Music on Thursday EVENING
at St Barnabas Church, Ranmore
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Supported by: LCAS Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society FoSPAL Friends of the Surrey Performing Arts Library NewSPAL New Surrey Performing Arts Library |
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quartet No 15 in D minor, K421 1 Allegro moderato 2 Andante (F major) 3 Menuetto, and D major Trio, Allegretto 4 Allegretto ma no troppo Béla Bartók (1881-1945) a selection of duos ♦ Short Interval ♦ Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) from Three String Trios, Op 9 (1798) No 3 in C minor I Allegro con spirito II Adagio con espressione III Scherzo – Allegro molto e vivace IV Finale – Presto Old Reinlender from Sonndala, Norwegian traditional, arr Danish String Quartet |
Juliette Roos, born into a musical family, started the violin aged 5. Juliette entered the Menuhin School in 2009 where she studied with Lutsia Ibragimova. In 2012 she was awarded the W Todds bursary and reached the string final of the BBC young musician. After graduating, she decided to continue her studies at HEMU conservatoire, Lausanne, Site de Sion, with Pavel Vernikov. In the summer of 2015 she was awarded third prize and the best interpretation of a virtuoso piece at the International Kloster Schöntal Violin Competition. In the past year she has played chamber concerts across London at the Barbican, St Johns Smith Square, & LSO St.Lukes.
Juliette has performed concertos across Europe in Canterbury Cathedral, Odessa opera house, Romsey Abbey. Juliette is currently in the second year of her Masters degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, generously supported by the Guildhall and Help Musicians UK where she was awarded the Manoug Parikian award. Recent performances include a live radio broadcast of Julian Anderson for the BBC, quartet performance at the Barbican Concert Hall and participation in the US chamber festival Four Seasons; as well as winning the Cavatina Chamber competition with her quartet in May. |
Born in 1998 into a family of string players, Frankie Carr started playing the cello at the age of 4. In 2014 Frankie joined the Yehudi Menuhin School where he studied with Thomas Carroll for 3 years. Performances during that time included a broadcast on Dutch Radio, concerto appearances with the Oxfordshire Youth Orchestra and the Abingdon Symphony Orchestra, and chamber and solo appearances in Munich, Warsaw, Montpellier, New York, London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, and throughout the UK.
Frankie has also appeared at festivals in the US and Europe, including Four Seasons Chamber Music, Loon Lake Live, Stichting Kamermusiek Amsterdam, Young Pianists Festival Amsterdam, The Menuhin Festival Gstaad, and Greenwood, where he premiered the, Injury and Recovery Suite for Cello and Orchestra. Frankie's principal teachers have been Colin Carr, Melissa Phelps, Thomas Carroll, and Darrett Adkins but he has also worked with Johannes Goritsky, Joel Krosnick and members of the Chiara, Emerson and Juilliard string quartets. After a year in New York at the Juilliard School Frankie will begin his studies at the Curtis Institute of music in Philadelphia in September. |
Juliette Roos, 2nd violin
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Frankie Carr, cello
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Tatjana Roos, 1st violin
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Ting-Ru Lai, viola
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The fourth generation of a musical family, Tatjana Roos was born in London and began playing the violin when she was three. Aged 10, she enjoyed her first solo opportunity with orchestra at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory where she played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
In 2008, she gained entry to the Menuhin School, studying with Professor Natasha Boyarsky and, in 2010, won first prize at the Postacchini International Violin Competition. At age 15 Tatjana was accepted as a pupil to Boris Kuschnir in Vienna and then added further violin studies with Boris Kucharsky at Guildhall. Her extensive concerto repertoire is complemented with travel to International Music Festivals, including Verbier Festival Academy, IMS Prussia Cove, Four Seasons Winter Worksop and Ravinia Steans Music Institute. She has enjoyed classes with numerous Masters - most recently with Ana Chumachenco, Pamela Frank and Midori Goto. In 2015 Tatjana won a President's Distinction Award scholarship to study at New England Conservatory, with Miriam Fried. She is a multiple prize-winner from international competitions, including Tunbridge Wells, Henri Marteau and winner of the Manfred Grommek Prize at Kronberg Academy. Thanks to the support of a London benefactor and by kind arrangement with Florian Leonhard Fine Violins, Tatjana plays a GB Guadagnini violin made in Turin, c1785. |
Taiwanese violist Ting-Ru Lai, currently based in London, appeared as a soloist at the Malaysian Royal Gala Concert at the age of 16. She has performed internationally at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Barbican Centre, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Gasteig Munchen, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Gwandhaus Leipzig.
Ting-Ru has recently finished her Artist Diploma at Guildhall School of Music & Drama with David Takeno, and received the graduate diploma from New England Conservatory under Dimitri Murrath’s class. She has participated in masterclasses including IMS Prussia Cove, Carl Flesch Akademie and Mozarteum Summer Academy with Tabea Zimmerman, Nobuko Imai, Thomas Riebl, Hariolf Schlichtig and Itzhak Perlman. During 2016-2017, Ting-Ru was serving principal viola at ensemble ESPERANZA based in Liechtenstein, and recorded 2 CD albums. Since graduation from Guildhall School, she has been on trial for co-principal viola positions at the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra. Ting-Ru was also selected to London Symphony Orchestra String Experience 2016-2017. |
If you would like to join us at the concert: |
Directions to
Leatherhead Methodist Church |
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Timothy Guntrip Asst Director of Music Holy Cross Church, Uckfield 12.30 lunchtime 20 June 2018 |
Music on Thursdays
at LMC Abingdon Wind Quintet courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music 12.30 lunchtime 28 June 2018 |
a concert each week
to the end of November |
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