Thursday 24 June 4.00 pm
Streamed LIVE concert in an empty church
Concert in memory of Dennis Brain:
Alexei Watkins (horn)
Harry Rylance (piano)
Beethoven: Horn Sonata in F Op 17 (14')
Poulenc: Élégie (10')
Dukas: Villanelle (7')
Woolf: Aria (2017)
Saint-Saëns: Romance Op 36 (5')
Vinter: Hunter's Moon (6')
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Born in 1995, London-based French Horn player Alexei Watkins graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a Bachelor of Music Degree (First-Class Honours) in 2017 and a Master of Arts Degree (DisLncLon) in 2018. During his Lme at the Academy, amongst other accolades, he was awarded the Dennis Brain Prize.As a soloist, Alexei has performed recitals extensively across the UK at venues including St John’s Smith Square, the Buxton International Festival, the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival, Blackheath Halls, Hampton Court Palace, Southwark Cathedral and Charlton House, Greenwich. Recently he has performed the Brtten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings both in the UK and abroad as well as Mozart’s 3rd and 4th Horn Concertos. In
2019 Alexei won the University of London Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.He is a keen orchestral player and has guested as Principal Horn with Glyndebourne Touring Orchestra, English National Opera and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. He has also played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orches tra, English Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia and was Principal Horn of the Britten Pears Orchestra (2015-2017).
Harry Rylance is a British-Korean pianist and current Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music. He studied at the Academy under Head of Piano, Joanna
MacGregor CBE from 2015-2020, where he graduated with First Class Honours (BMus and MA) and a Diploma (DipRAM). Following on from his studies, he was appointed as a Chamber Music Fellow with his piano trio, Trio Mazzolini, and also as the Répétiteur Fellow for the Royal Academy Opera. As a soloist and collaborative musician, he has performed in the UK, USA, Canada, Hungary, Germany, France, Korea and New Zealand. Recent engagements in the UK have included performances at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to an audience including five former Prime Ministers, performances at the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, and live on BBC Radio 3’s “In Tune” programme. Harry has an international background having studied in Korea, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Hungary, and the USA before returning to the UK in 2015. During his time in Hungary he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with a number of teachers including the late Zoltán Kocsis. At the Royal Academy of Music he has been the recipient of numerous awards,
including the Musician’s Company Silver Medal, the Christian Carpenter Recital Prize, and the Isaacs and Pirani Piano Trio Prize. He was also awarded the Skelton Scholarship for his postgraduate studies, generously supported by the Grand Duo Charitable Trust.
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