12.30 lunchtime, Thursday 7th July 2016
Gwyn Owen, trumpet & Rebecca Taylor, piano artistes appear courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church |
Sponsor: 2016 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Marcel Bitsch (1921-2011) Quatre Variations sur un Thème de Domenico Scarlatti (1950) Georges Enescu (1881-1955) Légende (1906) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) La fille aux cheveux de lin - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (1910) Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Suite pour trompette et piano, Op 133 (1955) I Gaiment II Lent sans excès III Vif Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) (arr. Thierry Caens) Pièce en forme de Habanera, M51 (1907) |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Gwyn Owen
Gwyn Owen is currently pursuing a one-year Masters course at the Royal Academy of Music after graduating with a First Class Honours degree last July. He is on trial for the principal trumpet position with the Orchestra of the Scottish Opera.
Over the past year Gwyn has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Easter 2015 he was invited to join the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, playing Mahler’s 2nd Symphony.
Before studying in London, Gwyn was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales for five years – the last two as principal trumpet. He was also a member of the European Youth Brass Band, the National Youth Brass Band of Wales for four years (becoming principal cornet in 2011), the Gwynedd and Mon Youth Ensembles, and the Beaumaris and Menai Bridge Brass Bands. In October 2014 he was one of six finalists in the Urdd National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Bryn Terfel Scholarship competition, broadcast live on S4C from the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
During the past five years at RAM Gwyn has studied with Mark David, Rod Franks, Paul Beniston, Gareth Small, Robert Farley and John Hutchins. Since his second year Gwyn has been a regular member of the Academy Symphony Orchestra, and on Remembrance Sunday 2014 was principal trumpet of the orchestra for a performance of Britten’s War Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall conducted by Marin Alsop. During his time at the Academy he has participated in masterclasses with world renowned soloists - Håkan Hardenberger, Reinhold Friedrich, Eric Aubier and Anthony Plog. He has been Highly Commended in both the RAM John Solomon and Drummond Sharp Brass Prizes within the past two years.
Gwyn is the recipient of the first Mishcon de Reya Scholarship to the Academy to support his postgraduate study. He is also grateful to the James Pantyfedwen Foundation, Craxton Memorial Trust and The Countess of Munster Trust (Derek Butler Award) for financial assistance this year.
Over the past year Gwyn has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Easter 2015 he was invited to join the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, playing Mahler’s 2nd Symphony.
Before studying in London, Gwyn was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales for five years – the last two as principal trumpet. He was also a member of the European Youth Brass Band, the National Youth Brass Band of Wales for four years (becoming principal cornet in 2011), the Gwynedd and Mon Youth Ensembles, and the Beaumaris and Menai Bridge Brass Bands. In October 2014 he was one of six finalists in the Urdd National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Bryn Terfel Scholarship competition, broadcast live on S4C from the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
During the past five years at RAM Gwyn has studied with Mark David, Rod Franks, Paul Beniston, Gareth Small, Robert Farley and John Hutchins. Since his second year Gwyn has been a regular member of the Academy Symphony Orchestra, and on Remembrance Sunday 2014 was principal trumpet of the orchestra for a performance of Britten’s War Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall conducted by Marin Alsop. During his time at the Academy he has participated in masterclasses with world renowned soloists - Håkan Hardenberger, Reinhold Friedrich, Eric Aubier and Anthony Plog. He has been Highly Commended in both the RAM John Solomon and Drummond Sharp Brass Prizes within the past two years.
Gwyn is the recipient of the first Mishcon de Reya Scholarship to the Academy to support his postgraduate study. He is also grateful to the James Pantyfedwen Foundation, Craxton Memorial Trust and The Countess of Munster Trust (Derek Butler Award) for financial assistance this year.
Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca Taylor read music as Organ Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford, studying with David Sanger. As both an organist and choral conductor she has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 & 4, made CD recordings and performed in the UK and abroad in venues including Westminster Abbey, St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, York Minster, Christ Church, Dublin, St Marks, Venice.
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music on the MA Piano Accompaniment course under Michael Dussek and Carole Presland, Rebecca Taylor has been increasingly in demand both as an accompanist and répétiteur. Whilst at the Academy, Rebecca was a prizewinner in the Rex Stephens Lieder Prize, a finalist in the Richard Lewis Song Competition and was highly commended in both the Major van Someron-Godfrey English Song Prize and the Scott Huxley Piano Accompaniment Competition. Rebecca was awarded a distinction in her LRAM diploma and was a member of the prestigious Academy Song Circle.
After graduating, Rebecca continued her training as a Junior Fellow Trainee Répétiteur and was also successful in gaining a place on the Solti Peretti Répétiteurs' Masterclass Course in 2014. As an accompanist, Rebecca’s reputation is growing following her success in winning the Maureen Lehane Accompanist Prize at Wigmore Hall. In June 2015 Rebecca accompanied the Welsh candidate in the Song Prize Competition of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and she also be performed a song recital at the Three Choirs Festival 2015.
As a répétiteur, Rebecca has worked on an wide range of operas, which include Tom Randle's Love me to Death; Ariodante,Handel; Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky. She regularly works on new music with composers, most recently a project with Laura Bowler and the playwright Edward Bond at the Royal Opera House. Rebecca’s work also has an international dimension in that she has performed across Europe and the Middle East at venues which include St Martin in the Fields, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Real Academia de Bellas Artes, Madrid, St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Macedonia Opera House, Skopje and Al Bustan in Muscat.
Rebecca is Director of Music at St.Philip's Earls Court Road where she is founder and Artistic Director for the SPECR Recital Series. She has recently been appointed accompanist of the Leeds Festival Chorus and is also Assistant Conductor and Pianist for Twickenham Choral Society.
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music on the MA Piano Accompaniment course under Michael Dussek and Carole Presland, Rebecca Taylor has been increasingly in demand both as an accompanist and répétiteur. Whilst at the Academy, Rebecca was a prizewinner in the Rex Stephens Lieder Prize, a finalist in the Richard Lewis Song Competition and was highly commended in both the Major van Someron-Godfrey English Song Prize and the Scott Huxley Piano Accompaniment Competition. Rebecca was awarded a distinction in her LRAM diploma and was a member of the prestigious Academy Song Circle.
After graduating, Rebecca continued her training as a Junior Fellow Trainee Répétiteur and was also successful in gaining a place on the Solti Peretti Répétiteurs' Masterclass Course in 2014. As an accompanist, Rebecca’s reputation is growing following her success in winning the Maureen Lehane Accompanist Prize at Wigmore Hall. In June 2015 Rebecca accompanied the Welsh candidate in the Song Prize Competition of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and she also be performed a song recital at the Three Choirs Festival 2015.
As a répétiteur, Rebecca has worked on an wide range of operas, which include Tom Randle's Love me to Death; Ariodante,Handel; Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky. She regularly works on new music with composers, most recently a project with Laura Bowler and the playwright Edward Bond at the Royal Opera House. Rebecca’s work also has an international dimension in that she has performed across Europe and the Middle East at venues which include St Martin in the Fields, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Real Academia de Bellas Artes, Madrid, St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Macedonia Opera House, Skopje and Al Bustan in Muscat.
Rebecca is Director of Music at St.Philip's Earls Court Road where she is founder and Artistic Director for the SPECR Recital Series. She has recently been appointed accompanist of the Leeds Festival Chorus and is also Assistant Conductor and Pianist for Twickenham Choral Society.
Concert at Home
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Gwyn Owen and Rebecca Taylor open with four variations on a Scarlatti theme, by Marcel Bitsch. We have chosen the later of two online recordings by Jacob Flaschen.
You will want to hear more of Alison Balsom and her accompanist Tom Poster after listening to this beautiful recording of Enescu's Légende
For The Girl with the Flaxen Hair we turn to a recording of Brandon Ridenour, with accompanist Rachel Kudo, another fine performance this:
You may have to turn up the cvolume for this audio recording of Florent Schmitt's Suite for Trumpet and Piano.
The performers are Tora Thorslund and Georg Örquist:
The performers are Tora Thorslund and Georg Örquist:
Our final item today is a re-working for trumpet and piano of Ravel's
Vocalise-Étude en forme de Habanera. Ravel himself arranged the work for violin and piano,
and for cello and piano. We hear Joshua MacCluer and Illie Ng Ling Ling:
Vocalise-Étude en forme de Habanera. Ravel himself arranged the work for violin and piano,
and for cello and piano. We hear Joshua MacCluer and Illie Ng Ling Ling:
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