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Abbotsholme School
Nr. Mill Street
Rocester
Uttoxeter
Staffordshire
ST14 5BS
England
Programme
Isaac Albéniz – Iberia
Maurice Ravel – Miroirs
Cécile Chaminade – Etude romantique, Op.132
Cécile Chaminade – 6 Études de concert, Op.35
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – 24 Negro Melodies: X, Deep River
Clara Schumann – 3 Romances, Op.21
Hélène Montgeroult – Etudes
Performers
Clare Hammond – Piano
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Programme Note
cclaimed as a “pianist of extraordinary gifts” (Gramophone) and “immense power” (The Times), Clare Hammond is recognised for the virtuosity and authority of her performances. In 2016, she won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s ‘Young Artist Award’ in recognition of outstanding achievement. Recent highlights include Grieg Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Moussa and Carwithen with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, Panufnik with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, and recitals at the Aldeburgh Festival, Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice (broadcast on RAI 3), Husum Festival in Germany, and in Denmark and Norway with Henning Kraggerud.
She has recorded six discs for BIS Records. The most recent, a critically-acclaimed selection of Etudes by Hélène de Montgeroult, was launched at London’s National Gallery and was named Editors Choice in Gramophone Magazine.
Contemporary music is at the core of Clare’s work and she has given over 50 world premieres. She has performed to over 11,830 schoolchildren since 2017, and runs an ongoing series of recitals at prisons.
As an externsion to her visit to the Abbotsholme Arts Society, Clare will offer a workshop to the pupils of Abbotsholme School.
