Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 15th May 2025
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Ellen Baumring-Gledhill, cello
Dafydd Chapman, piano
Programme
music by: Couperin, de Falla, Prokofiev,
programme awaited
Concert duration approx: 45+ minutes
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Ellen Baumring-Gledhil
The only cellist to reach the Strings Category Final of BBC Young Musician 2020,
Ellen Baumring-Gledhill won Junior Guildhall’s Lutine Prize the same year.
Recent concerto performances include the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Deeside Orchestra, Aberdeen, opening the 2024 Aboyne & Deeside Festival, the Lalo Cello Concerto with the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Welwyn Garden City Orchestra, and the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra conducted by Ben Glassberg in 2023 as well as with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra and North London Sinfonia the previous year.
In summer 2023, Ellen was selected to participate in a residency at the Lake District
Summer Music Festival, working with Guy Johnston and Melvyn Tan. She has recently given recitals at St Mary’s Perivale, Holy Sepulchre Church, London, Regent Hall, St Peter’s, Notting Hill and St Michael’s, Sittingbourne.
In 2022, she premièred and recorded Tendril for solo cello by John Cooney, composed for the Royal Academy of Music’s Bicentenary. Ellen is cellist of the Regency String Quartet, under the auspices of the RAM’s Frost Trust Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training (ASSET) Scheme as well as cellist of the Solarek Piano Trio.
She completed her undergraduate studies at the RAM in summer 2024 with a 1st Class Honours Degree and is continuing her studies there with Felix Schmidt as well as Christoph Richter on the Masters Programme. During her time at the RAM she was awarded several prizes for performance including the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize, the RAM’s Historical Women’s Composer Prize, the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize, as well as the Katie Thomas Memorial Prize and Rhoda Butt Award for achievement and contribution to the Royal Academy of Music.
She previously studied with her uncle Dr Oliver Gledhill at Junior Guildhall as D’Addario Strings Cello Scholar and was awarded the Principal’s Prize in her final year.
Ellen has participated in masterclasses with Marc Coppey, Gary Hoffman, Maria Kliegel, Mischa Maisky, Phillipe Muller, Miklós Perenyi, Alisa Weilerstein and in the Curtis Institute’s Young Artists Summer Program.
Ellen Baumring-Gledhill won Junior Guildhall’s Lutine Prize the same year.
Recent concerto performances include the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Deeside Orchestra, Aberdeen, opening the 2024 Aboyne & Deeside Festival, the Lalo Cello Concerto with the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Welwyn Garden City Orchestra, and the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra conducted by Ben Glassberg in 2023 as well as with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra and North London Sinfonia the previous year.
In summer 2023, Ellen was selected to participate in a residency at the Lake District
Summer Music Festival, working with Guy Johnston and Melvyn Tan. She has recently given recitals at St Mary’s Perivale, Holy Sepulchre Church, London, Regent Hall, St Peter’s, Notting Hill and St Michael’s, Sittingbourne.
In 2022, she premièred and recorded Tendril for solo cello by John Cooney, composed for the Royal Academy of Music’s Bicentenary. Ellen is cellist of the Regency String Quartet, under the auspices of the RAM’s Frost Trust Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training (ASSET) Scheme as well as cellist of the Solarek Piano Trio.
She completed her undergraduate studies at the RAM in summer 2024 with a 1st Class Honours Degree and is continuing her studies there with Felix Schmidt as well as Christoph Richter on the Masters Programme. During her time at the RAM she was awarded several prizes for performance including the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize, the RAM’s Historical Women’s Composer Prize, the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize, as well as the Katie Thomas Memorial Prize and Rhoda Butt Award for achievement and contribution to the Royal Academy of Music.
She previously studied with her uncle Dr Oliver Gledhill at Junior Guildhall as D’Addario Strings Cello Scholar and was awarded the Principal’s Prize in her final year.
Ellen has participated in masterclasses with Marc Coppey, Gary Hoffman, Maria Kliegel, Mischa Maisky, Phillipe Muller, Miklós Perenyi, Alisa Weilerstein and in the Curtis Institute’s Young Artists Summer Program.
Dafydd Chapman
Dafydd Chapman is in his first year of Masters at the Royal Academy of Music studying
Ensemble Piano under Mei-Ting Sun and James Baillieu.
Originally from Cardiff, he spent most of his childhood studying at the Junior Royal
Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he studied with Nicola Meecham for 9
years.
During his time there, he became the first recipient of the Junior Conservatoire
ABRSM Scholarship, won several prizes such as the Junior Conservatoire Prize for
Solo Piano and won the Junior Conservatoire Chamber Prize. Most notably at his
time there, he won the 2015 Junior Conservatoire Concerto Competition, in which
he was given the opportunity to perform Chopin's Concerto No 1 with an orchestra
at the conservatoire.
Dafydd has also competed in several competitions including becoming a semi-
finalist at the Gregynog Young Musician Competition and winning the national Urdd
Eisteddfod 3 times. In 2012 and 2017, he also won the Piano Solo and the Repertoire
classes at the Mid-Somerset Competitive Festival and also went on to win the Piano
Concerto competition there in 2019.
During his time at the Royal Academy of Music, Dafydd has gone on to perform a wide range of chamber and ensemble repertoire and taken part in internal competitions, notably, the Harold Craxton prize and performing with Trio Arisonto.
Ensemble Piano under Mei-Ting Sun and James Baillieu.
Originally from Cardiff, he spent most of his childhood studying at the Junior Royal
Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he studied with Nicola Meecham for 9
years.
During his time there, he became the first recipient of the Junior Conservatoire
ABRSM Scholarship, won several prizes such as the Junior Conservatoire Prize for
Solo Piano and won the Junior Conservatoire Chamber Prize. Most notably at his
time there, he won the 2015 Junior Conservatoire Concerto Competition, in which
he was given the opportunity to perform Chopin's Concerto No 1 with an orchestra
at the conservatoire.
Dafydd has also competed in several competitions including becoming a semi-
finalist at the Gregynog Young Musician Competition and winning the national Urdd
Eisteddfod 3 times. In 2012 and 2017, he also won the Piano Solo and the Repertoire
classes at the Mid-Somerset Competitive Festival and also went on to win the Piano
Concerto competition there in 2019.
During his time at the Royal Academy of Music, Dafydd has gone on to perform a wide range of chamber and ensemble repertoire and taken part in internal competitions, notably, the Harold Craxton prize and performing with Trio Arisonto.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
NOT UPDATED FOR THIS CONCERT
Andrea Gabrieli (1533–1585)
from Libro primo de Madrigali a 3 voce (1575)
First book of Madrigals for 3 voices
A Caso un Giorno mi guidó la sorte By chance, fate guided me [2:00]
There are two renditions of this piece on YouTube. The first uses electronic sounds for trombones, the other is a choir who don't give much oomph!
For a flavour of Gabrieli's handling of brass instruments, here instead is Ricercar del Duodecimo Tuono - Ricercar of the Twelfth Tone. Ricercar? It's a mostly Italian form that explores fugues and counterpoint.
These unnamed brass players are performing in the Steigerwald Cathedral in Gerölzhofen, Southern Germany, at a special service marking the 400th anniversary of Julius Echter, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg:
from Libro primo de Madrigali a 3 voce (1575)
First book of Madrigals for 3 voices
A Caso un Giorno mi guidó la sorte By chance, fate guided me [2:00]
There are two renditions of this piece on YouTube. The first uses electronic sounds for trombones, the other is a choir who don't give much oomph!
For a flavour of Gabrieli's handling of brass instruments, here instead is Ricercar del Duodecimo Tuono - Ricercar of the Twelfth Tone. Ricercar? It's a mostly Italian form that explores fugues and counterpoint.
These unnamed brass players are performing in the Steigerwald Cathedral in Gerölzhofen, Southern Germany, at a special service marking the 400th anniversary of Julius Echter, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg:
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Trio in A major, Hob.XI:5 (1765/6) [6:30]
1 Moderato (A major)
2 Minuet (A major) - Trio (D major)
The performers here are the Esterhazy Ensemble. There seem to be no performances on YouTube which show the players:
Oskar Böhme (1870-1938)
Prelude and Fugue in Eb Major Op 28 No 2 (1904) [4:15]
Andante con moto
Allegro moderato
The Birdwood Brass Trio perform on this recording, but Doug Wilson, trumpet, Bradley Tatum, horn, and James Martin, trombone remain unseen as we follow the musical score:
Horn Solo:
Bernhard Krol (1920-2013)
Laudatio (1966) [4:30]
The soloist offering his audience an encore here is the Czech conductor and horn player Radek Baborak. Which orchestra is sitting behind him is not indicated.
Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953)
from The Organ Portfolio vol 15/86 (1951)
arr for brass quartet Dr Jasmine "Jazzie" Pigott (b1997)
Adoration [3:25]
There are several recordings of this piece for different instruments. The historic nature of this performance drew us to it. The Nova Orchester, under William Garfield Walker, are performing a work by Florence Price for the first time in Vienna, by any orchestra. The accompanying video switches bewtween the orchestra and scenes of Vienna and Austria, building on Price's theme of Adoration.
If you enjoy Florence Price's style, there will be a bonus piece at the end of these recordings.
Olof Wilhelm Peterson Berger (1867-1942)
arr Ashley Harper (b1992)
from 8 Sånger, Op 11 8 Songs [18:00]
1 Stemming Mood
2 I Fyrreskoven In the pine forest
3 Ved Havet By the sea
4 På Fjeldesti On a mountain trail
6 Killebukken Kid and Lamb
7 Lokkeleg Beauty
8 “Dans!” ropte Felen “Dance!” cried the fiddle
There are several recordings of this piece for different instruments. The historic nature of this performance drew us to it. The Nova Orchester, under William Garfield Walker, are performing a work by Florence Price for the first time in Vienna, by any orchestra. The accompanying video switches bewtween the orchestra and scenes of Vienna and Austria, building on Price's theme of Adoration.
Junges Vokalensemble Hannover conducted by Jurgen Etzold
Kelly Hall-Tompkins performs with the Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Cunningham for the Harry T Burleigh Society.
Composer and opera singer Burleigh was a pupil and friend of Dvorak when the latter was Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York.
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