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Sponsor: 2017 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Concert Piece No 2 in D minor for clarinet, basset-horn, and piano Op 114 (1833) 1 Presto 2 Andante 3 Allegro grazioso Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114 (1891) 1 Allegro 2 Adagio 4 Allegro Bill Douglas (b1944, Canada) Suite Cantando (2006) I Sambata IV Cantabile III Miles Concert duration: 40-50 minutes |
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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
The Ellis Ensemble has quickly established itself as an exciting and brilliant chamber group with the unusual combination of piano, clarinet and bassoon. Described by Southbank Sinfonia as an “exceptional young trio” they have quickly been building a reputation through their virtuosity, expressive playing and original repertoire.
Its members are three outstanding musicians much in demand internationally as orchestral, chamber and solo artists with regular performances at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, Cadogan Hall and the Moscow Festival.
As a trio they have made appearances at venues including St John's Smith's Square, Buckingham Music Festival and St James's Piccadilly. They have been selected as 'Recommended Artists' by Making Music and also as artists on King's Place's Chamber Studio programme.
Ellis Ensemble have a strong commitment to championing both traditional works for this wonderful mixture of instruments as well as promoting new music by living composers. The British composer Hannah Kendall has arranged her piece Iscariot Blues for them which is being recorded for BBC Radio 3 broadcast and composer Shiva Feshareki is also writing a work for the trio. Future projects include an Austrian concert tour in Spring 2018 and a recording featuring both new and traditional works.
Kimon Parry
Kimon Parry is a young clarinettist whose recent successes include winning the 2011 Clarinet and Saxophone Society (CASS) Solo Clarinet Competition, reaching the 2012 finals of the Wind and Percussion section of the Royal Overseas-League Annual Competition, and being awarded Recommended Artist status under Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Award scheme for 2012.
In 2011 Kimon completed his Master of Arts with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Mark Van de Wiel, with the financial support from the Countess of Munster Trust, the Ann Driver Trust and the Picker Award. During his undergraduate years as a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music, Kimon studied under Richard Hosford and won the RCM Edward and Helen Hague Senior Woodwind Prize in 2008 before graduating with a First Class Honours in 2009.
Kimon has played professionally on a number of occasions with the London Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia and the London Sinfonietta. In 2010 he was on trial with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also played with the Orpheus Sinfonia, the London Firebird Orchestra, the Britten-Pears Orchestra and in his youth, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Kimon has featured as a soloist on the Royal Academy of Music’s ‘American Icons’ CD. He has also participated on the Live Music Now! scheme as a founder member of the Davis Clarinet Quartet. In 2013/14 Kimon will continue to perform as a soloist on the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme.
Kimon was a member of Southbank Sinfonia 11.
In 2011 Kimon completed his Master of Arts with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Mark Van de Wiel, with the financial support from the Countess of Munster Trust, the Ann Driver Trust and the Picker Award. During his undergraduate years as a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music, Kimon studied under Richard Hosford and won the RCM Edward and Helen Hague Senior Woodwind Prize in 2008 before graduating with a First Class Honours in 2009.
Kimon has played professionally on a number of occasions with the London Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia and the London Sinfonietta. In 2010 he was on trial with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also played with the Orpheus Sinfonia, the London Firebird Orchestra, the Britten-Pears Orchestra and in his youth, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Kimon has featured as a soloist on the Royal Academy of Music’s ‘American Icons’ CD. He has also participated on the Live Music Now! scheme as a founder member of the Davis Clarinet Quartet. In 2013/14 Kimon will continue to perform as a soloist on the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme.
Kimon was a member of Southbank Sinfonia 11.
Susanne Simma
Austrian-born bassoonist Susanne Simma recently finished her studies at the Royal College of Music, generously supported by the Lions Club Vorarlberg, two RCM scholarships, and a scholarship of the “Impuls Privatstiftung.” She was also awarded the prestigious “Leverhulme Orchestral Mentorship” for her final year.
Before that, she attended the Landeskonservatorium Vorarlberg, gaining a distinction for her “Bachelor of Arts” and was twice awarded a scholarship given to talented musicians from the county Vorarlberg. She has studied with and taken part in masterclasses with many eminent bassoonsists including Richard Galler, David Seidel, Ferenc Bognar, Allen Smith, Lyndon Watts, Daniel Jemison and Alexander Meyrick and Martin Gatt.
Susanne is much in demand as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. In 2011 she was selected as an RCM Rising Star and has recently performed the Vivaldi Concerto in B flat Major with the Southbank Sinfonia at various venues, as well as the Concerto for Bassoon in B - Dur by Mozart and a modern bassoon composition Fantasy for a Blue Bassoon, written by Gernot Wolfgang.
We welcome the return of Susanne who last played a Leatherhead lunchtime concert in 2012, with Anna Hashimoto and Philip Haworth. She is currently the Co-Principal Bassoonist of Southbank Sinfonia and plays regularly with the Sinfonieorchester Vorarlberg.
Before that, she attended the Landeskonservatorium Vorarlberg, gaining a distinction for her “Bachelor of Arts” and was twice awarded a scholarship given to talented musicians from the county Vorarlberg. She has studied with and taken part in masterclasses with many eminent bassoonsists including Richard Galler, David Seidel, Ferenc Bognar, Allen Smith, Lyndon Watts, Daniel Jemison and Alexander Meyrick and Martin Gatt.
Susanne is much in demand as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. In 2011 she was selected as an RCM Rising Star and has recently performed the Vivaldi Concerto in B flat Major with the Southbank Sinfonia at various venues, as well as the Concerto for Bassoon in B - Dur by Mozart and a modern bassoon composition Fantasy for a Blue Bassoon, written by Gernot Wolfgang.
We welcome the return of Susanne who last played a Leatherhead lunchtime concert in 2012, with Anna Hashimoto and Philip Haworth. She is currently the Co-Principal Bassoonist of Southbank Sinfonia and plays regularly with the Sinfonieorchester Vorarlberg.
Belinda Jones
Educated at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music with teachers including Ryzard Bakst, Ronan O Hora and Patsy Toh, London-born pianist Belinda Jones has recently finished a Masters with distinction at the Royal College of Music, studying with Simon Lepper and Roger Vignoles. Here, she held a full scholarship, kindly supported by the Claud and Margaret Craddy award and an AHRC award and was awarded a Junior Fellowship there for 2012/13.
Selected as an RCM Rising Star, Belinda is much in demand as an artist, winning numerous competitions including the 2011 MBF Megan Foster prize at the Maggie Teyte competition, as well as prizes in the Lies Askonas, Major Van der Pump and RCM Schumann competitions and has been selected as a Samling Foundation artist. She has made her debut at the Wigmore Hall and Cadogan Hall and was invited to play at the Moscow Festival. Other performance highlights include the Oxford Lieder Festival, Southbank Centre's Bernstein Festival at the Royal Festival Hall with Marin Alsop, St James Piccadilly and concerto appearances at the Fairfield Halls and the Bridgewater Hall. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and recorded with violinist Ning Feng for Intermusica.
Selected as an RCM Rising Star, Belinda is much in demand as an artist, winning numerous competitions including the 2011 MBF Megan Foster prize at the Maggie Teyte competition, as well as prizes in the Lies Askonas, Major Van der Pump and RCM Schumann competitions and has been selected as a Samling Foundation artist. She has made her debut at the Wigmore Hall and Cadogan Hall and was invited to play at the Moscow Festival. Other performance highlights include the Oxford Lieder Festival, Southbank Centre's Bernstein Festival at the Royal Festival Hall with Marin Alsop, St James Piccadilly and concerto appearances at the Fairfield Halls and the Bridgewater Hall. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and recorded with violinist Ning Feng for Intermusica.
Concert at Home
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Our concert today opens with Mendelssohn's lively Concert Piece No 2 in D minor for clarinet, basset-horn, and piano. The performers here, in Dorchester Abbey, are The Fibonacci Sequence, Julian Farrel, clarinet, Nick Bucknall, bassett horn, and Kathron Sturrock, piano.
The second item in today's concert consists of three movements from Brahms' Clarinet Trio in A minor.
For Concert at Home we have found a performance of the complete work, all four movements,
in individual videos. The musicians are members of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra:
Liu Yoko, clarinet, Liu Chang, bassoon and Masumi Tsuchiya, piano.
For Concert at Home we have found a performance of the complete work, all four movements,
in individual videos. The musicians are members of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra:
Liu Yoko, clarinet, Liu Chang, bassoon and Masumi Tsuchiya, piano.
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1st movement - Allegro
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2nd movement - Adagio
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3rd movement - Andantino grazioso
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4th movement - Allegro
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Our final work in this concert is from Canadian composer Bill Douglas. We will hear just three movements from his Suite Cantando, which is mirrored in the performance on the left by Wing Yin Pang, clarinet, Saemee Kim, bassoon, and Chun Yi Tsang, piano.
On the right here's a chance to hear Bill Douglas himself. A bassoonist and pianist, here he plays piano, with Peter Cooper, oboe, and Yoshi Ishikawa, bassoon, in the first movement of Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano, marked: Bebop cantabile !
On the right here's a chance to hear Bill Douglas himself. A bassoonist and pianist, here he plays piano, with Peter Cooper, oboe, and Yoshi Ishikawa, bassoon, in the first movement of Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano, marked: Bebop cantabile !
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I Sambata • IV Cantabile • III Miles
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Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano, 1: Bebop cantabile
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