A musical tribute to Erik Satie on the 101st anniversary of his death. Seventeen leading composers have each, in their own distinctive voices, produced a short homage to Satie that is influenced or inspired by some aspect of Satie’s, life, ideas or music. Pianist Duncan Honeybourne presents them for the first time in London in the 1901 Arts Club: the perfect setting for this music. Duncan has recently recorded all these new pieces – alongside music by Satie himself – for an innovative CD recording (on the Prima Facie label) that we are thrilled to launch this evening.
Programme
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Erik Satie
Trois Gymnopédies Trois Gnossiennes Pieces Froids: Danses de Travers David Lancaster Montmartre William Meek Rosa Sarah Dacey Dance of the Ombrophobe David Power Around 1890 Ewan East Le seul morceau fallacieux du précieux dégouté Philip Grange Knossienne Morag Galloway Gymnopédie for Beckett Hayley Jenkins Une Journée dans la Vie (d'un petit chien) Andrew Hugill Valse des Cure-Dents James Else Intrados Jenny Jackson Pye-Dog Nick Williams L’escalier de Soctrate Ruth Lee Memory Thread Sarah Thomas Un Morceau en Forme de Chou de Bruxelles Simon Hopkins Vexopedie No. 1 Frederick Viner Sarabande Steve Plews Chagrins (For Erik Satie) |
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Duncan Honeybourne |
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Duncan Honeybourne enjoys a diverse profile as a pianist and in music education. Reviews have commended his “gripping performances” (The Times), “glittering performances” (International Piano), “fine, sensitive playing” (Gramophone) and “great technical facility and unfailing imagination” (Musical Opinion).
Honeybourne made his debut as concerto soloist at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, and the National Concert Hall, Dublin, in 1998, and gave recital debuts in London, Dublin, Paris and at international festivals in Belgium and Switzerland. Since then he has toured extensively in the UK, Ireland and Europe as solo and lecture recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, appearing at many major venues and leading festivals. His solo performances have been frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and more than 20 networks worldwide, including French, Belgian, Austrian, Swiss and German radio, ABC (Australia) and Radio New Zealand. He has premiered over 80 solo piano works written for him by composers including John Joubert, John Casken, Cecilia McDowall and Sadie Harrison, plus the Andrew Downes Piano Concerto at Birmingham Town Hall. Duncan has also revived many forgotten scores by composers of earlier generations and was invited by the BBC to give the world premiere of two rediscovered piano preludes by English romantic composer Susan Spain-Dunk in a live Radio 3 recital from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Duncan’s extensive discography includes premiere recordings of piano music by Baines, Bainton, Pitfield, Greville Cooke, Christopher Edmunds, Armstrong Gibbs, Walford Davies and Imogen Holst, as well as many contemporary works.
Duncan Honeybourne teaches at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Academy, the University of Southampton and Sherborne School. He has adjudicated and given masterclasses at conservatoires and universities in the UK and Ireland, and has written and published widely on music and musicians. At home in Dorset he is Founder/Artistic Director of Chamber Music Weymouth.
Honeybourne made his debut as concerto soloist at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, and the National Concert Hall, Dublin, in 1998, and gave recital debuts in London, Dublin, Paris and at international festivals in Belgium and Switzerland. Since then he has toured extensively in the UK, Ireland and Europe as solo and lecture recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, appearing at many major venues and leading festivals. His solo performances have been frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and more than 20 networks worldwide, including French, Belgian, Austrian, Swiss and German radio, ABC (Australia) and Radio New Zealand. He has premiered over 80 solo piano works written for him by composers including John Joubert, John Casken, Cecilia McDowall and Sadie Harrison, plus the Andrew Downes Piano Concerto at Birmingham Town Hall. Duncan has also revived many forgotten scores by composers of earlier generations and was invited by the BBC to give the world premiere of two rediscovered piano preludes by English romantic composer Susan Spain-Dunk in a live Radio 3 recital from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Duncan’s extensive discography includes premiere recordings of piano music by Baines, Bainton, Pitfield, Greville Cooke, Christopher Edmunds, Armstrong Gibbs, Walford Davies and Imogen Holst, as well as many contemporary works.
Duncan Honeybourne teaches at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Academy, the University of Southampton and Sherborne School. He has adjudicated and given masterclasses at conservatoires and universities in the UK and Ireland, and has written and published widely on music and musicians. At home in Dorset he is Founder/Artistic Director of Chamber Music Weymouth.