Music at  ST MARY'S   Perivale


Wednesday October 5th 7.30 pm

Amarins Wierdsma (violin)
Dimitris Spouras (clarinet)
Emma Besselaar (cello)
Inga Liukaityte (piano)

Beethoven : Clarinet trio in B flat Op 11

Messiaen : Quartet for the End of Time

Admission free with retiring collection. No tickets issued beforehand

Amarins Wierdsma (violin) was born in 1991, and studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory, graduating with honours. She is now pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno, having completed her Master's degree there with distinction. She won third prize in the Dutch national violin competition in April 2013, and various other awards earlier in her career, notably the ‘Young Music Talent of the Year' for the Netherlands in 2007. She has performed widely, both as soloist and chamber musician. She is leader of the Barbican Quartet, which has played in prestigious venues in the UK and Europe, and will make their Wigmore Hall debut in 2017.

Dimitris Spouras (clarinet) was born in 1989 in Thessaloniki. He studied in Thessaloniki and at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, where he studied conducting as well as clarinet. He is now a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where is on the Orchestral Artistry Diploma course, in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra. He won the first prize and the special prize in the ‘First Hellenic Orchestra Conducting Competition with the State Orchestra of Thessalonki' in 2014. He has played in orchestras in prestigious halls throughout Europe. He is now artistic director and chief conductor of the new ensemble Antwerpen Camerata.

Emma Besselaar (cello) is a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, studying with Louise Hopkins. She previously studied at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. Emma attended masterclasses including with Raphael Wallfisch, Adrian Brendel, Anner Bylsma and attended the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove in April 2015, following masterclasses with Ralph Kirschbaum. She is a laureate of different competitions in the Netherlands and recently her piano trio was awarded the first prize in the St. James Chamber Competition. As an orchestra musician, Emma has been a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Britten-Pears Orchestra and the Dutch Youth String Orchestra, where she was the principal cellist.

Inga Liukaityte (piano) is from Lithuania, and has completed her Bachelor of Music (First Class Honours) in Glasgow, Scotland, and won the first prize in the prestigious Bamber Galloway piano competition at the Conservatoire. She is now pursuing her postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She haswon prizes in international piano competitions in Italy, Czech Republic, Romania, Greece, France and Lithuania. In November 2013 she was second at the Beethoven Inter-collegiate Competition in the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. She was then invited by the Beethoven Society to give a solo lunchtime recital at St James Piccadilly in London in January 2014.

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