The third series of Brilliant Young pianists and chamber musicians comes to a close on Sunday (June 14) at St Peter’s Church, Marlborough with a recital by the young Swiss pianist and composer Jean-Selim Abdelmoula.
A winner of many prizes, last year he was awarded an Artist Diploma with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. And he won the Guildhall prize to play at London’s Wigmore Hall.
That recital is on June 29 – and he will be playing the same programme this Sunday at St Peter’s. The series organiser, Dr Nick Maurice, is delighted Jean-Selim Abdelmoula will be playing his Wigmore Hall programme: “I would argue St Peter’s is a much more intimate venue.”
The programme will include: Bach: Prelude and Fugue in e flat minor, Book 1. Chopin: Ballade opus 52 in F minor. Schubert: Sonata D 960 in B flat major. And one of his own compositions: Variations Fantomes.
The end of the third series, but there is another one coming along soon. The fourth series is titled: “Brilliant Young International Pianists and Chamber Musicians in St Peter’s Church” Marlborough. It starts on October 25 with the return to St Peter’s of the nineteen-year-old pianist Mai Charissa Tran Ringrose.
She is followed in November by a piano-violin duo Harry Nowakauski-Fox and Judith Choi-Castro who have performed around the world. They formed their duo in 2008.
Harry Nowakauski-Fox gave his concerto debut with the Manchester Youth Orchestra in 2001 – aged 13. He played Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. He has a strong record as a soloist.
The Spanish-South Korean violinist Judith Choi-Castro has degrees from the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. She too has a strong record as a soloist – recently playing the Bach double concereto with Adrian Butterfield and the Southbank Sinfonia.
They will be followed in February by another duo: Karim Said (piano) and Chris Graves (cello.) Kausikan Rajeshkumar (piano) gives the April recital and Ashley Fripp returns to St Peter’s in May.
The fourth series concludes with a flourish: James Sherlock plays the complete version of Bach’s Well Tempered Klavier Book 1, accompanied by a series of specially commissioned paintings – one for each prelude and fugue.
The series will be raising funds for the Marlborough Brandt Group’s work with young people in Gambia and for the St Peter’s Trust which looks after the church. It is sponsored by Robert Hiscox and Hiscox Insurance.
Tickets are priced at £10 (£8 for members of St Peter’s Trust and MBG) and are available from the White Horse Bookshop, Sound Knowledge or at the door. Tickets can also be obtained online from the MBG website. Tickets for the whole season are available at £50 or at £45 for members.
All the recitals will appear in Marlborough News Online’s What’s On calendar.
