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Concerts 2010/2011 Heberden Concerts Hilary 2011 21 January Catz Quintet Harry Thorrington (bassoon), Louise Maltby (flute), Jeffrey Douglass (French horn), Hilary Cornwell (oboe) and Mark Simpson (clarinet)

Trinity 2011 6 May Benjamin Charlston and Jocelyn Waller All at 20:45 Platnauer Concerts Michaelmas 2010 24 October VOCES8 Hilary 2011 30 January Phantasm Trinity 2011 15 May Terrance Charlston (J S Bach’s Goldberg Variations) All at 21:00 Principal’s Concerts Friday of 6th week at 18:00 Music Society Concerts 12 November, 18:30 Oritsema Ejuoneatse (BNC 2007) 21 November, 21:00 Victor Yoran and Louisa Harmer 18 February, 8:30 Laura Hamer (BNC 2001)

Hilary 2010 Heberden Concert Series

Michaelmas 2010 Concert No. 2

Claire Wickes

(Flute)

Friday 15 October 2010, 20:45

The King’s Hall and College of Brasenose

Charles Buller Heberden

Programme

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Syrinx Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Sonata

Oliver Knussen (b.1952), Masks

Ian Clarke (b. 1964), Hypnosis

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Claude-Paul Taffanel (1844-1908), Fantasie sur le Freischütz

Claire Wickes is a second year undergraduate reading music at Brasenose College, Oxford. She took up the flute aged 9 and is the former principal flute of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, of which she was a mem-ber for four years. She joined Chetham's School of Music at the age of sixteen, where she studied flute with Kathryn Baker, principal flute of the Halle Orchestra. She was the winner of the Chetham’s Concerto Competi-tion in 2008, was the youngest ever winner of the British Flute Society Performance Plus competition, gained the prize for the most promising woodwind player in the Na-tional Children’s Orchestra, and has reached the regional finals of BBC Young Musician of the Year. Her current flute teacher is Michael Cox, principal flute of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Heberden Concert Series Charles Buller Heberden (14 December 1849 - 30 May 1921) was Principal of Brasenose 1889-1920 and also served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. A Classicist with a double first from Balliol, he was elected a Fellow at twenty-

two and Principal of Brasenose at forty. He attempted to raise academic standards in the College, and was much criticised for it by old members who had been at Brasenose in its great rowing days. He intended to retire in 1915, but was persuaded to remain during the difficult period of the war, finally resigning in June 1920 and dying only ten months later. He was a great lover of music and 'started music in College services, bearing the whole burden himself. He played first a harmonium some-where near the lectern, and then a small organ under the west win-dow.' In due course he paid for a new organ (built by Thomas Hill in 1893) and left money for an organ scholar in his will. In his lifetime he endowed a Scholarship for members of his old school (Harrow) and paid for the renewal of marble panelling and other decorations in the Chapel. With grateful thanks to the archivist, Mrs Elizabeth Boardman.