St Barnabas Summer Proms (6)
Wednesday July 28th 7.30 pm
David Le Page (violin)
Chris Windass (viola)
Matthew Sharp (cello)
Viv McLean (piano)
Mozart : Piano Quartet in G minor K 378
Handel-Halvorsen : Passacaglia
interval
Brahms : Piano Quartet in G minor Op 25
Admission £10 (Students and young people £5)
No tickets issued beforehand - just turn up !
All proceeds will go towards the St Barnabas Organ Fund.
David Le Page (violin) was born in Guernsey and studied at the Menuhin school. He was a prize winner in both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Yehudi Menuhin competition and completed his studies in Bern and London . He is director of the English Mozart Ensemble and has formed his own groups the Le Page Ensemble, Camera Obscura and Subway Piranhas. Since 1995 he has been the violinist with the Composers Ensemble giving world premieres of works by several composers. In 1999 he was appointed leader of the Orchestra of the Swan. He has made several CD recordings, including a performance of Vivaldi's ‘Four Seasons' which is also available on DVD. Chris Windass (viola) studied at the Birmingham School of Music and privately with Emmanuel Hurwitz and David Takeno. He has played with most of the leading UK orchestras , as well as with the Medici and Brodsky String Quartet. In 1986 he formed the Adderbury Ensemble, based in Oxford , which gives many concerts in UK and Europe as a chamber group and orchestra. He also established the famous Oxford Coffee Concert series.
Matthew Sharp (cello) was born in Lisbon and studied in Cologne , at Cambridge and in London . He made his concerto debut as solo cellist aged twelve at St. John's , Smith Square and since then has performed at major venues and festivals throughout the world. In 1991 he was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society's Julius Isserlis Scholarship. He has also followed a parallel path into opera as a bass-baritone. Recent highlights include Papageno and the title role in the new commission of The Pied Piper for Opera North, appearances as soloist with the LPO at the QEH, tours of the Elgar and Dvorak concertos with the Orchestra-of-the-Swan, and recitals in Paris , Stockholm , Philadelphia and across the UK .
Viv McLean (piano) , the winner of the First Prize at the 2002 Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona , has performed at all the major venues in the UK as well as throughout Europe, Japan , Australia and the USA . His has played concerti with most major UK orchestras, performed chamber music with leading groups such as the Ysaye String Quartet and the Leopold String Trio. Viv studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was the piano winner at the Royal Overseas-League Music Competition and one of three winners of the National Federation of Music Societies' Young Artists Competition, leading to various recitals and concerto appearances throughout Great Britain . Viv has recorded regularly for BBC Radio 3 and recorded for Sony Classical Japan and Naxos , as well as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's own label.
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