Saturday, March 08, 2008
March Update
Well, another few hectic months and an opportunity to update you on what's been going on!
At the beginning of January, I won through the first round of the RAM Wigmore Competition, and thus performed in the final round (with adjudicators Gordon Back and Sir Charles Mackerras) at the Wigmore Hall in February...with accompanist John Reid, my programme consisted of Torelli - Sonata G1, Hugh Brunt - Searching Light (world premiere!), Francaix - Sonatine, Gubaidulina - Song Without Words, Mendez - Csardas...although I didn't win, it was a super opportunity to perform once again at such a beautiful venue, and performing Hugh's piece was a real pleasure.
Next up in January was a three concert tour of 'The Soldier's Tale' with Gareth Jones and Sinfonia Cymru - I'm a big fan of chamber music, so this was a great opportunity to perform (with narrator Donald Maxwell) a standard of the repertoire.
In addition there have been orchestral concerts with the RAM Media Ensemble, for the British Cello Society, and Handel's Messiah in Oxford. I also had a week in Aldeburgh with 10-piece ensemble 'The Brass Collective', which resulted in a very good (but hard on the chops) concert to finish our residency.
I've also been doing some media related work these past few months - firstly recording some demo stuff with Mike McEvoy for a film called 'Me and Orson Welles', plus a (slightly bizzare) performance on The Daily Politics Show on BBC2 TV, dressed in full evening wear at 1pm performing a brief fanfare and some of the closing theme tune! Fortunately for me, its now gone from the BBC iplayer!
I also won the Drummond Sharp Brass Prize at the Academy, performing Friedmann's Solus for adjudicator Richard Bissil, which was a pleasant surprise, and lead the Symphonic Brass ensemble in a concert of Strauss and Wagner last week. I also performed on Radio 3 with the Academy Wind/Brass Octet in Stravinsky's piece of the same name.
Also, I had the opportunity to do some teaching at Watford Grammar School, as part of my LRAM teaching diploma, and for some light relief, went to see Wales at the Millenium Stadium in the 6 Nations against Italy; fortunately for us, it was a win!
Over the next few weeks there are several things coming up - Park Lane Group auditions as soloist and with The Brass Collective, recording of Strauss and Wagner with the RAM Symphonic Brass Ensemble for Harmonia Mundi, concerts with the LSO, University of London SO, Britten-Pears Orchestra and London Contemporary Orchestra, the Hummel concerto with the Penzance Orchestral Society, and two TBC recitals in April. I'm also looking forward to a week off at Easter - time to put the trumpet in its case, get some good R&R and build up my energy reserves for the following term...until next time :) !
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