St Mary's Perivale Events details

Sunday 15 November 3.00 pm

Morwenna Del Mar (cello)
William Galton (piano)

Rachmaninov: Prelude for cello and piano Op 2 no 1 (3')

Rachmaninov: Prelude for solo piano in E flat Op 23 no 6 (3')

Nadia Boulanger: Three pieces for cello and piano (8')

Liszt: Liebestraum no 3 for piano (6')

Rachmaninov: Sonata in G minor Op 19 for cello and piano (38')
Lento-Allegro / Scherzo / Andante / Allegro

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Morwenna Del Mar is a cellist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and previously held the position of Principal Cello No. 2 with the Orchestra of Opera North. She has appeared as guest principal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and London Philharmonic Orchestra,and has performed as continuo cellist with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Morwenna performs regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra and has toured extensively across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. Her playing is widely recorded on film, television and video-game soundtracks, as well as on numerus classical albums, including Grazyna Bacewicz's Cello Quartet, and as a soloist with the BBC Singers, and with the choir of Clare College, Cambridge. As a soloist and chamber musician, Morwenna has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, and King's College Chapel, Cambridge. She has performed concertos by Elgar, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, and Tchaikovsky, as well as the Beethoven Triple Concerto (with the Del Mar Piano Trio) and Brahms Double Concerto (with Francesca Barritt). Morwenna studied at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Music, where she received a postgraduate diploma with distinction and the DipRAM, and the Eastman School of Music with Steven Doane.

William Galton read Mathematics at the University of Cambridge before completing a Postgraduate Diploma in solo piano performance at the Royal Academy of Music. Alongside his musical career, he has taught mathematics at Trevor-Roberts Preparatory School and Westminster School, and since 2020 has been Head of Maths at North London Collegiate School. William has continued to perform regularly as a soloist and concerto pianist. He won a Gold Medal at the Marlow International Concerto Competition in 2007, and First Prize at the Vienna International Piano Competition in 2008. Following his success in Vienna, he received an honorary medal from the city's mayor and was invited to give a recital in the Eroica Hall of the Palais Lobkowitz. In 2017 he won both First Prize and the Press Award at the Paris International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, performing before an audience of 1,500. This led to an invitation to perform at the Sorbonne with L'Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine. William's concerto repertoire includes works by Grieg, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, as well as Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. His most influential teachers include Christodoulos Georgiades, Colin Stone, Philip Fowke and Christopher Elton

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