Five star season continues for Kendal Midday Concert Club (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Five star season continues for Kendal Midday Concert Club
9:40am Saturday 31st December 2011 in Music news
THE second half of the Kendal Midday Concert Club 2011/12 season opens next week with a dazzling quintet of top players from the Northern Sinfonia string section.
Led by Bradley Creswick, two great works feature in the ensemble’s Wednesday, January 11, programme - Quintet in F major by J Brahms and Mozart’s Quintet in C major, where the richness of two violas give a special quality to the music.
Talented young Canadian violinist Katie Stillman follows on January 25. Katie studied in Ontario and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. At the age of 15 she toured Mexico and the following year won the prestigious Grand Prize in Montreal. In 1999, she studied at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music with Wen Zhou Li, and in 2003 landed the John Manduell Prize for outstanding achievement.
Katie’s joined on the Kendal Town Hall stage by prize-winning pianist Simon Lane, who studied at the RNCM and was awarded the Professional Performance Diploma – its highest performance award. Since September 2006 he’s continued his studies at the Royal Academy in London where his course was funded by the Sir Elton John Scholarship. He has also appeared many times with the award winning Navarra Quartet.
KMCC’s fortnightly series of Wednesday lunchtime concerts continue on February 8 with Chenyin Li’s piano trio, the East-West Trio; February 22, the Sarah Williamson Clarinet Trio; March 7, the Ben Frith Piano Quintet; concluding on March 21 with rising stars of the international chamber music scene, the young Finnish foursome, Meta4 String Quartet.
All performances start at 1pm.
As usual tasty snack lunches will be available from 11.50am.
