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St Barnabas Summer Proms (10)
Wednesday August 6th at 7.30 pm
Alice Neary (cello)
Hugh Mather (piano)
Bach : Cello Suite no 3 in C major BWV 1009
Schumann : Adagio & Allegro Op 70
Franck : Sonata in A major
Admission £10. No tickets needed.
Alice Neary (cello) studied at Chethams School and the Royal Northern School of Music, under Ralph Kirshbaum. She won the prestigious Fournier Award in 1998, and was awarded a major prizes in the 2001 Leonard Rose International Cello Competition and the 1997 Adam International Cello Competition in New Zealand . She won the string section of the Royal Overseas League Competition in 1996, and won silver medal in the 1994 Shell/LSO competition. She has performed concertos with many orchestras, including the LSO, the ECO and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall and Manchester International Cello Festival, as well as frequent broadcasts on Radio 3. She is a member of the Gould piano trio, with whom she has toured USA and Europe . She has a special interest in contemporary music, and was the soloist in Sony's recording of ‘Innocence' by Sir John Tavener. She now lives in Ealing, and teaches at the Royal College of Music.
Hugh Mather studied the piano and organ from an early age, gaining the FRCO and the ARCM piano performers diplomas. He then pursued a medical career and was Consultant Physician at Ealing Hospital from 1982 to 2006, before retiring to pursue his musical interests. He has continued his piano studies with James Gibb for many years, and given many concerts as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. He has performed concerti by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Gershwin, Grieg, and Schumann, with various orchestras. He organised weekly lunchtime concerts at Ealing Hospital for 20 years, to provide local musicians with valuable performing experience, and now runs a similar series of concerts here on Friday lunchtimes at St Barnabas. He is also Chairman of the Friends of St Mary's Perivale, and organises around 100 concerts a year in both venues.
