12.30 lunchtime, Thursday 1st September 2016
Wezi Elliott Baroque lute Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church |
Sponsor:
2016 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Robert De Visée (c1655-1732/1733)
from de Vaudry de Saizeney Manuscript Suite in A minor Prélude Allemande Tombeau de Tony Courante Rondo Chaconne Charles Mouton (c1626-c1699) Suite in B minor from Prague Manuscript KK80 Prelude Allemande Courante Sarabande Gavotte Chaconne Suite in A major from 2nd Pièces de Luth Book Prélude Pavan Courante et Double Sarabande en Rondeau Gavotte Passacaille David Kellner (1670-1748) from XVI Ausserlesene Lauten-Stücke (1747) Chaconne Wezi Elliott will be playing a 13 course Baroque lute this has 24 strings, in pairs or 'courses', except for the two highest notes which are single strings. There will be a pause for re-tuning before each piece. |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Wezi Elliott, lute
Wezi's interest in music began from an early age, when he would listen to his father’s blues rock albums where he discovered the music of Ten Years After, Deep Purple and Jimi Hendrix. His Mother bought him his first guitar aged 7 and he immediately started playing pop and rock. By 14 he grew fond of jazz and was touring with his local Big Band. During his final A-level year he discovered the lute works of Antonio Vivaldi and JS Bach, instantly fell in love with the instrument, and was determined to play the lute. Unfortunately, as you could imagine, acquiring a lute and a teacher was a complication in itself. However fortune was with Wezi as he bumped into Peter Jones outside Stockwell tube station who just happened to have a lute. Peter offered to give Wezi lessons where he advised him to acquire a lute of his own and to study at the Royal College of Music.
Wezi received his very own lute in 2009 and quickly became fluent and competent enough to audition for the Royal College of Music in February 2010. He was accepted to study at the College the following September under the professorship of Jakob Lindberg. Since joining the college he has been playing solo and ensemble music all over the country. In 2011 he was awarded a grant from his home town of Tottenham and an anonymous donation for his achievements in his performance of lute and ensemble music.
He has played solo performances in churches all around London including the famous St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, and also played lute for Shakespeare plays at the Globe Theatre and Oxford University student productions as well as playing the Lachrimae with the Prince Consort Viol Group in Cambridge. As a gifted continuo player Wezi has worked with renowned harpsichordist Roger Hamilton and various small baroque ensembles around the country. But most of Wezi’s preforming is with the duo he formed with soprano Anna Thunström. The duo perform songs from the renaissance and baroque periods, concentrating on the English style and language.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Music keeps busy performing and teaching lute and guitar as well as music theory. Having some impressive performance experience under his belt, such as being a soloist in several orchestral concerts, live BBC radio 3 recital and Brighton Early Music Festival with Dame Emma Kirkby, Wezi is looking to use this experience to further boost his career. Currently teaching in his home Town of Tottenham, he aims to make the lute and other early musical instruments accessible for his pupils to play on.
Wezi has a website here.
Wezi received his very own lute in 2009 and quickly became fluent and competent enough to audition for the Royal College of Music in February 2010. He was accepted to study at the College the following September under the professorship of Jakob Lindberg. Since joining the college he has been playing solo and ensemble music all over the country. In 2011 he was awarded a grant from his home town of Tottenham and an anonymous donation for his achievements in his performance of lute and ensemble music.
He has played solo performances in churches all around London including the famous St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, and also played lute for Shakespeare plays at the Globe Theatre and Oxford University student productions as well as playing the Lachrimae with the Prince Consort Viol Group in Cambridge. As a gifted continuo player Wezi has worked with renowned harpsichordist Roger Hamilton and various small baroque ensembles around the country. But most of Wezi’s preforming is with the duo he formed with soprano Anna Thunström. The duo perform songs from the renaissance and baroque periods, concentrating on the English style and language.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Music keeps busy performing and teaching lute and guitar as well as music theory. Having some impressive performance experience under his belt, such as being a soloist in several orchestral concerts, live BBC radio 3 recital and Brighton Early Music Festival with Dame Emma Kirkby, Wezi is looking to use this experience to further boost his career. Currently teaching in his home Town of Tottenham, he aims to make the lute and other early musical instruments accessible for his pupils to play on.
Wezi has a website here.
Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking on the videos below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking on the videos below:
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Wezi Elliott begins his concert with Robert de Visee's Suite No 1 in A minor. Here, with the Prelude and Allemande from that suite, is a recording by Swedish theorbo player Jonas Nordberg: If you would like to hear the full suite, this recording comes from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basle/Basel Switzerland. The theorbo player is Leonardo Takiy: |
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It proved more difficult to find recordings of the same Charles Mouton works we will be hearing at the concert - the suites in B minor and A minor. To give you a flavour of his work, here instead is a set of Pièces de lute in A, performed by Hopkinson Smith on an 11-stringed lute.
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Our concert closes with a performance of David Kellner's delightful Chaconne in A major, played here by Miguel Yisrael: |
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We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home
