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The Carne Trust Chamber Competition 2020
Welcome I am very pleased to welcome you to Blackheath Halls this evening for the final of the inaugural Carne Trust Chamber Competition 2020. Chamber music is a central focus of training at Trinity Laban. Regular chamber concerts, masterclasses and coaching days form part of our core provision for Strings, Piano and Wind, Brass & Percussion students, with a wide variety of opportunities for chamber performance collaboration available across the curriculum for Composition, Jazz and Vocal students too. It is only fitting that we introduce a competition dedicated to recognising and celebrating these skills, and I am delighted that with the support of The Carne Trust we have been able to make this possible. Havilland Willshire Director of Music Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance I am delighted to welcome you to the final of the inaugural Carne Trust Chamber Competition. The Carne Trust exists to support young talent in the performing arts, and we are passionate about creating opportunities for emerging artists to develop their professional skills in advance of a career in the arts. The Carne Trust has enjoyed a long and happy association supporting chamber music at Trinity Laban, which is now in its fifteenth year. The Competition was conceived to celebrate excellence in chamber music at Trinity Laban, and to encourage students to work collaboratively to form ensembles to learn and perform together. Tonight, four very different ensembles compete for the Carne Trust Chamber Competition Prize 2020 and I am very much looking forward to hearing all of them and the range of music they bring to the stage. Philip Carne MBE Trustee of The Carne Trust
About the Competition The inaugural Carne Trust Chamber Competition celebrates the incredible wealth of chamber music happening at Trinity Laban. Open to student ensembles from across our Faculty of Music, the competition is the premier showcase for the technical prowess and musical creativity of student ensembles. Preliminary rounds took place at King Charles Court and Blackheath Halls in early March 2020. The live final will see the four ensembles compete for a share of the £3000 prize fund, generously supported by The Carne Trust. The Carne Trust Chamber Competition 2020 Wed 21 Oct 2020 18.00 Great Hall, Blackheath Halls Recording available on the Trinity Laban YouTube channel on Sat 24 Oct 2020 Postponement due to Covid-19 The inaugural final of the Carne Trust Chamber Competition had originally been due to take place in July 2020 in the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre but this was rescheduled due to Covid-19. As a result of current international travel restrictions, two chamber groups who were successful in the preliminary rounds of the competition in Spring 2020 are now unable to perform in the Final and we would like to give them a special mention here: Attacca Quartet Jinah Shim Piano Stefan Calleja Violin Peter Fenech Viola Desirée Quintano Cello Effra Quartet Jesper Gasseling Violin Martha-Maria Mitu Violin Lucas Gomes-Freitas Viola Thibault Blanchard-Dubois Cello
Adjudicators Alan Davey CBE Controller, BBC Radio 3 Andrew Dunn Head of Wind, Brass & Percussion Sergio De Simone Head of Piano and Keyboard Instruments Jennifer Hamilton Head of Voice Professor Nic Pendlebury Head of Strings Presenter Havilland Willshire Director of Music Alan Davey CBE Chair of the Adjudication Panel Alan Davey CBE is Controller, BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms and BBC Orchestras and Choirs and Social Mobility Champion for BBC. From 2008–2014, he was Chief Executive Officer at Arts Council England. This followed an extensive career in the Civil Service, where his roles included Head of Arts Division and Director of Arts and Culture at the DCMS, secretary of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care, and Head of European Business at the Medicines Control Agency. Public positions past and present include Vice Chair, English Folk Dance and Song Society (2017–); Board Member Hall for Cornwall (2018–); Council Member & member of Audit Committee, University of Birmingham (2014–); Chair RPS Awards Festivals and Concert Series Panel (2010–2014); Chair, International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies (IFACCA) (2009 – 2014); Member, Cultural Olympiad Board (2010 – 2013); Member, Creative Industries Council (2011–2015); Member, Access to Professions working group/ forum (2011– 2014). Alan Davey has a BA (Hons) from the University of Birmingham, an M.Litt from Merton College Oxford and MA from Birkbeck College London. He was a 1998 Fulbright Fellow at the University of Maryland. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Birmingham and the University of Teesside. In the 2015 New Year Honours, he was awarded a CBE for services to the Arts. Alan Davey took the position of Chair of Governors at Trinity Laban on 2 July 2020.
Programme
Undercroft Trio SE Guitar Quartet
Tom Crofton-Green Violin Barbara Matos Classical Guitar
Maddy Hamilton Cello Kolja Gibbs Classical Guitar
Tom Knowles Piano Alex Roche Classical Guitar
Antoine Assaf Classical Guitar
Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio No.2 in G Minor Op.2
i. Allegro moderato Andrew York (b.1958) Quiccan
ii. Largo Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983) Danzas Argentinas Op.2
iii. Scherzo Presto – Trio
iv. Allegro non tanto i. Danza del viejo boyero
ii. Danza de la moza donosa
iii. Danza del gaucho matrero
Levedy Henrique Oswald (1852–1931) arr. SE Guitar Quartet
Il Neige!...
Madeleine Todd Soprano
Kathleen Roberts Scholarship Paulo Bellinati (b.1950) A Furiosa
Olivia Bell Soprano
Kathleen Roberts Scholarship
Helen Daniels Mezzo Soprano Big Smoke Brass UK
Eva Malpass Scholarship Adam Hebditch Trumpet
Rhian Davies Mezzo Soprano Mahlowe Lelonek Scholarship
Laudine Dard Harp Jonny Munn Trumpet
Tim and Jay Newling Scholarship Peter Lewis Flugel
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) Ceremony of Carols Op.28 Gabriel Askew Flugel
1. Procession Joe Tucker Tuba
2. Wolcum Yole! Tom Plumridge Kit/Percussion
3. There is No Rose
Simon Dobson (b.1981) arr. Adam Hebditch
4. That yongë child (solo)
Crystal
5. Balulalow
6. As dew in Aprille Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652) arr. Peter Lewis
7. This Little Babe Miserere
8. Interlude (harp solo)
9. In Freezing Winter Night Bert Appermont (b.1973) arr. Adam Hebditch
10. Spring Carol (duet) Brussels Requiem
11. Deo Gracias! Adam lay i-bounden
12. Recession Jonathan Bates (b.1995)
Amber
Girls Aloud arr. Gabriel Askew
Sound of the UndergroundUndercroft Trio
photo: Matthew Johnson
‘It means the world to us to play in this wonderful
competition at Trinity Laban after four years of
playing together. We’ve loved preparing the Dvořák
for this occasion and sincerely hope everyone enjoys
the day as much as we do!’
Tom Crofton-Green Violin
Maddy Hamilton Cello
Tom Knowles Piano
The Undercroft Trio have been playing together since their first
year of undergraduate study at Trinity Laban. Taking the works
of Beethoven as a cornerstone for their chamber playing, they
have since branched out to cover all genres of music, from jazz
to contemporary. Since they formed, they have had a multitude
of performance opportunities including two informal recitals at
Wigmore Hall, and public recitals around the home counties. Since
the beginning of their final years at Trinity Laban, they successfully
auditioned for the Carne Trust Chamber Award, which granted
them exclusive masterclasses with the Linos Trio, amongst other
resident groups. Having benefited from these masterclasses,
whilst working with Matthew Denton of the Carducci Quartet,
they went on to become finalists for the Intercollegiate Piano Trio
Competition at Chetham’s School in Manchester, performing works
by Shostakovich and Dvořák. They plan to continue making music
together and sincerely enjoy the rehearsal process, and always
strive to perform with a full array of emotions.Levedy
‘We’re thrilled to have reached the final
of The Carne Trust Chamber Competition.
It is a delight to be working together on
some of our favourite repertoire and
we are looking forward to delivering an
exciting and passionate performance of
Britten’s ‘A Ceremony of Carols’, written
for upper voices and harp.’
Madeleine Todd Soprano
Olivia Bell Soprano
Helen Daniels Mezzo Soprano
Rhian Davies Mezzo Soprano
Laudine Dard Harp
Levedy is an all-female vocal and harp chamber ensemble formed
in early 2020 by a quintet of students studying at Trinity Laban
Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
Their experience is garnered from a vast array of choirs and
ensembles including the choirs of Queens’, Robinson and Trinity
colleges, Cambridge, the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban
Chapel Choir, the Philharmonia Chorus, the National Youth Choir
of Scotland, Emma Kirkby’s Dowland Works, the Facade Ensemble
and orchestras such as the London City Philharmonic, the CBSO
Youth Orchestra and the Swiss Youth Orchestra (SJSO). Levedy has
greatly enjoyed exploring underperformed works for upper voices
with harp: future plans include a tour around the United Kingdom,
a particular highlight being a concert featuring music by Britten and
Holst’s Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda in St Margaret’s, Putney,
next month.
The members of Levedy, a Middle English word meaning ‘lady’
inspired by the language in Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, are
particularly interested in the juxtaposition of solo and ensemble
voices with harp, and cultivating a rich, unique and mature blend.
They are grateful to have benefited as a group from coaching with
Linda Hirst and Gabriella Dall’Olio.
Levedy is honoured and delighted to be finalists in this inaugural
Carne Trust Chamber Competition.
photo: Shelley CoxSE Guitar Quartet
‘We are very honoured and proud to
have progressed to the finals of The
Carne Trust Competition and it means
a lot to us to be able to present such
a mixed repertoire of both well-known
and lesser known works as a guitar
quartet at an occasion such as this.’
Barbara Matos
Kolja Gibbs
Alex Roche
Antoine Assaf
Based in Greenwich, the SE Guitar Quartet was founded in
September 2018 and is made up entirely of Trinity Laban students.
Since then, the group has had the pleasure of performing in
many concerts, having been engaged by a variety of venues
across London. These include the Old Royal Naval College
Chapel, St. Alfege Church, Morden College, Southwark Cathedral,
Kings Place and Wigmore Hall, as well as being part of the Royal
Greenwich Guitar Festival 2019. They have been tutored by Graham
Anthony Devine, Augustin Wiedemann and Xuefei Yang in lessons
and masterclasses.
photo: Kim Chi LeBig Smoke Brass UK photo: Fay Summerfield ‘We are delighted to be representing the Wind, Brass & Percussion Department in the final of this prestigious competition.’ Adam Hebditch Trumpet Jonny Munn Trumpet Peter Lewis Flugel Gabriel Askew Flugel Joe Tucker Tuba Tom Plumridge Kit/Percussion Big Smoke Brass UK consists of six Trinity Laban classical undergraduates featuring: two trumpets, two flugelhorns, tuba and percussion. The ensemble’s unorthodox line-up comprises a pair of flugelhorns as an alternative to the brass quintet’s horn and trombone. The addition of percussion helps create a unique sound world, different from that of any other conventional brass chamber ensemble. Since forming in 2017, Big Smoke Brass UK have been changing perceptions of brass music with their high versatility, performing across many genres of music. The band’s hard-hitting, high-energy performances of pop songs show a completely different character at the group’s disposal. The ensemble’s versatility has provided the group with many performance opportunities, including: playing live on the BBC Radio 3 In Tune programme, participating in the Philip Jones Brass Spectacular at St John’s Smith Square, establishing two of their own recital series’, appearances in UK festivals, releasing their own EP ‘Launch’ and a busy schedule of private functions up and down the country. The ensemble’s performances are distinctive with all of their repertoire re-orchestrated/arranged by members of the group.
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Trinity Laban: Department Coordinators: Orchestra and Blackheath Halls:
Ensembles Manager
Patron Jazz / Strings Director
Alex Regan
HRH The Duke of Kent KG Alina Pullen Gemma Okell
Performance Operations
Chair Musical Theatre Operations Manager
Manager
Alan Davey CBE Natalie Harman Hannah Benton
Sarah Anstead
Principal Composition/ Piano and Technical Manager
Interim Performance
Professor Anthony Bowne Keyboard Instruments Malcolm Richards
Operations Coordinator
Peter Nagle
Director of Music Barry Brown
Havilland Willshire Wind, Brass & Percussion/
Performance Operations
Competitions
Dean of Music Intern
Kevin Ashman
David Bahanovich Edward Ault
Voice
Professional Placements
Heads of Department: Phillippa Scammell
Assistant
Piano and Keyboard Alicia Mallace-Goulbourne
Professorial Chamber
Instruments
Coordinators: Recording Technician
Sergio De Simone
Kit Venables
Head of Strings Chamber
Wind, Brass and Percussion
Music
Andrew Dunn Development:
David Kenedy
Voice Head of Development
Piano Chamber Coordinator
Jennifer Hamilton Brian Howard
Helen Yorke
Jazz Development Manager
Head of Music Planning
Dr Hans Koller Paula Mallottides
Ed Denham
Composition Development officer
Music Manager &
Dr Dominic Murcott Saffiyah Keig-Momin
Professional Placements
Strings Manager
The Carne Trust Chamber
Professor Nic Pendlebury Howard Felton
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