)
Anna Hashimoto, clarinet
Anna Hashimoto made her London concerto debut at the age of fifteen playing Weber with the English Chamber Orchestra at Barbican Centre. She has since been invited regularly as a soloist with the orchestra, most recently in Norfolk in the presence of HRH Prince Charles. She was the winner of the International Clarinet Competitions in Kortrijk (Belgium) in 2010, in Carlino (Italy) in 2009, and the Young Clarinettists Competition in Tokyo in 2003.
Anna has performed in major venues in the UK, Europe, USA, Mexico and Japan, including South Bank Centre and Wigmore Hall in London, Dvorak Hall in Prague and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. She has played concertos with orchestras such as the English Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Filharmonie Hradec Kralove, Japan Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, and the Chamber Orchestra of the NHK Symphony. She has been broadcast on NHK TV and FM, FM Tokyo, ABC Radio and BBC Radio 3, including BBC Radio3’s ‘In Tune’, NHK-FM’s ‘Best of Classic’ and NHK TV’s ‘Classic Club’ (joint recital with Michael Collins). Anna’s debut solo album ‘A Touch of France’ has had very favourable reviews in UK, USA and Japan. She released her second solo album, ‘A Touch of Anna’ in 2014.
Anna studied at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music with Charles Hine, the Purcell School and Royal Academy of Music with the world–renowned soloist Michael Collins. There she was awarded a full Associated Board Scholarship and numerous prizes including the Leverhulme Scholarship, Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize, and Regency Award on graduation. She was awarded a Meaker Fellowship in 2011, and became an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2014. Since 2012 her ensemble ‘Atéa Quintet’ have been Associate Ensemble in Residence at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where they regularly perform and coach chamber music. In 2014 the quintet also became Quintet in Residence at The Purcell School.
As a soloist Anna has worked with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Paul Watkins, Myung-Whun Chung and Jan Latham-Koenig. She has performed chamber music collaborations with artists such as Michael Collins, Leon McCawley and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and string quartets such as Endellion, Alberny, Ciurlonis, Kodaly and Prazak Quartets. As a keen orchestral player she has been guest principal with the UK’s leading orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, and Philharmonia, and she is a clarinet tutor at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
http://annahashimoto.com/
‘Stylish phrasing and a lovely, liquid tone’ New York Times
Philip Haworth, oboe (replaced by Alasdair Hill for this concert)
Philip was born in Lancashire and recently finished a Masters of Music at the RCM under the tutelage of Christopher Cowie and John Anderson. Prior to this he studied at the RNCM with Hansjörg Schellenberger, Melinda Maxwell and Hugh McKenna, and also took Cor Anglais lessons with Rachel Pankhurst. His pre-undergraduate education took place at Chetham’s School of Music for two years under the guidance of Rachel Clegg. He has had the opportunity to perform in masterclasses with Celia Nicklin, Stephane Rancourt and Rainer Gibbons.
As a keen chamber musician, Philip has performed with many chamber groups in venues across the North West, London and Scotland.
He is currently a member of the Atéa Wind Quintet whom have performed at venues such as Linton Parish Church, David Joesfowitz Recital Hall and Colchester University, where they also gave a masterclass to the woodwind students. In January 2008 he played an active role in the RNCM Mozart festival, performing in both Mozart wind octets. As an orchestral musician, Philip has given concerts with the RNCM/RCM Symphony Orchestra, also playing in the opera production of Eugene Onegin, The Magic Flute, The Bartered Bride and Die Fledermaus. Whilst at the RNCM Philip had the rare opportunity to record a premiere of Edwin Roxburgh’s oboe trio – Shadow Play, with the renowned oboist Paul Goodey.
In 2007 he was awarded a place on the Hallé Access Scheme which gave him an opportunity to work with the Hallé Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. 2010 saw Philip gain a place on the the LSO/BBC Symphony Orchestra Side-by-side scheme working with the players of both orchestras for a year.
In 2006 Philip was invited to tour Spain as a soloist performing Belini’s oboe concerto with the Lancashire Students Symphony Orchestra, of which he was a member for 8 years.
Philip has recently worked with such orchestras as the Orchestra of Opera North, The Beumont Ensemble playing at St Martin in the Fields and gained the Principal Oboe position in the London Musical Arts Orchestra. He was also recently appointed the second oboe of The Symphony Orchestra of India whom he tours with twice a year. He has played with charity orchestras such as the Charities Philharmonic and the CLIC Sargent Symphony Orchestras at venues around London.
www.philiphaworth.co.uk
Chris Beagles, horn
Chris began playing the horn at the age of 13. For three years, he attended the Junior Royal Northern College of Music where he won the Zochonis Scholarship and the Brass playing Prize. He then went on to win a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Michael Thompson and Richard Watkins. During his time there, he won the Nicholas Blake Prize and was very highly commended in the Dennis Brain Prize.
Upon graduating, Chris joined the Southbank Sinfonia and now plays with many orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta and Aurora. He has made commercial recordings for McDonalds and Sony and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.
Chris has performed many concertos with orchestras including the Sheffield Chamber, Tallis Chamber and the Birmingham Conservatoire String Orchestra as well as performing recitals up and down the country.
Chris is a member of the Atéa Wind Quintet who are the Associate Ensemble in Residence at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Quintet in Residence at the Purcell School, were double prize winners in the 2015 Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition, are members of the Tunnell Trust, Kirckman Concert Society and Live Music Now schemes and gave their Wigmore debut in early 2015.
Ashley Myall, bassoon
Ashley studied at Leeds University with Laurence Perkins and Ben Hudson, Hochschule für Musik Köln with Prof. Georg Klütsch, and The Royal Academy of Music with John Orford, Gareth Newmann and David Chatterton. He was awarded the Nicholas Blake Prize for chamber music and the June Emmerson Launchpad Prize with the Ellipsis Quintet, and was highly commended in the Florence Woodbridge Bassoon Prize.
He performs regularly throughout the UK, in venues including The Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Kings Place, The Forge Camden, the Roundhouse Camden, St.John Smiths Square and Bridgewater Hall.
An enthusiastic proponent of wind chamber music, Ashley is bassoonist of The Atéa Quintet” who are Associate Ensemble in Residence” at the Birmingham Conservatoire and “Quintet in Residence” at The Purcell School, Tunnell Trust Award winners 2015, Kirckman Concert Society award holders 2015. Recently the group performed concerts as part the Brighton and Cheltenham Festivals as well as making their debut performances at Wigmore Hall and St.John Smiths Square.
Performing with the likes of The London Contemporary Orchestra, Atéa Quintet, Rarescale, Azalea Ensemble, London Myriad Ensemble and the Size Zero Opera Company he has performed many new works including the European premiere of Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for Bass Drum and Orchestra at the Reverb Festival 2012 and World Premiere’s of Tomi Räisänen: Mirrie Dancers and Aaron Holloway-Nahum: How to Avoid Huge Ships.
He has been involved in many education and outreach projects with Live Music Now, a Brighton schools education tour and at the Prague Japanese school as part of the ‘Young Prague Music Festival’, Cheltenham Festival ‘Concerts for Schools’ and ‘Music Explorers’ and Wigmore Hall Learning, ‘Young Persons Guide to Chamber Music’.
Last year he performed with the Hilliard Ensemble and the BBC singers for a Live BBC3 broadcast performance of Arvo Pärt: Miserere in Tewkesbury Abbey. Contrastingly, he subsequently toured with the Jules Verne Symphony Orchestra on the Rick Wakeman ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ tour as well as performing with Deep Purple at the ‘Sunflower Jam’, Royal Albert Hall.
He teaches bassoon at Whitgift School, Croydon.
Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home, with the same or similar music, by clicking on the videos below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home, with the same or similar music, by clicking on the videos below:
We open our concert today with Jean-Michel Damase's Dix-Sept (17) Variations for wind quintet, here performed by members of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada:
Jakub Kowalewski arranged Debussy's Piano Preludes for wind quintet. In the concert we will be listening to two of these arrangements.Clicking on the button below will bring you to an external page with a sound recording of La fille aux cheveux de lin:.
Here is a recording of Daniel Barenboim playing the original prelude, Des pas sur la neige, as written for piano.
Barenboim made a documentary entitled 'Entre Quatres Yeux' - 'Between four eyes'. This was Debussy's idea of the intimacy of the pianist playing to one friend in a small room. Barenboim commentates and plays his way through the 1st book of Preludes.
(the documentary lasts 58 minutes)
We rarely have a chance to listen to the same players with the same piece of music, but here to round off our Concert at Home is Atéa Wind Quintet, playing Taffanel's Quartet in G minor.
The line-up has the same players as will be coming to Leatherhead, and this recording was made in St Mary's Perivale,
which is the church in which they are also recording their new CD, due out in the New Year.
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home
