2010-2011 Season

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Saturday 26 June 8pm A Birthday Celebration Concert to mark our 60th Anniversary Season  East Bergholt Church Songs by Schubert, Brahms, Barber and Wolf	Elizabeth Watts, soprano Gary Matthewman, piano
Saturday 25 September Guitar Workshop - Afternoon followed by an Evening Concert The Constable Hall	English Guitar Quartet
Friday 8 October 8 pm East Bergholt Church Piano Trios by Haydn and Schumann Generously sponsored by an anonymous donor	The Florestan Trio
Sunday 7 November 4 pm East Bergholt Church String Quartets by Haydn, Szymanowski and Beethoven	Barbirolli Quartet
Friday 3 December 8 pm Constable Hall A Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital	Stephanie Oade, cello and Helen Moxon, piano
Sunday 23 January 4 pm East Bergholt Church String Quartets by Mozart, Webern and Schubert Generously sponsored by an anonymous donor	Henschel Quartet
Saturday 19 February 7.30 pm Supper Concert  Constable Hall Concert and Evening sponsored by Grier and Partners - Piano sponsored by Mrs Pauline Young	Erdem Misirlioglu, piano
Friday 11 March 8 pm The Constable Hall Illustrated Lecture: Raymond Erith, Architect	Lucy Archer
Sunday 3 April 4 pm East Bergholt Church Music by Strauss, Berwald and Beethoven	London Concertante - Septet

 

Saturday 26 June 2010 8 pm St Mary’s Church East Bergholt

Elizabeth Watts 

soprano

Gary Matthewman 

piano

Elizabeth Watts photo credit: Dylan Thomas & SONY

The soprano Elizabeth Watts will perform a programme of songs by Schubert, Brahms, Barber and Wolf with the pianist Gary Matthewman.

Elizabeth Watts

Elizabeth Watts, who comes from Norwich, is making a stunning career as a singer. She won the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Prize in 2006, has been a BBC Young Generation Artist.

She last visited East Bergholt in March 2007, shortly after hearing that she had been selected to represent England at the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. As a result she changed her programme for East Bergholt, and performed all the pieces that she had prepared for Cardiff. Those who had been at the concert followed her progress with great excitement and saw her as a finalist and also winning the Cardiff Song Prize. Since then she has made a highly praised Schubert recording and performed all over the world to great critical acclaim.

Her voice has been described by the International Record Review as "one of the most beautiful Britain has produced in a generation." and in a recent review of a Wignore Hall concert the Guardian’s Tim Astley said,

"Watts, winner of the lieder prize at Cardiff Singer of the World 2007,is already a major artist; but this struck me as marking a transformation from a good singer into a great one."  

 

Gary Matthewman

Recently described as ‘movingly perceptive’ by The Times, Gary Matthewman is establishing himself as one of Britain’s leading young song pianists. He developed his strong interest in song early on in his studies at the Royal College of Music, and now works almost exclusively within this field of repertoire. Awards include those for accompaniment at the Maggie Teyte Awards, the Royal Over-Seas League Competition, and the prize for pianists at the first ‘Das Lied - International Song Competition’ in Berlin last year.

Abroad, Gary has performed as a recitalist in France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Canada, USA, Brazil, South Korea and New Zealand. At home, he has appeared at the Aldeburgh, Newbury, Hay-on-Wye, North Norfolk, Bath and Sheffield (Music in the Round) Festivals, and at London’s Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Opera House. He has made numerous live broadcasts and recordings for BBC Radio 3.

Gary has enjoyed performing alongside some of today’s most exciting artists. These include Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Kate Royal (soprano), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Sumi Jo (soprano), Markus Werba (baritone), Sylvia Schwartz (soprano), Robert Murray (tenor), Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Matthew Rose (bass), Sally Matthews (soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Dame Josephine Barstow (soprano), Cora Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano) and Stephan Loges (baritone).  

 

Friday 8 October 2010 8 pm St Mary’s Church East Bergholt

The Florestan Trio 

The Florestan Trio

Anthony Marwood, violin, Richard Lester, cello, and Susan Tomes, piano

Schumann	Piano Trio in F major Op 80
Haydn	Piano Trio in D minor Hob XV:23
Haydn	Piano Trio in C major Hob XV:20
Schumann	Piano Trio in D minor Op 63

The award winning Florestan Trio are celebrated as one of the leading piano trios in the world. All their discs have been nominated for Gramophone Awards, and are recommended choices in major collectors’ guides. The Trio (Anthony Marwood, violin, Richard Lester, cello, and Susan Tomes, piano) are popular visitors at all the major European venues, and have toured the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. They also have their own, annual chamber music festival in Peasmarsh, East Sussex, England, now in its thirteenth year.

Generously supported by an anonymous sponsor (artists) and by Mary Loudon and Michael Brown (piano hire)  

 

Link to the programmes for previous seasons  

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