Jiaxin Lloyd Webber & Rebeca Omordia Duo Recital at Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham on Tuesday 15th October 2019

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Jiaxin Lloyd Webber & Rebeca Omordia Duo Recital

Add to my Calendar 15-10-2019 13:00 15-10-2019 15:00 36 Jiaxin Lloyd Webber & Rebeca Omordia Duo Recital "The empathy between the duo is remarkable" Birmingham Post  Cellist Jiaxin Lloyd Webber and pianist Rebeca Omordia perform sontas for cello and piano by Sergei Rachmaninov and John Ireland.  Jiaxin Lloyd Webber graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1997. She was already giving performances with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra before leaving China for further studies in New Zealand where she received her Masters Degree at Auckland University in 2001. Jiaxin was principal cello of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra, a founder member of the Aroha String Quartet and has played regularly with the Auckland Philharmonia and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, including the cello concertos by Dvorak, Elgar and Lalo. Now resident in the UK, Jiaxin is married to the world renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and has performed with Julian for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, CNN Global TV, and BBC TV. They have recorded for Universal Classics and Naxos. Their recordings have been chosen as Record of the Month by both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine and as CD of the Week by both Classic FM and BBC Radio 3. Their 2013 recording, ‘A Tale of Two Cellos’ was the Number One UK classical album for many weeks and is one of the Naxos label’s bestselling recordings of all time. Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber have played sell-out tours with such orchestra as the English Chamber Orchestra and the European Union Chamber Orchestra and have made many nationwide TV and Radio appearances on such high profile programmes as BBC Breakfast, The Andrew Marr Show and Radio 4 Midweek. London based award-winning Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia was recently featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman Hour and as Artist of the Month in the Classical Music Magazine, May 2019. Rebeca Omordia has toured widely as a soloist and chamber musician, most recently she has performed as a soloist with MUSON Symphony Orchestra in Nigeria, Romanian National Radio Orchestra and Chineke! Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. She has worked with an array of international musicians, including a three year- partnership with British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber;further musical partners have included cellist Raphael Wallfisch, double bass virtuoso Leon Bosch, and the Chineke! Chamber Ensemble and pianist Mark Bebbington. A proud ambassador of Nigerian classical music, Rebeca’s Ekele CD released in 2018, was described as a "fascinating programme " by the Gramophone Magazine. In 2019 she launched in partnership with the Institute of Art and Music the world's first ever African Concert Series, at the October Gallery in London, described by the BBC World Service as "the African Art Music makes a comeback". Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Cheltenham Town Hall
Imperial Square
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL50 1QA
England

Tuesday 15th October 2019
1:00 PM

Programme

Sergei Rachmaninov – Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19
John Ireland – Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor (1923)

Performers

Jiaxin Lloyd Webber – Cello
Rebeca Omordia – piano

Programme Note

"The empathy between the duo is remarkable"

Birmingham Post

Cellist Jiaxin Lloyd Webber and pianist Rebeca Omordia perform sontas for cello and piano by Sergei Rachmaninov and John Ireland.

Jiaxin Lloyd Webber graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1997. She was already giving performances with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra before leaving China for further studies in New Zealand where she received her Masters Degree at Auckland University in 2001. Jiaxin was principal cello of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra, a founder member of the Aroha String Quartet and has played regularly with the Auckland Philharmonia and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, including the cello concertos by Dvorak, Elgar and Lalo. Now resident in the UK, Jiaxin is married to the world renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and has performed with Julian for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, CNN Global TV, and BBC TV. They have recorded for Universal Classics and Naxos. Their recordings have been chosen as Record of the Month by both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine and as CD of the Week by both Classic FM and BBC Radio 3. Their 2013 recording, ‘A Tale of Two Cellos’ was the Number One UK classical album for many weeks and is one of the Naxos label’s bestselling recordings of all time. Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber have played sell-out tours with such orchestra as the English Chamber Orchestra and the European Union Chamber Orchestra and have made many nationwide TV and Radio appearances on such high profile programmes as BBC Breakfast, The Andrew Marr Show and Radio 4 Midweek.

London based award-winning Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia was recently featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman Hour and as Artist of the Month in the Classical Music Magazine, May 2019. Rebeca Omordia has toured widely as a soloist and chamber musician, most recently she has performed as a soloist with MUSON Symphony Orchestra in Nigeria, Romanian National Radio Orchestra and Chineke! Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. She has worked with an array of international musicians, including a three year- partnership with British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber;further musical partners have included cellist Raphael Wallfisch, double bass virtuoso Leon Bosch, and the Chineke! Chamber Ensemble and pianist Mark Bebbington. A proud ambassador of Nigerian classical music, Rebeca’s Ekele CD released in 2018, was described as a "fascinating programme " by the Gramophone Magazine. In 2019 she launched in partnership with the Institute of Art and Music the world's first ever African Concert Series, at the October Gallery in London, described by the BBC World Service as "the African Art Music makes a comeback".

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