Events :: concert
- January
- Tuesday
- 20
- 7:45pm
Richmond Concert Society : STEPHAN LOGES and EUGENE ASTI
- Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
- Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39
- and songs by Mendelssohn, Hahn and Grieg
STEPHAN LOGES baritone EUGENE ASTI piano
Stephan Loges won the 1999 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and was also a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem under Helmuth Rilling.
Since then, he has sung Bach under Sir John Eliot Gardiner as part of his Bach 2000 project, sung the Bach Passions with both the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and sung with many other great orchestras: Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia; London Philharmonic; Muenchner Bach Choir and Orchestra; Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg; Odense Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre des Champs-Elysees; Ulster Orchestra; Northern Sinfonia; and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Stephan Loges' extensive Lieder repertory includes Schubert's Schwanengesang, which he has performed with Roger Vignoles, Schubert's Winterreise and Brahms' Die schoene Magelone. He has also performed regularly with Graham Johnson, including appearances at the Klavierfestival Ruhr in Germany, and made his New York debut at the 92nd St Y with Alexander Schmalcz, with whom he also gave his first full Wigmore Hall recital. Most recently he stood in for Simon Keenlyside at the Wigmore Hall performing songs by Wolf with Malcolm Martineau and Dorothea Roeschmann and gave recitals at Carnegie Hall, New York, La Monnaie Brussels, and the Schleswig Holstein Festival. He also appeared with Iain Burnside as part of his Century Songs project and sings regularly in the United States, where he gave a recital as part of the highly respected Vocal Arts Series in Washington. He has recorded with Graham Johnson as part of their Schumann and Schubert series, and songs by Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann with Eugene Asti.
Eugene Asti studied piano at the Mannes College of Music in New York with Jeanette Haien. In 1982 he was awarded a full scholarship to study at Fontainebleau in France where he studied with Gaby Casadesus, Henri Dutilleux and Claude Helffer. He received a Fulbright Award to study piano accompaniment with Graham Johnson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he now teaches.
He has received numerous awards including the Megan Foster Prize (Maggie Teyte Competition) and the Ferdinand Rauter Memorial Prize (Richard Tauber Competition).
He has performed at many of Britain's leading music festivals, including those at Aldeburgh, Arundel, Cheltenham and Lichfield.
Much in demand as an accompanist, Mr Asti has toured with Dame Margaret Price throughout Europe, given several recitals with Dame Felicity Lott, and made his Wigmore Hall debut with Elizabeth Connell. He has close working relationships with Susan Gritton and with Alison Buchanan. He has recorded a CD of the songs of Eric Coates with Richard Edgar-Wilson.
As a musical editor, he has completed a Schubert partsong for Graham Johnson's Hyperion Schubert Edition.
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- February
- Tuesday
- 10
- 7:45pm
Richmond Concert Society : THE RODOLFUS CHOIR
- Allegri: Miserere mei
- and music by Tallis, Stanford, Mahler, Wagner and Bruckner
Ralph Allwood conductor
The Rodolfus Choir is made up of singers aged 25 and younger who have been chosen from past and present members of the Eton College Choral Courses for prospective choral scholars. Each year these six-week-long summer courses attract some 350 students between the ages of 16 and 20, and of these perhaps a dozen are invited to join the Rodolfus Choir as places become vacant.
Since its foundation in 1984 the choir has toured in France, Italy, and Austria, and has appeared at many English festivals including two appearances at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester.
In the last two years the choir has been more active than ever, singing in several festivals (BBC Proms, Ryedale, Three Choirs, Snape Proms and the York Early Music Festival), making three CDs, and broadcasting on Songs of Praise.
Its recent recordings include music as diverse as Monteverdi, Grier, Tallis and German Romantic motets. All have attracted extremely complimentary press notices, with tracks broadcast on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3.
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- March
- Tuesday
- 10
- 7:45pm
Richmond Concert Society : IMOGEN COOPER
IMOGEN COOPER piano
- Bach: Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826
- Schubert: 6 Moments musicaux, D780
- Schubert: Sonata No. 18 in G, D894
She is an outstanding artist, one of the finest pianists now playing. Go, listen, and wonder how many better pianists there are alive in this country, or anywhere. So reported the critic in the Daily Telegraph about a recital by Imogen Cooper.
She makes a welcome return to the Richmond Concert Society after many years. Recently, she has been recognised by receiving the CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours in 2007 and by being presented with the Instrumental award from the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society in 2008.
She will be performing music by a composer whose works she has been closely associated with for many years — Franz Schubert. His Moments musicaux are delightful miniatures and his G major Sonata is one of the greatest among the many sonatas that he composed. The recital will also include Bach's Second Partita in C minor.
As a solo recitalist she has given concerts in New York, Chicago, Paris, Vienna, Rotterdam, Prague and at London's Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall. She has played with all the major British orchestras as well as the Dutch Royal Concertgebouw, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Dresden Staatskapelle and the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Imogen has a busy international career in a wide repertoire which includes recitals with singers, and it might be recalled that several years ago she performed Schubert's Winterreise with Sarah Walker for the RCS.
This recital has been picked by the President of the Richmond Concert Society, Lady Panufnik, as this season's “President's Concert”.
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- March
- Saturday
- 21
- 7:30pm
Richmond Orchestra : Spring Concert
- Beethoven — Fidelio Overture
- Dvorak — Cello Concerto Soloist — Alex Barnes
- Brahms — 1st Symphony D Major
Prices
- Full £10.00
- Concessions £7.50
- Students £5.00
- Children £3.00
To reserve tickets and for information call 020 8547 2695.
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St John the Divine, Richmond TW9 2PE
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- April
- Tuesday
- 21
- 7:45pm
Richmond Concert Society : NASH ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
- Richard Strauss: Capriccio, Op. 85 - Prelude
- Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht
- Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, Op. 18
One of the best known and respected musical ensembles is the Nash Ensemble of London. Over the years it has won numerous awards including the Edinburgh Festival Critics award “for general artistic excellence” and two Royal Philharmonic awards “for its breadth of its taste and its immaculate performance of a wide range of music”. It is this wide-ranging approach to music which sets the Nash Ensemble of London in a special category.
Established 45 years ago, the ensemble has made many notable recordings including, recently, the Brahms String Sextets, the first of which will be performed at their Richmond Concert event.
The programme also includes some of the most romantic of late 19th-century music in Schoenberg's beautiful Verklaerte Nacht, a very early work by this composer who later broke down musical barriers.
Six members of the Nash Ensemble of London will be taking part in their Richmond Concert Society appearance. One of the violinists, Malin Broman, will be making her second appearance this season as she performed in our opening concert, given by the Kungsbacka Piano Trio. Marianne Thorsen also plays violin, with Lawrence Power and Philip Dukes playing viola. The two cellists are Paul Watkins, again making his second appearance this season, and Tim Hugh.
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- May
- Tuesday
- 12
- 7:45pm
Richmond Concert Society : GAUDIER ENSEMBLE
- Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
- Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D667, Trout
The Gaudier Ensemble have performed with much success in the past for the Richmond Concert Society, and it is always a pleasure to welcome back such a distinguished collection of musicians. They come together, this body of European musicians, to perform and record the chamber music repertoire for wind, strings and piano and, being true Europeans, bring with them an international outlook and style to their playing.
It was in 1998 that the ensemble made their first appearance, a resounding success, at the Wigmore Hall. Soon afterwards they recorded Schubert's Octet which was recommended as first choice in BBC Radio 3's “Building a Library”.
Their regular tours include appearances in major concert halls and festivals throughout Europe. In the UK they have appeared at the Edinburgh Festival and the Cheltenham Festival.
For their performance of the Quartet for the end of Time, one of the most moving chamber works of the 20th century, composed by Messiaen when he was in a German prison camp during the Second World War, the important clarinet part will be played by Richard Hosford, the principal clarinettist of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Richard is also a member of the Nash Ensemble of London and with them has recorded the complete chamber works of Poulenc and also a CD of the chamber music of Mark Anthony Turnage.
Susan Tomes, the pianist in the Messiaen and the Schubert, has been described as “one of the brightest jewels in Britain's cultural crown”. Susan was the first woman to study music at King's College Cambridge which had been an exclusively male college for 400 years. She was a founder member of Domus and is now well known internationally as part of the Florestan Trio. Susan has also published a number of books including Beyond the Notes.
The cellist of the ensemble is Stephen Marks who was born in Germany and is the principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
Iris Juda (viola) was born in Holland and now lives just outside Salzburg. She is a founder member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and has played several times for the Richmond Concert Society when she performed with the Hanson String Quartet and the Gaudier Ensemble.
Lesley Hatfield (violin) read music at Clare College, Cambridge and then continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music. For four years she played with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and is now the Leader of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Marieke Blankestijn (violin) was born in the Hague and studied with Sandor Vegh in Salzburg. At the age of 21 Marieke won the International Mozart Competition. Since 1985 she has led the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
For the performance of Schubert's “Trout” quintet Stephen Williams (double bass) joins the ensemble. Stephen was a founder member of the Britten Sinfonia. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has played with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra.
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- June
- Saturday
- 20
- 7:30pm
Richmond Orchestra : Summer Concert
- Pärt — If Bach had Raised Bees
- Barber — Violin Concerto — Madeleine Mitchell
- Rachmaninov — 2nd Symphony
Prices
- Full £10.00
- Concessions £7.50
- Students £5.00
- Children £3.00
To reserve tickets and for information call 020 8547 2695.
Venue
St John the Divine, Richmond TW9 2PE
