A busy week stacking up for Salon Music in mid May. As you know we have Declan Hickey booked for a solo guitar recital on the evening of the 16th. I can’t wait to hear his guitar in our space as I know it is going to sound amazing. (See below for details or to book just go here.)
Philharmonia’s MMSF Instrumental Fellowship Programme
And the day before we have the launch of our collaboration with the Philharmonia Orchestra’s MMSF Instrumental Fellowship Programme. The programme offers training opportunities for budding orchestral players including coaching and mentoring from orchestra members, chances to observe the orchestra in rehearsal and recital opportunities. Which is where Salon Music comes in. On an irregularly regular basis, MMSF Fellows will be performing at lunchtime for us as their ‘recital opportunity’.
First up is Carys Barnes – currently studying an Artists Masters in Advanced Instrumental Studies at the Guildhall School. She has already played with some leading orchestras around the UK, is currently on trial for Principal viola with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and has also been offered the position of Principal viola with the Slovak State Sinfonietta.
Carys will be playing with her quartet – the Slate Quartet: Tiago Soares Silva (violin), Jenny Clare (violin) and Oona Lowther (cello).
All studying either at the Royal Academy or with the Southbank Centre Future Artists Scheme, they have been playing together since 2022. They performed at the Philharmonia’s Let Freedom Ring Insight day at the Royal Festival Hall and collaborated with the award-winning composer Brett Dean to perform his ‘Eclipse’ Quartet at the Royal Academy of Music which they will be recording later this year.
They will be playing:
Haydn – String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2
Holst – Phantasy String Quartet
Beethoven – String Quartet Op.18 No. 4
The concert will be at 1pm Wednesday May 15th but doors wll open at 12.30pm for a glass of wine and a wander in the garden.
Cost £15 to include one (or several!) glasses of wine.
To book go here but we will also be selling tickets on the door.
May 16th 6.30pm – Declan Hickey and his guitar – plus supper in the garden?
Now London based Declan plays as a soloist, chamber musician and arranger while also working as a musicologist. Under his musicology hat he has studied the early 19th century guitar craze known as the ‘Great Vogue’ which he will tell us about – and is where tonight’s concert will start.
Joseph Kaspar Mertz (1805-1856) was a virtuoso guitarist much feted around Central Europe in the 1840s and 50s.
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959). A hugely popular Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist, Villa-Lobos had composed over 2,000 pieces by the time of his death in 1959.
Jean Françaix (1912–97) – a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, ‘known for his prolific output and vibrant style’.
Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996) – a largely self taught Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory.
Jorge Morel (1931–2021) Born in Buenos Aires, Morel performed all over South America before moving to the US playing with jazz greats such as Erroll Garner, Stan Kenton, Herbie Mann and Chet Atkins.
Leo Brouwer (1939-) is a hugely successful Cuban composer, conductor and classical guitarist.
For more details on Declan and the composers, see this post.
Supper
The concert will, as usual, be followed by supper which – weather permitting – might even happen in the garden.
Book here – 6.30pm for a glass of wine – 7pm for the concert.
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Concerts here at Hampstead Lane but including other performances by artists who have played for us or which have some local relevance.
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