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St Barnabas Summer Proms (2)
Wednesday July 23rd at 7.30 pm
Reinoud Ford (cello)
& Rosie Richardson (piano)
Mendelssohn : Variations Concertantes Op 17
Chopin : Cello sonata in G minor Op 65
Bach : Gamba sonata in D
Brahms : Cello sonata in F major Op 99
Admission £10. No tickets needed.
Reinoud Ford (cello) was born in 1984, and commenced the cello at the age of eight. In 1998 he joined the Yehudi Menuhin School as a student of Louise Hopkins, and subsequently studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with her, graduating with distinction in 2007. He gave many solo and chamber performances whilst at the Menuhin School, both in the UK (including the Wigmore and Fairfield Halls) and abroad, and performed a concerto with the Menuhin school orchestra in the Gstaad festival in 2003. He performed the Haydn C major concerto with the Jupiter Chamber Orchestra when aged 16, and the Dvorak concerto with them in 2005. He won the Guilhermina Suggia Gift for gifted young cellists in 2003, and the Gwyneth George prize from the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe in 2004. He was a finalist in the 2006 Royal Overseas League competition, and was winner of the flame competition in Paris in that year. He was awarded the scholarship of the LSO string scheme in 2007.
Rosie Richardson grew up in Ealing, West London . She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Senior Professor Joan Havill and graduated in 2005 with a Masters Degree in solo performance. During this time, she won the school's Romantic Piano Prize and performed in master classes with Claude Frank, Noriko Ogawa and Bryce Morrison. In 2006 she completed a Post-graduate Diploma in Professional Accompaniment. As a soloist, Rosie was made a Philip and Dorothy Green recommended artist for the Making Music Award in 2006 which led to recitals at music societies around the UK as well as Schumann concerto with Hounslow Symphony Orchestra and Grieg concerto with Lichfield Sinfonia. Alongside her solo work, Rosie is currently working with students of Professor Louise Hopkins at the Guildhall. She has performed most recently in London with Matthijs Broesma as part of the Martin Musical Scholarship/Philharmonia lunchtime series at St. Margaret's, Westminster and at the Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury with John Myerscough. So far this year, Rosie has performed with Adrian Bradbury (Ealing Brahms Festival), Richard Birchall ( Winchester College ) and Matthew Lowe (St. James', Piccadilly and has solo recitals in London and the North East in January 2009.
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