EUROPEAN CHAMBER MUSIC ACADEMY ECMA

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Monday 29 February – Friday 4 March 2016

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Monday 29 February – Friday 4 March 2016

EUROPEAN CHAMBER MUSIC ACADEMY ECMA

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Patron Her Majesty The Queen President Sir Willard White CBE, OM (Jamaica)Principal Professor Linda MerrickChairman Nick Prettejohn

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Dear European Chamber Music Academy guests,

A very warm welcome to you all.

The RNCM has a rich tradition in chamber music since Dr Christopher Rowland established a specialist department in the 1980s. You will now find former students of our institution working in chamber ensembles across the globe and following careers with groups such as the Belcea, Heath, Tokyo and Elias string quartets, the Gould Piano Trio, the Nash Ensemble and the Chamber Society of the Lincoln Center.

We are proud to be the only UK partner of the European Chamber Music Academy and we are confident your visit to the RNCM and to the City of Manchester will be a rich, productive and inspiring experience.

During the week you will receive coaching from the eminent tutors of ECMA, including the Artistic Director, Hatto Beyerle, and Susan Tomes (formerly of the Florestan Piano Trio). You will also benefit from sessions with RNCM staff, including Petr Prause (Talich Quartet), Sara Bitlloch (Elias Quartet) and Rob Buckland (Apollo Saxophone Quartet). I also look forward to working with many of your groups.

This year I am also delighted to welcome Karin Greenhead to the European Chamber Music Academy Manchester Session. Karin is the Director of Studies for the Dalcroze Society UK and will be giving some introductory classes in this most exceptional and unique way of learning.

It is a great pleasure that some of your groups are able to perform in our prestigious annual Chamber Music Festival, which this year focuses on the music of Mendelssohn and Schumann.

I cannot finish this welcome without mention of our dear friend and valued RNCM and ECMA tutor, Peter Cropper who died suddenly last summer. Peter hugely enjoyed his involvement with ECMA ensembles and I know he would encourage you all to make the very best of your opportunities whist being here at the RNCM and for your entire time as ECMA ensembles.

Good luck and best wishes for an enjoyable week,Jeremy Young Head of Chamber Music

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Mon 29 Feb

9 - 9.30am Café BarRegistration and tour of RNCM

10am - 6pm Room 270Hatto Beyerle

2.30 - 6pm Room 355Sara Bitlloch

10am - 3pm Room 375Petr Prause

10am - 6pm Room 373Jeremy Young

Wed 02 Mar

7.30 - 9.30pm Studio 7ECMA Presentation Concert 1

Sonus Saxophone Quartet Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Capriccio Op 81

George Gershwin Suite after Themes from Porgy and Bess

Acros Piano Trio Constantine Gaito Piano Trio Op 25

Boccherini String Trio Ludwig van Beethoven String Trio Op 9 No 1 in G major

Amatis PianoTrio Johannes Brahms Piano Trio No 1 Op 8

Fri 04 Mar

10am - 7pm Room 270Hatto Beyerle

10am - 1pm Room 369Susan Tomes

10am - 11am Room 373Jeremy Young

2 - 3.45pm Concert HallECMA Presentation Concert 2

Akilone Quartet Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13

Darian String Trio Max Reger String Trio No 2 in D minor Op 141b

Mettis Quartet Robert Schumann String Quartet No 3 in A major Op 41

4 - 6pm Carol Nash Recital RoomMasterclass with Susan Tomes Working with RNCM students on Mendelssohn piano trios.

Thu 03 Mar

9.30am - 7pm Room 270Hatto Beyerle

9am - 5pm Room 355Sara Bitlloch

10am - 5pm Room 369Susan Tomes

10am - 6pm Room 375Petr Prause

2 - 3.45pm Studio 4Dalcroze Session Part 2 ‘Dynamic Rehearsal’With Karin Greenhead

Tue 01 Mar

9.30am - 6pm Room 270Hatto Beyerle

9.30am - 1pm Studio 32 - 6.30pm Room 355Sara Bitlloch

10am - 6pm Room 375Petr Prause

10am - 6pm Room 373Jeremy Young

2.30 – 4pm Studio 6Dalcroze Session Part 1 ‘Introduction to Rhythmics’ With Karin Greenhead

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Tutor biographies

HATTO BEYERlEHatto Beyerle, violist and founder of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), was born in Frankfort-on-Main in 1933. He studied violin, viola, chamber music and orchestra conducting in Freiburg-in-Brisgau and Vienna. Hatto has won several national and international prizes for his recordings with different chamber ensembles he founded, including: Viennese Soloists (1960-1970), Alban Berg Quartet (1970-1981), Vienna Chamber Ensemble (1982-1998). He has also been awarded several titles of Artist of the Year by the Deutsche Phonoakademie. Hatto Beyerle presently teaches viola and chamber music in Hanover, Basel and Fiesole. He also is Artistic Director of the Accademia Europea del Quartetto (Fiesole), the ECMA (Hanover) and the Europäisches Kulturforum Grossraming. A great number of chamber ensembles have had the privilege of his invaluable teaching and counselling, including the Hagen, Artis, Ysaÿe, Debussy, Manfred, Wihan, Szymanowski, Cremona and META4 quartets and the Jean Paul Trio.

SUSAN TOMESSusan Tomes has won a number of international awards as a performer and recording artist, and in 2013

she received the Cobbett Medal for distinguished service to chamber music. Her career encompasses solo, duo and chamber playing; she has been at the heart of the internationally admired ensembles Domus, the Gaudier Ensemble, and the Florestan Trio, winners of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. She has made over fifty CDs, many of which have become benchmark recordings. In addition to her performing career, Susan serves on competition juries across Europe, gives masterclasses, writes and presents radio programmes, and writes a blog on her website. She is the author of four acclaimed books about performance: Beyond the Notes (2004), A Musician’s Alphabet (2006), Out of Silence (2010), and Sleeping in Temples, chosen by several publications as one of the best books of 2014.

SARA BITllOCHBorn of French and Catalan parents Sara Bitlloch studied with Clothilde Munch at the Vivaldi Association, Grenoble, with Christian Rouquié at the Perpignan Conservatory, with Peter Norris, Wen Zhou Li, Margaret Norris and Mauricio Fuks at the Yehudi Menuhin School, London, with Alberto Lysy at the Menuhin Academy, Switzerland, and with Rafael

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Druian at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia.

Chamber music was always what Sara loved most, and in recent years it has increasingly become the main focus of her musical life. As a founding member of the Mediterraneo Piano Trio, she was a prizewinner at the 1999 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and has performed in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Louvre Series in Paris, the Kennedy Center, Washington. Then for fot years she was the first violinist of the Paris based Castagneri quartet, before joining the Elias quartet in 2003.

Sara has been a participant at the chamber music festivals of Ernen (Switzerland), Kuhmo (Finland), Ravinia (Chicago), Caramoor (New York), Moulin d’Andé (Paris), Music from Salem (New York), Prussia Cove (Cornwall), Horten (Norway), Wye Valley (Wales).

Winner of the Szigeti Competition, Budapest, and the Renata Molinari Competition, Switzerland, Sara has performed throughout France, England, Spain, Switzerland and the US, as a soloist with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the

Budapest Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Lysy, and has played alongside Yehudi Menuhin, Leon Fleischer, Miriam Fried, Alberto Lysy, Steven Isserlis, Ivry Gitlis, Christoph Richter, Jean Jacques Kantorow, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Martin Lovett.

PETR PRAUSE Petr started his musical training at the Academy of Music in Prague where he was taught by Miroslav Petras and the Smetana Quartet. While studying in Prague, Petr enriched his studies at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland with Radu Aldulescu and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Raphael Wallfisch where he was awarded the highest recognition – Concert Recital Diploma (Premier Prix).

Petr joined the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, as principal cellist and soloist in 1995, and combines this with cello and chamber music teaching at the Prague Conservatoire. Petr has been a member of the Talich Quartet for the last 13 years, visiting the most important chamber music venues and numerous international chamber music festivals, as well as giving masterclasses in Europe, the Americas and the Far East. Aside from the

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quartet, Petr has performed both as a soloist and joined other well known musicians in all kinds of chamber music formations. In January 2010 Petr joined the RNCM as Artistic Director of Chamber Music.

JEREMY YOUNGLondon born pianist Jeremy Young has gained a reputation as one of the UK’s most respected and versatile musicians As a chamber musician he has partnered many of the worlds most distinguished musicians including Olivier Charlier, Mark Padmore, Julian Bliss, Liwei Qin, Thomas Riebl and Karine Georgian and worked alongside Talich, Navarra, Heath, Sacconi and Benyounes String Quartets. These performances have taken him across the world to venues including the Lincoln Center (New York), Herbst Theater (San Fransisco), National Concert Hall (Dublin), Esplanade Hall (Singapore), Almaty Concert Hall (Kazakhstan) and Wigmore Hall (London). Festival appearances include Mecklenburg -Vorpommern (Germany) and Graz (Austria) Lake District, Harrogate, Endellion, Brighton, City of London and Dartington. He has appeared as solo recitalist in venues such as the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, The Arts House (Singapore), Hsingchu Concert Hall

(Taiwan), Bridgewater Hall (Manchester) and the Southbank Centre (London). Jeremy has broadcast for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, RTE Lyric FM, BBCTV, Channel 4, S4C, Hong Kong Radio 4, CCTV (China) and radio in USA, Kazakhstan, Russia and much of Europe. His recordings are available on EMI Asia, Decca, Sony, Meridian, Signum and Somm. Jeremy Young studied at the Purcell School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music. His piano teachers included Christopher Elton, Frank Wibaut and Vladimir Ovchinkov. He studied chamber music with the Amadeus String Quartet, Andras Schiff and Joseph Seiger at the Royal Academy of Music, Menahem Pressler at the Banff Center of Performing Arts in Canada and with Christopher Rowland at the Royal Northern College of Music. Also an internationally recognised teacher, Jeremy has given classes at Yong-Siew-Toh Conservatory, Singapore, the Shanghai Conservatory, Hsingchu University,Taiwan, Sibelius Academy in Finland, Conservatorio di Verona, the Royal Academy of Music and the European Chamber Music Academy.

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KARIN GREENHEADKarin Greenhead is an internationally recognised specialist in Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Dynamic Rehearsal (DR), her own application of Dalcroze principles to the rehearsal and performance of repertoire, solo and ensemble that has been demonstrated widely in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Karin has worked with amateurs and performers as young as 6 years old as well as professional musicians and those in professional training, soloists, chamber groups and double string orchestra. Her work has attracted the attention of researchers and in recent years she has started to publish articles on DR, now the subject of her own doctoral research. At RNCM she teaches graduate and post-graduates students.

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