CLARA RODRIGUEZ piano
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Thursday 21 November 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 7 October (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 |
This year, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Reynaldo Hahn's birth. This concert is our tribute to this Parisian character, born in Caracas in 1874, a genial musician and beacon of his time. The program includes a performance of his "Premières Valses" for solo piano, featuring a selection of these imaginative, tasteful, and charming waltzes, along with some of his beautiful melodies sung by Parvathi Subbiah, a Venezuelan/Indian soprano and former student of Mirella Freni at her Centro Universale del Bel Canto Academy in Italy.
Actress Susan Porrett will read anecdotes and biographical notes about Reynaldo Hahn, including the story of how he wrote his first song at the age of fourteen—a song you will have the opportunity to hear in this concert—that propelled him to stardom in the Parisian salons.
The evening also includes colourful, poetic, and rhythmically joyful songs from Spain, Argentina, and Venezuela, promising a vibrant and varied musical experience.
Actress Susan Porrett will read anecdotes and biographical notes about Reynaldo Hahn, including the story of how he wrote his first song at the age of fourteen—a song you will have the opportunity to hear in this concert—that propelled him to stardom in the Parisian salons.
The evening also includes colourful, poetic, and rhythmically joyful songs from Spain, Argentina, and Venezuela, promising a vibrant and varied musical experience.
ProgrammePART 1 - CLARA RODRIGUEZ piano
Francis Poulenc Improvisation XV in C minor, FP176 (Homage to Edith Piaf) Paul Verlaine Clair de lune poem Claude Debussy Clair de lune Reynaldo Hahn Premières Valses for solo piano Federico Ruiz Zumba que zumba Miguel Astor Adriana (Venezuelan waltz) Heraclio Fernández El diablo suelto Interval PART 2 - PARVATHI SUBBIAH soprano CLARA RODRIGUEZ piano Reynaldo Hahn Si mes vers avaint des ailes A Chloris L'Heure exquise Quand la nuit ne pas étoilée Teresa Carreño Feuillet d'Album Barcarola Carlos Guastavino El sauce y la rosa Otilio Galíndez Pueblos tristes Caramba |
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.
Parvathi Subbiah
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Venezuelan/Indian soprano, Parvathi Subbiah, is a former student of Mirella Freni and studied at her Centro Universale del Bel Canto Academy in Italy. Previously she had studied singing at Oberlin Conservatory and the University of South California. A respected academic, she completed her Doctorate in Venezuelan politics at the University of Cambridge last year.
Recent engagements include Violetta La traviata, Mimì La bohème (Aspen Music Festival); Sandrina La finta giardiniera, Mrs Coyle Owen Wingrave (University of Southern California); Geraldine in Barber’s A Hand of Bridge (Londrina Music Festival, Brazil); title role Suor Angelica (Emypyeran Ensemble in Cambridge); Violetta Act 3 La traviata (Figaro Opera Society in Venice). |
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Susan PorrettSusan Porrett has had a long theatrical career. She played Audrey in As You Like It at Nottingham Playhouse, Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing at the National Theatre and Second Witch in Macbeth and Queen Caroline in The Art of Success (both for the RSC). In 2004 she went to the Hong Kong Festival to play the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet for English Touring Theatre and later appeared in The Good Soul of Szechuan at the Young Vic.
Favourite parts include Miss Pross in A Tale of Two Cities, Betsy Trotwood in David Copperfield (both at Greenwich Theatre) and Matron in Forty Years On (at West Yorkshire Playhouse). Most recent stage appearances: The Heresy of Love (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2015), The Autumn Garden by Lillian Hellman (Jermyn Street Theatre, October 2016) and The Slaves of Solitude at Hampstead Theatre (October-November 2017). Films include Alan Bennett’s A Private Function, in which she played butcher’s wife, Mrs. Medcalf. Her many television credits include: Upstairs, Downstairs (as underhousemaid Alice); three series of Grange Hill (as Mrs.Thomas, the biology teacher) and playing Doris in Absolute Hell with Judi Dench. Her most recent tv appearance was as Withers in the BBC series Mapp and Lucia. Radio work in 2017: BBC Radio 4’s Home Front series. |
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Thursday
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Doors: 6.30pm
Concert: 7.30pm Duration: 75min (including one interval) Tickets: £32, including a glass of Crémant or soft alternative. Early-bird offer #1: £28 if purchased before 7 October (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 - limited number available) |