CLARA RODRIGUEZ piano
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Thursday 10 October 2024Doors: 6.30pm
Concert: 7.30pm Duration: 90min (including one interval) Tickets: £32, including a glass of Crémant or soft alternative. Early-bird offer #1: £28 if purchased before 20 Sep (limited number available) Early-bird offer #2: If you buy a ticket for each of the three concerts in this series you will also receive a complimentary CD (if purchased together before 20 September 2024 - limited number available) |
Autumn Concert Series dates |
CONCERT 1 - Thursday 10 October 2024
CONCERT 2 - Thursday 7 November 2024 CONCERT 3 - Thursday 21 November 2024 |
Celebrating the legacy of distinguished Venezuelan composer Modesta Bor, born on Margarita Island. This is a rare chance to listen to her profound musical genius, imaginative melodic fluency and rich use of harmony through the live performance of her Sonata for Violin and Piano and her Suite for Cello and Piano amid popular pieces by Piazzolla such as his poignant tango evoking the melancholic beauty of winter, Invierno from the Four seasons of Buenos Aires.
You will also enjoy exhilarating piano trio and quartet versions of Violeta Parra’s hymn of gratitude to life, Gracias a la vida, and the renowned and beloved composition Bésame mucho by Consuelo Velázquez in variation form by Jean-Luc Muller, as well as experiencing the romantic longing of Maria Luisa Escobar’s classic bolero, Desesperanza.
You will also enjoy exhilarating piano trio and quartet versions of Violeta Parra’s hymn of gratitude to life, Gracias a la vida, and the renowned and beloved composition Bésame mucho by Consuelo Velázquez in variation form by Jean-Luc Muller, as well as experiencing the romantic longing of Maria Luisa Escobar’s classic bolero, Desesperanza.
Programme
Modesta Bor
Suite for cello and piano London Premiere Juan Carlos Núñez Autorretrato de Ramón Delgado-Palacios (piano solo) Modesta Bor Violin and Piano Sonata London Premiere - Interval - Astor Piazzolla Invierno from the Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas Violeta Parra/Federico Ruiz/Jean-Luc Muller Variations on Gracias a la vida Maria Luisa Escobar Desesperanza (arr. by Federico Ruiz) Jean-Luc Muller Variations on Consuelo Velázquez’s Bésame mucho |
Photo: Antolin Sanchez
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Clara Rodriguez |
Clara's website
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‘Venezuelan virtuoso pianist Clara Rodriguez (The Financial Times) has built an enviable international reputation for her innovative programme planning, juxtaposing standard repertoire with works by South American composers. She has commissioned, premièred and is the dedicatee of more than thirty works. Her playing stands out for its sheer beauty of tone, high expressiveness, sensitivity considerable digital clarity combined with stylistic acumen.’ At seventeen she was awarded the Teresa Carreño Scholarship to pursue studies at The Royal College of Music with Phyllis Sellick, where she received numerous awards including the Scarlatti Prize, the Mozart Prize, and the Percy Buck Award, as a finalist in the Chappell Prize. In Caracas, at eighteen she made her orchestral debut with Mozart's Piano Concerto K.595 with the Simón Bolívar Orchestra conducted by José Antonio Abreu; her London debut in 1985 was at St. John’s Smith Square, playing Ravel’s Concerto in G.
Clara Rodriguez’s solo career has earned her great acclaim in UK, France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Venezuela, the United States, India, Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia. In London, she is a hugely popular performer who regularly plays in recitals and as a concerto soloist in the most prestigious halls including the Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James’s Piccadilly, St John’s Smith Square, Leighton House, Bolívar Hall and the 1901 Arts Club.
She is invited to play concertos with the worldwide acclaimed Simón Bolívar Orchestra, including memorably in the Grandes Virtuosos del Piano Festival, performing Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Concerto alongside other participants including Paul Badura-Skoda and Chick Corea. Clara Rodriguez is often interviewed by the BBC; her albums CDs feature regularly on BBC Radio stations and in networks worldwide. She has recorded six solo albums for Nimbus Records including the piano works by Moisés Moleiro, Federico Ruiz, Teresa Carreño, Ernesto Lecuona, Venezuela, and Americas without Frontiers. Two more albums include El Cuarteto with Clara Rodriguez Live, and Frederic Chopin on the Ulysses Arts label.
Represented by Dominic Seligman Agency, Clara Rodriguez regularly plays recitals at Arundells, the Salisbury home of former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. As a pedagogue her students have been awarded numerous prizes in competitions and scholarships to leading universities and music conservatoires, with successful public concerts at Wigmore Hall, the Albert Hall’s Elgar Room and venues throughout the UK. She teaches at the Royal College of Music junior department and is an international adjudicator.
Clara Rodriguez has been awarded the ‘Classical Music Act’ LUKAS Prize 2015, has been made an honorary member of the Chelsea Arts Club and has been named ‘Woman of the Year’ by the main newspapers and magazines of Venezuela. She is the editor of Clifton Editions’ rapidly growing series Venezuelan Treasures for Piano, Clifton Editions, distributed by Stainer & Bell. Artists and orchestras she has performed with include clarinettist and conductor Michael Collins, BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Stephen Bryant, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Sinfónica de Venezuela, Orquesta Filarmónica Nacional de Venezuela, Orquesta Municipal de Caracas, Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo, Orquesta Sinfónica Francisco de Miranda, Orquesta Sinfónica Juan José Landaeta, Phoenix Orchestra, Orquesta de Aragua, Fulham Symphony Orchestras, Camden Symphony Orchestra, conductors Jordi Mora, Marc Dooley, Levon Parikian, Christopher Adey, Eduardo Rahn, Teresa Hernández, Carlos Riazuelo, Alfredo Rugeles, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Luis Miguel González-Fuentes, Régulo Stabilito, Telésforo Naranjo and Jesús Uzcátegui.
Clara Rodriguez’s solo career has earned her great acclaim in UK, France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Venezuela, the United States, India, Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia. In London, she is a hugely popular performer who regularly plays in recitals and as a concerto soloist in the most prestigious halls including the Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James’s Piccadilly, St John’s Smith Square, Leighton House, Bolívar Hall and the 1901 Arts Club.
She is invited to play concertos with the worldwide acclaimed Simón Bolívar Orchestra, including memorably in the Grandes Virtuosos del Piano Festival, performing Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Concerto alongside other participants including Paul Badura-Skoda and Chick Corea. Clara Rodriguez is often interviewed by the BBC; her albums CDs feature regularly on BBC Radio stations and in networks worldwide. She has recorded six solo albums for Nimbus Records including the piano works by Moisés Moleiro, Federico Ruiz, Teresa Carreño, Ernesto Lecuona, Venezuela, and Americas without Frontiers. Two more albums include El Cuarteto with Clara Rodriguez Live, and Frederic Chopin on the Ulysses Arts label.
Represented by Dominic Seligman Agency, Clara Rodriguez regularly plays recitals at Arundells, the Salisbury home of former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. As a pedagogue her students have been awarded numerous prizes in competitions and scholarships to leading universities and music conservatoires, with successful public concerts at Wigmore Hall, the Albert Hall’s Elgar Room and venues throughout the UK. She teaches at the Royal College of Music junior department and is an international adjudicator.
Clara Rodriguez has been awarded the ‘Classical Music Act’ LUKAS Prize 2015, has been made an honorary member of the Chelsea Arts Club and has been named ‘Woman of the Year’ by the main newspapers and magazines of Venezuela. She is the editor of Clifton Editions’ rapidly growing series Venezuelan Treasures for Piano, Clifton Editions, distributed by Stainer & Bell. Artists and orchestras she has performed with include clarinettist and conductor Michael Collins, BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Stephen Bryant, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Sinfónica de Venezuela, Orquesta Filarmónica Nacional de Venezuela, Orquesta Municipal de Caracas, Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo, Orquesta Sinfónica Francisco de Miranda, Orquesta Sinfónica Juan José Landaeta, Phoenix Orchestra, Orquesta de Aragua, Fulham Symphony Orchestras, Camden Symphony Orchestra, conductors Jordi Mora, Marc Dooley, Levon Parikian, Christopher Adey, Eduardo Rahn, Teresa Hernández, Carlos Riazuelo, Alfredo Rugeles, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Luis Miguel González-Fuentes, Régulo Stabilito, Telésforo Naranjo and Jesús Uzcátegui.
David Núñez
The Venezuelan violinist and composer, David Núñez, lived in Brussels, Belgium from 1989 to 2008, and graduated in 1997 from the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.
In Venezuela David Núñez has performed as a soloist with the most important orchestras such as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal and Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana "Simón Bolívar". In 1997 his first album appeared with music for solo violin. Among other works, the first recording of Aram Khachaturian's Monologue Sonata stands out. Since then he has recorded 20 albums, highlighting his collaboration with the Belgian ensembles Ictus and Musiques Nouvelles, with whom in 2011 he obtained the Diapason D’Or award for the album "Nameless City", dedicated to the work of the composer Fausto Romitelli.
David Núñez has given master-classes at the Conservatorio del Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles de Venezuela, at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, at the Conservatorio de Las Rosas in Mexico and at the Hochschule fur Musik "Franz Liszt" in Germany. In Chile, he is an academic at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, where in addition to serving as a violin and chamber music teacher he is also a member of the “Surkos” string quartet. In Argentina, he is the first violin of the UNTREF String Quartet of the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, a project dedicated to contemporary music.
David Núñez has premiered numerous works for violin, including Chaconne by Henri Pousseur (Belgium), 7 miniaturas de Frida Khalo by Juan Carlos Núñez (Venezuela), Estructura mándala IV by Diógenes Rivas (Venezuela), Corda para violín y orquesta by Alejandro Guarello (Chile) and Arco de Julio Estrada (Mexico). As a member of various ensembles, he has premiered works by Jonathan Harvey, Fausto Romitelli and Pauline Oliveros, among others. Since 2000 he has regularly participated in the Festival Atempo in Caracas where he is also a member of the committee. He currently lives in Santiago, Chile.
In Venezuela David Núñez has performed as a soloist with the most important orchestras such as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal and Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana "Simón Bolívar". In 1997 his first album appeared with music for solo violin. Among other works, the first recording of Aram Khachaturian's Monologue Sonata stands out. Since then he has recorded 20 albums, highlighting his collaboration with the Belgian ensembles Ictus and Musiques Nouvelles, with whom in 2011 he obtained the Diapason D’Or award for the album "Nameless City", dedicated to the work of the composer Fausto Romitelli.
David Núñez has given master-classes at the Conservatorio del Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles de Venezuela, at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, at the Conservatorio de Las Rosas in Mexico and at the Hochschule fur Musik "Franz Liszt" in Germany. In Chile, he is an academic at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, where in addition to serving as a violin and chamber music teacher he is also a member of the “Surkos” string quartet. In Argentina, he is the first violin of the UNTREF String Quartet of the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, a project dedicated to contemporary music.
David Núñez has premiered numerous works for violin, including Chaconne by Henri Pousseur (Belgium), 7 miniaturas de Frida Khalo by Juan Carlos Núñez (Venezuela), Estructura mándala IV by Diógenes Rivas (Venezuela), Corda para violín y orquesta by Alejandro Guarello (Chile) and Arco de Julio Estrada (Mexico). As a member of various ensembles, he has premiered works by Jonathan Harvey, Fausto Romitelli and Pauline Oliveros, among others. Since 2000 he has regularly participated in the Festival Atempo in Caracas where he is also a member of the committee. He currently lives in Santiago, Chile.
Megan Clarke
Megan Clarke (born in 2006) will begin her undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Hannah Roberts in September 2024. She has attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department since the age of 8, where she began her studies with Alexander Boyarsky and is currently studying with Leandro Silvera. Megan has performed across the UK in many of the major concert halls. In February 2024, she performed a recital at the Royal Albert Hall, Elgar Room, and in November 2022, she was awarded Highly Commended in the RCMJD Concerto Competition. As a sought-after young cellist, she has performed live on BBC Radio 3 and recorded for the English National Opera.
An avid chamber musician, Megan frequently performs and competes with her piano trio, string quartet, and duo around London. So far in 2024, both her string quartet and piano trio were awarded performances in the RCMJD Chamber Music Concert, and she won second place in the RCMJD Duo Competition 2020. In July 2024, she will perform the 1st movement of Kodaly’s duo for cello and violin at the RCM’s Young Artists Showcase as a “leading soloist” of the RCMJD.
As a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain from 2021-2023, she has played in many of the major concert halls around the UK, including at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, at the Royal Festival Hall and, at the Barbican Concert Hall. In addition, in the 2022-2023 season, she took on the role of String Leader with the NYOGB. Megan was also principal cellist of the Royal College of Music Junior Department Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.
In Summer 2022, Megan studied at the Tanglewood Festival in the Young Artists Orchestra Program at Boston University Tanglewood Institute, USA. Whilst she was there, she was principal cellist and she received a solo masterclass from Blaise Déjardin, principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Megan has received solo masterclasses from other musicians, including Natalie Clein, Alexander Baillie, and Nicola Benedetti. She has also been mentored by Hannah Roberts, Steven Doane, and Patrice Jackson.
An avid chamber musician, Megan frequently performs and competes with her piano trio, string quartet, and duo around London. So far in 2024, both her string quartet and piano trio were awarded performances in the RCMJD Chamber Music Concert, and she won second place in the RCMJD Duo Competition 2020. In July 2024, she will perform the 1st movement of Kodaly’s duo for cello and violin at the RCM’s Young Artists Showcase as a “leading soloist” of the RCMJD.
As a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain from 2021-2023, she has played in many of the major concert halls around the UK, including at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, at the Royal Festival Hall and, at the Barbican Concert Hall. In addition, in the 2022-2023 season, she took on the role of String Leader with the NYOGB. Megan was also principal cellist of the Royal College of Music Junior Department Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.
In Summer 2022, Megan studied at the Tanglewood Festival in the Young Artists Orchestra Program at Boston University Tanglewood Institute, USA. Whilst she was there, she was principal cellist and she received a solo masterclass from Blaise Déjardin, principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Megan has received solo masterclasses from other musicians, including Natalie Clein, Alexander Baillie, and Nicola Benedetti. She has also been mentored by Hannah Roberts, Steven Doane, and Patrice Jackson.
Leonardo Muller-Rodriguez
Leonardo Muller-Rodriguez (AKA Manukapp) was born in London in 1998 of French and Venezuelan parentage. He graduated with a First Class Music Production for Media (BAHons) degree from Ravensbourne University and in 2021 he obtained a Master of Science degree in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging from King's College London. He has worked in labs as a technician in Psychinformatics, Juelich Forshungzentrum, Germany and at the Cambridge Institute for Musictherapy Research.
As a bassist, singer and composer, public performances include concerts at Riverside Studios, London, London's Cadogan Hall, and at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, sharing the stage in different opportunities with legendary French musician Michel Legrand, singer Jean-Jacques Goldman, and his mum, pianist Clara Rodriguez.
As a bassist, singer and composer, public performances include concerts at Riverside Studios, London, London's Cadogan Hall, and at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, sharing the stage in different opportunities with legendary French musician Michel Legrand, singer Jean-Jacques Goldman, and his mum, pianist Clara Rodriguez.
Thursday
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Doors: 6.30pm
Concert: 7.30pm Duration: 90min (including one interval) Tickets: £32, including a glass of Crémant or soft alternative. Early-bird offer #1: £28 if purchased before 20 Sep (limited number available) Early-bird offer #2: If you buy a ticket for each of the three concerts in this series you will also receive a complimentary CD (if purchased together before 20 September 2024 - limited number available) |