Sam Cave is one of the guitar's leading exponents of new music. In this concert he will weave together new pieces with music from the Renaissance into an evocative tapestry of resonance.

English guitarist and composer Sam Cave is one of the guitar’s leading exponents of new music. Sam’s performances have taken him to some of the most exciting venues and festivals in the UK and abroad with appearances at Kings Place, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Nonclassical, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, LSO St. Luke’s, AVGARDE concert series in Norway, the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, November Music in the Netherlands and the Tianjin May Festival in Tianjin, China. Sam has been a Park Lane Group Young Artist and has recorded for both ‘Another Timbre’ and ‘Metier’ record labels. His playing has been broadcast on ‘Late Junction’, and multiple times on ‘The New Music Show’ on BBC Radio 3. His passion for mixed chamber music has led to performances with many leading new music groups including Octandre Ensemble, Apartment House, Riot Ensemble and Explore Ensemble. Sam studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Gary Ryan and Chris Stell with financial assistance from The Countess of Munster Musical Trust. He has also studied with Vincent Lindsey-Clark, Michael Zev Gordon, Michael Finnissy, Gilbert Biberian and Craig Ogden and graduated from the University of Southampton with first class honours and the Edward Wood memorial prize in music. In 2020 Sam completed a PhD in composition at Brunel University, London under the supervision of Christopher Fox and John Croft. As a composer Sam’s work has been performed in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Australia and the USA by some of the most exciting young ensembles and soloists working today. He has been an LSO Soundhub Associate Composer since 2017 and his music is published by Babelscores. Now also an educator in much demand, Sam is currently a tutor in guitar at Brunel University, London, he has been a guest lecturer in composition for guitar at Coventry University and a lecturer in composition and orchestration at Kingston University. Sam plays on a ‘super-concert guitar’ by Dutch luthier Jeroen Hilhorst

Sam Cave (b.1987) - That she made shapes in air... (2022)
John Croft (b.1971) - Felix Namque (after Tallis) (2021)
Selected works by John Dowland (1563-1626) and Simone Molinaro (1565-1615)
Michael Finnissy (b.1946) - Outcast (2021-22)
Lisa Illean (b.1983) - Tiding (2021)
Selected works by John Dowland (1563-1626) and Simone Molinaro (1565-1615)
Joe Bates (b.1991 - Suite for guitar (2021-22)
I. Folding
II. Chorale
III. Overneath
IV. Four Chords

www.samcave.com

The Tailleferre Ensemble

Nicola Crowe - flute
Penelope Smith - oboe
Nicola Hands - oboe/cor anglais
Lana Bode - piano

Ethel Smyth Variations on Bonny Sweet Robin
Eldin Burton Flute Sonata
Rhian Samuel Little Duos
Errollyn Wallen Louis’ Loops
Ingrid Stölzel There Are Things to be Said
Madeleine Dring  Trio for flute, oboe and piano

The Tailleferre Ensemble is a chamber music collective dedicated to promoting women in music. They have a special interest in redressing the balance of works performed by male and female composers, and in shining a light on under-performed chamber music. A concert by the Tailleferre Ensemble will always promise variety, balance and something new.

The Tailleferre Ensemble is a UK-based chamber collective, founded in 2019 by Nicola Hands and Penelope Smith, whose aim is to promote women in music. The group is a chamber ensemble of flexible line-up and size, offering recitals of varied instrumentation and musical genre, including established, lesser-known and contemporary works. They have a special interest in redressing the balance of works performed by male and female composers, and in promoting new works.

The group perform regularly around the UK, and have recently played for the Nottingham Chamber Music Festival and at St. John's Smith Square. They have also played for Aylesbury Lunchtime Concerts, Music-at-Hill, Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society, at St. James Piccadilly, St. Martin’s Epsom, Chapel Royal Brighton and All Saints High Wycombe, and the group has also collaborated with Facade Ensemble and the South Florida Chamber Ensemble (SFCE) in London. In October 2019 they premiered work by Welsh composer Rhian Samuel, who has since dedicated new work to the ensemble.

In March 2020 they gave a special performance to mark International Women’s Day at Conway Hall, London, and in 2022 marked the day with a concert in Clerkenwell. They have plans to collaborate with Illuminate Women and SFCE in 2023, and their debut CD is set to be released later in 2022.

The Tailleferre Ensemble offers flexibility in programming and instrumentation, and their members are female musicians of very high calibre with impressive individual biographies. As a group, they have been praised for their fine performances and “extensive palette of timbres”.

Delerium! (The Darker Side of Dancing)

Dancing, so often an effusive outpouring of joy and facilitator of social bonds, has a darker side into which Amyas delve in this performance. From hysterical epidemic of estampies sweeping Europe in the 14th C, the 13th C pied-piper luring away unsuspecting children, to the balletic balm for the bite of the despotic tarantula in the 15th C and the ubiquitous ‘dance of death’ in which humans are all entwined, this programme invites a different way of perceiving the often mesmerising and infectious nature of many surviving medieval dances. Featuring a spellbinding mix of spoken word, surviving dance melodies, and Amyas’s own constructed dance forms using other medieval musical sources.

Emily Baines - Recorders, Vocals, Simphonie, Bagpipes
Arngeir Hauksson - Gitterns, Lutes, Percussion, Vocals
Alexis Bennett - Vielle, Vocals
Ali Rafiee - Oud, Percussion

Amyas are a period instrument group specialising in exuberant performances of historical repertoire. All of the group members are specialists in the historically informed performance, with many leading the way in cutting-edge research into earlier practices. The group are committed to an understanding of history but also to embracing the 21st century and new possibilities for performance spaces and techniques. Similarly, they are passionate both about discovering unknown early sources and also improvisation and composition. Their performances range from the well-loved classics of the eighteenth century (imbued with their typical flair of course!) to electronic manipulation of medieval songs and dances - and everything in between.

Part 1: Frenzy
Spoken texts include our words and freely translated period sources including those of Nicolas Perotti (1429-80) and other historical annals. These describe the effects of the Dancing Mania of 1374 (the earliest outbreaks of which we have accounts) and Tarantism, the spider's bite which could only be cured by dancing!
Chominciamento di Gioia Anon (14th C Italian)
Ingrata Anon (15th C Italian)
La Manfredina/Rotta Anon (14th C Italian)
Salterello Anon (14th C Italian)

Part 2: Seduction and Deception
Spoken texts include extracts from The Wyf of Bath's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer and the earliest English translation of the Tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelyn, in 'A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence' by Richard Verstegan. The events in the story were recorded as taking place in 1376.
Ce Rondelet Johannes Reson
Bel Fiore Dança Anon (15th C Italian)
La Tierche Estampie Roial Anon (13th C French)
Dança Amoroso Anon (14th C Italian)

Part 3: The Dance of Death
Spoken and sung texts include poetry/lyrics connected with John Lydgate's 'Dance of Death' (c.1426), his version of the French 'Daunce Machabré' which he had written following his encounter with the mural in the Cimetière des Innocents in Paris, completed in 1425.
Ad Mortem Festinamus (+ Estampie) Anon (14th C Spanish)
Kyrie Eleison (Plainchant)
Dance of Death Lydgate
Belicha Anon (14th C Italian)

David Black and Rebecca Baulch are joined prize-winning student 17 year old Tom Hodgkinson for a concert of classical guitar trios and solos by Bach, Piazzolla and Albeniz.

Rebecca Baulch and David Black are both prize-winning graduates of the Royal College of Music. The Duo have played together at the Houses of Parliament, the Long Room at the Oval, the Orangery at Kew Gardens, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Gallery, and at festivals in the UK, Germany, Denmark and Peru. They launched their album The Raw And The Cooked with a sold out concert at Blackheath Halls. They are joined today by special guest Tom Hodgkinson who is studying with Rebecca at Trinity Laban Junior department. Tom is in his last year of school and is planning to peruse a career as a classical guitarist. He has recently been talent-spotted by the world famous guitarist, John Williams, with whom he now enjoys the occasional lesson via Zoom. Tom has had great success in a number of competitions, including first prize in the Essex Young Musician in 2022, and Gold winner in the New Talent British International Youth Music competition in 2020. He won the prestigious Tony Gill trophy in the Leicester Guitar Competition in 2021, and was awarded the Director’s Prize for Excellence and the Aiden Massey String Prize at Junior Trinity Laban. In the summer of 2022 he played with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at a Prom at the Royal Albert Hall and toured Spain as the leader of the National Youth Guitar Ensemble. In his spare time, Tom is an accomplished jazz guitarist and composer.

Websites: http://rebeccabaulch.co.uk/
http://rebeccabaulch.co.uk/albach-duo/
https://www.instagram.com/tomhodgkinsonguitar/

Peter Moutoussis and Dominika Maszczyńska present a program of French Romantic repertoire for horn and piano, with the novel effects and performance practices from the 19th century performed on historical instruments.

C. Saint-Seans: Romance in E major Op. 67
C. Gounod: 6 Mélodies pour cor à pistons
C. Debussy: Deux Arabesques
P. Dukas: Villanelle

Sam Cave is one of the guitar's leading exponents of new music. In this concert he will weave together new pieces with music from the Renaissance into an evocative tapestry of resonance.

English guitarist and composer Sam Cave is one of the guitar’s leading exponents of new music. Sam’s performances have taken him to some of the most exciting venues and festivals in the UK and abroad with appearances at Kings Place, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Nonclassical, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, LSO St. Luke’s, AVGARDE concert series in Norway, the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, November Music in the Netherlands and the Tianjin May Festival in Tianjin, China. Sam has been a Park Lane Group Young Artist and has recorded for both ‘Another Timbre’ and ‘Metier’ record labels. His playing has been broadcast on ‘Late Junction’, and multiple times on ‘The New Music Show’ on BBC Radio 3. His passion for mixed chamber music has led to performances with many leading new music groups including Octandre Ensemble, Apartment House, Riot Ensemble and Explore Ensemble. Sam studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Gary Ryan and Chris Stell with financial assistance from The Countess of Munster Musical Trust. He has also studied with Vincent Lindsey-Clark, Michael Zev Gordon, Michael Finnissy, Gilbert Biberian and Craig Ogden and graduated from the University of Southampton with first class honours and the Edward Wood memorial prize in music. In 2020 Sam completed a PhD in composition at Brunel University, London under the supervision of Christopher Fox and John Croft. As a composer Sam’s work has been performed in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Australia and the USA by some of the most exciting young ensembles and soloists working today. He has been an LSO Soundhub Associate Composer since 2017 and his music is published by Babelscores. Now also an educator in much demand, Sam is currently a tutor in guitar at Brunel University, London, he has been a guest lecturer in composition for guitar at Coventry University and a lecturer in composition and orchestration at Kingston University. Sam plays on a ‘super-concert guitar’ by Dutch luthier Jeroen Hilhorst

Sam Cave (b.1987) - That she made shapes in air... (2022)
John Croft (b.1971) - Felix Namque (after Tallis) (2021)
Selected works by John Dowland (1563-1626) and Simone Molinaro (1565-1615)
Michael Finnissy (b.1946) - Outcast (2021-22)
Lisa Illean (b.1983) - Tiding (2021)
Selected works by John Dowland (1563-1626) and Simone Molinaro (1565-1615)
Joe Bates (b.1991 - Suite for guitar (2021-22)
I. Folding
II. Chorale
III. Overneath
IV. Four Chords

www.samcave.com

La Rosa dei Venti

'Compass of the winds'

Italian music for recorder, organ & harpsichord

Music by Castello, Uccellini, Mancini, Corelli and others

Naomi Okuda studied modern flute at the Osaka College of Music in Japan. After graduation she became interested in early music and studied recorder under Pamela Thorby at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (the postgraduate early music course) in London. She also studied recorder with Piers Adams, and baroque flute and baroque studies with Stephen Preston. After graduation from the GSMD, she returned to Japan and has performed widely as a baroque music specialist ever since; giving recitals, playing with orchestras such as Bach Collegium Japan, and recording for NHK. She was one of the recommendation artist of Osaka City in 2003.

In 2010, Naomi moved permanently to the UK where she continues to develop her performing career and teaches recorder at the Wellington College and privately. She has taught the Advanced Baroque Recorder Course at Benslow Music Trust, Morley College and Blackheath Conservatoire. Naomi has given solo recitals, recordings and teaches actively in both UK and Japan. She has made a number of recordings and her solo CD ‘Airs Anglois’ was released to considerable critical acclaim in the Japanese and English musical press. And also a CD ‘Shakespeare’s Music’ from the Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments (Japan), on which Naomi is one of the principal players has received the highest critical acclaim in 'The Record Geijutsu', the principal Japanese music journal.

www.emclute.com

Steven Devine enjoys a busy career as a music director and keyboard player working with some of the finest musicians.

Since 2007 Steven has been the harpsichordist with London Baroque in addition to his position as Co-Principal keyboard player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He is also the principal keyboard player for The Gonzaga Band, Apollo and Pan, The Classical Opera Company and performs regularly with many other groups around Europe. He has recorded over thirty discs with other artists and ensembles and made six solo recordings. His recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations (Chandos Records) has been received critical acclaim - including Gramophone magazine describing it as "among the best". Volumes 1 and 2 of the complete harpsichord works of Rameau (Resonus) have both received five-star reviews from BBC Music Magazine and Steven's new recording of Bach's Italian Concerto has been voted Classic FM's Connoisseur's choice.

He made his London conducting debut in 2002 at the Royal Albert Hall and is now a regular performer there – including making his Proms directing debut in August 2007 with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has conducted the Mozart Festival Orchestra in every major concert hall in the UK and also across Switzerland. Steven is Music Director for New Chamber Opera in Oxford and with them has performed repertoire from Cavalli to Rossini. For the Dartington Festival Opera he has conducted Handel’s Orlando and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. He is currently conductor and Artistic Advisor for the English Haydn Festival in Bridgnorth.

www.stevendevine.com

“Fanny, Clara and the Road to Recognition”
Fanny Henschel (neé Mendelssohn) and Clara Schumann (neé Wieck) were highly accomplished performers and composers who, due to the social constraints and circumstances of the time, had to work to attain the career and recognition due to them. This programme explores their collaborations and friendships and spotlights their incredible talent for vocal composition.

From Zwolf Lieder Opus 9 1826:
Sehnsucht Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847)
Ferne Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Verlust Fanny Mendelssohn

Impromptu Opus 89 E flat major Ignaz Moscheles (1790 - 1870)

From Sechs Lieder Opus 9 1850 Fanny Hensel (nee Mendelssohn)
Die Ersehnte, Ferne, Der Rosenkranz, Die Frühen Gräber, Die Maiabend, Die Mainacht

From Liebesfrühling Opus 37 and Opus 12 1841 -
Rose, Meer und Sonne – Robert Schumann (1810 - 1846)
Warum willst du Andrew fragen? – Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)

Intermezzo 118 No 2 A major Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

From Sechs Lieder Opus 13 Clara Schumann
Ich stand in dunklen Traümen, Sie liebten sich biede, Liebeszauber, Der Mond kommt still gegangen, Ich hab’ in Deinem Auge, Die stille lotosblume

Programme

G.Sammartini - Concerto in G minor Op.5 No.5
J.S.Bach - Cantata  'Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke' BWV84
J.S.Bach - Oboe concerto in G minor BWV1056R
G.Ph.Telemann - Selection from Overture in E Twv55:E2

ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Hilary Cronin - soprano
Nicola Barbagli - oboe
Magda Loth-Hill - violin 
Yaorè Talibert -  violin
Joanne Miller -  viola 
Nathan Giorgetti - cello
John-Henry Baker - double bass
Sean Heath - harpsichord

David Silkoff studied the piano with Lina Collins and won a Junior Exhibition to the Guildhall School of Music where he studied with Ieuan Roberts. He later became a full time student at the Royal College of Music where he studied under Kendal Taylor and Cyril Smith; during this time he won a Martin Scholarship for further Study. David also studied for two years at the Royal Academy of Music where he won the Lloyd Hartley Prize.

In 1975 he gave a very successful Wigmore Hall debut which was highly praised in the ‘Review of London Recitals’ mentioning his glowing technique as well as his sensitive playing. David Silkoff has performed as a soloist around Britain and abroad in recitals and concertos. He is highly sought after as an accompanist in duos and chamber music.