Roseland Music Society

Our aim is to bring affordable music concerts to the local community and promote education in this field. A regular programme of concerts, which include nationally and internationally known performers, orchestras and choirs takes place at Portscatho Memorial Hall. The Roseland Music Society is affiliated to Making Music (National Federation of Music Societies) and has a burgeoning membership currently approaching 200. The Society has also been selected by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust to take part in it's recital scheme, allowing us occasionally to present outstanding young artists at advantageous prices. Click here to view the society's mission statement.   Membership, costing £8.00p, entitles one to a £3.00 reduction on each ticket purchased during the year and a periodic newsletter giving advance notice of forthcoming concerts. Students are admitted at a reduced price and any schoolchild of 16 and under when accompanied by a ticket holding adult will be admitted free of charge to all concerts. Whilst we are a society with members, our concerts are public.  We warmly welcome non-members who account for a very significant proportion of our ticket sales.   Our concerts, normally starting at 7.30pm, are held on a Friday or Saturday evening. The seats are upholstered and comfortable. We provide a licensed bar offering the choice of specially selected wines, Betty Stogs beer and soft drinks. The bar is open prior to the concert and during the interval.   We also welcome new members and enquiries should be made to the Membership Secretary. Click HERE to view the 2011-2012 programme/membership form. (Registered Charity No: 1098140)   Read more..

Click to Visit   Roseland Youth Music (RYM) is the educational branch of Roseland Music Society. It promotes musical activity among young people on the Roseland; provides professional musicians to work in local schools; enables children to experience live music of all types and  see and hear a range of musical instruments being played and offers students the opportunity to participate in practical workshops involving listening, composing, improvising, singing, playing and performing together .

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       ---------------  Saturday 28th January 2012   The Piatti String Quartet     Michael Trainor, Jessie AnnRichardson, David Wigram and Charlotte Scott   Winners of the St. Martins in the Fields Chamber Music Competition and the Martin Musical/Philarmonia Scholarship Fund 2010 the Piatti Quartet are fast emerging as one of the UK’s leading young string quartets.   Previous recipients of the Tunnell Trust Award and selected as Park Lane Group Young Artists in 2009/2010, more recent news includes a second year as Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music and winning the St Peter’s Eaton Square Prize 2011. Since 2009 they have performed at the Purcell room, Southbank, and live on BBC Radio 3 numerous times. Over the last year, they have enjoyed several very exciting collaboration projects with Austrian pianist Gottlieb Wallisch and clarinetists Emma Johnson and Sarah Williamson as well as a successful second year of their very own ‘Piatti Chamber Music Festival at Kingsand’.   The Piatti Quartet had their Wigmore Hall debut in February 2011 and are looking forward to returning there in April 2012. Also returning to the Conway Hall, 2011/2012 will see the quartet extensively touring the British music scene as part of both the prestigious Countess of Munster and the Making Music recital schemes and taking part in both the Melbourne and Geneva International String Quartet Competitions 2011.   The Quartet has gained much musical inspiration from many great quartet musicians and particular influences include members of the Amadeus Quartet, Alban Berg Quartet, Artis Quartet, Alisdair Tait and Jon Thorne. In 2009 they received the MBF Ensemble Award to attend the International Sommerakademie Prague/Vienna/Budapest where they performed throughout Austria.   2011/12 will see the Quartet return to Madrid, studying on a full Scholarship with Gunter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet at the International Institute of Chamber Music Of Madrid and study with Johannes Meissl of the Artis Quartet Vienna, with the support of the Hattori Foundation. The Piatti Quartet is extremely grateful for the generosity and support of Ian Ellis, the Nicolas Boas Charitable Trust, the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Hattori Foundation the Concordia Foundation and the Park Lane Group.   www.piattiquartet.com ---------------  Saturday 25th February     Olivia Sham (Piano)          Biography Australian pianist Olivia Sham is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Olivia completed a Bachelor of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (The University of Sydney) on a scholarship of Outstanding Academic Achievement/Merit, where she studied with Elizabeth Powell, and graduated with First Class Honours and the University Medal. She was then awarded a full scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music where she completed a Master of Music with Professor Christopher Elton, graduating with distinction. She is now a doctoral student at the Academy in Liszt performance practice, supported by an Overseas Research Award.   Olivia has won numerous prizes and awards, including third prize in the 18th A.M.A. Calabria International Piano Competition (Italy), third prize in the 4th International Concerto Competition (Hastings Music Festival, UK), 2006 John Allison Piano Scholarship, prizes in the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, and keyboard winner of the 2003 Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year. In 2010, she was awarded a Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists.   Olivia has played with various orchestras including the Melbourne Symphony, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra (Australia), Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (USA), Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra (Italy), and Finchley Chamber Orchestra and Guildford Symphony Orchestra (UK). Olivia is also an enthusiastic chamber musician, and has given numerous solo and chamber music recitals. Forthcoming projects include several recitals of Liszt’s piano music around the UK. She has also been exploring nineteenth-century pianos, and has performed Chopin’s E minor Piano Concerto on a Pleyel piano (1842), and works by Liszt on an Erard piano (1840).       Listen to Olivia by clickinghere     www.oliviasham.com     Repertoire List Solo recital and concerto repertoire includes: Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Sonata in A minor, K.310; Sonata in D, K.576;  Fantasia in C minor, K.475 ; Piano Concerto in A, K.488; Piano Concerto in C, K.503 Franz Joseph HAYDN Fantasy in C, Hob.17; Sonata in C, Hob.50; Sonata in E flat, Hob.52 Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Sonata in C major, op.2 no.3; Sonata in C sharp minor ‘Moonlight’, op.27 no.2; Sonata in C, op.53 ‘Waldstein’; Sonata in F minor ‘Appassionata’, op.57; Sonata in B flat major ‘Hammerklavier’, op.106; Sonata in E, op.109; Bagatelles op.126; Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor, op.37 Franz SCHUBERT Sonata in A, D664; Fantasy in C ‘Wanderer’, D760; Impromptu no.2 in E flat, op.90, D.899; Impromptu no.3 in B flat, op.142, D.935 Fryderyk CHOPIN Ballade no.1 in G minor, op.23; Ballade no.2 in A minor, op.38; Ballade no. 3 in A flat, op.47; Ballade no.4 in F minor, op.52; Scherzo in B flat minor, op.31; Berceuse op.57; Polonaise-Fantasie, op.61; Sonata no.3 op.58; Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor, op.11 Franz LISZT Sonata in B minor; Années de Pèlerinage (Deuxièume Année – Italie); Transcendental Etudes no.8 ‘Wilde Jagd’ and no.10 ‘Appassionato’; Paganini Etude no.6; Ballade no.2; Réminiscences de Norma (Bellini); ‘Isolde’s Liebestod’ from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner); St Francis of Paul Walking on the Waves; Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (1834); ‘Pensée des morts’ and ‘Bénédiction de dieu dans le solitude’ from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, Mephisto Waltz no. 1; La Lugubre Gondola II;  ‘Aux Cyprès de la Villa d’Este, Thrénodie I’ from Années de Pèlerinage (Troisième Année); Hungarian Rhapsody no.12; Piano Concerto no. 2 in A Johannes BRAHMS Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat, op.83 Edvard GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor, op.16 Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor Op.23 Modest MUSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition Sergei PROKOFIEV Sonata no.3 op.28, Piano Concerto no. 3 in C, op. 26 Claude DEBUSSY Images Book I; selected Preludes (both books); D’un cahier d’esquisses, L’isle Joyeuse Maurice RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit; Miroirs; La Valse Olivier MESSIAEN Préludes no.1 ‘La colombe’, no.6 ‘Cloches d’angoisse et larmes d’adieu’, no.8 ‘Un reflet dans le vent’; ‘Première communion de la vierge’ from Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus Federico MOMPOU Cants màgics Leos JANÁCEK Concertino Alban BERG Sonata op.1 Béla BARTÓK Sonata Miriam HYDE Valley of Rocks; Water Nymph Carl VINE Five Bagatelles; Piano Sonata no.1 * Chamber music repertoire includes: Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Sonata for piano and violin no.5 in F, op.24 ‘Spring’; Sonata for piano and cello no.3 in A, op.69; Sonata for piano and cello no.5 in D, op.102 no.2 Carl Maria von WEBER Grand Duo Concertante for clarinet and piano, op.48 Franz SCHUBERT Piano Trio no.1 in B flat, D.898 op.99 Franz LISZT Selected lieder Johannes BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, op.34; Piano Trio no.1 in B, op.8; Horn Trio in E flat, op.40; Sonata for violin and piano no.3 in D minor, op.108; Sonata for clarinet and piano in F minor, op.120 no.1; Sonata for clarinet and piano in E flat, op.120 no.2 Robert SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke for clarinet and piano, op.73 César FRANCK Piano Quintet in F minor Antonin DVORÁK Piano Trio no.4 in E minor ‘Dumky’ Camille SAINT-SAËNS Sonata for clarinet and piano in E flat, op.167 Claude DEBUSSY Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano Alban BERG Four pieces for clarinet and piano, op.5 Francis POULENC Sonata for violin and piano; Sonata for clarinet and piano Leonard BERNSTEIN Sonata for clarinet and piano ------------------- Saturday 31st March     Hall Ogden Duo     Craig Ogden (Guitar) & Judith Hall (Flute)   www.craigogden.com   www.judithhall.co.uk   Craig Ogden  – guitar Australian born guitarist Craig Ogden is one of the most exciting artists of his generation. He studied guitar from the age of seven and percussion from the age of thirteen. He is the youngest instrumentalist to have received a Fellowship Award from the RNCM in Manchester. His many recordings for Virgin/EMI, Chandos, Nimbus, Hyperion, Sony and Classic FM have received wide acclaim. Ogden’s Classic FM albums The Guitarist and Summertime both shot straight to no.1 in the UK classical chart in summer 2010 and 2011 respectively. Craig Ogden has performed concertos with all of the main UK orchestras plus many abroad and has presented on BBC Radio 3 and on ABC Classic FM (Australia). Craig Ogden is Principal Lecturer in Guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and Visiting Lecturer at London’s Royal College of Music.   Judith Hall  – flute Born and educated in Australia, Judith was involved in a different career when Jean-Pierre Rampal heard her play and suggested she become a professional musician. She studied with him briefly in France before moving to London. Her debut in the Park Lane Group's "Young Musicians and Twentieth Century Music" series on the South Bank was very warmly received, and she immediately joined the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Principal Flute. After seven years she left to give more time to solo and chamber music, having been launched as a winner in the ISM/Nat West Festival Days competition. Orchestras in which she has played as guest Principal Flute include the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and English National Opera. As a member of chamber groups such as Lontano, Endymion, Koenig and Composers' Ensemble, she has performed in Britain and abroad, also broadcasting for the BBC. As a soloist in concertos she has performed and recorded with the Philharmonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, Langham Chamber Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Montepulciano Festival Orchestra, Ten Tors Orchestra, Divertimenti of London and the English Symphony Orchestra, among others. As a recital soloist she has played frequently in major British venues, with live BBC recordings from St David's Hall, Cardiff, the BBC Concert Hall and the Pump Room, Cheltenham. She has been heard in British festivals such as City of London, Three Choirs, Dartington, Great Elm, Leominster, Musicfest Aberystwyth, Aldeburgh Proms, Taunton, Arundel, Brighton, Harrogate, Vale of Glamorgan, Swansea, Gower, Machynlleth, Newbury Spring Festival, Calstock, Budleigh Salterton, Ryedale, Salisbury International and Cheltenham International Festivals. Abroad she has played in festivals in Turin, Montepulciano, Middelburg, Halle, Como, Adelaide and Sydney, as well as undertaking tours of France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Greece, India, Australia, the Bahamas, and many parts of South East Asia, with many tours funded by the British Council. She teaches flute at Birmingham Conservatoire and is also a teacher of the Alexander Technique. With funds from the Arts Council she has commissioned many new pieces for flute, including Jonathan Lloyd's virtuoso theatre piece 'The Apprentice's Sorcery', broadcast by the BBC from the Cheltenham International Festival.   © Judith Hall 2011   ------------------- We welcome feedback from members and visitors about our concerts. If you would like to tell us what you think about what you have seen and heard at past concerts, or what you would like to see and hear in future please send an e-mail to our webmaster - david.calton@hotmail.co.uk

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