Music on Thursdays
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Thursday
22nd July 2021
12.30 lunchtime
Charlie Lovell-Jones, violin
appearing courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
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Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Solo Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor BWV 1001 (1720)
i Adagio
ii Fuga (Allegro)
iii Siciliana
iv Presto
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
from Six Sonatas for Solo Violin Op 27 (1924)
Sonata No 5 in G major (dedicated to Belgian violinist, Mathieu Crickboom)
L'Aurore - Lento assai, (Mesure très libre)
Danse Rustique - Allegretto giocoso molto moderato (MM 72 - ♩)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Fantasie for Violin and Piano in C major, D934 (1827)
I Andante molto - Allegro vivace
II Andantino
III Allegro presto
Concert duration approx: 48 minutes
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Solo Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor BWV 1001 (1720)
i Adagio
ii Fuga (Allegro)
iii Siciliana
iv Presto
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
from Six Sonatas for Solo Violin Op 27 (1924)
Sonata No 5 in G major (dedicated to Belgian violinist, Mathieu Crickboom)
L'Aurore - Lento assai, (Mesure très libre)
Danse Rustique - Allegretto giocoso molto moderato (MM 72 - ♩)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Fantasie for Violin and Piano in C major, D934 (1827)
I Andante molto - Allegro vivace
II Andantino
III Allegro presto
Concert duration approx: 48 minutes
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
Charlie Lovell-Jones
Charlie Lovell-Jones, a 21-year-old violinist from Cardiff, has been recognised as one of the most promising young violinists to emerge internationally. Since his Royal Festival Hall debut at 15 years old, Charlie’s solo engagements have included appearances with the English Chamber Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the RTE Concert Orchestra Dublin, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra. His live recordings of The Lark Ascending and Karl Jenkins’ Violin Concerto with BBC NOW have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Wales. He has worked with conductors such as John Wilson, Ken Takaseki, Moritz Gnann, Ben Gernon, Grant Llewellyn, and Jonathan Mann.
In the summer of 2019, Charlie competed in Japan’s Sendai International Music Competition. He is the first UK violinist to have been chosen through pre-selection for many years, and he reached the semi-finals playing two concertos, receiving public commendation from chair of the jury. Charlie will soon compete in the Shanghai Isaac Stern and the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competitions.
Closer to home, Charlie has received first prize in numerous important competitions for instrumentalists in Wales and the UK, including the Blue Riband Instrumental Prize at the National Eisteddfod, and Gregynog Young Musician of the Year competition when he was 14. He was also a BBC Young Musician 2016 String Category Finalist. Charlie is in heavy demand as a concerto soloist and recitalist, where he enjoys talking to his audiences about the music he performs.
In 2020, he was awarded the Harriet Cohen Music Award for British musicians aged 18-30, a Countess of Munster Musical Trust Study Award, and a Drake Calleja Trust Scholarship. He also became a Hattori Foundation Senior Finalist. In his postgraduate audition at London’s Royal Academy of Music, December 2019, Charlie was immediately offered a prestigious Bicentenary Scholarship. This includes a commercial recording with Linn Records among many other exciting enhanced programmatic opportunities.
Charlie has led the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra on several occasions, under the batons of Sir Mark Elder and John Wilson. Charlie has worked as soloist and orchestral musician with Wilson since he was fourteen, being the youngest-ever member of the John Wilson Orchestra and playing on every album released by the multi-award-winning Sinfonia of London. He recently performed Britten’s Double Concerto with Wilson in the Snape Maltings.
Charlie studied Music at Christ Church, Oxford, where he held several scholarships including the Christ Church Prize Scholarship and the William Ewald Instrumental Exhibition Award. He received a first class honours in his degree, and won a Gibbs Prize in Music for the highest final examination mark in his year. Beyond the violin, he was Music Director of the all-male a cappella group, ‘The Oxford Commas’, with whom he toured the east coast of America in April 2019 and produced a music video, and sang tenor in Oxford’s most acclaimed student chamber choir, Schola Cantorum.
At Oxford, Charlie’s further explored his interest in music education. He is excited to develop his skills as an educator as a 2021 Ambassador of the Benedetti Foundation, where he will lead workshops with musicians of all ages while learning from some of the countries foremost musical pedagogues, as well as working closely on several occasions with Nicola Benedetti.
Charlie has a very wide-ranging concert repertory, and has an avid interest in contemporary music. For his upcoming recording with Linn Records, Charlie has commissioned British Composer Award winner Deborah Pritchard to write a new piece for him in response to issues of human rights, which are the focus of the album.
A composer himself, Charlie is the youngest ever person to have received the Composer’s Medal for Under 25s at the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Wales, aged 16. Following this award, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales approached Charlie to write a piece for the orchestra with solo violin and soprano. The resulting tone poem in late romantic style, titled Cariad Cyntaf (First Love), was premiered by BBC NOW, international soprano Rebecca Evans and Charlie at St David’s Hall as part of a St David’s Day celebratory concert, also broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales. At the Urdd Eisteddfod, Charlie has also won first prize in solo piano, instrumental duo, chamber, orchestral, vocal ensemble, choral, and dramatic competitions.
With the support of Cardiff City Council and the Welsh Livery Guild, he studied at the Cambridge International String Academy each summer from 2012-2017, working with such international violinists as Ida Haendel and Yuzuko Horigome. In 2014, he was a participant of the Residart ‘Horigome in Italia’ festival, and in August 2020 he was a student of the Friend’s International Violin Academy, receiving lessons from an illustrious international faculty and a masterclass from Pinchas Zukerman. Charlie also took masterclasses in Oxford with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Vadim Repin, and Menahem Pressler. In April 2021, he attended the Leonidas Kavakos International Masterclass, having been selected as one of 21 violinists from a highly competitive international application base.
Charlie is enjoying giving many recitals at the moment, having recently performed in Southwark Cathedral, High Barnet Festival, and the Andermatt Festival in Switzerland, whose 2020 Winter Festival was opened by Daniel Barenboim. He is especially looking forward to his upcoming performances, which include concertos with the Havant Symphony, Isle of Wight Philharmonic, Cardiff Philharmonic, City of Southampton, and Newbury Symphony Orchestras, and chamber recitals for Stansted Music Club, Hoddesdon Music Club, Beaminster Festival, Bloomsbury Festival, and the Stapleford Granary.
Charlie is a long-term student of eminent violinist Rodney Friend MBE, former concertmaster of the London and New York Philharmonic Orchestras and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He is a beneficiary of the J&A Beare Violin Society, currently playing an important Italian violin made by G B Guadagnini in 1777, loaned to him by a generous benefactor.
In the summer of 2019, Charlie competed in Japan’s Sendai International Music Competition. He is the first UK violinist to have been chosen through pre-selection for many years, and he reached the semi-finals playing two concertos, receiving public commendation from chair of the jury. Charlie will soon compete in the Shanghai Isaac Stern and the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competitions.
Closer to home, Charlie has received first prize in numerous important competitions for instrumentalists in Wales and the UK, including the Blue Riband Instrumental Prize at the National Eisteddfod, and Gregynog Young Musician of the Year competition when he was 14. He was also a BBC Young Musician 2016 String Category Finalist. Charlie is in heavy demand as a concerto soloist and recitalist, where he enjoys talking to his audiences about the music he performs.
In 2020, he was awarded the Harriet Cohen Music Award for British musicians aged 18-30, a Countess of Munster Musical Trust Study Award, and a Drake Calleja Trust Scholarship. He also became a Hattori Foundation Senior Finalist. In his postgraduate audition at London’s Royal Academy of Music, December 2019, Charlie was immediately offered a prestigious Bicentenary Scholarship. This includes a commercial recording with Linn Records among many other exciting enhanced programmatic opportunities.
Charlie has led the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra on several occasions, under the batons of Sir Mark Elder and John Wilson. Charlie has worked as soloist and orchestral musician with Wilson since he was fourteen, being the youngest-ever member of the John Wilson Orchestra and playing on every album released by the multi-award-winning Sinfonia of London. He recently performed Britten’s Double Concerto with Wilson in the Snape Maltings.
Charlie studied Music at Christ Church, Oxford, where he held several scholarships including the Christ Church Prize Scholarship and the William Ewald Instrumental Exhibition Award. He received a first class honours in his degree, and won a Gibbs Prize in Music for the highest final examination mark in his year. Beyond the violin, he was Music Director of the all-male a cappella group, ‘The Oxford Commas’, with whom he toured the east coast of America in April 2019 and produced a music video, and sang tenor in Oxford’s most acclaimed student chamber choir, Schola Cantorum.
At Oxford, Charlie’s further explored his interest in music education. He is excited to develop his skills as an educator as a 2021 Ambassador of the Benedetti Foundation, where he will lead workshops with musicians of all ages while learning from some of the countries foremost musical pedagogues, as well as working closely on several occasions with Nicola Benedetti.
Charlie has a very wide-ranging concert repertory, and has an avid interest in contemporary music. For his upcoming recording with Linn Records, Charlie has commissioned British Composer Award winner Deborah Pritchard to write a new piece for him in response to issues of human rights, which are the focus of the album.
A composer himself, Charlie is the youngest ever person to have received the Composer’s Medal for Under 25s at the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Wales, aged 16. Following this award, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales approached Charlie to write a piece for the orchestra with solo violin and soprano. The resulting tone poem in late romantic style, titled Cariad Cyntaf (First Love), was premiered by BBC NOW, international soprano Rebecca Evans and Charlie at St David’s Hall as part of a St David’s Day celebratory concert, also broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales. At the Urdd Eisteddfod, Charlie has also won first prize in solo piano, instrumental duo, chamber, orchestral, vocal ensemble, choral, and dramatic competitions.
With the support of Cardiff City Council and the Welsh Livery Guild, he studied at the Cambridge International String Academy each summer from 2012-2017, working with such international violinists as Ida Haendel and Yuzuko Horigome. In 2014, he was a participant of the Residart ‘Horigome in Italia’ festival, and in August 2020 he was a student of the Friend’s International Violin Academy, receiving lessons from an illustrious international faculty and a masterclass from Pinchas Zukerman. Charlie also took masterclasses in Oxford with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Vadim Repin, and Menahem Pressler. In April 2021, he attended the Leonidas Kavakos International Masterclass, having been selected as one of 21 violinists from a highly competitive international application base.
Charlie is enjoying giving many recitals at the moment, having recently performed in Southwark Cathedral, High Barnet Festival, and the Andermatt Festival in Switzerland, whose 2020 Winter Festival was opened by Daniel Barenboim. He is especially looking forward to his upcoming performances, which include concertos with the Havant Symphony, Isle of Wight Philharmonic, Cardiff Philharmonic, City of Southampton, and Newbury Symphony Orchestras, and chamber recitals for Stansted Music Club, Hoddesdon Music Club, Beaminster Festival, Bloomsbury Festival, and the Stapleford Granary.
Charlie is a long-term student of eminent violinist Rodney Friend MBE, former concertmaster of the London and New York Philharmonic Orchestras and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He is a beneficiary of the J&A Beare Violin Society, currently playing an important Italian violin made by G B Guadagnini in 1777, loaned to him by a generous benefactor.
Julian Chan
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Born in Kuala Lumpur in 2000, pianist and composer Julian Chan is currently recipient of the Steinway & Sons Award at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studies with Ian Fountain and Michael Dussek.
In November 2020, he was awarded the Sterndale Bennett Prize at the Royal Academy for the best performance of a programme of early Romantic works. In July 2019, he won both the First Prize and Sonata Prize at the Nanyang International Music Competition in Singapore, and was awarded Second Prize at the Oxford Music Festival in January 2019. In addition, he has won many of the major solo piano classes at the Mid-Somerset Festival, including the Piano Concerto category in 2017. |
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Julian began his studies on piano and composition at the age of 3. In 2011, he continued his studies under the specialist music scheme at Wells Cathedral School, at which he received a full scholarship. There, he studied piano with John Byrne and composition with Paul Whitmarsh. In 2016, he was invited to perform at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Tallinn, Estonia, and in 2018, gave performances of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 with the Wells Cathedral School Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Ben Glassberg.
In recent years, Julian has been invited to perform in such prominent series as the Leeds International Concert Season and the Godalming Conservatoire Concert Series, as well as both the Summer and Autumn Piano Festivals at the Royal Academy of Music. He has received masterclasses from many internationally renowned pianists, such as Stephen Hough, Christopher Elton, Fali Pavri, Vanessa Latarche, Ronan O'Hora, and Ian Jones.
Having established a reputation as a versatile chamber musician, Julian has performed as part of the prestigious Manson Ensemble under the batons of maestros Ryan Wigglesworth and Jonathan Berman, and has worked with eminent composers such as Hans Abrahamsen, Michael Berkeley, Howard Skempton and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
A keen composer, Julian had his first book of compositions published at age 6, earning him the title of Malaysia’s Youngest Composer. Subsequently, he has had numerous works premiered by the Wells Cathedral School Symphony Orchestra and New Music Ensemble; he was also appointed pianist in the latter for four years. In turn, he has also premiered the works of numerous fellow composers, not only as part of the ensemble but also as a soloist and within a variety of chamber combinations.
In recent years, Julian has been invited to perform in such prominent series as the Leeds International Concert Season and the Godalming Conservatoire Concert Series, as well as both the Summer and Autumn Piano Festivals at the Royal Academy of Music. He has received masterclasses from many internationally renowned pianists, such as Stephen Hough, Christopher Elton, Fali Pavri, Vanessa Latarche, Ronan O'Hora, and Ian Jones.
Having established a reputation as a versatile chamber musician, Julian has performed as part of the prestigious Manson Ensemble under the batons of maestros Ryan Wigglesworth and Jonathan Berman, and has worked with eminent composers such as Hans Abrahamsen, Michael Berkeley, Howard Skempton and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
A keen composer, Julian had his first book of compositions published at age 6, earning him the title of Malaysia’s Youngest Composer. Subsequently, he has had numerous works premiered by the Wells Cathedral School Symphony Orchestra and New Music Ensemble; he was also appointed pianist in the latter for four years. In turn, he has also premiered the works of numerous fellow composers, not only as part of the ensemble but also as a soloist and within a variety of chamber combinations.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Solo Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor BWV 1001 (1720) i Adagio ii Fuga (Allegro) iii Siciliana iv Presto performed by Shunske Sato for the Netherlands Bach Society's All of Bach Project The first of Bach’s six solo works for violin exudes the most calm. This Sonata no. 1, performed by Shunske Sato for All of Bach, is written in the key of G minor. On a violin, this key has a pure and stable sound, as the two lower strings (the G and the D) fit naturally in the root position triad without needing to use the fingers of the left hand. The sonority of these low ‘open strings’ reverberates throughout the whole sonata. |
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Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (1858-1931) from Six Sonatas for Solo Violin Op 27 (1924) Sonata No 5 in G major (dedicated to Belgian violinist, Mathieu Crickboom) L'Aurore - Lento assai, (Mesure très libre) Danse Rustique - Allegretto giocoso molto moderato (MM 72 - ♩) performed by Charlie Lovell-Jones |
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Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Fantasie for Violin and Piano in C major, D934 (1827) I Andante molto - Allegro vivace II Andantino III Allegro presto performed by Charlie Lovell-Jones |
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Next Thursday's concert
Lucy Driver, flute & Max Bilbe, piano, also courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music - click here
Last Thursday's concert
James Chen, solo violin, plays Bach, Ysaÿe, & Kreisler, also courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music - click here
