12.30 lunchtime

Thursday 25th October



Emily Newman
bassoon

Thomas Ang
piano


courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music


Venue: LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church
please use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose
car parks, about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC in Church Road
Season Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor

Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert &
Arts Society
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Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major K191 (1774)
     1 Allegro 
    2 Andante ma Adagio
    3 Rondo: tempo di menuetto

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Vocalise-Étude, arr Fernand Oubradous (1903-1986)
Pièce - Adagio, molto tranquillo

Camille Saint Saens (1835-1921)
Bassoon Sonata in G major Op 168 (1921)
    1 Allegro moderato
    2 Allegro Scherzando
    3 Molto Adagio - Allegro moderato


Concert duration: 40-45 minutes
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Emily Newman

Emily began learning the bassoon with Rachel Edmunds in her hometown of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire before moving to Chetham’s School of Music where she continued the bassoon with Graham Salvage and Anthea Wood. Whilst at Chetham’s Emily achieved a DipABRSM and LRSM diploma.

Emily is currently in the second year of her MA degree at the Royal Academy of Music where she studies the modern bassoon with Robin O’Neill and baroque and classical bassoon with Andrew Watts.

Prior to the Academy Emily studied at the Royal College of Music with Joost Bosdijk (modern) and Wouter Verschuren (historical) where she received a BMus first class honours.

Emily enjoys playing solo, orchestral and chamber music. She has freelanced with orchestras such as the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast as well as taking part in sit-in schemes with the Philharmonia. As a soloist Emily has performed the Weber Bassoon Concerto with the Musicale Young Artists Programme and recently got to the second round of the RAM club prize where she performed Vivaldi’s bassoon concerto no 37.

Emily enjoys performing chamber music in a variety of ensembles including playing in the Gaudier Ensemble at the Cerne Abbas festival in June 2017 where she performed alongside Robin O’Neill. She also plays historical bassoon in chamber ensembles
including performing with the Academy of Ancient Music and the Hanover Band as part of their schemes.
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Thomas Ang

Thomas is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School under Andrew West and Eugene Asti, having previously studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Hamish Milne and Diana Ketler. He has won prizes for his performances of Beethoven, Frederick Delius, Arthur Bliss and the contemporary piano repertoire.

In other chamber groups he maintains a strong interest in unusual repertoire of the late Romantic, as well as mid-20th-century British music. He has also earned recognition as a specialist in the music of Nikolai Kapustin, having played and conducted world premieres of his compositions in the UK, Singapore, Australia and Taiwan.

Off the concert stage, Thomas works as a répétiteur and ballet pianist. He sometimes 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.
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Concert at Home

If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major K191
1 Allegro  •  2 Andante ma Adagio  •  3 Rondo: tempo di menuetto

Today's major work comes from the Roy Barnett Recital Hall, at the University of British Columbia Music Department. The bassoonist is Carrie To, with accompanist Yossi Chen:

Gabriel Fauré
Vocalise-Étude, arr Fernand Oubradous
Pièce - Adagio, molto tranquillo

The piece was originally written by Fauré, in 1906, as Vocalise-Étude. It was subsequently transctribed for bassoon by French bassoon player, conductor and composer Fernand Oubradous, and named simply Pièce.
Bassoonist Josephone Whiteis was a winner at the 2013 Music Doing Good awards. MDG works in the Houston area, bringing instrumental teaching and more to children who might not otherwise have access to music at this level:

Camille Saint Saens
Bassoon Sonata in G major Op 168
1 Allegro moderato  •  2 Allegro Scherzando  •  3 Molto Adagio - Allegro moderato

Krisztina Fauldy is the bassoonist in our recording, with accompanist Jenö Nyári. Ms Faludy has been professor of bassoon in the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, since 1997. Before that she spent seveal years teaching bassoon at the Detmold Music High School:

Oubradous plays Beethoven

This week's little extra' is a recording of Fernand Oubradous himself, with clarinettist Pierre Lefebvre, playing Beethoven's Duo No 3 in Bb major, a sound-only recording from 1938-39, on the Oiseau-Lyre label.
There are two movements:

We hope you have enjoyed your  Concert at Home.
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