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	St Barnabas Church Concerts

Thursday Evening Piano Recitals

Thursday March 18th at 7.30 pm

Samantha Ward (piano)

Scarlatti : Sonata in C minor
Beethoven : 6 Bagatelles Op 126
Chopin : Nocturne Op 48 no 2
Chopin : Polonaise Op 40 no 2
Chopin : Impromptu no 2 in F sharp
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Brahms : Sonata no 2 in F sharp minor

Admission £10 - students and young people £5.
Proceeds go to the St Barnabas Organ Fund.
No tickets will be issued beforehand - everyone is very welcome.

British pianist Samantha Ward has performed extensively around the UK and in Europe and has appeared on British Television and Radio several times.  She has a number of successes in competitions beginning in 2004, when she won the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, resulting in concerto and recital appearances for two years in Britain as well as recital appearances at the Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square  and St Martin in the Fields.  She also won the Guildhall School 's John Ireland Prize in 2004, a major Educational Award from the Musicians' Benevolent Fund in 2005 and the Guildhall School 's Beethoven Prize in 2006.  In that year she also won the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition and the Beethoven Society of Europe's Intercollegiate Piano Competition. In 2007, she won the Worshipful Company of Musicians Maisie Lewis Young Artists Fund Award as well as First Prize and a Gold Medal in the Marlow International Computers in Personnel Concerto Competition. In 2008, she was a finalist in the piano section of the Royal Overseas League Music Competition and a major prize winner in the Bromsgrove International Young Artists Platform.  Samantha has recently been awarded a scholarship from the Dartington International Summer School and was awarded a Fellowship from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for the year 2007/8, where she studied with Joan Havill, after having completed her studies at Chetham's School of Music. She now lives in Ealing.  

The Thursday Evening Concerts are a new series featuring outstanding pianists
The inaugural recital was given on Thursday Jan 21st at 7.30 pm by
Viv McLean (piano) and the Adderbury Ensemble

Future piano recitals in the series

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