Absolute Classics: Huw Wiggin, Saxophone & Tim Abel, Piano at The Buccleuch Centre, Langholm on Thursday 22nd October 2015

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Absolute Classics

Huw Wiggin, Saxophone & Tim Abel, Piano

Part of the Absolute Classics 2015-16 Season

Add to my Calendar 22-10-2015 19:30 22-10-2015 21:30 36 Absolute Classics www.absoluteclassics.co.uk Date: Thursday 22nd October Location: Buccleuch Centre Langholm Time: 7:30pm Cost: Adult £12, Concs £10, Under 18’s £5 Programme:   Pequena Czarda by Pedro Iturralde Vocalise by Rachmaninoff Waltz no. 5 in A flat Major, op. 42 “Grand Waltz” by Chopin  Libertango and Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla  Sonata in G Minor by J.S. Bach  INTERVAL Fuzzy Bird Sonata by Takashi Yoshimatsu Aria by Bozza Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt West Side Story Suite by Bernstein (arr. Brinsford) Huw Wiggin - Saxophone Commonwealth Musician of the Year, First Prize and Gold Medal winner of the 2014 Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition, saxophonist Huw Wiggin studied at the RNCM, the Hochschule für Musik, Cologne, and in 2012 graduated from the RCM where he won the Concerto Prize. Other distinctions include a ‘Star Award’ from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, a Music Education Award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Philip & Dorothy Green Award, a Martin Musical Scholarship Award.   In 2012 Huw was selected as a Park Lane Group Artist. He has appeared at festivals and music societies throughout the UK and in major concert halls, including the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall. In July 2012 Huw gave recitals and a concerto performance of Eric Coates’s Saxo Rhapsody in Beijing. Plans for 2014 include a return visit to the Wigmore Hall and the release of a new solo CD with pianist James Sherlock.   Huw also gives regular concerts throughout the UK and abroad with the Ferio Saxophone Quartet.   Tim Abel - Piano Tim Abel grew up in Retford, Nottinghamshire and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music from 2003-2008 under the tuition of Dina Parakhina.  As a student he performed Grieg’s Piano Concerto at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall, won the RNCM John Ireland prize and following a solo recital in Nottingham was awarded the Gwendolyn Reiche Scholarship for postgraduate study.   From 2008-2010 Tim was Junior Fellow in Accompaniment at the RNCM, and has performed at many venues throughout the UK including Wigmore Hall, The Purcell Room and Bridgewater Hall.  In recent years he has been a performing artist for the Park Lane Group and Countess of Munster recital schemes, and he has also travelled to Cape Town to be an official accompanist for the International Viola Congress.  From 2010-12 Tim was a resident pianist onboard the Queen Mary 2, and since then has made numerous appearances on cruise ships worldwide - most recently for the maiden voyage of P&O's flagship 'Britannia'.     The Buccleuch Centre, Langholm DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Buccleuch Centre
Langholm
Langholm
Dumfriesshire
DG13 0AW
England

Thursday 22nd October 2015
7:30 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Oboe Sonata in G minor, BWV 1030b
Sergei Rachmaninov – Vocalise, Op.34 no.14

Performers

Huw Wiggin – Saxophone
Tim Abel – piano

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Date: Thursday 22nd October

Location: Buccleuch Centre Langholm

Time: 7:30pm

Cost: Adult £12, Concs £10, Under 18’s £5

Programme:

Pequena Czarda by Pedro Iturralde

Vocalise by Rachmaninoff

Waltz no. 5 in A flat Major, op. 42 “Grand Waltz” by Chopin

Libertango and Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla

Sonata in G Minor by J.S. Bach

INTERVAL

Fuzzy Bird Sonata by Takashi Yoshimatsu

Aria by Bozza

Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt

West Side Story Suite by Bernstein (arr. Brinsford)

Huw Wiggin - Saxophone

Commonwealth Musician of the Year, First Prize and Gold Medal winner of the 2014 Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition, saxophonist Huw Wiggin studied at the RNCM, the Hochschule für Musik, Cologne, and in 2012 graduated from the RCM where he won the Concerto Prize. Other distinctions include a ‘Star Award’ from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, a Music Education Award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Philip & Dorothy Green Award, a Martin Musical Scholarship Award.

In 2012 Huw was selected as a Park Lane Group Artist. He has appeared at festivals and music societies throughout the UK and in major concert halls, including the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall. In July 2012 Huw gave recitals and a concerto performance of Eric Coates’s Saxo Rhapsody in Beijing. Plans for 2014 include a return visit to the Wigmore Hall and the release of a new solo CD with pianist James Sherlock.

Huw also gives regular concerts throughout the UK and abroad with the Ferio Saxophone Quartet.

Tim Abel - Piano

Tim Abel grew up in Retford, Nottinghamshire and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music from 2003-2008 under the tuition of Dina Parakhina. As a student he performed Grieg’s Piano Concerto at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall, won the RNCM John Ireland prize and following a solo recital in Nottingham was awarded the Gwendolyn Reiche Scholarship for postgraduate study.

From 2008-2010 Tim was Junior Fellow in Accompaniment at the RNCM, and has performed at many venues throughout the UK including Wigmore Hall, The Purcell Room and Bridgewater Hall. In recent years he has been a performing artist for the Park Lane Group and Countess of Munster recital schemes, and he has also travelled to Cape Town to be an official accompanist for the International Viola Congress. From 2010-12 Tim was a resident pianist onboard the Queen Mary 2, and since then has made numerous appearances on cruise ships worldwide - most recently for the maiden voyage of P&O's flagship 'Britannia'.

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