12.30 lunchtime
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Season Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Papers for the 2pm AGM ►
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Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
from Clavier-Übung I Partita No 2 in C minor BWV 826 (1725-1727) Sinfonia Grave, Adagio Allemande Courante Sarabande Rondeau Capriccio Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907) 'Holberg Suite' Op 40 Fra Holberg Tid In Holberg's Time (1884) I Praeludium Allegro Vivace II Sarabande Andante espressivo III Gavotte Allegretto Musette Un poco più mosso IV Air Andante religioso V Rigaudon Allegro con brio Concert duration: 50 minutes |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available BEFORE this concert.
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 buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
Our AGM concert consists of two major works.
Oliver Till opens with Bach's Partita No 2 in C minor BWV 826.
The player in the video performance on the left is Martha Argerich.
Knowing some of you enjoy following the score, on the right we offer a harpsichord performance, with scrolling score.
Oliver Till opens with Bach's Partita No 2 in C minor BWV 826.
The player in the video performance on the left is Martha Argerich.
Knowing some of you enjoy following the score, on the right we offer a harpsichord performance, with scrolling score.
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The second work in Oliver Till's concert is Grieg's Fra Holbergs Tid - The Holberg Suite.
Born in Trondheim, Norway, our pianist in this video is Torhild Fimreite.
On the right, we can enjoy three minutes of outdoor fun with Sweden's Skallsjö Sommarorkeste
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We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
