Music at  ST MARY'S   Perivale


Wednesday July 13th 7.30 pm

Stefan Kennedy (tenor) Hugh Mather (piano)

Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin D795

Huw Wiggin (saxophone) Somi Kim (piano)

Bach: Sonata in G Minor
Debussy: Rhapsodie
Grieg: Air from ‘Holberg Suite'
Borne: Fantasy on Bizet's ‘Carmen'

Admission free with retiring collection. No tickets issued beforehand

Stefan Kennedy is studying at the Royal Academy of Music, after graduating from Clare College, Cambridge where he read Music with a choral scholarship. His oratorio performances include Monteverdi's Vespers, Bach's St Matthew Passion, St John Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat and B Minor Mass and Handel's Messiah etc. He has performed Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin in Chichester and Winchester cathedrals. He has performed recitals across Cambridge in the West Road Concert Hall, the Fitzwilliam Museum and Kettle's Yard and several college chapels. Stefan is extremely grateful for the generous support of the Josephine Baker Trust, The Lady Clare Fund, Baroness O'Cathain and Timothy and Christina Benn..

Hugh Mather (piano) studied the piano and organ from an early age, gaining the FRCO and the ARCM piano performers diplomas. He pursued a medical career and was Consultant Physician at Ealing Hospital from 1982 to 2006. He continued his piano studies with James Gibb for many years, and has given countless concerts in West London as concerto soloist, recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician. He has organised over 1000 concerts in Ealing over the past decade.

Commonwealth Musician of the Year, First Prize and Gold Medal winner of the 2014 Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition, Huw Wiggin is one of the most popular saxophonists of his generation. Highlights of 2016 include the commissioning of a Saxophone concerto, appearances at Brighton, Newbury and Ripon festivals, a return visit to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the release of a concerto CD. He was born in Reading in 1986 and studied at Chethams School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating in 2008 with a 1 st Class honours degree. Subsequently he studied in Cologne and at the Royal College of Music. Awards include a Star Award from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, a Music Education Award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund and a Martin Musical Scholarship Award. In 2012 Huw was selected as a Park Lane Group Artist. He is professor of saxophone at the Royal Academy of Music in London and is leader of the Ferio Saxophone Quartet and regularly performs with them in the UK and abroad.

South Korean born New Zealand pianist, Somi Kim graduated this year from the Royal Academy of Music with an Advanced Diploma in Performance, receiving the HRH Princess Alice The Duchess of Gloucester's Prize for exemplary studentship. Last year Somi gained her Master of Arts with Distinction, receiving a DipRAM and the Christian Carpenter Prize for the Best Recital. Somi is the winner of several prestigious prizes for accompanists. She is sought after as a chamber musician, song accompanist and répétiteur. She is an artist for the Park Lane Group, Kirckman Concert Society, Concordia Foundation and the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Her recent and future appearances include Wigmore Hall, St. John's Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall, St. James's Piccadilly, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the Edinburgh Fringe, Ryedale and Oxford Lieder Festivals.=

 

 

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