Music at Bray October 05


COMPOSER	TITLE

Dimitri Shostakovitch (1906 - 1975)	Waltzes

Franz Ignaz Danzi (1763 - 1826)	Concertante for Flute and Clarinet

Sarah Colman (b. 1978)	Duo for flute and clarinet

Maurice Emmanuel (1862 - 1934)	Sonate



PROFILES

Peter Sparks PETER SPARKS was born in Bangor, North Wales in 1978. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior Department and subsequently studied music at Cambridge University. Whilst there, he studied with Thea King and performed John Adams' clarinet concerto, Gnarly Buttons, under Stephen Cleobury. He was also principal clarinet of the National Youth Orchestra of
Great Britain.

Peter was a pupil of Angela Malsbury and Nick Rodwell as a postgraduate scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music. Here he won the Geoffrey Hawkes Clarinet and Harold Craxton chamber music Competitions. Recent master classes include Sabine Meyer, Alan Hacker, Andrew Marriner, and Ricardo Morales. As a soloist, he has twice reached the Finals of the Royal Over-Seas League music competition, performed at the Cheltenham International Music Festival and in the Park Lane Gr oup Composer's Forum at the South Bank and given the world première of Peter Wiegold’s bass clarinet concerto, New York, with Southbank Sinfonia. In September 2001, he was privileged to represent the RAM at a concert to celebrate the centenary of Frederick Thurston at the Royal College of Music, where his playing was described as "brilliant" (The Clarinet, 2001). Most recently, he performed Copland Clarinet Concerto in St. James’s Church, Piccadilly and Weber Concerto No. 1 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Peter is also a very active chamber musician. As a member of the Gallimaufry Ensemble, he is currently a Leverhulme Junior Chamber Music Fellow of the RAM, where he was also awarded the Reizenstein Prize for chamber music. The Farrington Ensemble (piano trio with clarinet), of which he is a member, was recently selected to represent the RAM at the Halifax Festival 2002. He has also played with the Nash Ensemble and the London Sinfonietta.

Peter has worked with the Philharmonia, Bournemouth and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, Royal Philharmonic and Concert Orchestra and the Russian Chamber Orchestra. He is also a member of the UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra, playing principal clarinet under conductors such as James Levine, Christoph von Dohnányi and Paavo Jaarvi. In various orchestras, Peter has played principal clarinet under Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Richard Hickox and Mstislav Rostropovich.

LOUISA DENNEHY (former principal flute South Bank Sinfonia), began her flute studies with Evelyn Grant at the Cork School of Music. She graduated top of her class with a First Class Honours BMus Degree. She was awarded the Bridget Doolan Award for the Highest Music Degree Results in Ireland and was named student of the year for the third consecutive year with the highest results in both Academic and Performance Studies. In 2001, she completed an MMus degree at the Royal Academy of Music under Sebastian Bell and Michael Cox and was awarded the Chris Taylor Memorial Prize for Outstanding Flautist at the Royal Academy of Music. Louisa has won all the major flute competitions in Ireland including the Wind Class of the RTE Millennium Musician of the Future Competition. She was also a winner in the Millennium Yamaha International Music Scholarships.

She has considerable experience as concerto soloist and has performed with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the RTE Conc ert Orchestra (with whom she has recorded Franz Doppler’s Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise). She recently performed Henk Bading’s Concerto for Flute and Wind Orchestra with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra in Pittsburgh and New York, USA. She is currently on trial for the Principal Flute Position with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

As a chamber musician, Louisa has performed with the RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet, the Coull String Quartet and the Crawford Piano Trio. She also performs on P and O Music Festivals at Sea hosted by Richard Baker (BBC Radio 3) and Humphrey Burton and is represented by Stephannie Williams Artists.

Ciara Moroney CIARA MORONEY has firmly established herself as one of Ireland's finest young musicians, with a first class honours BMus Degree and Masters Degree in Piano Performance from the Cork School of Music.

A native of Cork, Ciara studied piano with Jan Càp, winning many prizes at both
a local and national level. She has participated in masterclasses with Marcel Baudet, Tatiana Zelikmann, Vladimir Tropp and Philip Martin among others.
Ciara won numerous internal awards from the Cork School of Music including
the "Student of the Year Award", the "HETAC Bridget Doolan Memorial Prize"
and CIT's "Registrar's Prize" for her outstanding achievements in both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. In 2002 she was awarded the Yamaha Scholarship in national competition.

Ciara has appeared as soloist with the Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Wexford Sinfonia and the Kilkenny Youth Orchestra and in recitals at the Crawford Art Gallery and the Cork School of Music as w ell as many other venues throughout the country.

Keenly interested in duo playing and chamber music, Ciara has worked with Keith Pascoe (violin), Louisa Dennehy (flute), Michelle Fleming (violin), Sonya Keogh (mezzo-soprano), Bridget Knowles (mezzo-soprano) and Gordon Garde (baritone); and collaborated with the RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet for the opening concert of the Cork Orchestral Society's 2002/03 Season. She is currently studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music.


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