Upbeat Spring 2013 - Royal College of Music
Upbeat Spring 2013 - Royal College of Music
Upbeat Spring 2013 - Royal College of Music
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Woodwind<br />
triumphs<br />
Flautist Diego Aceña Moreno, oboist<br />
Alasdair Hill and clarinettist Adrian<br />
Somogyi, members <strong>of</strong> the Cataleya<br />
Quintet, have performed at The<br />
Leverhulme Trust annual reception in<br />
Unilever House in London. All three<br />
students are supported by the trust,<br />
one <strong>of</strong> the most generous supporters <strong>of</strong><br />
young musicians in the UK.<br />
Cataleya Ensemble<br />
Vocal achievements<br />
Sopranos Joanna Songi and Anna<br />
Anandarajah have won Second Prize<br />
and the Audience Prize respectively<br />
in the Maureen Lehane Singing<br />
Competition at the Wigmore Hall…<br />
Baritone Morgan Pearse was one<br />
<strong>of</strong> three soloists in a performance <strong>of</strong><br />
Haydn’s Creation with the Hastings<br />
Philharmonic Choir, conducted by<br />
Marcio da Silva… Soprano Laura<br />
Wright has been chosen by the Rugby<br />
Football Union as England’s first <strong>of</strong>ficial<br />
Laura Wright with English Rugby players<br />
Joanna Songi<br />
National Anthem singer. She will sing<br />
ahead <strong>of</strong> the international matches<br />
against South Africa and New Zealand, as<br />
well as all <strong>of</strong> the home games in the Six<br />
Nations tournament in <strong>2013</strong>… Soprano<br />
Louise Alder has featured on BBC Radio<br />
4’s Today programme with <strong>Royal</strong> Opera<br />
House Director <strong>of</strong> Opera Kasper Holten,<br />
talking about the state <strong>of</strong> opera and<br />
life as a young singer today… Two RCM<br />
Junior Department students won prizes<br />
in the final <strong>of</strong> the Association <strong>of</strong> English<br />
Singers and Speakers Catherine Lambert<br />
Junior Recital Prize: Julius Haswell won<br />
First Prize with his themed programme<br />
<strong>of</strong> English song, poetry and prose entitled<br />
‘Love lost through war’, while Rhys<br />
Jupiter Brown took Third Prize and the<br />
Speech Prize.<br />
Spotlight on…<br />
RCM cellist Yuki Ito has been named<br />
as a Second Prize winner at the highly<br />
prestigious Young Concert Artists<br />
International Auditions in New York.<br />
Yuki was given the opportunity to<br />
take part in the semi-final auditions<br />
in New York after he was awarded<br />
First Prize at the European Young<br />
Concert Artists Auditions in Leipzig.<br />
As a result <strong>of</strong> his success Yuki will<br />
be awarded future engagements<br />
worldwide, the first taking place in<br />
Tokyo.<br />
More than 300 musicians from 41<br />
countries took part in this year’s<br />
Young Concert Artists Auditions, for<br />
which the criteria are exceptional<br />
musicianship, virtuosity, individuality,<br />
projection as a performer, and<br />
promise. The organisation has<br />
discovered and launched the careers<br />
<strong>of</strong> many internationally celebrated<br />
musicians including pianists Jean-<br />
Yves Thibaudet, Emanuel Ax, Murray<br />
Perahia, Jeremy Denk and Richard<br />
Goode; soprano Dawn Upshaw, and<br />
violinist Pinchas Zukerman.<br />
Yuki has also recently released his<br />
debut album. Accompanied by RCM<br />
alumna S<strong>of</strong>ya Gulyak, the recording<br />
features popular cello works by<br />
Rachmaninov and was chosen as<br />
‘disc <strong>of</strong> the month’ by The Strad<br />
magazine. Rachmaninov: Cello Works<br />
(Champs Hill Records) is available<br />
to buy through iTunes, Amazon,<br />
NaxosDirect, and Europadsic.<br />
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