Beckett Chamber Music Series 2018 Programme

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Michelle O’Rourke is an Irish singer based in Dublin. Her natural sound, unaffected expressivity and technical ability make for an interpreter of rare dynamism. Michelle combines her classical training with an adventurous eclecticism and a passion for collaboration. Michelle has commissioned, premiered and toured works by Andrew Hamilton, Linda Buckley, Garrett Sholdice, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Judith Ring and Naomi Pinnock amongst others. She is passionate about commissioning and dissemination of new vocal music. Recent collaborations with Irish composer Simon O’Connor resulted in Left Behind: Songs of the 1916 Widows – a suite of songs inspired by the experiences of women associated with the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. Left Behind was featured as part of the Ireland’s official commemorative programme for 2016 and recorded for Ergodos. Ongoing and recent work includes a new opera with Simon O’Connor and Maeve Stone, the premiere of new vocal work by Ann Cleare and release of music for people who like art by Andrew Hamilton on NMC. Since her debut performance at the age of six, Ioana has enjoyed an eclectic career path spanning repertoire from baroque to rock and everything in between. She began her violin studies with her father and continued in France and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, collecting the highest possible marks and distinctions at every stage. Ioana has performed a considerable number of solo works with orchestra, including many of the great concertos from Bach, Bruch, Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev and Shostakovich as well as more contemporary offerings from Philip Glass, Tavener, Ian Wilson and Arvo Pärt. She has toured, recorded, broadcast and coached in her role as first violin, both as former founder member of the prize-winning Callino Quartet and in her current piano trio Ensemble Avalon, whose debut CD features the trio’s ‘ravishing sensitivity’ and ‘sunlit playing’ (the Strad). Collaborations have been with artists as diverse as Barry Douglas, John Abercrombie (jazz), tenor Mark Padmore, composer Philip Glass, Martin Hayes (trad fiddle), the Belcea Quartet and Arcade Fire (indie rock) and, more recently, a hugely successful concert tour in an all-female violin quartet joining the leaders of RTÉ National Symphony, RTÉ Concert and the Irish Chamber Orchestras. Entering her 8th season as Associate Leader of the Ulster Orchestra, Ioana is in increasing demand as guest leader joining orchestras such as City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Ireland, English Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic as concertmaster. Ioana plays a wonderful Eberle violin, on generous loan from a private collector. Born in East Germany, Joachim Roewer graduated from the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” Weimar and the Orchesterakademie of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, having performed frequently with this world class orchestra in Berlin and internationally. During that time he was also principal viola of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under Claudio Abbado. In 1994 Joachim Roewer moved to Ireland to become principal viola with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, a position which he has held ever since. On numerous occasions he appeared as soloist with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. He performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante alongside violinist Anthony Marwood with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and Berlioz’ “Harold in Italy” with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland. Since 2006 Joachim Roewer works as Course Director of the annual international ConCorda Chamber Music Course for Strings. Joachim Roewer is a passionate teacher and a busy chamber music player. He is a member . of the Esposito String Quartet and was invited to perform with the Vogler Quartet, the Vanbrugh Quartet and the RTÉ Contempo Quartet. Since 2013 he is Artistic Director of the Killaloe Chamber Music Festival. In 2017 Joachim Roewer took on the position of Artistic Director of the MA programme in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Lisanne Melchior won violin and viola scholarships to the Royal Northern College of Music and went on to study in Chicago. Lisanne enjoys performing a wide range of musical styles and has a particular love of chamber music. She has performed chamber music recitals in America, Germany, Kenya, Ireland, Spain and the UK. As a member of the Adderbury Ensemble she has recorded a disc of chamber music by John Veale and Robert Crawford on Métier Records. She has also performed regularly with the Harborough Collective, Soloists of London, the Rosetta Trio, the Le Page Ensemble, CHROMA and Britten Sinfonia. Lisanne is an advocate of making music accessible and has performed in many unusual
concert settings. Examples include chamber music by Schoenberg and Piazzolla in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and Ian Wilson’s Bewitched for Soprano & String Quartet, a composition based on the experiences of patients with stroke and hospital staff, at a health conference in Dublin Castle. Lisanne has guest lead many orchestral viola sections including, English String Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Swan, Glyndebourne Opera, Ulster Orchestra, Opera North, The Guildhall String Ensemble, and Illinois Chamber. As a soloist, Lisanne has performed Berlioz Harold in Italy in England and Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in Germany. She currently lives in Dublin where she is Principal Viola of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Dublin born Aoife Nic Athlaoich enjoys a versatile musical career, equally at home playing on period instruments as performing newly commissioned works. She has collaborated with jazz musicians and contemporary dance groups, as well as playing under the baton as such eminent conductors as Sir John Elliot Gardiner, Sir Colin Davis and Bernard Haitink as an orchestral musician. Aoife has performed with the orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, La Serenissima, the Avison Ensemble, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Classical Opera Company, London Mozart Players and is a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Aoife has won prizes for solo and contemporary music performance at Feis Ceoil, Dublin as well as being awarded a Belfast Classical Music Bursary in 2007 and was awarded scholarships for her studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and at the Royal College of Music, London. Aoife teaches cello at the Cork school of music. Yseult Cooper Stockdale enjoys a diverse career as a soloist and chamber musician. Performances include Elgar Cello Concerto at the National Concert Hall, Beethoven Triple Concerto in the National Opera House in Wexford, West Cork Chamber Music Festival (supported by the Vanbrugh Quartet’s Young Musician’s Scholarship Scheme) and the NCH’s Chamber Music Gathering. She performed as a Rising Star at the RDS and was selected as a Britten-Pears Young Artist and as a member of Southbank Sinfonia. Recent engagements include a performance at Chamber Music on Valentia, a recital of solo contemporary music with Kirkos, and her fourth concert to date with the Irish Composers Collective. Yseult was recipient of the John Vallery Memorial Prize at the Freemasons Young Musician of the Year in 2015 and was awarded the 2016 Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe scholarship. A passionate supporter of contemporary music, Yseult has premiered over fifty works, including several solo cello commissions. On the other side of the spectrum, Yseult is principal cellist of Fishamble Sinfonia, an orchestra specialising in early music. Yseult studied at CIT Cork school of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music with Christopher Marwood and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater & “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig with Peter Hörr. Jonathan Morris is currently completing a doctorate degree in piano performance at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music in the USA, studying with Andrew Cooperstock. After growing up in Wexford, he moved to London and received his bacherlor's and master's degrees from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has received numerous awards in many prestigious competitions; last year, he won second prize in the Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition and first prize in CU Boulder's Honors Concerto Competition. The 2017 concert season included a performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the CU Symphony Orchestra in Macky Auditorium, while the 2016 season included a performance as part of the City of London Festival, a solo concert in the National Concert Hall, and a solo concert as part of the New Ross Piano Festival, alongside performers Nicholas Angelich, Piers Lane, Finghin Collins, and Nathalia Milstein. Jonathan has played in many notable venues, including Wigmore Hall, Abbey Road Studios, the Bishopsgate Institute, and the National Concert Hall, as well as several international venues, including Institut Montana in Switzerland. He will be travelling to New York in November to play in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, representing CU Boulder in a showcase of some of its most promising young musicians.
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