Music on Thursdays
at Leatherhead Methodist Church
12.30 lunchtime
Emilie Capulet
Venue: LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church please use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose car parks, about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC in Church Road |
Season Sponsor: Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Claude Debussy:
August 1862 - March 1918 A Centenary Celebration Pour le Piano L95 (1894-1901) 1 Prélude 2 Sarabande 3 Toccata from Préludes, Book 1, L117 (winter 1909/1910) La Cathédrale Engloutie The Submerged Cathedral Profondément calme Deeply calm from Estampes (Prints) L100 (1903) Jardins sous la pluie Gardens in the Rain from Préludes, Book 1, L117 (winter 1909/1910) La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin The Girl with the Flaxen Hair L’Isle Joyeuse L106 (1904) The joyful island Concert duration: 35-45 minutes |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Emilie Capulet
Emilie Capulet is an award-winning international concert pianist, lecturer, writer and musicologist. She regularly gives solo piano recitals, lecture-recitals and chamber music concerts in international music festivals and concert halls in Europe, the USA, Canada and Latin America. Recent engagements include a concert tour of Holland with recitals in Amsterdam and North Brabant, a performance at the Ottawa Valley Music Festival, Ontario, a concert at the B.A.R.N. in Pontiac, Quebec, concerts in France for European Heritage Day and at the Château de Lourmarin, recitals in the UK at Kings Place, Cheltenham Town Hall, Winchester Cathedral, Buxton Opera House, the Halifax Festival, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Guildford International Music Festival, the Sevenoaks Summer Festival, the Princes Theatre (Clacton) for the Clacton Arts & Literary Society, The Woodville Theatre and the Woodford Concert Society. Chamber music recitals include Dvorak’s piano quintet in Oxford's historic Holywell Music Room with the Tippett Quartet and a performance in the Ealing Music and Film Festival with the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble. She has performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Coldstream Guards and LCM Camerata in London, and has recently appeared with the Portsmouth Festival Choir as soloist in Constant Lambert’s Rio Grande at Portsmouth Cathedral. Regularly invited as guest artist on luxury cruise liners, she has performed on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and has led musical cruises on the Rhine and the Danube, as well as cultural tours to music festivals in France.
Emilie has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio Canada, France Bleu Provence, and Nicaraguan TV and radio. She has recorded a CD of works by Beethoven and Chopin with BMP and is currently preparing a CD of 20th century French piano repertoire on the Toccata Classics label. While touring Latin America, she received the ExpressArte award for her exceptional contribution to Nicaraguan culture, art and education.
In addition to her busy solo career, Emilie has built a strong reputation as a lecture-recitalist and guest speaker. She often gives talks on the relations between music, literature and painting in international conferences and music societies. Invited by Glyndebourne to give pre-performance lectures on their operatic touring season, Emilie has also appeared for the Société Nationale des Professeurs de Français en Grande-Bretagne, the Cercle Français of Esher and the Amitiés Françaises of Godalming, as well as lecturing for Rivages du Monde and ACE Cultural Tours. As well as a Master of Music (MMus) in Performance from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, her interest in the arts as a whole has earned her an MA on Shakespeare and a PhD on the musicality of Modernist literature. She has published on many aspects of music history and contemporary music performance practices, as well as on music in healthcare. Her book on Virginia Woolf: a Musical Life, was published by Bloomsbury Heritage and she regularly writes Prefaces for the Repertoire & Opera Explorer series of study scores published by Musikproduktion Hoeflich (Heidelberg).
Emilie is often invited to give piano masterclasses and workshops in schools and universities worldwide, including most recently Chichester University, Hazelwood School and Trinity School, Croydon. She has just returned from Asia, where she gave piano masterclasses in China at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guanzhou, the Hong Kong Baptist University and at the London College of Music's Hong Kong campus at the Nan Yang College of Higher Education.
Emilie is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Senior Lecturer and Head of Classical Performance at the London College of Music, University of West London. She is a member of the Peer Review Panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Emilie has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio Canada, France Bleu Provence, and Nicaraguan TV and radio. She has recorded a CD of works by Beethoven and Chopin with BMP and is currently preparing a CD of 20th century French piano repertoire on the Toccata Classics label. While touring Latin America, she received the ExpressArte award for her exceptional contribution to Nicaraguan culture, art and education.
In addition to her busy solo career, Emilie has built a strong reputation as a lecture-recitalist and guest speaker. She often gives talks on the relations between music, literature and painting in international conferences and music societies. Invited by Glyndebourne to give pre-performance lectures on their operatic touring season, Emilie has also appeared for the Société Nationale des Professeurs de Français en Grande-Bretagne, the Cercle Français of Esher and the Amitiés Françaises of Godalming, as well as lecturing for Rivages du Monde and ACE Cultural Tours. As well as a Master of Music (MMus) in Performance from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, her interest in the arts as a whole has earned her an MA on Shakespeare and a PhD on the musicality of Modernist literature. She has published on many aspects of music history and contemporary music performance practices, as well as on music in healthcare. Her book on Virginia Woolf: a Musical Life, was published by Bloomsbury Heritage and she regularly writes Prefaces for the Repertoire & Opera Explorer series of study scores published by Musikproduktion Hoeflich (Heidelberg).
Emilie is often invited to give piano masterclasses and workshops in schools and universities worldwide, including most recently Chichester University, Hazelwood School and Trinity School, Croydon. She has just returned from Asia, where she gave piano masterclasses in China at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guanzhou, the Hong Kong Baptist University and at the London College of Music's Hong Kong campus at the Nan Yang College of Higher Education.
Emilie is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Senior Lecturer and Head of Classical Performance at the London College of Music, University of West London. She is a member of the Peer Review Panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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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 buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
Pour le Piano L95 (1894-1901)
1 Prélude
2 Sarabande
3 Toccata
The performer here is Mikhail Pletnev:
1 Prélude
2 Sarabande
3 Toccata
The performer here is Mikhail Pletnev:
from Préludes, Book 1, L117 (winter 1909/1910)
La Cathédrale Engloutie The Submerged Cathedral
Profondément calme Deeply calm
The performer here is Dominic Piers Smith at the 2007 Yamaha Pianists Competition at London's Cadogan Hall
from Estampes (Prints) L100 (1903)
Jardins sous la pluie Gardens in the Rain
This recording is by Martha Argerich:
from Préludes, Book 1, L117 (winter 1909/1910)
La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
This performance is by Katharina Treutler:
L’Isle Joyeuse L106 (1904) The joyful island
This recording is by Philippe Cassard, playing in the La-Chaise-Dieu Festival in the Auvergne:
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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