Upbeat Spring 2013 - Royal College of Music

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Staff notes
Guitar professor Carlos Bonell
Guitar professor Carlos Bonell has
re-released his classic album The Private
Collection with new artwork and liner
notes. The album features a number of
Spanish works by Granados, Albéniz and
Villa-Lobos and is available to purchase
from www.carlosbonell.com.
Assistant to the Deputy Director,
Director of Programmes & Research
and Artistic Director Rebecca Mair has
performed with the Rolling Stones as
part of their 50th anniversary tour at the
O2. Singing with the choir Voce!, they
accompanied the band in the classic hit
You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
Tom Fox
RCM Maintenance Officer Tom Fox
created a moustache-shaped guitar in
aid of Movember, a charity that raises
money and awareness for prostate cancer
research. Made from 100% reclaimed
materials, it included a piano stool leg for
the neck, a picture frame for the body
and a resonating body made from a shoe
polish tin. The guitar was auctioned for
charity on eBay at the end of November.
Junior Department piano teacher Clara
Rodriguez has given a candlelit recital at
St Martin-in-the-Fields. The programme
centred on the theme of spirituality and
the special qualities of moonlight that
have inspired great composers such as
Beethoven and Debussy. She has also
recently released Cuba España – her fifth
CD on Nimbus Records.
Piano professor Leon McCawley has
given a solo recital at Wigmore Hall. His
programme spanned two centuries of
keyboard music from J S Bach’s Italian
Concerto in F to Liszt’s Les cloches de
Genève from Années de pèlerinage.
Flute professor Gareth Davies has written
a memoir of the London Symphony
Orchestra on tour, focusing on their
historical first visit to America in 1912
and their most recent 2012 US tour.
Principal Flautist in the LSO, Gareth tells
the remarkable story through recently
discovered diaries and archive material
from London and New York newspaper
reports. The Show Must Go On will be
published by Elliott & Thompson Limited
in May.
Viol consort coach Claire Bracher has
recorded a CD of solo works by Telemann.
Released on the Early Music label SFZ,
it is the first recording of the complete
surviving works for viola da gamba.
Professor Colin Lawson has released
his latest CD on Clarinet Classics. The
recording features Mozart’s Clarinet
Quintet, performed on a specially recreated
basset clarinet in A, as well as the world
premiere recording of the A major Rondo,
originally intended for the Quintet but
instead recycled as an aria for Così fan tutte.
He is joined by the Revolutionary Drawing
Room ensemble featuring violinist Adrian
Butterfield.
Composition professor Kenneth Hesketh
has completed a new work for dance
– Forms entangled, shapes collided –
commissioned by ensemble Psappha and
Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds, and
supported by The Royal Philharmonic
Society Drummond Fund. The work tours
nationally from February 2013 passing
through Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester
and London’s ROH2 Lindbury Theatre
amongst others. The work is one of 16
new commissions to mark the Royal
Philharmonic Society’s bicentenary in 2013.