Tuesday 29 June – Thursday 1 July 2010
A project with Archbishop Sumner School in Lambeth based on Britten’s War Requiem, entitled, “Blitz: The Pity of War”.
For further information contact Southbank Sinfonia on 020 7921 0370.
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Thursday 1 July 2010 – 6.00-7.15pmSt John’s Waterloo, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY
Enjoy a complimentary glass of wine and some great music performed by Britain’s brightest young stars!
She recently completed her B.Mus (Hons) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, achieving a First Class Degree, generously supported by the GSMD and the Anglo-Swedish Society. In November a Messiah performance marked Mae’s debut at Cadogan Hall with the English Chamber Orchestra. In February she won first prize at the British Schubert Society’s Lied Duo Competition and she was selected for the Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Award 2010. Mae currently sings in Verdi’s Macbeth in the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and appears as a soloist with the Southbank Synfonia for a performance of Britten’s Phaedra in July. Mae sings for Live Music Now! with her duo partner, pianist Diana Brekalo, working throughout the country to bring live music to the UK’s welfare, educational, justice and health sectors. The duo were awarded a scholarship to study with eminent tenor Christoph Prégardien and have performed at the Internationales Musikfest in Stuttgart. In Spring 2009 they were finalists at the International Lied Student Duo Competition in the Netherlands. The duo creates workshops and performances for children at the Wigmore Hall. In January and February 2011 Mae is giving recitals with pianist Sholto Kynoch for Oxford Music and St. Martin in the Fields. In July 2011 she is recording songs by Finnish composer Yrvö Kilpinnen for French record label AR RE-SE. Mae is supported by the Anglo-Swedish Society. Ivor Bonnici completed a music degree at Oxford University (Worcester College) where he studied composition under Dr Robert Saxton. He won an orchestral competition which resulted in his piece Three Movements for Chamber Orchestra being performed by the Oxford Sinfonietta in 2007. He also conducted a performance of Mozart’s Requiem and trained the chorus for a performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Ivor was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award to study at the Royal Academy of Music where he is in his second year of the Masters programme in composition under Professor Simon Bainbridge. During the first year of the course he was commissioned by the chamber ensemble Azalea to write Flight of the Phoenix, in 2009 Ivor’s Musical Space & Synergy was performed by London Sinfonietta at the Purcell Room, and Eternity for soprano and cello was performed at the Royal Academy of Music. In summer 2009 he was awarded a Ralph Vaughan Williams Award to attend an advanced composition course at Dartington International School of Music, led by the Japanese composer Somei Satoh. Thursday 8 July 2010 – 6.00-7.15pmSt John’s Waterloo, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY
Enjoy a complimentary glass of wine and some great music performed by Britain’s brightest young stars!
Saturday 10 July 2010 – 7.30pm
Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham
Our SbS alumni have been busy with trials in key orchestras in the UK and abroad! We are proud to announce that Adrian Uren (SbS6 horn) has a trial with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, while fellow 2008 alumni Rebecca Mathews (SbS6 violin) has a trial with Welsh National Opera. Catch Llinos Owen (SbS7 bassoon) on trial with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, and Mireia Ferrer (SbS7 violin) on trial with the Ulster Orchestra. Meanwhile, Arnaud Ghillebaert (SbS7 violin) has a trial with the London Symphony Orchestra on the viola. Congratulations to current SbS players Kate Walter (SbS8 flute) and Robin Wilson (SbS8 violin), who have been offered jobs with Holland Sinfonia and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra respectively! Saturday 17 – Sunday 25 July 2010
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Mae Heydorn, a Swedish-German mezzo-soprano, is a post-graduate scholarship student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying with Susan Waters and Rudolf Piernay.
