OTHER FORTHCOMING CONCERTS.
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Exeter Visitor and Information & tickets tel. 01392 665885, 1 Dix's' Field, Exeter, EX1 1GF
Saturday 6th. November 2021 at 7.30 p.m.
EXETER CATHEDRAL
Isca Ensemble South West with
LUKA OKROS - piano
Takashi Yoshimatsu :
And birds are still .... Op. 72
TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No 1
MAHLER : SYMPHONY No 1 'Titan'
This marks a welcome return by this phenomenal international artist from Georgia.
Luka Okros has established himself as one of the most promising pianists of his generation. Okros’s performances have been praised by critics as “intense, strong and natural, with an impressive creativity”. Lang Lang said about his performance of Liszt’s infamous Hungarian Rhapsody: “In such a technical work, he does not deprive musicality. This is a rarity!”.
By the age of 27, Luka had won many awards, including Piano Award by Tabor Foundation at the Verbier Festival, top prizes at the Hong Kong International Piano Competition, the Valencia Iturbi Prize International Competition and the Scottish International Piano Competition.
Luka has already performed in some of the world’s greatest concert halls – Carnegie Hall, Het Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Rudolfinum, Palau de la Musica Valencia, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Liszt Academy, Maison de la Radio. Highlights of the season include performances in Finland, Hungary, Belgium, USA, Norway, UK, China, Georgia, Ukraine, Morocco and Austria.
His first commercial recording of Schumann was recently released on the DiscAuverS label and is available on Amazon, Spotify and Apple Music.
In addition to his career as a concert pianist, Luka works on creating an album of his own compositions. One of the pieces was filmed and premiered by Het Concertgebouw’s Sessions. Scores of his works are published by Master Music Publications.
After graduating from the London Royal College of Music and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Art Council of England has granted him the Exceptional Talent Visa. Currently Luka is based in London.
As a social media influencer, Luka’s Instagram has more than 50K followers.
Luka Okros performing Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp Minor at the
Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition (Tel Aviv).
Sunday 7th. November 2021 at 3 p.m.
Sidmouth Parish Church
LUKA OKROS - piano
A special afternoon recital
by this brilliant Georgian artist.
Beethoven : Sonata Op. 27 No.2
'Moonlight'
Beethoven : Sonata Op. 31 No 2
'Tempest'
Interval
Schumann : Fantasie Op. 17
Promoted by Roger Hendy
Details of the programme will follow and how to obtain tickets.
Saturday 19th. March 2022 at 7.30 p.m.
Sidmouth Parish Church
Isca Ensemble South West
JOO YEON SIR
Renowned international violinist.
Programme will include
Elgar : Violin Concerto
Described by The Strad as "exuberant... seductive... with bravura and oodles of personality", prize-winning violinist and composer Joo Yeon Sir makes a welcome return to Sidmouth to perform with the Isca Ensemble.
Joo Yeon Sir (born June 29, 1990 in Seoul), is a South Korean violinist residing in the UK.
A former pupil at the Purcell School, Joo Yeon Sir is a Scholar at the Royal College of Music, London where she studies with Dr Felix Andrievsky. She has been a major prizewinner at national and international competitions in the UK and abroad and has performed as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestras at various venues including the Wigmore Hall, London Arts Club, St James's Palace in presence of Prince Charles, the Foundling Museum as part of New London Orchestra Young Performer's Concert Series supported by the MBF, and most recently at Fairfield Halls performing Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending.
In 2006 at the age of sixteen, Sir became the Overall Grand Prix Laureate at Nedyalka Simeonova International Violin Competition in Haskovo, Bulgaria where her gala performance was broadcast on Radio Bulgaria (BNR). Sir is also recipient of Royal Philharmonic Society's Emily Anderson Prize Award 2007, MBF Music Education Award 2008 and the Second Prize at Windsor Festival International String Competition 2008, as youngest finalist. She holds many Young Musician titles including the Harlow, Rotary Club, Sevenoaks and Rickmansworth Young Musician Competitions. Other prizes include June Clements Memorial Medal from the Sevenoaks Three Arts Festival, Prix de l'Hospitalité Musicale from Masters de Belesbat, Duke of Devonshire Award and President's Prize.
She has been supported generously by the Benslow Music Trust, Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Royal Philharmonic Society, Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and Royal College of Music.
Sir is also a composer and has won the First Prize and the title of BBC/The Guardian Young Composer of the Year 2005 at the age of fourteen for her composition "Conflict in Time", which has been performed at Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall by Endymion and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She has written compositions for the Purcell School projects such as the "Birtwistle Games" Festival at the South Bank Centre and her most recent work, "Cold Dark Matter - an exploded view" for orchestra, inspired by British sculptor Cornelia Parker, was premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre by the Purcell School Symphony Orchestra in February 2007 as the winner of Purcell School Composition Competition. At the same occasion, she appeared as soloist in Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 as part of Howard Goodall's programme, Class Acts.
Visit. https://www.youtube.com/user/JooYeonSir
Saturday 4th. December at 7.30 p.m.
Exeter University Great Hall
Handel's MESSIAH
Special orchestration by Sir Eugene Goossens.
Exeter University Chapel Choir
Isca Ensemble South West
Michael Graham - Musical Director
Roger Hendy - Concert coordinator
Antony Clements - leader
In aid of the Univerity of Exeter Chapel Choir Scholarship Fund
Further details to follow.
2020 concerts which unfortunately had to be cancelled.
Saturday 5th. December 2020 at 7.30 p.m.
Exeter University Great Hall
A special performance of
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
in aid of
FORCE CANCER CHARITY, EXETER
University of Exeter Chapel Choir
University of Exeter Choral Society
Isca Ensemble South West and chorus
Michael Graham - Musical Director
Margarita Wood - soprano
Madeleine Shaw - mezzo soprano
Michael Gibson - tenor
Julian Rippon - bass
Tickets available soon.
FORCE Cancer Charity is based in Exeter.
It believes that anyone affected by cancer deserves the best possible treatment and professional support close to home and face-to-face.
Since 1987 FORCE has been funding and to improve patient care at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital. In 2004 FORCE opened a in the grounds of the RD&E Hospital, Exeter.