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Season 2013/14

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5 October 2013

9 November 2013

I Flautisti

(London Recorder Quartet)

18 January 2014

1 March 2014

Dussek Duo (harp and piano)

The Dussek Duo has arrived....two hundred years too late, perhaps, as both instrumentalists are playing French instruments from the turn of the 19th century! However, early keyboard specialist and harpist Eleanor Turner are both very much alive and full of zest for the music of the 1800s.

Douglas Hollick has spent his life with early keyboard instruments – as a maker and restorer, and as an internationally acclaimed player of organ, harpsichord and fortepiano. His instrument collection includes two English pianos – a square of 1811 by Clementi, and a grand of 1809 by Broadwood. 

Recently, Douglas aquired a beautiful golden Erard harp from around 1800, one of the first ever double-action pedal harps (the type of concert harp that is still made and played today). It has been carefully restored by Tecwyn Jones of North Wales and is in excellent playing condition. It even has working shutters at the back of the soundboard that can not only add resonance or create a dampened effect (depending on whether they are open or shut, as operated by an eighth pedal!) but by wobbling the pedal, the shutters wobble and create a stunning vibrato that was used at the time!

The quality and beauty of the instruments coupled with a varied, virtuosic repertoire for harp and piano duo, make for a really enjoyable and exciting collaboration between Douglas and Eleanor. They are performing together in concert from 2011 and are currently rehearsing repertoire by Jan Ladislav Dussek, Francois Joseph Naderman, Dalvimare, Mozart, CPE Bach and others. The pair have recently recorded a CD that will be released by River Run Records in 2011.

I Flautisti

Ensemble Members

Born in Bath in 1986, Danielle Jałowiecka began studying the recorder at the age of eight.  After winning the Bath Young Musician of the Year i flautisticompetition, Danielle took a place on the Bachelor of Music course at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Ashley Solomon and Julien Feltrin.  During her time at the RCM she won a place to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Hans-Dieter Michatz, and also learning with Genevieve Lacey, and on her return to London won the Runner Up prize in the Performing Australian Music competition 2008.  Graduating with a First Class Honours led to Danielle continuing her studies in France, with Michelle Tellier at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne Billancourt and with Julien Feltrin at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental d’Evry, Paris.

As a soloist, Danielle has taken part in masterclasses with such renowned teachers as Walter van Hauwe, Dan Laurin and Paul Leenhouts, opened the Bath International Music Festival as the soloist with the Bath Philharmonia, and recorded Benjamin Thorn’s ‘The Voice of the Crocodile’ for ABC Classic FM in Australia.

Danielle has also discovered a recent interest in arranging and with her recorder quartet i Flautisti has premiered the performance of her work on ‘The Grease Megamix’.

Kerstin Kubitschek was born in Schwaz, Tirol, Austria in 1983.

i flautistiShe began her recorder studies with Ernst Kubitschek first at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium in Innsbruck, Austria, then at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, where she completed her BMus with distinction.  In June 2007 she received a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal College of Music in London where she studied recorder and baroque flute with Ashley Solomon and Julien Feltrin.  Her studies were supported by a Kit & John Gander Award and an Arts and Humanities Research Counsel Award.

After completing her studies in London, she returned to the Mozarteum University where she studied recorder with Dorothee Oberlinger and earned a Masters Degree in Music.  She has performed as a soloist and in various chamber music groups.  Currently Kerstin Picker-Kubitschek is teaching recorder in Austria.  She has participated in master classes with Dan Laurin, Matthias Maute, Reine-Marie Verhagen, Marion Verbruggen and others.

Jitka Smutná is from Olomouc in the Czech Republic and studied recorder at the Conservatory in Ostrava with Jan Kvapil from 2005 to 2007.

i flautistiIn 2007 she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where she started her postgraduate studies by prof. Ashley Solomon and prof. Julien Feltrin. During her studies in London she participated in several chamber and orchestral music projects also performing as a soloist in the London Handel Festival and with the Florilegium Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall.  In 2008 she received her postgraduate diploma with Distinction, and at the same time was awarded the McKenna Prize for Baroque Music.

Jitka regularly takes part in master classes given by world-class teachers (W.van Hauwa, P. Leenhouts, P. Holtslag, M. Posch, C. van Heerden, H. ter Schegget, R. Brown, E. Kirkby, T . Charlston ad.) and performs at concerts in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Since 2009, she is the main organizer of the Summer School of Early Music in Prachatice and teaches recorder at the Conservatories in Ostrava and Olomouc, from the same year, she also acts as an instructor of the training program for teachers on the Brno Conservatory.

Ilona Veselovská was born in Liberec, Czech Republic.

i flautistiIlona studied flute at the Conservatory in Teplice and after graduating, played flute in the City Theatres of Usti and Labem.  During her studies she became interested in Early Music and attended many masterclasses in Prague and Prachatice.  She then became a member of the early music ensemble, Musica Puella.

Ilona graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, in 2007 where she studied recorder and baroque flute with Ashley Solomon and Julien Feltrin on the Postgraduate Diploma course as the recipient of the Constant & Kit Lambert and Heddy Simpson awards.  In 2009, Ilona studied baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.  She is now teaching recorder at the Conservatory in Teplice, and the Academy of Early Music in Brno, Czech Republic.

John Paul Ekins (Pianist)

Increasingly in demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, John Paul Ekins has given performances throughout the UK and Northern Ireland, and overseas in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Kuwait, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain and Switzerland, and he has been broadcast on the BBC, on Romanian national television and radio, and on Polish television. In 2009 he graduated from the Royal College of Music with First Class Honours, and in the same year he was awarded the James Anthony Horne Scholarship by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study with Charles Owen, where he graduated with Master of Performance (Distinction) in 2011. He was the recipient of a Music Education Award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, and receives generous support from Making Music, The Concordia Foundation and The Keyboard Charitable Trust.

He has performed at a number of prestigious venues in the UK and abroad, including Bucharest's Athenaeum, Zurich's Tonhalle, Prague's Martinu Hall, Bergen's Troldhaugen, Krakow's Florianka Hall, London's Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Fairfield Hall and Steinway Hall, Birmingham's Symphony Hall, Oxford's Holywell Music Room, Bath's Pump Room, Bristol's Colston Hall and Belfast's Ulster Hall. He has participated in masterclasses and performed with many renowned musicians and ensembles, such as Salvatore Accardo, the Brodsky String Quartet, Levon Chilingirian and the Chilingirian String Quartet, Peter Donohoe, Bernard Greenhouse, Leslie Howard, Joan Enric Lluna and Martino Tirimo. As a concerto soloist he has performed works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and Gershwin with orchestras throughout the UK.

International Competition successes include 2nd Prizes in the Amy Brant International Piano Competition, the San Sebastian International Piano Competition, and the Oxford International Piano Competition. In 2010 he was awarded a Jellinek Award in the Guildford Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition, and in 2011 he has won First Prize in the Christopher Duke Piano Competition, the Cattermole Award at the Stratford Festival, and 3rd Prize in The Norah Sande Award. Along with this, in past years he has been named the Kingston, Woking and Croydon Festivals' Young Musician of the Year, and the Richmond Festival's Pianist of the Year, receiving an award from Hanna & Sons Pianos Ltd. in the process. In 2010 he was accepted onto the prestigious Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme 2010, where he worked with sopranos Louise Alder and Hannah Bradbury, taking part in masterclasses with Dame Ann Murray, Ian Partridge and Andrew West. Recently he is delighted to have been selected to appear in Making Music's Concert Promoter's Network Brochure 2013-14. He was also the only successful pianist in Making Music's Young Concert Artists Competition 2012, and as such is a Recommended Artist under Making Music's Philip & Dorothy Green Award scheme for 2012. 

An avid chamber musician, John Paul has an extensive repertoire of piano and string works, from duos to trios, quartets and quintets. He is a past prize-winner in the Anglo-Czechoslovak Trust Chamber Music Competition, and enjoys a busy schedule working with his many chamber music partners. He recently formed The Cremona Piano Trio, with Michal Cwizewicz and Liubov Ulybysheva, and they have already started to give acclaimed performances in the UK. Despite being together for just a few months, in early 2012 they won the Audience Prize in the final of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition.

Educational and outreach work is enormously important to John Paul too, and as well as private teaching he has also given workshops and masterclass-recitals to great acclaim in the UK.

John Paul was particularly honoured to be presented to Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Prince Philip at a Reception for Young Performers at Buckingham Palace in 2011.

Martyn Jackson

British violinist Martyn Jackson was born 1988 and has performed as both a solo artist and chamber musician throughout the UK, much of Europe and the Middle East.The 2011-12 season has included performances of the Brahms, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky Concertos as well as various recitals throughout Europe and chamber music performances with cellist Henri Demarquette in the Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin and Les Invalides in Paris. In addition, this autumn he shall make his recital debut at the Southbank Centre's Purcell Room as part of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund's Recital Scheme.

Martyn currently studies at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin with Professor Stephan Picard and is a graduate of the Royal College of Music, London where he studied with Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky.

Martyn frequently attends many International Masterclasses and Festivals and in the past he has taken part in the International Musicians' Seminar Prussia Cove, Lac Leman Music Masterclasses, Keshet Eilon International Violin Mastercoure, Cully Classique, Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander and The Lake District Summer Music Academy. He has also received masterclasses from Zakhar Bron,Vadim Gluzman, Ida Haendel, Michaela Martin, Shlomo Mintz, Hagai Shaham and Pavel Vernikov.

In 2008 Martyn featured alongside internationally renowned violinist and conductor Shlomo Mintz in the Holocaust documentary flm “Amnon's Journey”, a flm depicting the intricate relationship between musicians and their instruments while giving voice to a lost generation. He has also broadcast live on Suisse Romande Télévision et Radio, Süddeutsches Radio and on BBC 4 television.

He currently performs on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. 

Alison Rhind (pianist)

Alison Rhind was educated at Chetham’s School of Music, Oxford University and the Guildhall School of Music where she studied with Edith Vogel. After leaving Guildhall she was invited back to Chetham’s to join the accompanists’ team at the school. During this period she was also asked to be the official accompanist for the BBC Young Musician of The Year and also for the Aberdeen Festival of Youth.

From 1993 until 2006 she was the accompanist at the Yehudi Menuhin School where she accompanied masterclasses given by Yehudi Menuhin, Daniil Schafran, Janos Starker, Steven Isserlis, Mstislav Rostropovich and Andras Schiff amongst others.

She toured extensively with Menuhin School pupils and it was during this period that she was first invited to accompany at the prestigious Kronberg Cello Festival in Germany.

Alison is regularly invited to work at the Royal College of Music in London and was recently asked to be the official accompanist for the String Final Recitals.

She is the regular accompanist of Nicola Benedetti with whom she has played for the last nine years and with whom she enjoys a busy touring schedule. 2006 took them twice to Japan, Europe and the USA, as well as many appearances in UK festivals and concert series. Other regular recital partners have included violinists Dora Schwarzberg and Alina Ibragimova, the great French bassist Francois Rabbath and cellist Leonid Gorokhov.

She regularly appears on radio, television and major venues all over the world.

 

 
 
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