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Saturday 8th November 2008, 8pm, Trinity College Chapel
Tickets and details: http://www.beethovenensemble.com
Tickets: £10/£8/£3
Programme: Wagner Siegfried Idyll Finzi Clarinet Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”
Conductor: Daniel Hill Clarinet: Alice Gledhill
The opening concert in our 2008/9 Season perfectly captures the spirit of the year. The intimate opening of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, written to wake his wife on her birthday, will be intimate and tender awakening of Trinity Chapel an perfect acoustic for this music. Alice Gledhill, playing Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto, is one of the most talented and promising young musicians around, and we’re delighted to be able to perform this work with her. The concert concludes with Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, both triumphant and melancholic, performed with the raw energy and excitement that it demands, in a venue where every detail can be heard.
Alice completed her Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees at the Royal College of Music, studying under Richard Hosford and Michael Collins. She held a full Founder Scholarship for 4 years, becoming the Sir Arthur Bliss Scholar, supported by a South Square Trust Award in her Postgraduate year. During this time, Alice played in the Britten-Pears Young Artists programme for the Aldeburgh Festival, and took part in the London Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Academy.
Her recent professional engagements include playing principal clarinet with the English National Ballet, touring the country with Prokfievs The Snow Queen and performing in a Prom with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez. She has played on many live Radio 2 broadcasts of Friday Night is Music Night with the BBC Concert Orchestra, with artists ranging from Beverley Knight to Sir Willard White! She is also on the Extras List of the English National Opera, Bouremouth Symphony Orchestraand the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Other professional work includes Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Norway, European Chamber Opera, Opera UK and Worthing Symphony Orchestra.
Alice regularly plays clarinet and saxophone in the West End production of Les Miserables, played for the Trevor Nunn production of Porgy and Bess at the Savoy Theatre, London and has performed with the Showbiz Pops Orchestra and the London Metropolitan Orchestra, the session orchestra whose recent recordings include the film Stardust. She appeared as the solo clarinettist on the BBC4 documentary, Scouting for Boys presented by Ian Hislop.
Aside from playing, Alice is a keen music educator taking part in projects with the Royal Opera House, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra. She is the Orchestral Manager for the National Childrens Wind and Chamber Orchestras of Great Britain, runs Music Activity courses for Musicale Holidays, and enjoys teaching at Putney High School for Girls.
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