Music on Thursdays
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2021 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival
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Ravenglass Trio
Emma Baird, violin
Samuel Vincent, cello
Xiaowen Shang, piano
Programme
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio No 39 in G Major “Gypsy” Hob XV/25 (1795)
1 Andante
2 Poco adagio, cantabile
3 Rondo a l'Ongarese: Presto
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1, No 3 (1794-5)
1 Allegro con brio
2 Andante cantabile con Variazioni
3 Minuetto. Quasi allegro
4 Finale. Prestissimo
Concert duration approx: 50 minutes
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Ravenglass Trio
The Ravenglass Piano Trio is a newly formed trio of students from the Royal Academy of Music. They currently receive guidance from Michael Dussek, and have recently performed in a masterclass with the Gould Piano Trio as part of the Lake District Summer Music Festival.
Emma BairdBorn in Ayrshire, Emma Baird started playing the violin at the age of 4. From 2014-2018, she attended the Junior Department of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Professor Andrea Gajic. Emma has appeared as soloist with the RCS Juniors Symphony Orchestra and String Ensemble, and has won many prizes at the Glasgow Music Festival, including the Ailie Cullen award for the ‘most outstanding performance of the festival’. At the RCS, she was also a three-time winner of the Nan Christie prize for Strings and won the 2016 concerto competition. |
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Born in Ayrshire, Emma Baird started playing the violin at the age of 4. From 2014-2018, she attended the Junior Department of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Professor Andrea Gajic. Emma has appeared as soloist with the RCS Juniors Symphony Orchestra and String Ensemble, and has won many prizes at the Glasgow Music Festival, including the Ailie Cullen award for the ‘most outstanding performance of the festival’. At the RCS, she was also a three-time winner of the Nan Christie prize for Strings and won the 2016 concerto competition.
Emma attended St Mary’s Music School for one year before moving to London, during which she won the Edinburgh Competition Festival concerto category and became a finalist in the Director’s Recital Prize. Emma has played as a first violinist for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and has received masterclasses from Renaud Capucon, Josef Spacek, Tasmin Little, Alina Ibragimova, Natasha Boyarsky and Nicola Benedetti.
Emma is currently an undergraduate scholar of the Royal Academy of Music in London. She studies with Ying Xue and has previously studied with So-Ock Kim. She is a former member of the Frost ASSET Scheme, a prestigious string quartet programme run by the Academy which provides mentoring from members of the Doric Quartet.
Most recently, she has performed with her chamber ensembles at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Marylebone Music Festival and the Lake District Summer Music Festival. She has also performed as concertmaster of the Academy Symphony Orchestra, Manson Ensemble and Academy Opera Orchestra under conductors including Ryan Wigglesworth and Laurence Cummings. Emma works as a Lead Ambassador for the Benedetti Foundation, assisting instrumental teachers and leading workshops for children. She plays on a violin made by Jan Spidlen in 2014, on loan from the RAM.
Emma attended St Mary’s Music School for one year before moving to London, during which she won the Edinburgh Competition Festival concerto category and became a finalist in the Director’s Recital Prize. Emma has played as a first violinist for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and has received masterclasses from Renaud Capucon, Josef Spacek, Tasmin Little, Alina Ibragimova, Natasha Boyarsky and Nicola Benedetti.
Emma is currently an undergraduate scholar of the Royal Academy of Music in London. She studies with Ying Xue and has previously studied with So-Ock Kim. She is a former member of the Frost ASSET Scheme, a prestigious string quartet programme run by the Academy which provides mentoring from members of the Doric Quartet.
Most recently, she has performed with her chamber ensembles at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Marylebone Music Festival and the Lake District Summer Music Festival. She has also performed as concertmaster of the Academy Symphony Orchestra, Manson Ensemble and Academy Opera Orchestra under conductors including Ryan Wigglesworth and Laurence Cummings. Emma works as a Lead Ambassador for the Benedetti Foundation, assisting instrumental teachers and leading workshops for children. She plays on a violin made by Jan Spidlen in 2014, on loan from the RAM.
Samuel Vincent
biographical notes awaited
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Xiaowen Shang
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Xiaowen Shang is a pianist, harpsichordist and versatile musician, interested in early, classical and contemporary music. She has a wide range of repertoire from Renaissance composers such as Orlando Gibbons to contemporary composers like John Cage. Xiaowen is also enthusiastic to collaborate with other musicians, composers and artists, including improvising with silent films, playing concerts with animation and premiering new works. Xiaowen is studying with Joanna MacGregor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, entering her fourth year as an undergraduate with an ongoing full Entrance Scholarship. She received many awards in her school career. Her recent awards include Harold Samuel Bach Prize (harpsichord) and the May Mukle/Douglas Cameron Prize (cello and piano duo) in 2021. |
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She also received the First Prize in the WCOM Harriet Cohen Bach Competition (piano) in the Royal Academy of Music in 2019. As a result of this prize she was invited to join the Yeomen musician programme of The Musician’s Company.
As an active musician performing on stage, her recent important performances include the Vaughan Williams’s Piano quintet in C minor at the Victoria and Albert Museum with the Whitman Ensemble in June, and harpsichord soloist of the Bach Keyboard concerto in F minor with the famous violinist, Rachel Podger as part of the “Bach the European” series in the Royal Academy of Music in April.
She has also performed in venues and festivals such as St James’s Piccadilly, Bloomsbury Festival and the Dartington Festival. In addition, she has been performing in every Summer and Autumn Piano Festival of Royal Academy of Music from 2018 to 2021. Her upcoming performances involve the Leatherhead Concert series in October and the Chamber Festival in the Royal Academy of Music in November.
As an active musician performing on stage, her recent important performances include the Vaughan Williams’s Piano quintet in C minor at the Victoria and Albert Museum with the Whitman Ensemble in June, and harpsichord soloist of the Bach Keyboard concerto in F minor with the famous violinist, Rachel Podger as part of the “Bach the European” series in the Royal Academy of Music in April.
She has also performed in venues and festivals such as St James’s Piccadilly, Bloomsbury Festival and the Dartington Festival. In addition, she has been performing in every Summer and Autumn Piano Festival of Royal Academy of Music from 2018 to 2021. Her upcoming performances involve the Leatherhead Concert series in October and the Chamber Festival in the Royal Academy of Music in November.
2021 Mole Valley
Arts Alive Festival
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio No 39 in G Major “Gypsy” Hob XV/25 (1795) (15m00)
1 Andante
2 Poco adagio, cantabile
3 Rondo a l'Ongarese: Presto
This performance is by the Emerald Piano Trio, Aleksandr Snytkin, violin, Marie-Thaïs Levesque Oliver, cello, and Anastasia Markina, piano, from Northridge Presbyterian Church Dallas Texas:
Piano Trio No 39 in G Major “Gypsy” Hob XV/25 (1795) (15m00)
1 Andante
2 Poco adagio, cantabile
3 Rondo a l'Ongarese: Presto
This performance is by the Emerald Piano Trio, Aleksandr Snytkin, violin, Marie-Thaïs Levesque Oliver, cello, and Anastasia Markina, piano, from Northridge Presbyterian Church Dallas Texas:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1, No 3 (1794-5) (27m00)
1 Allegro con brio
2 Andante cantabile con Variazioni
3 Minuetto. Quasi allegro
4 Finale. Prestissimo
performed here by the brilliant Wilhelm Kempff, piano, Henryk Szeryng, violin, and Ludwig Hoelscher, cello: (if you understand German or Italian, you are in for an extra treat as they discuss their playing)
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Emilie Capulet plays Beethoven piano sonata, and little French gems - click here
