Music on Thursdays
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2021 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival
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Emilie Capulet
piano
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata in D minor, ‘The Tempest’, Op 31 no 2 (1802)
1 Largo – Allegro
2 Adagio
3 Allegretto
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971)
from Paysages Scenery (1930)
1 Marine (Mouettes) Seascape (Seagulls)
6 Tarentelle
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (1866-1925)
from Embryons desséchés Dessicated Embryos (1913)
1 Holothurie Sea cucumber (an animal without eyes)
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1975-1937)
from Miroirs
Alborada del Gracioso M43 (1904-05)
4 Alborada del Gracioso Jester's Aubade
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
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Emilie Capulet comes to our lunchtime concert after performing for, and answering questions from, pupils of the town's main primary school - Leatherhead Trinity School.
Emilie Capulet
Emilie Capulet is an award-winning international concert pianist, lecturer, writer and musicologist.
Described by Anne Grafteaux Geli in Utmisol magazine as having a “heightened musical sensitivity, total emotion, a magical touch at once sensual, vigorous and varied”, she is regularly invited to give solo piano recitals, lecture-recitals and chamber music concerts in international music festivals and concert halls in Europe, the USA, Canada, Latin America and Asia. Recent engagements abroad include recitals in Holland in Amsterdam and North Brabant, an appearance at the Ottawa Valley Music Festival (Ontario) and the B.A.R.N. in Pontiac (Quebec), and concerts for the European Heritage Days at the Château de Lourmarin (France). Performances in the UK include renowned venues such as Kings Place, Cheltenham Town Hall, Winchester Cathedral, Buxton Opera House, the Halifax Festival, the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), the Guildford International Music Festival, the Sevenoaks Summer Festival, the Princes Theatre in Clacton, the Woodville Theatre and the Woodford Concert Society.
Recent chamber music recitals include Dvorak’s piano quintet in the historic Holywell Music Room, Oxford, with the Tippett Quartet, Schubert at the Ealing Music and Film Festival with the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble, Dvořák and Janáček in Prague’s Pražské Múzy Festival with mezzo-soprano Eva Garajová, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Coldstream Guards and LCM Camerata in London. She was the soloist in Constant Lambert’s Rio Grande at Portsmouth Cathedral with the Portsmouth Festival Choir and has played Saint-Saëns with the South Downs Camerata at the Petersfield Musical Festival. She regularly appears as guest artist on luxury cruise liners and has performed on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 World Tour, on Baltic and Transatlantic voyages on P&O and the MV Princess Danae, and on musical river cruises on the Seine, the Danube, the Rhône and the Rhine for ACE Cultural Tours and Rivages du Monde.
Emilie has recorded Beethoven and Chopin with BMP, chamber music and solo piano works by contemporary composer Richard Lambert on the Quartz label, and has just released a double album featuring the first recording of the complete solo piano music of Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) on the Calliope label to great critical acclaim. It was awarded the ‘Grand Frisson 2020’ by Audiophile Magazine and ffff in Pizzicato Magazine, and has been featured in leading music journals and music magazines such as L’Education Musicale, Utmisol, MusicWeb International, Les Chroniques de Benito Pelegrin, etc.
Emilie has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, France Musique (France), Radio Télévision Suisse (Switzerland), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Radio Canada, Bayern Klassik (Germany), RCF Radio (France), IDfm (France), France Bleu (France), Radio Nostalgie (France), and Nicaraguan television and radio.
In addition to her busy solo career, Emilie has built a strong reputation as a lecture-recitalist and guest speaker. She often gives talks on the relations between music, literature and painting in international conferences and music societies.
Invited by Glyndebourne to give pre-performance lectures on their operatic touring season, Emilie is a lecturer for the Alliance Française, and also gives pre-concert talks in music festivals in France. As well as a Master of Music (MMus) in Performance from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, her interest in the arts as a whole has earned her an MA on Shakespeare and a PhD on the musicality of Modernist literature. She has published on many aspects of music history and contemporary music performance practices, as well as on music in healthcare. Her book on Virginia Woolf: a Musical Life, was published by Bloomsbury Heritage and she regularly writes Prefaces for the Repertoire & Opera Explorer series of study scores published by Musikproduktion Hoeflich (Heidelberg).
Emilie is often invited to give piano masterclasses and workshops in music colleges, schools and universities worldwide, including most recently at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guanzhou, China and the Hong Kong Baptist University. In the UK, she has given piano masterclasses at Chichester University, Hazelwood School and Trinity School, Croydon.
Emilie is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Senior Lecturer and Head of Classical Performance at the London College of Music, University of West London. She is a member of the Peer Review Panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. While touring Latin America, she received the ExpressArte award for her exceptional contribution to Nicaraguan culture, art and education.
www.emiliecapulet.com
2021 Mole Valley
Arts Alive Festival
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata in D minor, ‘The Tempest’, Op 31 no 2 (1802) (22m50)
1 Largo – Allegro
2 Adagio
3 Allegretto
This performance by Evgeny Kissin comes from the Verbier Festival.
Sonata in D minor, ‘The Tempest’, Op 31 no 2 (1802) (22m50)
1 Largo – Allegro
2 Adagio
3 Allegretto
This performance by Evgeny Kissin comes from the Verbier Festival.
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971)
from Paysages Scenery (1930)
1 Marine (Mouettes) Seascape (Seagulls) (3m56)
6 Tarentelle (3m52)
A few weeks ago trumpet-player Gwyn Owen introduced us to Tomasi in his concert. Here are two recordings of today's guest, Emilie Capulet, playing the same Tomasi pieces she will perform for us:
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Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (1866-1925)
from Embryons desséchés Dessicated Embryos (1913)
1 Holothurie Sea cucumber (an animal without eyes) (2m20)
performed here by Cristina Ariagno, from her CD of the complete piano works of Satie:
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1975-1937)
from Miroirs M43 (1904-05)
4 Alborada del Gracioso Jester's Aubade (6m38)
Our recording is by Vitaly Pisarenko, winner of the 2008 Franz Liszt Piano Competition:
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