Music on Thursdays
at Leatherhead Methodist Church
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Sponsor: Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Georg Melchior Hoffmann (c1679-1715)
Trio Sonata in G minor Adagio Allegro Adagio Vivace Eugène Joseph Bozza (1905-1991) Sonatine for Flute and Bassoon (1938) I Allegro II Andantino III Vif Thea Musgrave (b1928) Whirlwind for Solo Oboe (2018, premiered at her 90th birthday concert in New York) Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini (c1746-1825 or earlier) Trio for Flute, Oboe & Bassoon No 2 Op 45 Allegro affetuoso Presto Katherine Hoover (1937-2018) Kokopeli for Solo Flute (1990) Judith Margaret Bailey (b1941) Wind Willows Op38 (1999) The Open Road The Piper at the Gates of Dawn The River Bank Wayfarers All Concert duration: 35-40 minutes |
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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Tailleferre Ensemble
Emma Halnan, flute • Nicola Hands, oboe/cor anglais • Amy Thompson, bassoon • Penelope Smith, oboe/cor anglais
The Tailleferre Ensemble is a new chamber collective founded by Nicola Hands and Penelope Smith, with the aim of promoting women in music. The group is a flexible chamber ensemble, offering varied recitals of differing instrumentation and genre.
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Emma Halnan first came to prominence as the woodwind category winner of BBC Young Musician 2010. Since then, she has gone on to perform at many of the major UK venues, and has appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras such as the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Mozart Players, and the Welsh Sinfonia.
She recently won the Sir Karl Jenkins/Arts Club Classical Music Award 2016, in association with Classic FM. As a result, she recorded and broadcast on Classic FM a piece specially composed for her by Sir Karl Jenkins. Emma was principal flute of the European Union Youth Orchestra 2014-16. She has appeared as guest principal flute in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and guest principal piccolo in the English National Opera orchestra. She was selected as a City Music Foundation Artist for 2015-17. Emma studied at the Royal Academy of Music with William Bennett and Kate Hill, and continues to study privately with Robert Winn. Penelope Smith has worked with orchestras throughout the UK and Ireland such as the London Mozart Players, RTE Concert Orchestra, English Festival Orchestra, and Brandenburg Sinfonia. Her concerto performances include J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Oboe d’Amore with the Exeter Symphony Orchestra, Haydn’s Concerto for Oboe with the Orchestra of Situation Opera, Agrell’s Oboe Concerto with the Amadè Players, Marcello’s Concerto for Oboe in D Minor and Holst’s Fugal Concerto with the Astor Palm Court Orchestra.
In 2005, Penelope was awarded a full scholarship to Trinity College of Music, where she studied under Josephine Lively and Christopher O’Neal. After graduating from Trinity College of Music with a BMus(Hons) degree in performance, Penelope went on to study at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of David Theodore, Christopher Cowie and Christine Pendrill. She gained her Masters in Orchestral Performance (MPERF) in 2012 and was the recipient of the Evelyn Rothwell Oboe Prize in 2011. |
Amy Thompson, bassoon, is an RCM Scholar supported by a Musicians’ Company Lambert Mentorship, taking lessons with Sarah Burnett, Martin Gatt and Julie Price. She studied with Rebekah Abramski whilst at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music, as well as Catherine Scott in Cumbria.
As a soloist, Amy performed at the 2018 BDRS day in Hampshire, as well as leading ensembles and lessons. Amy has been active in promoting new music, including the world premiere of a work for unaccompanied bassoon at the National Portrait Gallery (composed by Andrew Mulhern). In 2016, Amy was an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, working with Anna Meredith to compose and perform music for the opening of Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond. In 2014, she performed Bach’s G minor Harpsichord Concerto as soloist with members of the Berkeley Ensemble, and has also appeared with Blackburn Symphony Orchestra. Amy’s orchestral work includes performances with the Brandenburg Sinfonia, John Lewis Partnership Music Society, King’s College London Symphony Orchestra, Golden Sinfonia, Academy of St Mary-le-Bow, and Westmorland Orchestra. Amy was Principal Bassoonist and Pianist in the Westmorland Youth Orchestra (2013-2017). She directed rehearsals of Vivaldi’s Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV 497, and received the Probus Shield for dedication to the orchestra . Nicola Hands graduated with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music Masters programme, where she won the Evelyn Barbirolli prize for oboe and the Grimaldi prize for cor anglais. Nicola was the 2nd oboe/cor anglais player for the Orquestra do Norte from 2015-2017. She also plays regularly with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Chameleon Arts Orchestra and the Orpheus Sinfonia.
Nicola played oboe and cor anglais for The Light Princess at the National Theatre in 2013-2014, and has played for other shows including Miss Saigon in the Prince Edward Theatre. As a recitalist Nicola has performed in venues including St. James Piccadilly, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary’s Perivale, Peterborough Cathedral, St George’s Hanover Square and Waltham Abbey. |
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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:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:
Georg Melchior Hoffmann (c1679-1715)
Trio Sonata in G minor
Adagio • Allegro • Adagio • Vivace
The instrumentation of music of this period was often quite fluid. On the left is a performance by two oboes and bassoon - the players are not named, but the recording is in the youtube account of Alexander Semenov.
On the right is a recording of the short fourth movement - the Vivace - performed by the Trio Il Temperamento, Aliona Kalechyts- Piatrouskay, Baroque violin, Nóra Görbe, recorder, and Ľubica Paurová, harpsichord.
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Eugène Joseph Bozza (1905-1991)
Sonatine for Flute and Bassoon (1938)
I Allegro • II Andantino III Vif
Here is a performance by Atsuko Koga, flute and Gerd Becker. (The music begins at 1m:05) :
Thea Musgrave (b1928)
Whirlwind for Solo Oboe
(2018, premiered at her 90th Birthday Concert in New York)
The entire 90th Birthday Concert from the Church of St Mary the Virgin, New York, is available on youtube.
We have it here in the video on the right. It runs for just under two hours, and features a selection of Thea Musgrave compositions, performed by many different artistes.
Our performance of Whirlwind comes early in the concert, in a section where oboist Nicholas Daniel plays the US Premiere of the earlier solo work Dawn. He follows that with the World Premiere of Whirlwind, which you can listen to in the video on the left:
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Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini (c1746-1825 or earlier)
Trio for Flute, Oboe & Bassoon No 2 Op 45
Allegro affetuoso • Presto
I'm not sure we have ever had to surround a composer's dates with such vagueness before ! Apparently Cambini scarcely appears in records and much myth has developed surrounding his life story. You might like to read more on wikipedia.
Let's hear Fairfield Woodwinds Trio - bassoonist Max Moon, with Eric Hirsch on flute, and Kate Wegner on oboe. This performance comes from Max's Senior Recital at Manhattan School of Music, in May 2017:
Katherine Hoover (1937-2018)
Kokopeli for Solo Flute (1990)
When the choices include a performance by the composer herself, one looks no further. This is Katherine Hoover, in 2014:
Judith Margaret Bailey (b1941)
Wind Willows Op 38 (1999)
The Open Road • The Piper at the Gates of Dawn • The River Bank • Wayfarers All
Well, we don't always find recordings for every work in a concert, and sadly this is one work that has defeated us.
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We hope you have enjoyed this year's Concerts at Home.
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Directions to LMC
Leatherhead Methodist Church a concert each week to the end of November
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Time for our winter break to book next year's musicians and prepare for our AGM:
Music on Thursdays at LMC 2pm Annual General Meeting of Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 3pm AGM Piano Concert (all welcome) 27 February 2020 |
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