12.30pm, Thursday 13th April 2017
Piano Trios by
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Sponsor: 2017 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
first of three 'Bartolozzi' trios dedicated to Theresa Jansen Bartolozzi Piano Trio No 43 in C major Hob XV:27 (1797) I Allegro II Andante III Finale. Presto Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 (1847) 1 Mit Energie und Leidenschaft 2 Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch 3 Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung 4 Mit Feuer Concert duration: 45-55 minutes |
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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Eriko Nagayama
Born in Tokyo in 1993, Eriko Nagayama is a Japanese violinist currently in her first year as a postgraduate student of the Royal Academy of Music, under the tutelage of György Pauk. She started playing the violin at the age of four, and for many years studied violin and chamber music at the Toho Gakuen School of Music under Koichiro Harada, who founded the renowned Tokyo String Quartet in which he played first violin for 12 years.
Eriko has won several awards including first prize, and the Jean Schmidt prize for outstanding musicianship, at the 2015 Yokohama International Music Competition, chaired by Gérard Poulet, and the 2016 Wilfrid Parry Brahms Prize with pianist Yi-Shing Cheng at the Royal Academy of Music.
Recent performances include Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy op 46 with Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra at the Rising Star Concert Series of Japan Performance Federation, and Chausson’s Poème and Franck’s Violin Sonata at the YAMAHA Music Foundation Concert.
As a chamber musician she has performed at various venues including Suntory Hall, and has since been awarded full scholarships from the Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy for two years. Additionally, she had several opportunities to play as Leader or Principal Violin with the Toho Gakuen Orchestra.
Eriko has participated in several festivals and academies including PyeongChang Music Festival, Ishikawa Music Academy, Kyoto French Music Academy, and ProQuartet in Paris.
She has performed in masterclasses with Todd Phillips, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Nam Yun Kim, Régis Pasquier, Svetlin Roussev, Roland Daugareil, and Yair Kless and with quartets including the Tokyo String Quartet, Quartet Excelsior, Verus String Quartet and Kuss Quartet.
Eriko is generously supported by the Yellow Angel Foundation in Japan. She plays a violin by Januarius Gagliano, c1780, kindly on loan from the Royal Academy of Music.
Eriko has won several awards including first prize, and the Jean Schmidt prize for outstanding musicianship, at the 2015 Yokohama International Music Competition, chaired by Gérard Poulet, and the 2016 Wilfrid Parry Brahms Prize with pianist Yi-Shing Cheng at the Royal Academy of Music.
Recent performances include Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy op 46 with Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra at the Rising Star Concert Series of Japan Performance Federation, and Chausson’s Poème and Franck’s Violin Sonata at the YAMAHA Music Foundation Concert.
As a chamber musician she has performed at various venues including Suntory Hall, and has since been awarded full scholarships from the Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy for two years. Additionally, she had several opportunities to play as Leader or Principal Violin with the Toho Gakuen Orchestra.
Eriko has participated in several festivals and academies including PyeongChang Music Festival, Ishikawa Music Academy, Kyoto French Music Academy, and ProQuartet in Paris.
She has performed in masterclasses with Todd Phillips, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Nam Yun Kim, Régis Pasquier, Svetlin Roussev, Roland Daugareil, and Yair Kless and with quartets including the Tokyo String Quartet, Quartet Excelsior, Verus String Quartet and Kuss Quartet.
Eriko is generously supported by the Yellow Angel Foundation in Japan. She plays a violin by Januarius Gagliano, c1780, kindly on loan from the Royal Academy of Music.
Joel Siepmann
Joel Siepmann was born in 1990 in Tübingen, Germany, where he started taking cello lessons aged 6 at the local music school with Ulrich Schneider.
During the time in Tübingen he won first prizes in the nation wide competition 'Jugend musiziert' in both solo and chamber music categories.
In 2010 Joel became a student of Fionn Bockemühl (Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart) in Stuttgart. From October 2011 until July 2015 he was a student of Christoph Richter at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen.
Additionally he has taken part in masterclasses and had lessons with Steven Isserlis, Lynn Harrell, David Geringas, Pieter Wispelwey, Jerome Pernoo, Peter Bruns, Troels Svane, Laszlo Fenyö, Xenia Jankovic, Christoph Richter, Andreas Reiner, Dirk Mommertz, Vladimir Mendelssohn and Leonid Gorokhov.
In 2012 Joel won the HighPotentialClassics competition at the Folkwang Universtity of Arts and performed the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto in A minor with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester.
In 2014 he took part in the Easter tour of the European Union Youth Orchestra with concerts in Thessaloniki and Abu Dhabi.
From September 2013 until September 2014 he received a scholarship sponsored by the Lions Club in Essen and became fellow at the Yehudi Menuhin LiveMusicNow Foundation. And in April 2014 he won the Girardet-Prize for young musicians as part of the Folkwang Prize.
In July 2015 he finished his Bachelor Degree with the best possible mark (1,0).
Since September 2015 he has been a member of the 'Villa Musica – RheinlandPfalz' Akademie where he has taken part in projects performing with Peter Eötvös, Joseph Kalichstein and Isabelle van Keulen.
During his studies in Essen he played in different orchestras including the Chamber Orchestra of Cologne (director Christoph Poppen), Klassische Philharmonie Bonn and in the independent orchestra 'Spira Mirabillis'.
In September 2016 he started Postgraduate studies with Guy Johnston at the Royal Academy of Music, generously sponsored by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
During the time in Tübingen he won first prizes in the nation wide competition 'Jugend musiziert' in both solo and chamber music categories.
In 2010 Joel became a student of Fionn Bockemühl (Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart) in Stuttgart. From October 2011 until July 2015 he was a student of Christoph Richter at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen.
Additionally he has taken part in masterclasses and had lessons with Steven Isserlis, Lynn Harrell, David Geringas, Pieter Wispelwey, Jerome Pernoo, Peter Bruns, Troels Svane, Laszlo Fenyö, Xenia Jankovic, Christoph Richter, Andreas Reiner, Dirk Mommertz, Vladimir Mendelssohn and Leonid Gorokhov.
In 2012 Joel won the HighPotentialClassics competition at the Folkwang Universtity of Arts and performed the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto in A minor with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester.
In 2014 he took part in the Easter tour of the European Union Youth Orchestra with concerts in Thessaloniki and Abu Dhabi.
From September 2013 until September 2014 he received a scholarship sponsored by the Lions Club in Essen and became fellow at the Yehudi Menuhin LiveMusicNow Foundation. And in April 2014 he won the Girardet-Prize for young musicians as part of the Folkwang Prize.
In July 2015 he finished his Bachelor Degree with the best possible mark (1,0).
Since September 2015 he has been a member of the 'Villa Musica – RheinlandPfalz' Akademie where he has taken part in projects performing with Peter Eötvös, Joseph Kalichstein and Isabelle van Keulen.
During his studies in Essen he played in different orchestras including the Chamber Orchestra of Cologne (director Christoph Poppen), Klassische Philharmonie Bonn and in the independent orchestra 'Spira Mirabillis'.
In September 2016 he started Postgraduate studies with Guy Johnston at the Royal Academy of Music, generously sponsored by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
Yi-Shing Cheng
Yi-Shing Cheng obtained her Bachelor's degree in piano from the National Taiwan Normal University, where she studied with Professor Li-Chin Lai. As a collaborative pianist based in the United Kingdom since 2014, she obtained her Master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music and is currently studying for her Professional diploma under the tutelage of Michael Dussek, with the support of Sara Krein Scholarship and Alice Payne Scholarship.
As winner of the Wilfrid Parry Prize Brahms Duo competition in November 2016, Yi-Shing is a highly active chamber musician, performing with several outstanding instrumentalists, singers and her piano trio. She has received solo lessons from Boris Berman, Jacques Rouvier, Yu-Jane Yang; and chamber lessons from Maxim Vengerov, György Pauk, Ian Brown, Maurice Hasson, Daniel Müller-Schott, Daniel Hope, Bengt Forsberg and Silvia Rosenberg. Recent performance highlights include a concert of Bach sonatas for violin and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, a live performance on BBC Radio 3, and a song recital at Wigmore Hall.
Yi-Shing is also a keen composer. Her works include pieces for solo piano, duo, trio, and string orchestra, as well as arrangements for string quartets and piano duos. In October 2009 she was commissioned by the Thunder Tune Music Company to compose a ten-minute piece for the Academy of Taiwan Strings, based on the Taiwanese folksong 'Tao Hua Guo Du' - Peach Blossom takes the Ferry. The piece was premiered at the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She has also composed music for films, advertisements and online games, as well as a production for the album “Troubadour”, which was published in December 2012 in Taiwan.
This is a very welcome return visit to Leatherhead for Yi-Shing Cheng. She performed here in September 2015, accompanying violinist Anna Orlik.
As winner of the Wilfrid Parry Prize Brahms Duo competition in November 2016, Yi-Shing is a highly active chamber musician, performing with several outstanding instrumentalists, singers and her piano trio. She has received solo lessons from Boris Berman, Jacques Rouvier, Yu-Jane Yang; and chamber lessons from Maxim Vengerov, György Pauk, Ian Brown, Maurice Hasson, Daniel Müller-Schott, Daniel Hope, Bengt Forsberg and Silvia Rosenberg. Recent performance highlights include a concert of Bach sonatas for violin and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, a live performance on BBC Radio 3, and a song recital at Wigmore Hall.
Yi-Shing is also a keen composer. Her works include pieces for solo piano, duo, trio, and string orchestra, as well as arrangements for string quartets and piano duos. In October 2009 she was commissioned by the Thunder Tune Music Company to compose a ten-minute piece for the Academy of Taiwan Strings, based on the Taiwanese folksong 'Tao Hua Guo Du' - Peach Blossom takes the Ferry. The piece was premiered at the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She has also composed music for films, advertisements and online games, as well as a production for the album “Troubadour”, which was published in December 2012 in Taiwan.
This is a very welcome return visit to Leatherhead for Yi-Shing Cheng. She performed here in September 2015, accompanying violinist Anna Orlik.
Schumann's Opal (Villanelle)
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Swept up in passionate emotions’ flow, I drop my pens – no longer can I draw The sublime trio who mit Feuer grow. Mit energie und Leidenschaft they go Through movement 1, forward momentum more, Swept up in passionate emotions’ flow. Lebhaft, but not too fast; they know That inner feeling, breathed together for The sublime trio who mit Feuer grow. The violin, solo, langsam, soars, and oh! Picked up by ‘cellist, sheds a tear with awe, Swept up in passionate emotions’ flow. Such tiny hands; the fiery pianist throws Cascading octaves with outstanding force; The sublime trio who mit Feuer grow. Imaginative gemstone’s music sows The seed. I sit enraptured. Without flaw, Swept up in passionate emotions’ flow, This sublime trio plays; mit Feuer grows. Peter Horsfield 13/4/2017 |
Inspired by Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 (1847) by Robert Schumann, from the lunchtime
concert performed at Leatherhead Methodist Church on 13th April 2017 by
Trio Opal - Eriko Nagayama, violin, Joel Siepmann, cello and Yi-Shing Cheng, piano.
concert performed at Leatherhead Methodist Church on 13th April 2017 by
Trio Opal - Eriko Nagayama, violin, Joel Siepmann, cello and Yi-Shing Cheng, piano.
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Our concert today opens with Haydn's Piano Trio No 43 in C major Hob XV:27,
the first of three piano trios dedicated to Theresa Jansen Bartolozzi.
The performers here are Trio Gaspard:
Jonian Ilia Kadesha, violin, Vashti Mimosa Hunter, cello, Hyo-Sun Lim, piano.
This is a recording of their performance for the final round of the 6th International Joseph
Joachim Chamber Music Competition, at which the trio were First Prize winners.
Recorded 2012/10/11 at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar.
the first of three piano trios dedicated to Theresa Jansen Bartolozzi.
The performers here are Trio Gaspard:
Jonian Ilia Kadesha, violin, Vashti Mimosa Hunter, cello, Hyo-Sun Lim, piano.
This is a recording of their performance for the final round of the 6th International Joseph
Joachim Chamber Music Competition, at which the trio were First Prize winners.
Recorded 2012/10/11 at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar.
The second work is Schumann's Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63, written 50 years after
Haydn's work, in 1847. The performers here are Movses Pogossian, violin, Clive Greensmith, cello
and Inna Faliks, piano. This is recording comes from a live concert in the 9th Season of the
Dilijan Chamber Music Series, recorded on February 23rd, 2014 in the Zipper Hall, Los Angeles.
Haydn's work, in 1847. The performers here are Movses Pogossian, violin, Clive Greensmith, cello
and Inna Faliks, piano. This is recording comes from a live concert in the 9th Season of the
Dilijan Chamber Music Series, recorded on February 23rd, 2014 in the Zipper Hall, Los Angeles.
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