Details
Pinner Parish Church
Church Lane
Harrow
London
HA5 3AA
England
Programme
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty: Excerpts
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Excerpts
Léo Delibes – Coppelia: Excerpts
Jules Massenet – Le Cid: Excerpts
Manuel de Falla – La Vida Breve: Excerpts
Camille Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre in G minor, Op.40 (1874)
Ernesto Lecuona – Andalucía: Malaguena
Gavin Greenaway – The Leaves are Dancing
Sergei Rachmaninov – Vocalise, Op.34 no.14 (arr. for harps by Gavin Greenaway)
Performers
Huw Boucher – Harp
Katie Lo – Harp
Palmer Aisha – Harp
Grace Tanner – Harp
Royal Academy of Music (musicians)
Programme Note
Royal Academy Harp Ensemble was formed in 1993 by Skaila Kanga to provide opportunities to play in a harp ‘orchestra’ and to perform newly commissioned works. Their success has included performances at Wigmore Hall, Mansion House, Senate House, King’s Place, St Martin in the Fields, St James Piccadilly, Southwark Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds Festival, Cardiff Millennium Centre, World Harp Congress Cardiff.
This concert's ensemble is drawn from prize-winning undergraduate and Masters students from Wales, Hong Kong, Scotland and USA.