Sunday 24 November 2013 |
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2pm tba |
BPSE Senior Intercollegiate Competition Pianists from all the Music Colleges in the UK compete before a distinguished Jury comprising Stephen Kovacevich, Alan Walker and James Brawn. Each pianist performs a Beethoven Sonata of their choice and a compulsory Bagatelle. BPSE Senior Intercollegiate Competition |
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Monday 18 November 2013 |
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1.10pm Free – Retiring Collection |
Benjamin Baker, violin Benjamin Baker was the winner of the 2013 BPSE Chamber Music Competition, who received the Gwyneth George Award, in May 2013. Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No.3 in E-flat major, op.12 No.3 I. Allegro con Spirito Debussy: Sonata No.3 for piano and violin I. Allegro vivo Szymanowski: Nocturne and Tarantella, op.28 BPSE Prizewinner Lunchtime Recital BENJAMIN BAKER violin JI LIU, PIANO |
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Tuesday 15 October 2013 |
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9.15am Free – Retiring Collection |
BEETHOVEN MARATHON ALL DAY RECITAL Julian Jacobson, piano MARATHON BEETHOVEN CONCERT All 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas in Chronological Sequence BEETHOVEN MARATHON ALL DAY RECITAL 10th Anniversary of his |
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Friday 20 September 2013 |
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1.10pm Free – Retiring Collection |
BPSE Lunchtime Recital Eros Jaca, cello Beethoven: Sonate No.4 in C Major Op.102 No.1 BPSE Lunchtime Recital |
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Tuesday 13 August 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
Min Jung Baek, piano Schumann: Abegg Variations Op.1 The concert is accompanied by the Presentation of the Worshipful Company of Musicians Medal BPSE Prizewinner Lunchtime Recital The Winner of 2012 Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Competition, Korean pianist MinJung Baek began studying the piano at the age of four, entered her first competition at five and by eleven she had won fifty Korean national competitions. Later, she won top prizes at international piano competitions including 2005 Skokie Valley Young Artist Competition in USA(led her debut as a soloist in Chicago), 2009 Giuliano Pecar, 2012 Ernesto Falla, 2012 Concorso Nuovi Orizzonti, 2012 Jacque Samuel Piano Competition Recital award and 2006 Rachmaninoff Piano Competition, which provided her concerts playing Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.1,No.2 & Paganini Rhapsody in one concert in Ukraine and in Italy in April, 2007 broadcast by Ukraine TV. Aged 10, she made her orchestral debut with Busan PO in Beethoven’s Concerto No 1. Since then, she has performed extensively in USA, Europe, Russia and the Far East, including major London venues. MinJung has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2010-2013 Guildhall Artist Trust and 2007 Earl Wild’s Teaching Fellowship by Ivory Classic. She has played at numerous music festivals including the 2005 TCU/Cliburn Piano institute in Fort worth, where she was filmed for a documentary about the pianist Menahem Pressler, and many appearances across Europe and the UK. |
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Friday 9 August 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
Vidas Vaitkevicius, piano Mozart: Variations Ah vous dirai-je, maman, K. 265 Beethoven: Andante Favori Ciurlionis: Little Sonata Scriabin: 4 Etudes Liszt: Consolation no. 3 in D flat major Liszt/Gounod: Valse de l’Opera Faust BPSE Regent Hall Summer Festival 2013 Vidas Vaitkevicius, born in Lithuania in 1994, moved to England with his parents in 1997 and studied piano at the Royal College of Music Junior Department from 2004 with Neil Roxburgh, receiving a Grade 8 Distinction. Vidas has performed as soloist and chamber music player, and has participated in the Pro Corda International Chamber Music Academy. In 2010, Vidas took part in the Jacques Samuel Junior Department Piano Festival and was selected as one of the winners to perform at the Wigmore Hall in London. Having also won the Teresa Carreno Memorial Piano Competition, he was invited to perform a recital in February 2012 at the Bolivar Hall (London). His recitals at the Regent Hall (London) for the Beethoven Society of Europe Festival and in Lithuania last summer were received enthusiastically. Since 2011 Vidas has been studying piano with Sulamita Aronovsky, at the Purcell School and will soon continue his studies with Professor Aronovsky at the Royal Academy of Music. |
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Wednesday 7 August 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
James Brawn, piano All Beethoven programme BPSE Regent Hall Summer Festival 2013 Born in England in 1971, James Brawn studied piano in New Zealand from the age of seven and played Bartok on New Zealand TV. He continued studies in Melbourne, Australia with Margaret Schofield, Ronald Farren-Price, and Rita Reichman, gaining prizes at the Melbourne Eisteddfods and receiving from Yehudi Menuhin the Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Scholarship. In 1987, he was a finalist in the ABC Young Performers Awards. In 1988, he received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Frank Wibaut and Christopher Elton, and winning the Beethoven and 20th century prizes. He performed in master classes with Andras Schiff, Tamas Vasary, Stephen Kovacevich, Fou Tsong, Menahem Pressler, and members of the Amadeus and Chilingirian Quartets. Aged 19, Brawn won the Keyboard Final of the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition resulting in many recitals across the UK including the QEH. From 1993-2001, he taught at the Kings College and St. Johns College choir schools in Cambridge, giving recitals with his wife, soprano Susan Brawn, and sister, oboist Victoria Brawn including the Cambridge Elgar Festival and the Purcell Room in London. In 2001, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to teach at Scotch College, appearing at the Melba Festival, and music societies throughout Victoria. Brawn recorded for RTHK Radio 4 in Hong Kong, ABC Classic FM, and 3MBS radio in Melbourne. He also co-founded the biennial Scotch College Piano Festival. Since 2010, Brawn has been based in the UK, living in the Cotswolds. He performs regular across the UK and in 2011-12 Brawn began to record the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Potton Hall in East Anglia with the eminent producer Jeremy Hayes in April 2012. He signed with the American record label, MSR Classics, in September 2012. ‘A Beethoven Odyssey’ volume 1 is now available. |
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Monday 5 August 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
FRANCISCO FIERRO, Piano Beethoven: Sonata Op.81a ‘Les Adieux’ Fierro: Homage to Beethoven Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme by Corelli BPSE Regent Hall Summer Festival 2013 Nominated for the Prince of Girona Prize for the Arts 2013, one of the most important Awards for a young musician in Spain, sponsored by the Botín Foundation (Banco de Santander), the 22 years old Spanish pianist Francisco Fierro is considered one of the great promises of the piano in Spain. Despite his age, he has already performed in several European countries and also in the United States. Soon he will be touring Latin America and will make a return visit to the United States. Francisco is also well known and respected as a great improviser, often improvising at concerts. A live CD of his improvisations, representing different periods in music history, will be recorded in the near future. |
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Friday 2 August 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
Alberto Portugheis, piano Beethoven: Sonata Op.27/2 in C sharp minor “Moonlight” The distinguished pianist and pedagogue Alberto Portugheis has been associated with the music of Beethoven throughout his career and especially since co-founding the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe, President Alfred Brendel, of which he is Vice-Chairman. |
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Wednesday 31 July 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
John Paul Ekins, piano Mozart: Fantasy in C Minor, K. 475 F. Liszt Cantique D’amour, S. 173/10 Beethoven: Sonata in C Major, Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ F. Morel: Deuxieme Etude de Sonorite BPSE Regent Hall Summer Festival 2013 In great demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, John Paul Ekins has given performances throughout the UK, and overseas, and has broadcast on the BBC, and on Romanian and Polish TV. In 2009 he graduated from the Royal College of Music with First Class Honours, and in the same year he was awarded the James Anthony Horne Scholarship by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study with Charles Owen, where he graduated with Master of Performance (Distinction) in 2011. He received a Music Education Award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, and generous support from Making Music, The Concordia Foundation, The Razumovsky Trust and The Keyboard Charitable Trust. He has participated in masterclasses with many renowned musicians and ensembles, such as Salvatore Accardo, the Brodsky String Quartet, Levon Chilingirian and the Chilingirian String Quartet, Peter Donohoe, Bernard Greenhouse, Leslie Howard, Joan Enric Lluna and Martino Tirimo. He is a past prize-winner in the Anglo-Czechoslovak Trust Chamber Music Competition, and recently formed The Cremona Piano Trio, with Michal Cwizewicz and Liubov Ulybysheva, and in early 2012 they won the Audience Prize in the final of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition. As well as private teaching John Paul has also given workshops and masterclass-recitals with great success in the UK. He has taught at St. Paul’s School, Barnes since 2013. John Paul was particularly honoured to be presented to Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Prince Philip at a Reception for Young Performers at Buckingham Palace in 2011. More information on John Paul at http://www.jpekinspianist.com or Twitter @jpekinspianist. |
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Monday 29 July 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
Laura Moinian, cello & Camilla Li, piano Beethoven: Sonata Op 5/2 in G minor BPSE Regent Hall Summer Festival 2013 Laura Moinian, from Hamburg, studied cello from the age of 9 in Schwerin, and in 2007 at the University of Arts, Berlin with Matias Oliveira da Pinto, then with Ulf Tischbirek in Lubeck. Since 2011 she has studied at the RCM with Melissa Phelps. She was won many awards and has played in the Deutsche Streicher Philharmonie conducted by Michael Sanderling and as a soloist in the Kabalevsky cello concerto, conducted by Mathias Foremny. In 2012 she performed with Naoka Aoki in the Wigmore Hall. From October 2013 Laura will study at the Hannover Musikhochschule with Leonid Gorokhov. Camilla Li Ching Hang received her Bachelor of Music from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2011, under the tutorship of Professor Eleanor Wong Yee Lun. She started playing the piano at the age of five and joined the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts as a junior student at the age of nine, majored in piano under the tutelage of Ms. Katherine Huang. Currently a Postgraduate student at Royal College of Music studying with Professor Julian Jacobson, Camilla is an RCM scholar supported by a Croucher Foundation Hong Kong Award. Prizes include the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, in the Piano Concerto Competition and the Composer of the Year Award. She was a winner in the Asia Youth Piano Competition in 2008. In the same year, Camilla was given full scholarship to participate in the Dartington International Summer School, studying with Julian Jacobson and Stephen Kovacevich. In 2010, Camilla was selected for the Mozarteum Summer Academy with Sergio Perticaroli. In the following year, Camilla was awarded the Tom Lee Music Scholarship and the Parsons Music Scholarship in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. |
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Friday 26 July 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown – piano four hands Bach-Kurtag: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit Beethoven: Variations on a Theme of Count Waldstein, WoO 67 Debussy: Six Epigraphes Antiques Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, op 134 Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown’s musical association dates back to the late 1990s, though it was only in 2010 that they decided to team together to explore the rich and varied repertoire for piano duet. Both composers as well as pianists, they have already enhanced this repertoire: Mariko’s piece ‘Travels Through a Mist of Chinese Mountains’ (2012) has already received three performances, to great acclaim, and Julian’s ‘Tango Albertito’ has been performed in France and England . They made their debut at the festival ‘Rencontres Musicales en Eygalieres’ in France in 2010, returning there in 2011 and 2012. In the UK , they have given concerts at Burgh House, Regent Hall at the 2011 Beethoven Society Summer Festival and at various London churches. Concerts in 2013 include Blackheath Hall, London and Fairfield Halls, Croydon, a Debussy project including the neglected ballet masterpiece ‘Khamma’ and ‘Epigraphes Antiques’ with live dance, further concerts in France and the premieres of Gary Carpenter’s ‘After Braque’ and Julian’s ‘Palm Court Waltz’ – a tribute to the late Sir Richard Rodney Bennett – in May. Their first recording, for the British Music Society’s CD label, will be released later this year. ‘Rhythmic steel and incisiveness which had us on the edge of our seats’ (Music and Vision Daily) ‘Debussy’s delicate Epigraphes Antiques [were] played with a pellucid touch and perfect sound quality on Blackheath’s Steinway’ (Musical Pointers). |
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Tuesday 16 July 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
Julian Jacobson Beethoven Sonata in E flat op.7 BPSE Lunchtime Recital One of Britain’s most creative pianists, Julian Jacobson is acclaimed for the vitality and insight he brings to his enormous repertoire ranging across all styles. |
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Friday 28 June 2013 |
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1.10pm Free – Retiring Collection |
BPSE Lunchtime Recital Malcolm Troup, piano Ernest Bloch: ‘Clowns’ (World Premiere) BPSE Lunchtime Recital The concert is given in conjunction with the International Ernest Bloch Society (IEBS) |
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Wednesday 15 May 2013 |
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1.10pm Free – Retiring Collection |
BPSE Lunchtime Recital Noelle Gruebler, violin W.A. Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in E Minor K.304 L.v. Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-Flat op.12 No.3 E. Grieg: Sonata for Violin and Piano C Minor op.45 BPSE Lunchtime Recital |
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Tuesday 14 May 2013 |
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1pm Free – Retiring Collection |
Julieta Iglesias, piano Beethoven: Sonata No.21 in C Op.53 ‘Waldstein’ Debussy: Reflets dans l’eau Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody BPSE Lunchtime Recital Julieta Iglesias was born in 1985 in Buenos Aires. She started her piano studies in 1995 at the ‘Alberto Williams’ Conservatoire. In 2001 she received the ‘Lia Cimaglia Espinosa’ scholarship and the Santa Cecilia Medal. Since then, she has been performing in important halls in Argentina. Julieta graduated from the ‘Carlos Lopez Buchardo’ Conservatoire (IUNA) where she studied under the guidance of Professor Aldo Antognazzi. She also taught Piano for two years at the same institution. Julieta Iglesias has attended courses and masterclasses with Maestros such as Mario Videla, Nelson Goerner, Haydee Schvartz, Jack Winnerock, Elmma Miranda, Michele Campanella, Diane Andersen, among others. In 2005, Julieta won a Mention at the Piano Competition of the Northlands Institute and in 2009 she was invited to participate in the ‘1st National Festival of Pianists’ in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Julieta performed at the famous Colon Theatre of Buenos Aires. As a teacher, Julieta has given piano and chamber music masterclasses at the ‘Luis Gianneo’ Conservatoire. In 2010, Julieta gave the Première of the piano works by Argentine composer Mauro de María and also released Volume 1 of de María’s music, to critical acclaim. Vol. II is in preparation. |
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29 April 2013 – 1 May 2013 |
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10.30am Non-Members £10 per day – £15 for 2 Days. BPSE/EPTA/ISM Members £8 per day – £12 for 2 Days |
BPSE Chamber Music Masterclass and Competition Professor Oliver Lewis Violin & Piano Duos Chamber works by Beethoven for violin and piano and cello and piano. BPSE Chamber Music Masterclass and Competition April 29th: daytime masterclass 10:30am-3:30pm Masterclass observers: Non-Members: £10 per day £15 for two days May 1st: evening concert/competition 6:30pm (free entrance) Duos should send a biography, name of the work by Beethoven they wish to present and a cheque (payable to EPTA West London) to: Further information is available from: |
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Sunday 17 March 2013 |
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2pm Free Entry |
2013 BPSE Junior Intercollegiate Competition Jury: Compulsory work ~ Beethoven Bagatelle Op. 119 No.11 in B flat major Gurpreet Sandhu (Birmingham Conservatoire) Martin Bartlett (Royal College of Music) Hayley Parkes (Chethams School of Music) Alistair Backhouse (Royal Northern College of Music) Daniel Silcott (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Jury Announcement and Presentation of Prizes 2013 BPSE Junior Intercollegiate Competition The BPSE wishes to express their sincere thanks to the Austrian Cultural Forum for their Generous Hospitality |
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Monday 7 January 2013 |
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1:10pm Free entry, suggested donation of £3 |
Arta Arnicane, piano Programme to include Beethoven |
2013
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