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Stratford upon Avon
Chamber Music Society

President: Sir William Lawrence, Bt.
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2012/2013 - 48th Season of Concerts in Stratford upon Avon
Emma Johnson
John Lenehan
Jong-Gyung Park

Fibonacci Sequence
Marisa Gupta
Jonathan Dormand
Tedesca string quartet
Danish string quartet
 
Emma Johnson(clarinet) with John Lenehan(piano) - October 14th 2012 8.00pm (Joint concert with Stratford Festival)
Mendelssohn Sonata in E flat major
   
Brahms Sonata in F minor, Op.120 no.1
   
Poulenc Sonata
   
Weber
Grand Duo Concertante, Op.48
   
Emma Johnson is one of the few clarinettists to have established an international career as a soloist. Having won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1984, she decided to read Music and English at Cambridge before embarking on a full-time musical career. She has recorded more than twenty CDs, including work by contemporary composers.

John Lenehan is an experienced soloist, duo-partner and composer, who plays for Tasmin Little regularly as well as Emma. He specialises in unusual repertoire and has made more than sixty recordings.
Jong-Gyung Park (piano) - November 11th 2011 8.00pm
Debussy Images (2nd set)
   
Beethoven Sonata in F major, Op. 10 no.2
   
Prokofiev Sonata No. 6 in A minor, Op.82    
Liszt Venezia e Napoli    

Jong-Gyung was born in Korea in1976 and started learning the piano at the age of three. At the age of thirteen, she performed a concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and graduated from the New England Conservatoire in Boston, winning several prizes. She recently won a bronze medal in the Richter competition in Russia, as well as last year’s Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist’s competition.

Fibonacci Sequence (piano trio) - December 9th 2011 8.00pm
Beethoven Trio in C minor, Op. 1 no.3
   
Schubert Notturno in E flat major, D.897
   
Ireland Trio No.2 in E    
Schubert Trio in B flat major, D.898    
Founded in 1994 by artistic director and pianist Kathron Sturrock, the Fibonacci Sequence is well established as one of the foremost chamber ensembles in the country.‘dazzlingly good....exuberantly expressive, intimate style..... ’ The Times
Jonathan Dormand (cello) with Marisa Gupta (piano) - January 13th 2013 3.00pm (Countess of Munster Trust Young Artists’ scheme)
Beethoven Sonata in A major, Op. 69
   
Bridge Sonata in D minor
   
Brahms Sonata in F major, Op. 99    

Jonathan Dormand played in Stratford in the last Denne Gilkes award concert. He was born in Yorkshire, graduated from the RNCM in 2010 with first-class honours, and is engaged in post-graduate study in the USA at Boston.

Marisa Gupta was recently to be seen in the BBC’s programme on Delius, playing with the violinist Philippe Grafin. She completed her studies in Geneva with Pascal Devoyon, and has already appeared in many of the best-known concert venues internationally.

Tedesca string quartet - February 10th 2013 8.00pm
Haydn Quartet in G major, Op. 54 no.1
Mendelssohn Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Beethoven Quartet in E flat major, Op. 74 (‘Harp’)
Four highly-accomplished and experienced musicians come together to share their love of chamber music.
Danish string quartet - March 10th 2013 8.00pm
Wolf Italian Serenade
Nielsen Quartet in E flat major, Op. 14
Mendelssohn Quartet in A minor, Op. 13

The Danish string quartet formed in 2002, and in 2004 they were the youngest ever winners of the Danish Radio Orchestra’s competition for small ensembles. In 2009, they won the 11th London International String Quartet competition, along with four other prizes. They have received coaching in master-classes from both the Tokyo and Emerson string quartets amongst others, and are in great demand all over Europe.

Chairman's Message
I first heard Daniel Barenboim in Liverpool in the Sixties, probably on his first visit, deputising for Claudio Arrau in a Beethoven piano concerto and the Choral Fantasia. As I write this, later than usual, he is about to conduct his East-West Divan orchestra, with its mixture of Israelis and Arabs, in a cycle of all Beethoven’s symphonies at the Proms, and he will be seventy in November. In an article in The Times he justifies his concentration on Beethoven by saying that his music is everything that we human beings are, except superficial, and quotes the great pianist Artur Schnabel who said that Beethoven always takes the line of most resistance. For musicians, Barenboim says, this is very educational.

Once again, works by Beethoven feature regularly in our season, but as well as acknowledging anniversaries of Debussy and John Ireland, we also have works by Schubert and Mendelssohn, Frank Bridge, Nielsen and Prokofiev, just selecting some of the possible highlights. We look forward to the visit by the Danish String Quartet, described by a local critic as the nearest to a boy band chamber music has to offer, as well as more seasoned performers and the wonderful Emma Johnson, one of music’s great ambassadors, and a supreme executant.

We have kept the price of tickets unchanged, and the cost of a subscription very nearly unchanged, so please come and support us if you can.
Brian Midgley

Chairman
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