A. Hanna & Sons - Pianos & Musical Instruments, London

Koncert

Charpentier - Prélude du Te Deum
De Grigny - Les Hymnes: Veni Creatur Spiritus
Fauré - Elégie for Cello and Piano
Ravel - Chanson Madécasses
Poulenc - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Saint-Saëns - Carnival of the Animals

RODERICK SWANSTON (Speaker) recently retired as Reader in Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Royal College of Music. He is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and 4. He is Artistic Director for Martin Randall’s Austro-Hungarian and Rhine Valley Music Festivals. He is internationally known as a lecturer and critic combining immense learning with great wit and enthusiasm.

JESSICA COTTIS (Conductor) studied at the Australian National University, in Paris, and is currently a postgraduate scholar at the Royal Academy of Music. Concert venues include Westminster Abbey, King's College Cambridge, the Paris Conservatoire, and appearances in Switzerland, Canada, UK and Italy. She has recently conducted Le Nozze di Figaro (King’s Opera) and the Sofia Symphony Orchestra.

MARK NIXON (Piano) is a graduate of the University of Cape Town, the Amsterdam Conservatory and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. From 2000 – 2002 he was the Anthony Saltmarsh Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music. He currently teaches at Kings College School and has a busy performing career with recent engagements in The Netherlands, France, South Africa and the UK.

CATHERINE LEAKER (Piano) was a prize-winning junior student at the Welsh College of Music and Drama and was twice a semi-finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. She studied at the Royal College of Music and worked extensively as a pianist and accompanist. She was Head of Music at the London Oratory Junior School and is Head of Music at King’s College Junior School.

PETER HATCH (Piano) read Music at the University of Manchester, studying piano with Charles Hopkins. He has taught Music at St. Columb’s College, Londonderry and Kent College, Pembury. He has given many recitals, has conducted numerous musical theatre performances and is a member of the King Charles Singers. He is currently Assistant Director of Music at King’s College School.

DANIEL PHILLIPS (Organ) is Director of Music at King’s College School, Wimbledon. Prior to this he was Organist and Head of Academic Music at Uppingham School and Assistant Organist of Worcester Cathedral. He has toured extensively in Canada, the USA and throughout Europe, has featured on Classic FM, BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4, BBC Songs of Praise and appears on nine CD recordings.

LEANDRO SILVERA (Cello) was born in Argentina and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. Since graduation he has performed with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and the Kölner Kammerorchester and taught for the European String Teachers’ Association and at Chetham’s School of Music. He is currently Head of Strings at Kings College School.

SHELLEY LEVY (Clarinet) studied at the University of Cape Town, the Rotterdam Conservatoire, the Geneva Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. She has played in the RPO, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Brunel Ensemble and as recitalist has appeared in South Africa, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada and the UK.

CLAIRE McKENNA (Flute) was born in Zimbabwe and graduated from the University of Cape Town with Distinction. She has played flute and piccolo in several orchestras in both Zimbabwe and South Africa and has performed solo recitals in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. She is currently Head of Music at Ricards Lodge High School in Wimbledon.

And various guest artists