Music on Thursdays
at Leatherhead Methodist Church
12.30 lunchtime
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Sponsor: Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
Trio in E♭, Op 44 for piano, clarinet, and cello (1854-1856) Andante; Allegro moderato Adagio Minuetto, Allegro Finale: Allegro Concert duration: 30-35 minutes |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Scordatura Collective
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Poppy Beddoe, clarinet
Poppy Beddoe is a professional clarinettist based in London. Specialising in Chamber Music, Poppy performs extensively throughout the UK and Europe.
With the Oriole Quartet, she has performed at the Barnes Festival, the Clifton International Music Festival and in Carmona Spain. In 2014 Poppy formed the Temple Ensemble, a mixed Chamber Ensemble which expands and contracts according to the chosen repertoire. The group have performed at the Wigmore Hall, Gloucester Cathedral and at the Pastel en Scène and Marcilhac Festivals in France.
Each year Poppy organises an eight concert tour for the group in the South of France. This year Poppy will be playing the Mozart and Brahms Quintet’s with the ensemble in such prestigious venues as the Conques Abbey and at the Marcilhac-sur-Célé Festival.
Poppy is also in much demand as a soloist and orchestral musician. She is looking forward to playing Malcolm Arnold’s Second Concerto with conductor Matthew Taylor in December 2019, the Mozart Concerto at the Clifton International Music Festival in 2021 and giving a recitals at the Marlborough Summer School and St Martin in the Fields.
She plays regularly as Principal Clarinet with various orchestras around London including the Barnes Festival Orchestra and the Nonclassical Orchestra. Poppy is a Chamber Music coach and Musicianship Teacher at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and she also teaches Clarinet and Chamber Music at Bradfield College. Poppy is the Artistic Director of the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival.
With the Oriole Quartet, she has performed at the Barnes Festival, the Clifton International Music Festival and in Carmona Spain. In 2014 Poppy formed the Temple Ensemble, a mixed Chamber Ensemble which expands and contracts according to the chosen repertoire. The group have performed at the Wigmore Hall, Gloucester Cathedral and at the Pastel en Scène and Marcilhac Festivals in France.
Each year Poppy organises an eight concert tour for the group in the South of France. This year Poppy will be playing the Mozart and Brahms Quintet’s with the ensemble in such prestigious venues as the Conques Abbey and at the Marcilhac-sur-Célé Festival.
Poppy is also in much demand as a soloist and orchestral musician. She is looking forward to playing Malcolm Arnold’s Second Concerto with conductor Matthew Taylor in December 2019, the Mozart Concerto at the Clifton International Music Festival in 2021 and giving a recitals at the Marlborough Summer School and St Martin in the Fields.
She plays regularly as Principal Clarinet with various orchestras around London including the Barnes Festival Orchestra and the Nonclassical Orchestra. Poppy is a Chamber Music coach and Musicianship Teacher at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and she also teaches Clarinet and Chamber Music at Bradfield College. Poppy is the Artistic Director of the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival.
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Yseult Cooper Stockdale, cello
Yseult Cooper Stockdale enjoys a varied career between Ireland and the UK. Since moving to London in 2018 to join Southbank Sinfonia she has enjoyed working with Welsh National Opera, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and returns frequently to perform in Ireland to work with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra while also performing as a soloist and chamber musician.
She recently enjoyed a nationwide tour with the Alberi Piano Trio and will be performing at Chamber Music on Valentia later this month. 2018 concerto performances included Schumann with the Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra, and Beethoven’s triple concerto with Wexford Sinfonia.
As a chamber musician Yseult has played with Musici Ireland, Ficino Ensemble, and performed at the Beckett Chamber Music Festival, and the Chamber Music Gathering at the National Concert Hall in 2017 and 2019.
Yseult has worked with Crash Ensemble and is a member of contemporary ensemble Kirkos, with whom she has given over 70 premiers, including several solo cello commissions.
Yseult was a prizewinner at the 2015 Freemasons Young Musician of the Year and the 2016 Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe scholarship. She has a 1st Class Honours MA, from the CIT Cork school of Music, and BA, from the RIAM (Royal Irish Academy of Music), where her teachers were Christopher Marwood and Bill Butt. In 2015/16 she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig, with Peter Hörr.
She recently enjoyed a nationwide tour with the Alberi Piano Trio and will be performing at Chamber Music on Valentia later this month. 2018 concerto performances included Schumann with the Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra, and Beethoven’s triple concerto with Wexford Sinfonia.
As a chamber musician Yseult has played with Musici Ireland, Ficino Ensemble, and performed at the Beckett Chamber Music Festival, and the Chamber Music Gathering at the National Concert Hall in 2017 and 2019.
Yseult has worked with Crash Ensemble and is a member of contemporary ensemble Kirkos, with whom she has given over 70 premiers, including several solo cello commissions.
Yseult was a prizewinner at the 2015 Freemasons Young Musician of the Year and the 2016 Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe scholarship. She has a 1st Class Honours MA, from the CIT Cork school of Music, and BA, from the RIAM (Royal Irish Academy of Music), where her teachers were Christopher Marwood and Bill Butt. In 2015/16 she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig, with Peter Hörr.
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Fionnuala Ward, piano
A graduate of the Royal College of Music studying with Ashley Wass, Fionnuala Ward enjoys a diverse musical career, and is in demand across London as a chamber musician, accompanist and orchestral pianist.
Recent solo performances include Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Laganside Sinfonia, performances as part of the RCM Rush Hour Recital series and the RCM Keyboard Festival, and in 2018 she made her debut at St John’s Smith Square performing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F.
She featured as orchestral pianist in a Shostakovich Symphony project at Cadogan Hall with Orion Orchestra, and performed with the London Philharmonic Foyle Future Firsts at the Royal Festival Hall in a memorial concert for Oliver Knussen.
In 2017 she was awarded the Hester Dickson Duo Prize with soprano Sinead O’Kelly for the Oxenfoord International Summer School, and is currently the orchestral pianist for the European Union Youth Orchestra, joining them for their 2018 Summer Tour with performances across Europe, including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. She also performed with EUYO, under conductor Vasily Petrenko, at the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in Paris for world leaders, including President Macron.
Fionnuala recently embarked on a contract with Lincoln Center Stage, being hand-picked for a piano quintet for the maiden voyage of the Nieuw Statendam, including a cruise attended by the ship’s Godmother, Oprah Winfrey.
Fionnuala is also an accomplished violinist, which has greatly added to the versatility of her career in London, affording her the opportunity to perform with many orchestras, including concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, at the Barbican with the Nonclassical label, recording at Abbey Road, and touring Prague as a principal with Imperial College Symphony Orchestra.
Before moving to London, Fionnuala received a First Class Honours degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying under Korean pianist, Sinae Lee. Born in Co Derry, she began playing piano at the age of 4, tutored by Irish concert pianist Ruth McGinley. She was requested to perform for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at 15, and has also performed live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Ulster.
During her time at the Royal Conservatoire, she won the Peter Lindsay Miller Prize for piano duo, and received Highly Commended in the Governors’ Recital Prize. Performance highlights in Scotland include a solo recital at the Edinburgh Fringe, collaborating with the Red Note Ensemble conducted by Garry Walker, performing at the Aberdeen International Festival and working extensively with Les Sirenes Female Chamber Choir, which she accompanied for five years. Named Choir of the Year in 2012, Fionnuala recorded two commercial albums with the ensemble, There is No Rose with Nimbus records, and Sing Willow with Albion Records, and performed frequently throughout the UK, including at Glasgow Cathedral, Bridgewater Hall and the Royal Festival Hall.
In 2013, she spent a semester abroad studying at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Poland with Zbigniew Raubo and Piotr Banasik, and in 2015 she was invited to attend the Young Artists Programme at the Clandeboye Festival, receiving private lessons with Barry Douglas. In the same year she competed in the City of Cantu International Concerto Competition in Italy, and in 2016 she was selected as the first recipient of the Peter Rankin pianist internship for Northern Ireland Opera’s Festival of Voice, receiving coaching from Iain Burnside. Other masterclasses include Peter Donohoe, John O’Conor, Roy Howat, Pascal Rogé, Barry Douglas, Richard Goode, Philip Kawin and Malcolm Martineau.
In her free time, she enjoys drinking too much coffee, petting stray cats, and perfecting her bolognese recipe.
Recent solo performances include Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Laganside Sinfonia, performances as part of the RCM Rush Hour Recital series and the RCM Keyboard Festival, and in 2018 she made her debut at St John’s Smith Square performing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F.
She featured as orchestral pianist in a Shostakovich Symphony project at Cadogan Hall with Orion Orchestra, and performed with the London Philharmonic Foyle Future Firsts at the Royal Festival Hall in a memorial concert for Oliver Knussen.
In 2017 she was awarded the Hester Dickson Duo Prize with soprano Sinead O’Kelly for the Oxenfoord International Summer School, and is currently the orchestral pianist for the European Union Youth Orchestra, joining them for their 2018 Summer Tour with performances across Europe, including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. She also performed with EUYO, under conductor Vasily Petrenko, at the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in Paris for world leaders, including President Macron.
Fionnuala recently embarked on a contract with Lincoln Center Stage, being hand-picked for a piano quintet for the maiden voyage of the Nieuw Statendam, including a cruise attended by the ship’s Godmother, Oprah Winfrey.
Fionnuala is also an accomplished violinist, which has greatly added to the versatility of her career in London, affording her the opportunity to perform with many orchestras, including concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, at the Barbican with the Nonclassical label, recording at Abbey Road, and touring Prague as a principal with Imperial College Symphony Orchestra.
Before moving to London, Fionnuala received a First Class Honours degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying under Korean pianist, Sinae Lee. Born in Co Derry, she began playing piano at the age of 4, tutored by Irish concert pianist Ruth McGinley. She was requested to perform for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at 15, and has also performed live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Ulster.
During her time at the Royal Conservatoire, she won the Peter Lindsay Miller Prize for piano duo, and received Highly Commended in the Governors’ Recital Prize. Performance highlights in Scotland include a solo recital at the Edinburgh Fringe, collaborating with the Red Note Ensemble conducted by Garry Walker, performing at the Aberdeen International Festival and working extensively with Les Sirenes Female Chamber Choir, which she accompanied for five years. Named Choir of the Year in 2012, Fionnuala recorded two commercial albums with the ensemble, There is No Rose with Nimbus records, and Sing Willow with Albion Records, and performed frequently throughout the UK, including at Glasgow Cathedral, Bridgewater Hall and the Royal Festival Hall.
In 2013, she spent a semester abroad studying at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Poland with Zbigniew Raubo and Piotr Banasik, and in 2015 she was invited to attend the Young Artists Programme at the Clandeboye Festival, receiving private lessons with Barry Douglas. In the same year she competed in the City of Cantu International Concerto Competition in Italy, and in 2016 she was selected as the first recipient of the Peter Rankin pianist internship for Northern Ireland Opera’s Festival of Voice, receiving coaching from Iain Burnside. Other masterclasses include Peter Donohoe, John O’Conor, Roy Howat, Pascal Rogé, Barry Douglas, Richard Goode, Philip Kawin and Malcolm Martineau.
In her free time, she enjoys drinking too much coffee, petting stray cats, and perfecting her bolognese recipe.
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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:
Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
Trio in E♭, Op 44 for piano, clarinet, and cello (1854-1856)
Andante; Allegro moderato
Adagio
Minuetto, Allegro
Finale: Allegro
The main work in our concert today is Louise Farrenc's Opus 44 Trio. This 2017 recording has Charlie Dale-Harris, clarinet, and Corinna Boylan, cello. Corrinna was due to play for us, but now has other commitments. And if you thought the face at the piano was looking familiar, he is none other than one of our frequent performers - Thomas Ang.
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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