EDGAR FRANCIS viola
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Wednesday 20 March 2024Doors: 6pm
Concert: 7pm (1 hour, no interval) Meet the artists: 8pm Tickets: £15 (including a pre-concert drink) |
Edgar Francis has been awarded a Hattori Foundation Senior Award in 2022 and 2023.
This performance forms part of the Hattori Foundation early evening concert series. This is a very friendly series, in true Salon-style, where guests are invited to enjoy a pre-concert drink included in the ticket price, a one-hour performance (without interval) and then meet the performers and Trustees in the Club's bar after each recital for complimentary refreshments.
This performance forms part of the Hattori Foundation early evening concert series. This is a very friendly series, in true Salon-style, where guests are invited to enjoy a pre-concert drink included in the ticket price, a one-hour performance (without interval) and then meet the performers and Trustees in the Club's bar after each recital for complimentary refreshments.
Programme (60 minutes, no interval)Paul Hindemith
Viola Sonata Op.11 No.4 Eric Coates First Meeting (Souvenir) Rebecca Clarke Viola Sonata |
The Hattori Foundation was established as an Educational Trust by the Hattori Family and granted charity status in 1992.
The aim of the Foundation in the field of music is to encourage and assist exceptionally talented young instrumental soloists or chamber ensembles who are British Nationals or resident in the UK and whose talent and achievements give promise of an international career. |
Edgar Francis |
Edgar Francis is a dynamic and versatile musician, with a passion for performing that involves him in all aspects of the viola. He has performed in leading venues such as The Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Kolner Philarmonie and The Royal Festival Hall. As 1st Prize Winner at the 2021 Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition, his debut album will be released on Champs Hill records.
Edgar started his musical journey with Sheila Nelson, before studying with Matthew Souter at Wells Cathedral School. He is currently studying for a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music with Hélène Clement. While at RAM he has won 1st Prize in the Wilfrid Parry Prize, as well as receiving a Regency Award, the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize and the Olwen Doreen Leyshon Prize.
Edgar has attended festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove, Mendelssohn on Mull, North Norfolk Music Festival, Southwell Music Festival and Kinnordy Chamber Music Festival, and has performed on BBC Radio 3. Orchestrally, Edgar enjoys playing with a variety of groups, including Sinfonia of London, Aurora Orchestra and O/Modernt. Also in demand as a soloist, he has played solo recitals at venues such as Powderham Castle and the Millennium Centre.
Edgar plays on a 2012 Mario Miralles viola, generously on loan from RAM through the Calleva Foundation. He is a recipient of a 2022 Hattori Foundation Senior Award. Upcoming projects include Yellowbarn Summer Festival and Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music.
Edgar started his musical journey with Sheila Nelson, before studying with Matthew Souter at Wells Cathedral School. He is currently studying for a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music with Hélène Clement. While at RAM he has won 1st Prize in the Wilfrid Parry Prize, as well as receiving a Regency Award, the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize and the Olwen Doreen Leyshon Prize.
Edgar has attended festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove, Mendelssohn on Mull, North Norfolk Music Festival, Southwell Music Festival and Kinnordy Chamber Music Festival, and has performed on BBC Radio 3. Orchestrally, Edgar enjoys playing with a variety of groups, including Sinfonia of London, Aurora Orchestra and O/Modernt. Also in demand as a soloist, he has played solo recitals at venues such as Powderham Castle and the Millennium Centre.
Edgar plays on a 2012 Mario Miralles viola, generously on loan from RAM through the Calleva Foundation. He is a recipient of a 2022 Hattori Foundation Senior Award. Upcoming projects include Yellowbarn Summer Festival and Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music.
Angus Webster |
Praised for his inspiring musicianship, British conductor Angus Webster opened the 2023/24 season by returning to conduct the Ulster Orchestra for two BBC Radio 3 concerts. The programmes featured the U.K. premiere of Dawning by Huw Watkins and New Every Morning by Judith Weir, alongside Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin, Beethoven’s Symphony No.2, and Dvorák’s Symphony No.8. He will also make his subscription debut with the orchestra later in the season, conducting Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.2 with Alena Baeva and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’.
Following debuts in Nagoya and Osaka, Webster returns to Japan to debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, featuring the Japan premiere of Within Her Arms by Anna Clyne, Elgar’s Sea Pictures with Jess Dandy, and Brahms’ Symphony No.4 at Opera City Hall. He also returns to the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra to conduct subscription concerts, including the Japan premiere of New Every Morning by Judith Weir, Walton’s Viola Concerto with Hayang Park, and Dvorák’s Symphony No.7. In recent seasons, Webster has conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Bruckner Orchestra Linz. Webster also works as an assistant conductor and repetiteur at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, including recent productions of Mozart’s Così fan tutte with Riccardo Minasi and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in 2021 and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Dalia Stasevska and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2023. Born in 1999, Webster won top prizes at the Jorma Panula International Conducting Competition in 2018. He then continued his studies with Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Webster studies piano with Claudio Martínez Mehner and Alasdair Beatson and has played in masterclasses with Ferenc Rados, Rita Wagner, and Dénes Várjon at IMS Prussia Cove. His debut recording of sonatas by Fauré and Enescu with violinist Irène Duval is due to be released in 2024. |
Wednesday
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Doors: 6pm
Concert: 7pm (1 hour, no interval) Meet the artists: 8pm Tickets: £15 (including a pre-concert drink) |