Lunchtime Concert Series

Rosie Burton Bassoon Christopher White Piano

Friday 19 August 2011 1.00pm Park Lane Group Series

Suggested donation £3.50

St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JJ Tel: 020 7766 1100 www.smitf.org

If you are unable to stay for the whole of the concert please leave during the applause. Smoking and the consumption of food and drink are not allowed in this church. Members of the audience are kindly requested to switch off mobile phones and alarms on digital watches. Photography, audio or video recording are not permitted.

Programme Sonata in B flat, K.292 Mozart arr. William Waterhouse

i. Allegro 9 mins ii. Andante iii. Rondo: Allegro

Three American Sketches Graham Sheen

i. Grand Central 9 mins ii. Memorial – Col. Shaw’s Regiment iii. Nocturne – Toccatta

(commissioned by the Park Lane Group) Berceuse Elégiaque for solo piano Ferrucio Busoni 6 mins Sonata for Bassoon and Piano Richard Rodney Bennett

i. Moderato 13 mins ii. Allegretto con grazia iii. Molto allegro

Bassoon-nova for bassoon and piano Sally Beamish 3 mins

The Performers Rosie Burton read Music at Cambridge University, and then undertook postgraduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Graham Sheen. She currently studies with Sarah Burnett. Rosie Burton was a member of Southbank Sinfonia in 2008, and is now a freelance performer, working with orchestras including the BBC Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. She is also a member of Reed Rage Bassoon Quartet and manages the Theseus Ensemble, a new group dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. With Christopher White, she has given two recitals for the Park Lane Group. As a soloist, she has recently performed concertos by Hummel and Mozart at the Hummelfest in Bordeaux, and will perform the Weber and Hummel concertos in Stamford and London next year.

Christopher White studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he will complete a Doctorate in 2012. Principally active as a repetiteur/conductor for opera productions, he has worked at the Tanglewood, Glyndebourne and Munich Festivals, as well as for British Youth Opera and Raymond Gubbay. He has an interest in contemporary music and played in several recitals for the Park Lane Group, as well as being a member of the Theseus Ensemble. He premiered Graham Waterhouse's Der Schimmelreiter for cello and piano in Munich in 2010, and assisted in the world premiere production of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Kommilitonen! in 2011. He will be playing for Belinda Williams, mezzo-soprano, in the PLG Young Artists New Year Series in the Purcell Room again next January

Rosie and Christopher met at Dame Alice Owen’s School in Hertfordshire and have been performing together for over ten years. In 2003 they gave the world premiere of John Casken’s Blue Medusa, and they have subsequently given recitals in Scotland, Cambridge and London, including at the Second Glance Festival and at St James’s Church, Piccadilly for PLG. In January 2009, they were PLG Young Artists and performed live on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune prior to the PLG recital at the Purcell Room, which included the world premieres of Graham Sheen’s 3 American Sketches and Phoenix Arising by Graham Waterhouse. They were invited to perform Graham Waterhouse’s work in Berlin later that year at a memorial concert for Graham’s father, the great bassoonist William Waterhouse.

St Martin-in-the-Fields has welcomed talented musicians to this central London platform for over 50 years - from highly acclaimed young soloists, to choirs from all over the world; from promising new ensembles, to established professionals. This tradition is supported by the generosity of our performers as well as our audiences. Whilst these concerts are free to all, for those able to give, a suggested donation of £3.50 would be greatly appreciated to help fund all aspects of the work at St Martin’s.

Friday 19 August 7.30pm Vivaldi Four Seasons Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 3 Mozart - Salzburg Symphony No 1 Geminiani - Concerto Grosso No 12 in D minor, 'La Folia', after Corelli op 5 Bach - Air ‘on a G String’ Vivaldi - Violin Concerto op 3 No 12 Vivaldi - Four Seasons Trafalgar Sinfonia Helen Davies Violin Ivor Setterfield Conductor Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £10 £8 Saturday 20 August 7.30pm Period Performance Baroque Extravaganza by Candlelight Bach - Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Vivaldi – ‘Spring’ and ‘Autumn’ from Four Seasons Pachelbel – Canon and Gigue in D Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 4 Mozart - Divertimento No 3 in F Handel - Water Music Suite in G Vivaldi - Concerto for Four Violins in B minor Festive Orchestra of London Catherine Manson Violin/Director Rebecca Livermore Violin Tickets: £26 £22 £18 £12 £8 Monday 22 August 1.00pm Concordia Foundation Series Beethoven - Sonata op 53 in C major "Waldstein" Schumann - Fantasiestücke op 12 Olga Jegunova Piano Lunchtime Concerts are FREE, suggested donation £3.50 which goes towards the work of St Martin’s