Music on Thursdays
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2015 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society |
Programme
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Sonata for Flute and Piano (1936) 1 Heiter bewegt 2 Sehr langsam - Im Zeitmass 3 Sehr lebhaft - Marsch Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Andante in C major K315 / K285e (1778) Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Duo for Flute and Piano (1970-71) 1 Flowing 2 Poetic, somewhat mournful 3 Lively, with bounce Jacob Gade (1897-1963) Tango Fantasia |
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Katy Ovens, flute
Katy Ovens is a London-based flautist currently completing her MA and LRAM diploma at the Royal Academy of Music, generously supported by the Nan Copeland Scholarship and the Countess of Munster, where she studies flute with William Bennett and Clare Southworth and piccolo with Patricia Morris. She performs regularly both as a soloist and ensemble player and recently won the Una Clark Young Artists' Trust's Jellinek Award, for which she performed the Ibert Concerto with the Guildford Symphony Orchestra. She was also awarded second prize in the British Flute Society’s Young Artist Competition last year and has been a prizewinner in the Jonathan Myall Piccolo Prize for two consecutive years. As an orchestral player, Katy was principal flute with Westminster Opera for their 2014-15 season and regularly performs with the Constella Ballet Orchestra, Melos Sinfonia, Ensemble Eroica and Orchestra Vitae. Later this year, Katy will be working as a Teaching Assistant for The 30th William Bennett International Flute Summer School alongside Denis Buriakov in Sale Marasino, Italy.
Katy graduated in 2013 with first class honours in music from the University of Manchester where she studied with Linda Verrier. While there, she was Principal Flute of both the University of Manchester Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, as well as the Vaganza New Music Ensemble. She performed as a soloist playing Nielsen’s Flute Concerto with the Symphony Orchestra in 2012, and the UK premiere of Goebbell’s Toccata for Piccolo and Teapot with the Vaganza New Music Ensemble in 2013 . Katy was Principal Flute of the National Youth Chamber Orchestra from 2009 to 2012, coached by Melanie Ragge, Lisa Nelsen and Robert Manasse. She won a place at Le Domaine Forget Académie internationale de musique et de danse in Quebec in 2012, where a panel of Canadian flautists chose her to perform in a masterclass with Emmanuel Pahud.
During her time at the Royal Academy, Katy has worked with conductors such as Edward Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, David Zinman and Gareth Hancock and performed in masterclasses with Emily Beynon, Katherine Baker, Michael Cox, Aldo Baerton, William Bennett and Paul Edmund-Davies. She appeared as a soloist with the Academy's Modern Instrument Baroque Ensemble, directed by Lisa Bezonsuik, and is a founding member of Cavendish Winds. Recent performances have included Don Giovanni with Westminster Opera Company at Château du Panloy in France; duo performances in the Two Moors Festival and Academy's 400+ Recital Series; performing with the Aurora Trio at the Geffrye Museum as part of Spitalfields Festival; Copland's Appalachian Spring for 13 instruments at Sadler's Wells with the Constella Ballet Orchestra and internationally acclaimed dancer Nancy Osbaldeston; and an exciting collaboration of haute cuisine with classical music in Crossmodal Act at the Sketch Club in Chelsea.
In her spare time you will probably find Katy looking for Danish people to try out her new vocabulary on, avidly discovering new and exciting recipes to try, and buried in books in coffee shops London-wide.
Chris Lloyd, piano
Australian Concert Musician, Chris Lloyd, pianist, recently completed study at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he graduated with a Master of Music under principal tutor Rustem Hayroudinoff, having completed a Bachelor of Music (1st Class Hons) at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide.
He has performed throughout Australasia, North America and Europe, winning several awards along the way. In 2011, he was a member of the highly acclaimed Ménage à Trio, which toured New Zealand and Australia, and performed Poulenc’s Concert Champêtre with the Adelaide Youth Orchestra. Throughout his studies in London he was supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the Elder EMR Scholarship.
Chris is primarily interested in developing new performance techniques in line with the ever-changing cultural demands of the 21st Century. Cross-modal collaborations form a bulk of this work; with explorations in experiential art conducted with cooks, visual artists, perfumers, production designers, mixologists, photographers, fashion artists, filmographers and scientists, amongst several others.
Aside from performance work, Chris Lloyd is working with the Australia and New Zealand Literary and Arts Festival, curating several performances and events featured in the 2015 Festival at King’s College, London. He will also be giving masterclasses at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and in 2014, launched his own Management Company, operating in Artist Management and Experience Design. In 2015, he is working on #the100project – 100 performances in one calendar year – let the fun begin.
Chris Lloyd aims to inspire the next generation of music listeners and performers by presenting the highest quality product in the most contemporary and valid way.
Feedback: Ear and Eye
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Her dancing flute describes an arc of movement floating with the notes of virtuosity she breathes, while flexing muscles, never still, in trajectory sinuous, express in body language smooth an ever-changing livery in poignant nuances and shades of music skilfully portrayed. Inseparable pianist, at times flamboyant, wistful, bold, communicates a calm support; an integrated feedback loop of listening; and sensitive to each progression that unfolds, his intuition steers a course through repertoire so broad and rich, from Mozart, Copland, Hindemith - - - The artist snapshots, drawn at speed, embody essence of this pair, encapsulate from every angle moving sequence of dynamic interaction; satisfies demand for colour; ear and eye are thus united on holistic path, as Tango Fantasia ends this concert on a High. Peter Horsfield 23/7/2015 |
Inspired by the lunchtime concert performed at Leatherhead Methodist Church on 23rd July 2015 by Katy Ovens, flute, and Chris Lloyd, piano.
Concert at Home
If you are unable to come along to today's concert, here instead is a selection of links to recordings of the same or similar works for your listening enjoyment.
We rarely track down a recording of the same performer who is giving the concert, however, the recording on the
left is Australian pianist Chris Lloyd, with flautist Cora Crisman in a 2013 recording of Mozart's Andante in C, K315.
On the right we offer an orchestral performance of this same work from the Midsummer Mozart Festival, in Old St Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco. The flautist is Maria Tamburrino:
We rarely track down a recording of the same performer who is giving the concert, however, the recording on the
left is Australian pianist Chris Lloyd, with flautist Cora Crisman in a 2013 recording of Mozart's Andante in C, K315.
On the right we offer an orchestral performance of this same work from the Midsummer Mozart Festival, in Old St Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco. The flautist is Maria Tamburrino:
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Next we come to a recording of flautist David Lonkevich and pianist Maribeth Gowan performing Copland's Duo for Flute and Piano: |
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Our performance of Hindemith's 1936 Sonata for Flute and Piano comes from New York, where the musicians are
Beomjae Kim, flute and Kho Woon Kim, piano. She has a doctorate from the Moscow Conservatoire, and
both are graduates of Mahattan School of Music:
Today's final work is the familiar-sounding Tango Fantasia by Jacob Gade.
The recording on the left is by the Jim-Greer Duo - that's Jerome Jim, flute and Amy Greer at the piano.
Meanwhile, on the right, we offer an equally lively version for violin (Alexander Labko) and piano (Manfred Theilen).
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We hope you have enjoyed your "Concert at Home"
