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Thursday 17th August 2017 12.30 Lunchtime Concert in St John's School Chapel, on Main Quad Doors open: 12:10 IMPROVISO Baroque trio Fatima Lahham, recorders Elin White, Baroque violin Florence Petit, cello |
We are grateful to the Headmaster of St John's School and to his colleagues in the Music and Events Departments for their help arranging this special concert Sponsors: 2017 Season Sponsors: Patricia Morgan Optician Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Please note late adjustment to this programme: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Concerto in D major for flute, violin, bassoon or cello RV92 I Allegro II Aria no tempo marking III Allegro Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Duet for flute & violin in G major H 598, Wq 140 I Andante (E minor) II Allegro (G major) III Allegretto (G major) Improvisation: Romanesca Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Organ Trio Sonata no 5 in C major BWV 529 (1730) Improvisation: St Paul's Steeple Concert finishes: 1.15pm approx Items omitted from final programme: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Violin Sonata in F major, Op 5 No 4 (1700) Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) Sonata in G major for flute, violin, and cello WK 80 |
Venue details
Old Chapel (on Epsom Road) St John's School Leatherhead parking in Garlands Road or at Christ Church click on map to expand 
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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
IMPROVISO are a UK-based period music ensemble who perform chamber music from the 14th century onwards and explore historical improvisation practices.
Described as “the Elizabethan rock’n’roll” (Juliet Stevenson) at their concert debut at Middle Temple Hall, London, Improviso are a UK-based period music ensemble. Their name derives both from their fascination with historical improvisation practices as well as their passion for exploring unusual repertories and presenting unexpected programmes of music from the fourteenth century onwards.
IMPROVISO’s members met while studying at the Royal College of Music in London, where they were able to receive coaching and participate in masterclasses with world-class musicians such as Bojan Čičić, Kati Debretzeni, Terence Charlston, Catherine Martin, María Martínez Ayerza, and Ashley Solomon, who currently mentors the ensemble.
In the short time since their foundation in November 2015, they have already appeared at a number of festivals and venues in the UK and Europe, including the Styriarte Festival, Graz, Austria, the Holywell Music Room, Oxford, Handel & Hendrix, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival 2016, the Wigmore Hall as one of the Hall’s Chamber Tots Ensembles 2016-17, and Bad Liebenwerda, Germany, in a performance awarded as one of the finalists of the International Graun Competition 2016.
IMPROVISO is one of the young ensembles on the Brighton Early Music Festival Live! Scheme for 2017-18, and will perform as part of the festival’s showcase in November 2017. They have also been selected for a two-week residency at Snape Maltings in 2018 as part of their Chamber Music Residencies scheme, a series that offers exceptional emerging chamber ensembles coaching and two concerts at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh. Other upcoming engagements include numerous recitals across London as well as a concert supported by the Cavatina Trust at the Deal Festival 2017, at the Oxford Music Faculty’s UNIQ Summer School, and as part of the Iris Axon Concert Series 2018.
Described as “the Elizabethan rock’n’roll” (Juliet Stevenson) at their concert debut at Middle Temple Hall, London, Improviso are a UK-based period music ensemble. Their name derives both from their fascination with historical improvisation practices as well as their passion for exploring unusual repertories and presenting unexpected programmes of music from the fourteenth century onwards.
IMPROVISO’s members met while studying at the Royal College of Music in London, where they were able to receive coaching and participate in masterclasses with world-class musicians such as Bojan Čičić, Kati Debretzeni, Terence Charlston, Catherine Martin, María Martínez Ayerza, and Ashley Solomon, who currently mentors the ensemble.
In the short time since their foundation in November 2015, they have already appeared at a number of festivals and venues in the UK and Europe, including the Styriarte Festival, Graz, Austria, the Holywell Music Room, Oxford, Handel & Hendrix, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival 2016, the Wigmore Hall as one of the Hall’s Chamber Tots Ensembles 2016-17, and Bad Liebenwerda, Germany, in a performance awarded as one of the finalists of the International Graun Competition 2016.
IMPROVISO is one of the young ensembles on the Brighton Early Music Festival Live! Scheme for 2017-18, and will perform as part of the festival’s showcase in November 2017. They have also been selected for a two-week residency at Snape Maltings in 2018 as part of their Chamber Music Residencies scheme, a series that offers exceptional emerging chamber ensembles coaching and two concerts at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh. Other upcoming engagements include numerous recitals across London as well as a concert supported by the Cavatina Trust at the Deal Festival 2017, at the Oxford Music Faculty’s UNIQ Summer School, and as part of the Iris Axon Concert Series 2018.
Fatima Lahham • recorders
Born in 1993, Fatima Lahham is a British-Syrian recorder player, writer, and teacher. Recent UK performances have taken Fatima to the London Handel Festival, the Queen’s Gallery, V&A Museum, St Paul’s Covent Garden, and Wigmore Hall (chamber tots series). In 2016 she also performed in Europe as part of the Styriarte Festival in Austria, at Rosales in Spain, and as part of the International Graun Competition in Germany.
Fatima read Music at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours, several Joan Conway scholarships, Academic & Music Exhibitions, the Bate Collection Recording Prize, and an award for one of the highest three marks in her year. In 2014 she took up a place as a scholar and Help Musicians UK Artist at the Royal College of Music, London, where she continued to study with Professor Ashley Solomon as well as María Martínez Ayerza and Julien Feltrin, graduating in 2016 having been awarded a Masters with distinction.
Fatima is the Founding Editor of Revoice! Magazine, has written for several publications including Early Music (OUP), and regularly presents research papers at academic conferences. Fatima has done extensive performing and research work with original recorders at the Bate Collection in Oxford and recently recorded on their original Bressan recorder for the new app re-sOUnding, available on iTunes.
She is currently Musician-in-Residence at East Oxford Primary School and Music Hub Trainee with Spitalfields Music, alongside freelance lecturing at the Royal College of Music.
Fatima read Music at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours, several Joan Conway scholarships, Academic & Music Exhibitions, the Bate Collection Recording Prize, and an award for one of the highest three marks in her year. In 2014 she took up a place as a scholar and Help Musicians UK Artist at the Royal College of Music, London, where she continued to study with Professor Ashley Solomon as well as María Martínez Ayerza and Julien Feltrin, graduating in 2016 having been awarded a Masters with distinction.
Fatima is the Founding Editor of Revoice! Magazine, has written for several publications including Early Music (OUP), and regularly presents research papers at academic conferences. Fatima has done extensive performing and research work with original recorders at the Bate Collection in Oxford and recently recorded on their original Bressan recorder for the new app re-sOUnding, available on iTunes.
She is currently Musician-in-Residence at East Oxford Primary School and Music Hub Trainee with Spitalfields Music, alongside freelance lecturing at the Royal College of Music.
Elin White • Baroque violin
Elin White grew up in Gloucestershire, studying with Michael Bochmann before going to the Royal College of Music in 2010 where she studied with Dona Lee Croft, Kathron Sturrock, Lucy Russell and Berent Korfker, whilst also fortunate to work with Ashley Solomon, Christopher Hogwood, Vittorio Ghielmi and Sir Roger Norrington.
As a soloist and chamber musician Elin performs around the country and has appeared in the London Handel Festival, the London Festival of Baroque Music, and in several concerts on tour in Italy. In 2013 she was selected to perform in the international Misiones de Chiquitos festival in Bolivia, was subsequently invited to play with the critically acclaimed choir Arakaendar Bolivia on their tour of the USA and returned to Bolivia last spring for the 2016 festival.
Elin plays regularly with the Academy of Ancient Music, La Serenissima, and Florilegium, including at the Three Choirs Festival, Beverley Early Music Festival, St Magnus International Festival, the BBC Proms, the Royal Festival Hall, Kings Place, and the Wigmore Hall. She also appeared in the West End production of Farinelli & the King.
As a soloist and chamber musician Elin performs around the country and has appeared in the London Handel Festival, the London Festival of Baroque Music, and in several concerts on tour in Italy. In 2013 she was selected to perform in the international Misiones de Chiquitos festival in Bolivia, was subsequently invited to play with the critically acclaimed choir Arakaendar Bolivia on their tour of the USA and returned to Bolivia last spring for the 2016 festival.
Elin plays regularly with the Academy of Ancient Music, La Serenissima, and Florilegium, including at the Three Choirs Festival, Beverley Early Music Festival, St Magnus International Festival, the BBC Proms, the Royal Festival Hall, Kings Place, and the Wigmore Hall. She also appeared in the West End production of Farinelli & the King.
Florence Petit • Baroque cello
Franco-British cellist Florence Petit is a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, being awarded her Bachelors and Masters Degrees with First Class Honours and Distinction respectively. Florence studied modern cello with Alexander Chaushian and Alexander Boyarsky and throughout her studies developed a strong interest in the baroque cello, studying with Richard Tunnicliffe. She has participated in numerous master classes and has received coaching from Jonathan Manson, Ashley Solomon and Adrian Butterfield, amongst others.
Florence has played at the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, London Handel Festival, Hatchlands Park, Buckingham Palace, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Queen’s Gallery. She has recorded for the Royal Collection Trust’s exhibition Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer and has worked with Florilegium, the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists, and the English Concert.
Florence has played at the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, London Handel Festival, Hatchlands Park, Buckingham Palace, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Queen’s Gallery. She has recorded for the Royal Collection Trust’s exhibition Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer and has worked with Florilegium, the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists, and the English Concert.
Baroque Concert at Home:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in today's Baroque concert:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in today's Baroque concert:
Our first concert in the Old Chapel of St John's School Chapel opens with Vivaldi's
Concerto in D major for flute, violin, and bassoon or cello RV92.
In this recording, taken at a breathtaking pace, we hear Musica ad Rhenum, with harpsichord continuo:
Concerto in D major for flute, violin, and bassoon or cello RV92.
In this recording, taken at a breathtaking pace, we hear Musica ad Rhenum, with harpsichord continuo:
If you prefer your Vivaldi at a gentler - but nonetheless brisk - pace, try this recording by La Suave Melodia, with Georgia Brown, flute, and Frans Robert Berkhout, bassoon:
It took a while to find a recording of CPE Bach's Duet for flute and violin that didn't have horrible background noises. Sadly we don't have a name for this duo, or are they called 'without spaces' ?
Corelli's Violin Sonata in F major is our next work. You will find several different orchestrations online.
Here the recorder player is Marco Scorticati with Davide Pozzi at the harpsichord, in a recital for the European Recorder Teachers' Association:
Here the recorder player is Marco Scorticati with Davide Pozzi at the harpsichord, in a recital for the European Recorder Teachers' Association:
Our closing work in this concert is by Carl Friedrich Abel, his Trio Sonata in G major, WK 80. The players here are Raleigh Camerata who are performing in St Josephs RC Church, Raleigh, North Carolina:
IMPROVISO have a couple of recordings on their website. First, here they are in the chapel at
Keble College, Oxford, improvising on the ground bass 'Paul's Steeple':
Keble College, Oxford, improvising on the ground bass 'Paul's Steeple':
And here are Gerald Trimble and friends improvising on the same ground bass, although they call it
'St Paul's Steeple':
'St Paul's Steeple':
And finally, here are IMPROVISO, in London's Swedish Church,
performing Dario Castello's Sonata Decima with their lutenist Johan Löfving on theorbo:
performing Dario Castello's Sonata Decima with their lutenist Johan Löfving on theorbo:
We hope you have enjoyed your Baroque Concert at Home
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Old Chapel St John's School Leatherhead click on map to expand 
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