Music on Thursdays at LMC
12.30 lunchtime
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Season Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Katherine Hoover (b1937)
Trio for flutes I Allegro II Largo V Allegro molto Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) from Sonata for flute and piano FP184 Cantilena assez lent (Lara Currie & Timothy Adesina) Amanda Jane Fox (b19__) Infinity (Anna Hofmann & Timothy Adesina) Gary Schocker (b1959) Flutes in the Garden (2006) I Madonna Lilies II Ants / Peonies IV One Day Beneath the Mushroom Cap Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) Pièce pour flûte seule (1936) (Caera D'Arcy) Tilmann Dehnhard (b19__) Wake Up! for piccolo and alarm clock (Anna Hofmann) see below for a poem inspired by this piece Gary Schocker These Flutes are Made for Walkin' (2010) Concert duration: 40 minutes |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
Caera D'Arcy
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Anna Hofmann
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Caera has been playing the flute from a young age. She began studying music at Sacred Heart Language College where she also started playing the French horn. In 2013 Caera continued to her A-Levels at St Dominic’s sixth Form College, where she began piano and achieved grade 8 in Flute.
She has been involved in Harrow Young Musicians from an early age, playing in the Philharmonic Orchestra and Symphonic winds, performing at such venues as Indigo O2, LSO St Luke’s, and the Royal Albert Hall; additionally travelling to Belgium, Brittany, and Venice to perform. In 2016 she won the Ealing Music festival as solo instrumentalist achieving Distinction. In 2017, she was awarded the Bernard and Hayley Prize, Highly Commended, in the LCM Classical Instrumentalist competition. In the same year Caera achieved her ALCM Diploma with distinction. Caera is currently studying for a degree in Music Performance (BMus Hons) at The London College of Music, hoping to graduate in 2018. |
Anna Hofmann was born in Jugenheim, Germany. She started music at the age of four at the School of Music in her home town, where she learned several different instruments. Soon after, she joined a marching band, where she was privileged to participate in several competitions and to perform in countries all over Europe, USA and China.
At the age of 15 Anna started playing the flute and piano and began her music studies at the Academy for Music in Darmstadt. In 2014, she completed her A-Levels in Music and English at Schuldorf Bergstraße. Shortly after, Anna moved to London, where she is currently studying for a degree in Music Performance at The London College of Music, aiming to graduate in 2018. |
Timothy Adesina
Timothy Adesina was born in Abeokuta, capital of Ogun State, Nigeria and started music at a very young age under the tutelage of his father, David Olukayode Adesina.
He plays the piano, organ, recorder and violin. At age 15, he started playing the piano and organ at the Apostolic Faith Mission in Nigeria where he was privileged to perform in numerous concerts with the church choir and orchestra. Timothy has composed several solo and chamber music works including piano solos, duos for piano and violin, trumpet, flute and clarinet. He left his role as a pianist and organist in Nigeria to pursue a BMus Music Performance (Piano) at the London College of Music and finished with a First. He has participated and won prizes in piano competitions. In 2010 he won the second prize in the Musiquest competition in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2015, he won the 2nd price in the Mona Blackman piano competition at the London College of Music. He is currently studying for MMus (piano) at the University of West London. |
Lara Currie
Lara was born in Birmingham, and began her musical studies on the piano from four years old. She later studied flute under which was to become her focal instrument.
Whilst studying for her degree, Lara studied under Amina Hussain for three years before becoming actively involved in music education in Solihull from 2008. Following her love for music education, she later moved to teach in an international school in Prague, in 2011. From 2011-2015, Lara embarked on an MA in Instrumental Teaching through the University of Reading. With this, and her experience in Prague as a teacher, Lara took her interest in music education and experience to the London College of Music where she became coordinator of the LCM Junior College in 2015. She is currently enjoying studying for her MMus in performance, and is taught by Christine Hankin. |
Strange Duet
She starts alarm clock with panache: little electronic timer – dee-dee-dee-DEE dee-dee-dee-DEE, insistently and incessantly, such that one wants to stamp on it, to shut it up immediately, this disturbing rude imposter which intrudes on peaceful slumber. Now comes the clever bit: taking piccolo to her lips, a mischievous glint in her eye, she blends these shrill percussive sounds, at first in low and mournful space, then climbing by octaves, one and two. The syncopations, split with rests, allow the timer to pierce through, still incessant, but tempered by the music’s overlay, which relentlessly gathers pace. At last she silences the timer, with deft flourish. This fleeting piece paradoxically seems to have lasted for ever. Briefly, she proceeds alone, ascending rapidly – assails the ears with one last screeching staccato spit. Peter Horsfield 28/4/2018 Inspired by the lunchtime performance of Wake Up! For piccolo and alarm clock, by Tilmann Dehnhard, played by Anna Hofmann, at Leatherhead Methodist Church on 26th April 2018
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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 buttons below:
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Our concert begins with Katherine Hoover's Trio for flutes. The flutists here are Mauro Rossi, Stefano Agostini and Wendela van Swol, performing in the Teatro C, Livorno, Italy:
A popular piece of mood setting music in French TV drama is Poulenc's beautiful Cantilena from his Sonata for flute and piano. Davide Formisano performs here in the Kumho Art Hall, in Seoul, South Korea.
Flutes in the Garden is the name of our next piece, by composer Gary Schocker. The four movements are entitled: Madonna Lilies, Ants / Peonies, Ferns, and One Day Beneath the Mushroom Cap:
In Ibert's Pièce pour flûte seule we hear the 17-year old Francesca Maiella:
When I set up this webpage the clocks had just gone back. All I wanted was to get that missing hour back.
Next we hear a piece of music for solo piccolo and alarm clock.
Here's Christine E Beard, at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, with Wake Up ! by Tilmann Dehnhard:
I have not managed to find Gary Schocker's These Flutes are made for Walkin', but here instead is the man himself performing his own Wild Swan, with pianist Fumi Kuwajima, at Holy Cross Monastery, New York, where he leads summer masterclasses.
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
