Thursday

2nd December 2021

12.30 lunchtime


FINAL CONCERT OF 2021 SEASON


The Tailleferre Ensemble

Penelope Smith & Nicola Hands, oboes
Nicky Crowe, flute
Lana Bode, piano


Programme


Jenni Brandon (b1977)
Metamorphoses, for two oboes and piano (2018)
    I Vulnerable
    II Evolving
    III Transformation
    IV Rebirth
    V Transfiguration
    VI Breaking through the mold
    VII Regeneration
    VIII Emerging
    IX “The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy…”



Ingrid Stölzel (b1971)
There Are Things To Be Said (2009)
for flute, oboe and piano


Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)
Trio for flute, oboe and piano (1968)
    Ⅰ   Allegro con brio
    Ⅱ  Andante semplice
    Ⅲ Allegro giocoso


Concert duration approx:  40 minutes


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Tailleferre Ensemble . . .

. . . is a new chamber collective founded by Nicola Hands and Penelope Smith, with the aim of promoting women in music. We are a flexible chamber ensemble, performing recitals of differing instrumentation and genre.

Penelope Smith

Penelope Smith graduated with a Masters from @RCMLondon where she won the oboe prize.

She has performed with orchestras such as the London Mozart Players, RTE Concert Orchestra and Brandenburg Sinfonia as well as given solo and chamber music recitals throughout the UK.

She co-founded Tailleferre Ensemble in 2019.

Nicola Hands

Nicola Hands is a busy freelance oboist, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Music Masters programme in 2013 with a Distinction, having won the oboe and cor anglais prizes there.

She was principal cor anglais with Orquestra do Norte and the oboe/cor anglais player for The Light Princess at the National Theatre. She has played with the Philharmonia, RSNO, Birmingham Ballet and Orpheus Sinfonia as a freelancer.

She is very active as a soloist and chamber musician, having performed numerous concertos and recitals.
In 2019 she co-founded the Tailleferre Ensemble and has released two albums, Light & Shade and Phoenix.


Lana Bode

Lana Bode is an American-British pianist, programmer and artistic director, whose performances have been described as ‘absolutely thrilling’ (Opera Today) and ‘expertly calibrated’ (BBC Music Magazine). She specialises in contemporary music and cross-arts programming.

Lana’s recital career has taken her from major London venues to festivals around the UK such as Aldeburgh Festival, Barbican Hall, Kings Place, Purcell Room, Snape Proms and Wigmore Hall.

In 2019 she released her highly-acclaimed debut album I and Silence: Women’s Voices in American Song with the mezzo Marta Fontanals-Simmons. 

In the 2020-21 season, Lana will perform with the Tailleferre Ensemble, return to the Oxford Lieder Festival to premiere Charlotte Bray’s Crossing Faultlines, and record a new disc with soprano Samantha Crawford (Delphian Records).


Nicky Crowe

Nicky Crowe graduated from the Royal College of Music with a Master of Music (distinction), where she was the winner of the RCM flute prize and was generously supported by the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Upon graduating, she performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the English National Ballet, and was a co-principal of the Southbank Sinfonia in 2014.

She returned to Australia in 2015 to take up a fellowship position with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO), later performing on contract with the SSO and Opera Australia.


Recordings of the works in today's concert

Jenni Brandon (b1977)
Metamorphosis, for two oboes and piano (2018)    (12m47)
I Vulnerable
II Evolving
III Transformation
IV Rebirth
V Transfiguration
VI Breaking through the mold
VII Regeneration
VIII Emerging
IX “The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy…”

In this performance, the oboists are Lindabeth Binkley and Dane Philipsen,
with the composer, Jenni Brandon at the piano:
Ingrid Stölzel (b1971)
There Are Things To Be Said (2009)    (9m00)
for flute, oboe and piano

This performance from 2016 is on Ingrid Stölzel's youtube channel. The players are a group called Allégresse, Annie Gnojek, flute, Margaret Marco, oboe, and Ellen Sommer, piano. They were performing at the University of Kansas:

Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)
Trio for flute, oboe and piano (1968)    (10m00)
Ⅰ   Allegro con brio
Ⅱ  Andante semplice
Ⅲ Allegro giocoso

The players here are (and there is no guarantee of the Korean spelling) Osin Jeong, flute, Bae Gyeongmi, oboe, and Heojeong Hwa, piano:
Whether you have been following this year's concerts at LMC or online,

we wish all of our supporters a very

Happy Christmas

and every best wish for the

New Year
Last Thursday's concert
Phil Hopkins, chromatic harmonica & Stuart Whatton, piano - click here
Next concert, in February 2022
at **3.30pm** on Thursday 24th February 2022

Silent Movies with our piano maestro Thomas Ang, - click here (event page not yet available)

This short movie performance follows the **2pm** Annual General Meeting
Weekly concerts return
at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 31st March 2022, and continue through to December 1st

with something extra on International Make Music Day, Tuesday 21st June