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Part of the Hattori Foundation early evening concert series
Adam Lee clarinet (Current Hattori Foundation senior award winner) Alison Procter piano Programme (60 minutes, no interval)Sarah Frances Jenkins
Shivelight Joseph Horovitz Clarinet Sonatina Fernande Decruck Cantilène Johannes Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat major Op.120 No.2 |
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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. |
Adam Lee |
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Scottish clarinettist Adam Lee is in demand as an orchestral and solo performer throughout the UK. He is a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Music, studying a Master of Performance in Clarinet with Tim Lines and Richard Hosford which is generously supported by the Rhona Reid Charitable Trust. His musical journey began in Primary School, aged 8, with Rachel Considine before continuing his studies with Alison Waller at the RCS Junior Conservatoire from 2015-2017. He chose to stay at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for his undergraduate degree where he studied with John Cushing, Tim Orpen, Heather Nicoll and Joe Pacewicz. During his time, he won several Conservatoire, national and international competitions and upon graduating was awarded a First-Class BMus Performance degree and The Principal’s Prize for All Round Excellence.
As a freelance clarinettist, Adam has appeared with the Aurora Orchestra, London Mozart Players, and the Orchestra of Opera North. He regularly works in Glasgow with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, on trial with both for the positions of Associate Principal Clarinet and Sub-Principal Clarinet respectively. As a concerto soloist, he has performed Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto with the RCS Symphony and Helen Grime’s Clarinet Concerto with the RCM New Perspectives Ensemble. He will appear with the RCM Philharmonic in September 2022, performing James MacMillan’s Clarinet Concerto 'Ninian'.
Alongside his performance career, Adam is a committed teacher and passionate advocate of youth music in Scotland. He teaches several pupils throughout Ayrshire, Greater Glasgow and London and was selected to be the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland's Clarinet Ambassador for 2022, a training role in mentoring young musicians. From November 2022, he will serve on the Board of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland as a Young Trustee.
Adam is grateful for support from the Hattori Foundation, Drake Calleja Trust, Countess of Munster Musical Trust, NYOS Colin McLean Bursary, Caird Trust and the McGlashan Charitable Trust. He extends his thanks to the Leverhulme Trust, Dewar Arts Awards, Help Musicians, Cross Trust, CASSGB and the Robertson Trust for their previous support in his studies.
As a freelance clarinettist, Adam has appeared with the Aurora Orchestra, London Mozart Players, and the Orchestra of Opera North. He regularly works in Glasgow with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, on trial with both for the positions of Associate Principal Clarinet and Sub-Principal Clarinet respectively. As a concerto soloist, he has performed Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto with the RCS Symphony and Helen Grime’s Clarinet Concerto with the RCM New Perspectives Ensemble. He will appear with the RCM Philharmonic in September 2022, performing James MacMillan’s Clarinet Concerto 'Ninian'.
Alongside his performance career, Adam is a committed teacher and passionate advocate of youth music in Scotland. He teaches several pupils throughout Ayrshire, Greater Glasgow and London and was selected to be the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland's Clarinet Ambassador for 2022, a training role in mentoring young musicians. From November 2022, he will serve on the Board of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland as a Young Trustee.
Adam is grateful for support from the Hattori Foundation, Drake Calleja Trust, Countess of Munster Musical Trust, NYOS Colin McLean Bursary, Caird Trust and the McGlashan Charitable Trust. He extends his thanks to the Leverhulme Trust, Dewar Arts Awards, Help Musicians, Cross Trust, CASSGB and the Robertson Trust for their previous support in his studies.
Alison Procter
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Alison knew instantly that she wanted to play the piano aged only six years old, having heard a friend playing a Bach minuet at a birthday party. By the age of nine, she had already decided to pursue a performing career and spent her two sixth form years at Wells Cathedral School studying with Hilary Coates, followed by four years of study with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she won several prizes. During this time, she was also awarded the Accompanists Prize as well as the Liza Fuchsova Chamber Music Award from the Royal Overseas League Music Competition.
Alison now has a very varied musical life as an accompanist, chamber pianist and orchestral player, but has become particularly widely recognised in the UK as a specialist in woodwind and brass repertoire, having worked with many of Britain’s most distinguished wind players including William Bennett and Michael Cox (flute), Jonathan Kelly and Daniel Bates (oboe), Richard Hosford and Tim Lines (clarinet), Jeff Bryant and David Pyatt (horn), Philip Cobb, James Fountain and Jason Evans (trumpet), Ian Bousfield, Byron Fulcher and Peter Moore (trombone) and James Buckle (bass trombone). Alison has performed at most of the major concert halls in the UK including the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room in London and Symphony Hall in Birmingham as well as throughout Europe, Japan and the USA. Alison has been Principal Accompanist for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for almost twenty-five years and is in constant demand as an audition accompanist playing regularly for many organisations in the UK including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, Help Musicians UK, the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, the Craxton Memorial Trust and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. She also works extensively with the woodwind and brass departments at the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music where she regularly accompanies masterclasses with many eminent visiting musicians including Stefan Dohr and Radovan Vlatkovich (horn), Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet), Jorgen van Rijen (trombone), Sergio Carolino (tuba) and Jacques Tys (oboe). In addition to her busy freelance life as a pianist in London, Alison is also a qualified yoga teacher and is currently training for a professional gardening diploma with the Royal Horticultural Society. |