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A special Chamber Orchestral Concert.
Isca Ensemble strings with soloists

Joel Munday - violin       Joe Sharp - oboe

Thursday 27th. October at 7.30 p.m.

St. Margaret's Church, Topsham, Devon.

SPECIAL RECITAL    FREE ADMISSION

150 complimentary tickets are available for a fabulous recital in Topsham. The exceptionally gifted young musicians who will be presenting a programme of Beethoven, Chopin and Frank are Joel Munday (violin) from Devon and Lucas Krupinski (piano) from Warsaw. All welcome. Email Roger Hendy roghendy@gmail.com. for tickets.

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2022 Joanna Leach Celebration Concert

Following a year of tuition at the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen from internationally renowned cellist, Alexander Baillie, Thomas Isaac is currently a postgraduate student with Christoph Richter at the Royal Academy of Music, supported by the Guilhermina Suggia Scholarship.

Thomas has won numerous prizes and competitions, including the North London Festival Cello Prize, the Norfolk Young Musician competition and the
Herbert Walenn Cello Prize at the Academy for a performance of Bach’s Cello Suite No.2 in D minor. He was awarded the Moir Carnegie Prize at the Royal Academy for his undergraduate final recital. He has participated in masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Marc Coppey, Steven Doane, Philippe Muller and Menahem Pressler, the legendary pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio.

As a soloist, recent performances include Schumann’s Cello Concerto at
the Musique en Re Festival, Haydn’s Concerto No. 2 in D major with the Academy of St Thomas, Dvorak Concerto with the Sudbury Symphony, Penderecki’s ‘Per Slava’ at the Shanghai International Cello Festival, concerts at the Wigmore Hall and the Tivoli Festival Copenhagen with Rachel Podger, and chamber music by Colin Matthews at the BBC Proms, broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

As an orchestral musician Thomas has played principal cello with the City of Birmingham and Bournemouth Symphony orchestras and has appeared regularly in the 2017-18 season with the LSO as part of their string experience scheme. Also, a proficient baroque cellist, Thomas has played continuo in the Royal Academy/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series. In 2019 he was appointed as Co-Principal of the Bournemouth Symphony orchestra.