St Barnabas Summer Proms (2)
Wednesday July 21st 7.30 pm
Fenella Humphreys (violin)
Alexis White (piano) Bartok : Roumanian Dances
Beethoven : Sonata in F major Op 24 'Spring' Sonata
Sarasate : Introduction and tarantella
interval
Gershwin/Heifetz : 3 preludes
Schubert : Sonatine in D major Sonatine
Ravel : Tzigane
Admission £10 (Students and young people £5)
No tickets issued beforehand - just turn up !
All proceeds will go towards the St Barnabas Organ Fund.
Fenella Humphreys (violin) was brought up in Ealing, and led Ealing Youth Orchestra. She won scholarships to the Purcell School and to the Guildhall School of Music, and completed her post-graduate studies as a scholar at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf, where she was awarded the highest possible mark for both the diploma exam and the soloists' diploma. She has given concerto and recital performances at prestigious venues including London 's South Bank Centre, Cheltenham's Pump Room and the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires . She was a 2006 Park Lane Group Young Artist, received Making Music's 2005 Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, and gave a recital at the Wigmore Hall as a finalist in the YCAT competition. She has broadcast on the BBC, Classic FM and in Germany . She leads the Lawson piano trio, and is regularly invited to take part in the prestigious Prussia Cove chamber music course. Fenella is also in demand as orchestral leader, working regularly with the Deutsche Kammerakademie in Germany both as leader and director. She has given many concerts in Ealing over the past decade, and has been made an Honorary Patron of the Friends of St Mary's Perivale in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the local music scene. Alexis White (piano) studied at the Menuhin School , the Royal Northern College of Music and the Eastman School of Music in USA , where she graduated in 2003. She won many prestigious prizes and scholarships, most notably First Prize in the 7th Noyers International Piano Competition in France , and has given recitals and concerto performances in prestigious venues throughout the UK and abroad. In 2004 she reached the finals of YCAT held at the Wigmore Hall and featured for several years as a Countess of Munster Artist. She has collaborated with many distinguished artists including Rafal Zambrzycki Payne, Guy Johnston, the Sacconi and Navarra Quartets and the Galliard Ensemble. She plays in a duo with violinist Jiafeng Chen, and in the Gagliano Piano Trio with Jiafeng Chen and cellist Anna Beryl. Future engagements include a recital at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and the Lake District Summer Music Festival. Alexis is currently one of the staff pianists at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and Head of Keyboard at Bradfield College , Berkshire . She now lives in Ealing.
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