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James Lisney’s …petits concerts take their title from the annual series of recitals given by Charles Alkan at the Erard Showroom in Paris during the 1870s.
The 2022/23 season of …petits concerts features the chamber music of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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ProgrammeLudwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in C, Op.1/3 Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 (Archduke) |
Emma Lisney
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Emma Lisney graduated from Oxford University in 2018 with first class honours. Since then, she has built a varied career encompassing solo, chamber and orchestral playing. In 2016 she won the Oxfordshire Concerto Competition, performing Prokofiev’s second violin concerto with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. As part of the Lisney Trio, she performed in venues around the UK in 2020 culminating in a performance at the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre. Alongside this, Emma leads a busy orchestral life, performing regularly with many of the major London orchestras and other regional orchestras.
Emma plays a G.B. Guadagnini (Turin, 1772) which is kindly lent by a generous benefactor. |
Joy Lisney
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Joy Lisney is a multi-faceted musician, combining the cello with composition and conducting.
Joy has performed in the major European concert halls including the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Leipzig Gewandhaus as well as multiple sold-out recitals at London’s Southbank Centre. During the pandemic she live-streamed solo concerts to an international audience, including from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Her programmes range from her own arrangement of the Bach Chaconne to world premieres by composers including Mark-Anthony Turnage, Cecilia McDowall, Jan Vriend and Judith Weir, as well as her own compositions. As a composer, Joy has written for musicians including the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Recherche and Orchestra for the Earth. Joy plays on an eighteenth century Seraphin cello generously lent by Beare Violins. |
James Lisney
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James Lisney enjoys a rich musical life, moving seamlessly from concerto and recital soloist to chamber musician, song accompanist and pianist director. Initiatives, such as his Schubertreise series at London’s Southbank Centre, his extensive Beethoven Project or the recording company Woodhouse Editions, provide a platform for his wide-ranging musical sympathies.
In recent years he has given Schubert cycles at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and in Mumbai; held residencies at Carnegie Recital Hall, New York and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw; and he has recently completed a survey of the late music of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin at St George’s, Bristol. The 2022/23 season include performances in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. |