Sunday October 27th 2.00 pm
(please note earlier start time)

Alena Walentin (flute)
Niklas Walentin (violin)
Viv McLean (piano)

Eugene Goosens: Two Sketches Op 15

Chopin: Nocturne in G minor Op 37 no 1

Poulenc: Flute sonata

Ysaye: Unfinished sonata for solo violin - UK premiere !

Ysaye: Sonata for solo violin in E major Op 27 no 6

Mel Bonis: Trio for flute, violin and piano Op 59

Admission free with retiring collection. No tickets issued beforehand

Alena Walentin is a versatile flautist combining solo, chamber music and orchestral playing with teaching, judging competitions, and giving outreach sessions. She is a Vice-Chair of the British Flute Society, an Altus Artist and is signed with an International agency “Granvig Artists”. She has won many prizes including 1st prizes at the British Flute Society's Competitions, the International Flute Competition “Friedrich Kuhlau”(Germany), the Royal Academy of Music flute competition and many awards, including Hattori Foundation award, The Leverhulme Trust Award, The Philharmonia MMSF Award,  “Wolfson Foundation Award” etc. She has given recitals in Europe, Asia, Canada, UK, USA and Russia.Alena teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Junior Royal Academy of Music,  City University of London and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She is often invited to teach in summer courses and her recent visits as a teacher include Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Croatia Flute Academy (Croatia), Singapore Flute Festival (Singapore), Ponte Cultura (France) and International Dartington Festival  Summer School.  Her orchestral playing includes appearances as a Principal flute with the Royal Opera House, Opera North, The Philharmonia Orchestra, The Hallé Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Niklas Walentin was born in 1994 of Danish and Swiss origin. He has studied with his teacher and mentor Søren Elbæk,  and with Prof. Hatto Beyerle of the Alban Berg Quartet. He has won many prizes, scholarships and awards for his exceptional violin playing including The Danish Critics Award 2015, The Danish Art Council “ Young Elite” Award  2013 & 2016  and National Danish Radio "Talent of the Year” 2013. In 2012 he was tripple prize-winner in the 9th Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition. He has played as a soloist with most of the Danish orchestras, The Mariinsky Theater Orchestra and St. Petersburg Philharmonia. His first CD was released in 2014, and his second CD was released in 2015, with a recital in Weill Hall - Carnegie Hall. He also leads the Trio Vitruvi, who won the Danish Radio Chambermusic competition 2014. 

Viv McLean (piano) , the winner of the First Prize at the 2002 Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona , has performed at all the major venues in the UK as well as throughout Europe, Japan , Australia and the USA . He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was the piano winner at the Royal Overseas-League Music Competition. Viv has recorded regularly for BBC Radio 3 and recorded for Sony Classical Japan and Naxos , as well as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's own label. Viv lives in Harrow and has been a huge supporter of concerts at both St Mary's Perivale and St Barnabas in recent years.

 

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