Music on Thursdays
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Thursday
23rd September 2021
12.30 lunchtime
Julien Harman-Evans
recorders
Thomas Ang
piano
Programme
Charles Edmund Duncan-Rubbra (1901-1986)
Meditazioni sopra Cœurs Désolés, Op 67 (4m09)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in E minor H551, Wq 124 (6m33)
Adagio
Allegro
Minuet & Variations
Two pieces from: The Division Flute, an old anthology, (pub 1706/8)
Paul's Steeple (2m00)
Faronell's Ground (4m04)
Piano Solo
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
Theme with Variations, Op 55 (1932-33) (10m52)
Ernst Krähmer (1795-1837)
Variations brillantes for csakan and piano Op 18 (1823) (7m40)
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
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Julien Harman-Evans
Julien Harman-Evans is a recorder player from London, currently studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Their wide-ranging musical interests focus particularly on the contemporary, but also include a fascination with early music from the medieval to the baroque, and a particular love of collaboration and chamber music.
As a soloist, Julien was selected for the 2019 Gstaad Baroque Academy, and they have played in masterclasses with Dorothee Oberlinger, Maurice Steger, Karel van Steenhoven, and Robert Ehrlich. They have also performed in the orchestra for English National Opera, and at London’s Culture Mile Festival.
In 2017, they founded the recorder quartet Aurai with fellow students at the Guildhall School. Aurai has gone on to win the Royal Wind Music prize at the ORDA festival 2019, perform at the Greenwich International Early Music Festival, and deliver workshops in schools around the country, in collaboration with the Centre for Young Musicians.
Julien’s enthusiasm for contemporary music has also led to Aurai’s first commissioned work, which will be premiered in 2022. As a writer, they also write arts journalism, criticism, and poetry.
Their wide-ranging musical interests focus particularly on the contemporary, but also include a fascination with early music from the medieval to the baroque, and a particular love of collaboration and chamber music.
As a soloist, Julien was selected for the 2019 Gstaad Baroque Academy, and they have played in masterclasses with Dorothee Oberlinger, Maurice Steger, Karel van Steenhoven, and Robert Ehrlich. They have also performed in the orchestra for English National Opera, and at London’s Culture Mile Festival.
In 2017, they founded the recorder quartet Aurai with fellow students at the Guildhall School. Aurai has gone on to win the Royal Wind Music prize at the ORDA festival 2019, perform at the Greenwich International Early Music Festival, and deliver workshops in schools around the country, in collaboration with the Centre for Young Musicians.
Julien’s enthusiasm for contemporary music has also led to Aurai’s first commissioned work, which will be premiered in 2022. As a writer, they also write arts journalism, criticism, and poetry.
Thomas Ang
Thomas studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Hamish Milne and Diana Ketler, gaining recognition for his thoughtful and searching recital programmes, as well as being a quick and sensitive collaborator. Having presented a string of critical successes, he has also won prizes for his performances of Beethoven, Frederick Delius, Arthur Bliss and the contemporary piano repertoire.
Thomas performs as part of several contemporary-music ensembles, including playing John Cage at the Purcell Room in 2013 and two programmes of Boulez’s music at the 2015 Aldeburgh Music Festival. With his piano duo he performed the complete non-sonata piano works of Boulez, including the two books of Structures, in London as well as various concerts in Australia and around the UK.
With Scordatura Collective, a group dedicated to the performance and proliferation of music by female composers, he is also involved in educational outreach. In other chamber groups he maintains a strong interest in unusual repertoire of the late Romantic, as well as mid-20th-century British music. In addition, he is a specialist in the music of Nikolai Kapustin, having played several local and world premieres of his works.
He has worked with conductors such as Susanna Mälkki, Clement Power, Sian Edwards and Jonathan Berman as well as composers Oliver Knussen, John Adams and Nikolai Kapustin in playing their music. He has also played in classes by Stephen Hough, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Imogen Cooper, Kathryn Stott and Yevgeny Sudbin among others.
Off the concert stage, Thomas often works as a répétiteur, with productions like the first-ever Wagner production in Singapore (Die fliegender Holländer) and the Russian premiere of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence under his belt. He also accompanies and improvises for silent film, having performed at the Barbican Cinema in Erotikon by Gustav Machatý. Thomas also plays the violin, and writes poetry and piano transcriptions of songs and symphonies.
Over recent years Thomas has contributed much to Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts both as a soloist and as accompanist to a number of his instrumental colleagues.
Thomas performs as part of several contemporary-music ensembles, including playing John Cage at the Purcell Room in 2013 and two programmes of Boulez’s music at the 2015 Aldeburgh Music Festival. With his piano duo he performed the complete non-sonata piano works of Boulez, including the two books of Structures, in London as well as various concerts in Australia and around the UK.
With Scordatura Collective, a group dedicated to the performance and proliferation of music by female composers, he is also involved in educational outreach. In other chamber groups he maintains a strong interest in unusual repertoire of the late Romantic, as well as mid-20th-century British music. In addition, he is a specialist in the music of Nikolai Kapustin, having played several local and world premieres of his works.
He has worked with conductors such as Susanna Mälkki, Clement Power, Sian Edwards and Jonathan Berman as well as composers Oliver Knussen, John Adams and Nikolai Kapustin in playing their music. He has also played in classes by Stephen Hough, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Imogen Cooper, Kathryn Stott and Yevgeny Sudbin among others.
Off the concert stage, Thomas often works as a répétiteur, with productions like the first-ever Wagner production in Singapore (Die fliegender Holländer) and the Russian premiere of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence under his belt. He also accompanies and improvises for silent film, having performed at the Barbican Cinema in Erotikon by Gustav Machatý. Thomas also plays the violin, and writes poetry and piano transcriptions of songs and symphonies.
Over recent years Thomas has contributed much to Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts both as a soloist and as accompanist to a number of his instrumental colleagues.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Charles Edmund Duncan-Rubbra (1901-1986)
Meditazioni sopra Cœurs Désolés, Op 67 (4m09)
performed by Jill Kemp, treble recorder, and Aleksander Szram, piano
Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in E minor H551, Wq 124 (6m33)
Adagio
Allegro
Minuet & Variations
performed by António Carrilho, recorder (tenor or voice flute), and Diego Fernández, harpsichord
Two pieces from: The Division Flute, an old anthology, (pub 1706/8)
Paul's Steeple (2m00)
We have heard performances of Paul's Steeple from both Ensemble Hesperi and the Chelys Concert in earlier concerts. Here is an ensemble performance by Voices of Music with the recorder player Hanneke van Proosdij:
Two pieces from: The Division Flute, an old anthology, (pub 1706/8)
Faronell's Ground (4m04)
This performance comes from the Palazzo Annibaldeschi in Monte Compatre, Rome, and is organised ny the Associazione Musicale Karl Jenkins. At harpsichord we have Giancarlo delle Chiaie and on recorder is Romeo Ciuffa.
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
Theme with Variations, Op 55 (1932-33) (10m52)
performed by Sauli Lämsä who is currently teaching piano at Vantaan Musiikkiopisto, the music school in Vantaa, adjacent to Helsinki
Ernst Krähmer (1795-1837)
Variations brillantes for csakan and piano Op 18 (1823) (7m40)
This very jolly set of variations is played here by Valentina Bellanova, recorder, and Avinoam Shalev fortepiano.
Next Tuesday's piano selection concert
Alfred Brendel, piano, plays Schubert, Tiffany Poon & Kate Pisareva play Chopin Nocturnes - click here
Next Thursday's concert
Gareth Giles, jazz piano, plays Coates, Legrand, Piazzolla, Billy Mayerl, Gershwin - click here
Last Thursday's concert
Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, with Veronika Shoot, piano with music by Paul Jeanjean, Leo Ornstein, Paul Henley, William Hurlstone, and Vladislav Shoot - click here
