Chamber Music Week 2020
Thu 15 October 2020Trinity Laban’s first Chamber Music Week runs from from 19-23 Oct, and is a week-long focus on chamber music with coaching, rehearsing and performances.
The week features the final of The Carne Trust Chamber Competition 2020, with four superb ensembles competing for the coveted prize. It will be held in front of a socially distanced audience on Weds 21 Oct, adjudicated by a panel of Trinity Laban Heads of Department chaired by Alan Davey CBE, Controller, BBC Radio 3.
Other highlights include a concert by Carne Trust Ensemble in Residence, Carducci Quartet on Thu 24 Oct and a series of livestreamed performances and showings on Fri 23 Oct, including a Chamber Side-by-Side performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet and a performance from Trinity Laban vocal ensemble, Rubythroat.
Thursday 22 Oct 2020
Carducci Quartet
13.00
Carne Trust Ensemble in Residence The Carducci Quartet return to Trinity Laban for a live concert with a socially distanced audience, and also streamed on Trinity Laban Facebook Live. The Quartet will present Beethoven’s ‘Serioso’ quartet, along with Shostakovich’s String Quartet No 9.
Great Hall, Blackheath Hall
Free Admission but ticketed, must be booked in advance
Friday 23 Oct 2020
Chamber Music Week Performances 14.00 – 21.00
Following an intensive week of rehearsal, coaching and chamber activity, a range of student groups from the Wind, Brass, Percussion, Piano, Vocal and String Departments will perform in the Great Hall, Blackheath Hall. A different performance will be streamed on Youtube starting on the hour, each hour throughout the afternoon, culminating in a Chamber Side-by-Side performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet with Stephanie Gonley, at 20.00.
Watch Live on our Youtube Channel
Livestream Performance No. 1
14.00
Percussion Ensemble
Led by postgraduate percussionist Lindsey Eastham, and coached by award-winning marimbist and percussionist, Calum Huggan, Trinity Laban students kick off our hourly series of livestream concerts with a performance of chamber music for tuned percussion.
Livestream Performance No. 2
15.00
Rubythroat
Directed by Linda Hirst
Rubythroat, Trinity Laban’s chamber vocal group, present a work-in-progress performance of repertoire by female composers. Rubythroat is directed ex-Swingle Singer and former Head of Vocal Studies, Linda Hirst, and is currently working towards a recording project in December.
Miranda Ostler, soprano
Sally Carr, soprano
Madeleine Todd, soprano
Hester Dart, alto
Alex Akhurst, tenor
Charles Eastwood, tenor
Adam Brown, bass
Livestream Performance No. 3
16.00
Creative Strings
Led by Joe Townsend
Trinity Laban is dedicated to innovation and collaborative practice. Each year, Joe Townsend, Head of Trinity Laban’s new BA programme in Music Performance and Industry leads an elective group of string students, across all programmes and years, to explore improvisation, folk/world music, collaborative composition, and extended techniques.
In this livestream performance, a group of Creative Strings students will demonstrate their work in progress from the week.
Livestream Performance No. 4
17.00
Wind Sextet
A postgraduate wind group present a short performance of music worked on over the week, coached by Head of Wind Chamber Music, Michael Whight
Megan Storer, flute
Brandon Hao, oboe
Ben Mason, clarinet
Gabriela Taylor, bassoon
Chris Collins, horn
Alex Lyon, bass clarinet
Livestream Performance No. 5
18.00
Piano Quintet
Schubert Trout Quintet
Coached by Head of String Chamber Music, David Kenedy, 5 outstanding postgraduate students come together to perform Schubert’s famous Trout Quintet
Mario Miralles, piano
Hannah Littlechild, violin
Marco Scandurra, viola
Ludovico Colombo, cello
Alexander Ferkey, double bass
Livestream Performance No. 6
19.00
Brass Ensemble
Trinity Laban brass department features with a performance from a student brass dectet, who have been coached through the week by Superbrass trombonist, Philip White
Edmund Habershon, trumpet
Ethan McInerney, trumpet
Jesse Musson, trumpet
Ali Hancorn trumpet
Simon Jelley, horn
Salvador Garcia, horn
Rhodri Thomas, trombone
Ben Wakley, trombone
Hannah Roberts, trombone
Owain Davies, bass trombone
Chris Price, tuba
Livestream Performance No. 7
20.00
Chamber Side-by-Side with Stephanie Gonley, violin
Mendelssohn Octet
Closing our series of livestream performances in rousing fashion, Stephanie Gonley, first violinist with the Nash Ensemble, leads a Chamber Side-by-Side project in a performance of Mendelssohn’s renowned Octet.
Stephanie Gonley, violin
Greta Papa, violin
Daniel Pukach, violin
Camille Buitenhuis, violin
Natalia Solis Paredes, viola
Peter Fenech, viola
Cristina Cooper, cello
Meg Allen, cello