We are pleased to welcome the young Canadian pianist Grace Huang (right) to Burnley to give the opening recital of the season. Some members of our committee heard her play at the Royal Northern College of Music last year and were most impressed.
Grace, who began to play the piano at the age of three, studied for 10 years at the Vancouver Academy of Music. Funded by an International Scholarship from the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music, she then went on to study with Martin Roscoe at the Royal Academy, graduating with first class honours. She has since performed in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Chile, Taiwan and in her native Canada.
John Barker (saxophone) and Tim Sidford (piano) are our guests for the second concert. Their duo partnership started in 2002 at the Royal College of Music and they recently made their Purcell Room debut to outstanding critical acclaim. The classical repertoire for the saxophone is not large and much of the music performed by saxophonists consists of transciptions of works originally written for other instruments. Such is the Bach sonata and Debussy's "Syrinx" which feature in this programme. Two piano solos (by Debussy and Liszt) are also included, but the remaining works were actually written for saxophone and piano duo.
| Sat.25th September | |
| Grace Huang (piano) | |
| Haydn | Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI/52 |
| Liszt | Ballade No.2 |
| Chopin | Ballade No.3 |
| Ravel | Miroirs |
| Ginastera | Danzas Argentinas |
| Sat.27th November | |
| John Barker (saxophone) & Timothy Sidford (piano) | |
| J. S. Bach | Flute Sonata No.6 (transcribed M. Mule) |
| Florent Schmitt | Légende |
| Claude Debussy | Syrinx (transcribed Londeix) |
| Claude Debussy | Reflets dans l'eau |
| Roger Boutry | Divertimento |
| Paul Creston | Sonata |
| Nigel Wood | Cries of the Stentor |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Two Memorials |
| Franz Liszt | Concert Study in D flat ("Un Sospiro") |
| Jacques Ibert | Concertino da Camera |
| Sat.26th February | |
| Blake Fischer (tenor) & Martyn Parkes (piano) | |
| Schumann | Dichterliebe |
| Finzi | O Fair to See |
| Vaughan Williams | On Wenlock Edge |
| Sat.30th April | |
| The Rivoli String Quartet | |
| Haydn | Quartet in F minor, Op.20 No.5 |
| Dvorak | Quartet in F major, Op.96 ("American") |
| Debussy | Quartet in G minor, Op.10 |