Wednesday 15 May 2024
7pm
Milton Court Concert Hall
The Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Award
presented by the City Music Society in memory of Ivan Sutton
adjudicated by Leslie East, Fenella Humphreys & John Reid
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Milton Court
Eating is not permitted in the auditorium. Drinks are allowed inside the auditorium in polycarbonates.
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Latecomers will be able to enter the auditorium at a suitable break in the performance.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Founded in 1880 by the City of London Corporation
Chairman of the Board of Governors
Graham Packham
Principal
Professor Jonathan Vaughan
Vice-Principal & Director of Music
Armin Zanner
Programme
Shostakovich Piano Trio No 1 in C minor, Op 8
Eliza Burkitt violin
Natalie Alfille-Cook cello
Catherine Duncan piano
Rebecca Clarke Piano Trio
I. Moderato ma appassionato
II. Andante semplice
III. Allegro vigoroso
Madeleine Dawson violin
Kathryn Monteiro cello
Joanna Lam piano
Brahms Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op 40
I. Andante
II. Scherzo (Allegro)
III. Adagio mesto
IV. Allegro con brio
Victoria Lewis violin
Sarah Pennington horn
Donglai Shi piano
There will be no interval. Results will be announced shortly after the final performance.
Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Award 2024
presented by the City Music Society
in memory of Ivan Sutton
adjudicated by:
Leslie East
Chairman of City Music Society, Director of Music at Guildhall School between 1976 and 1987 and Publishing Director of Novello & Co. during the 1990s. Leslie is also a former Publishing Director and Chief Executive of ABRSM.
Fenella Humphreys is one of the UK's most established and versatile violinists, having won the 2018 BBC Muisc Magazine Instrumental Award as well as the 2023 BBC Music Magazine Premiere Award . She enjoys a busy career combining chamber music with solo work performing in prestigious venues worldwide.
John Reid is a professor of piano and chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music. He also enjoys a wide-ranging performing career, encompassing period performance, cross-arts collaboration and contemporary music. Since 2017, he has been a member of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and is also principal pianist of Aurora Orchestra.
City Music Society
City Music Society has been the leading promoter of chamber music concerts in the City of London since 1943 when it was founded by Ivan Sutton MBE (1914–1996). The Society has 2,451 concerts to its credit, over 1,800 of those having been presented in the Great Hall of Bishopsgate Institute and 445 having been evening concerts, over 400 of which were given in Goldsmiths’ Hall between 1946 and 2012. The Society marked its 75th anniversary in its 2018-19 season with three celebratory concerts. In February 2022 it presented its 2,000th lunchtime concert, including a new commission by Adam Kornas for string quartet.
Since January 2016 concerts have been presented in the medieval church of St Bartholomew the Great in West Smithfield. In its 20 lunchtime concerts per year, the Society presents 50-minute programmes of music, ranging from medieval to jazz, with special emphasis on the great composers of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras.
Some of the world’s greatest musicians have performed in the Society’s concerts, many of them, like Jacqueline Du Pré and Miloš Karadaglić, at the start of their careers. In addition to featuring well-established musicians it has always been the Society’s policy to invite outstanding young professional artists at the beginning of their careers, many of whom have since attained international status.
Members of the Society are more than passive listeners. Over the years the Society has commissioned many new works, usually funded by members’ contributions. Composers commissioned include Roger Smalley, Nicholas Maw, Diana Burrell, Richard Rodney Bennett, Elizabeth Maconchy, Phyllis Tate, Robin Holloway, John McCabe, Geoffrey Burgon, Peter Paul Nash, Kevin Volans, Stuart MacRae, Michael Berkeley and Adam Kornas.
New members are always welcome – details can be found on the Society’s website.
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