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On Thursday 28th June, City Music Foundation presents a day of music at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Using all three of these very different venues, the day includes three musical events, all performed by CMF Artists.
1.15pm
Lunchtime Recital (free)
The Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less
Abner Jairo Ortiz Garcia (cello)
Mihai Ritivoiu (piano)4-6pm
Jazz in the Square (free)
St Bart’s Hospital Square
Alex Hitchcock (tenor sax)
Will Barry (keyboard)
Dan Casimir (bass)
Will Glaser (drums)8pm
Death Speaks (£15)
Barts Pathology Museum
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano)
Andrey Lebedev (guitar)
Iona Allan (violin)
Lunchtime Recital (free)
In April 2018, cellist Abner Jairo Ortiz Garcia was selected to be the second CMF Mexican International Scholar. Jairo makes his London debut in this lunchtime recital at The Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less with pianist Mihai Ritivoiu.
Jairo won First Prize at the National Cello Competition of Mexico in 2014 and has performed at the Cervantino Festival (Mexico), the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival (Los Angeles), and Young Euro Classic (Berlin); he is currently studying in Pittsburgh (USA). Ritivoiu is busy as both a solo and chamber pianist working throughout the UK and Europe. Recent and upcoming highlights include Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall and a recital with cellist Yoanna Prodanova at the St Magnus International Festival.
Programme:
Henry Eccles Cello Sonata in G minor
Haydn Cello Concerto in D Major – I. Allegro Moderato
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D. 821 – I. Allegro Moderato
Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folk Song
David Popper Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68
Jazz in the Square (free)
Described as “one to watch” (Jazzwise Magazine) and “a fantastic talent” (Helen Mayhew, Jazz FM), Alex Hitchcock is already widely celebrated as a leading saxophonist and bandleader. Hot off the back of his first UK tour and the release of his debut EP, Hitchcock is joined by three of his regular collaborators for an afternoon of jazz in the hospital square.
Alex Hitchcock (tenor sax)
Will Barry (keyboard)
Dan Casimir (bass)
Will Glaser (drums)
Death Speaks (£15)
In death speaks, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang gives Death a human voice.
Premiered alongside his acclaimed little match girl passion, this haunting song cycle continues its moving comparison between the worlds of the living and the dead. With lyrics drawn solely from the songs of Franz Schubert, who personified Death numerous times, Lang “connects the dots between Romantic morbidity and emo rock” (The New York Times). death speaks is paired with songs and instrumental numbers by Dowland, Ravel, JS Bach, Kurtág and Jonny Greenwood, as well as by Schubert himself.
The performers include two City Music Foundation Artists: Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano) and Andrey Lebedev (guitar). Not often open to the public, Barts Pathology Museum is a Victorian gallery hidden at the top of St Bartholomew’s Hospital; it houses over 5000 medical specimens displayed over 3 mezzanine levels.
City Music Foundation and St Bart’s
CMF has been looking for its own space for some time, a place to host our many core activities (concerts, workshops, rehearsals etc.) and our office. CMF is currently exploring – with the Parish of Great St Bartholomew and other stakeholders – the possibility of making St Bartholomew the Less its permanent home in the City of London.
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Changes to this privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This privacy policy was last updated in May 2018.
We’re delighted to announce that CMF has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Rhinegold Charity Fund.
CMF will receive £10,000 worth of advertising to spend across Rhinegold’s flagship classical music publications and websites, including Classical Music, Opera Now and Music Teacher, as well as marketing, design and account management support from Rhinegold.
Dr Clare Taylor, CMF managing director, said: ‘CMF is very proud to receive this endorsement from the Rhinegold Charity Fund. Thank you so much! The Musicians’ Union has just published more data on how classical musicians still struggle to earn a living from performing. Being brilliant on its own is not enough to succeed in the 21st century – life skills, understanding the “business of music”, getting noticed, and developing networks within the industry are all essential. This award will help us to continue with our mission of “turning talent into success” for exceptional young professional musicians.’
Stephen Turvey, chairman of the Rhinegold Charity Fund, said: ‘CMF provides a unique service to the outstanding musicians on its programme. It operates with stand-out professionalism and teaches invaluable skills on how to turn fantastic talent into a rewarding and financially successful career. I’ve seen and heard the fruits of their work first hand at Rhinegold LIVE and other concerts and can only encourage anyone not yet familiar with CMF’s work to do the same.’
Previous recipients of the fund include Orchestras Live, Southbank Sinfonia, the Young Classical Artists Trust, Live Music Now and Pro Corda Trust.
Full article on Rhinegold website
Ahead of his performance with the English Chamber Orchestra next week, we caught up with violinist and CMF Alumnus Michael Foyle to talk about Prokofiev, dreaming and Mexico!
Tell us something you’ve learned about Prokofiev whilst preparing to perform his 1st Violin Concerto?
It is a great time to look into Prokofiev’s life as his diaries have just been published for the first time in English. They are wonderfully evocative, and real page-turners – he said himself that if he hadn’t composed music for a living, he would have used words instead – and they display the wit, fantasy and sarcasm that permeate all of his music. But they also show his gift for the lyrical and poetic that make their mark so compellingly in the First Violin Concerto. I suppose something I have learned from this reading is the extent of Prokofiev’s flair for theatrics. It comes across all the time in the diaries – he can make a mundane meeting with a publisher sound like a choreography for the Ballets russes!- and while playing his music I now see that this element of theatre is underlying even the most sensitive and intimate passages, as well as the exuberant and grotesque.
Prokofiev was famously a pianist-composer – does he write well for the violin?
Prokofiev’s compositions for violin contain some of the most idiomatic, and equally some of the most awkward, writing for the instrument of any composer – sometimes within one page! The Second Concerto is more muscular, rhythmic and more instantly accessible which is perhaps why it gets played more. But I find the First Concerto even more special; for me Prokofiev is one of the last strikingly original melodists, and he explores the lyrical nature of the instrument in the outer movements in a deeply personal way. Then the fiery and virtuosic extended techniques in the middle “Scherzo” make for one of the most dangerously thrilling movements of any Violin Concerto.
What are you most looking forward to about this concert?
Particularly enjoyable to explore in this Concerto is the sognando (dreaming) quality he asks for, even right at the opening – I’d love to find a really magical sound, so that even in a beautiful space like Cadogan Hall, an audience member might experience these incredibly tender and hushed phrases as if they are being played only for them.
How did you come to play the violin?
I started at the age of four and so don’t remember a time when I wasn’t playing! I was fascinated by a lot of subjects growing up but ultimately went on to study at Royal Academy of Music and Vienna Konservatorium. There is something about the sound of the violin to which I am so deeply connected that I can’t imagine life without it – the possibilities of repertoire, concert settings, and even the tonal inflections of a single note, are endlessly fascinating and rewarding.
What has been a recent highlight for you in your career?
Korngold wrote a Concerto that is suffused with lyricism in a different way – its opulent harmonies and luscious orchestration made it a tremendous pleasure to perform with two great orchestras this season- the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Polish Baltic Philharmonic.
What are you looking forward to in the coming season?
2018-19 season sees the release of two CDs with my Duo pianist and fellow CMF Artist, Maksim Stsura. A World War One centenary disc for Challenge Records, featuring the Sonatas of Debussy, Respighi and Janacek and a new commission by Kenneth Hesketh, will be released on Armistice Day, 11 November 2018, while February 2019 sees us release the complete duo works of Lutoslawski and Penderecki for Delphian Records. Both releases will be marked with recitals around the UK so please do come along!
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