Chamber Music Showcase at The Menuhin Hall, Cobham on Monday 11th December 2023

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Chamber Music Showcase

Part of the The Yehudi Menuhin School - Autumn/Winter 2023/24 Season

Add to my Calendar 11-12-2023 19:30 11-12-2023 21:30 36 Chamber Music Showcase As the School launches its first study Composition programme this September, we are delighted to appoint Sally Beamish OBEas our first Composer in Residence. Not only one of the UK’s leading composers, but also an immensely accomplished violist and chamber musician, Beamish will join us on stage to perform her Partita for String Octet with our pupils. Framing the work, we will have arrangements of a selection of Debussy Preludes by pupils of the School. To close the evening, we will present the two-piano arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances Op 45, his last major work and, through its sentiment, its energy, and its kaleidoscope of quotations, a powerful summary of a life in music.  Preceding the concert, Sally Beamish will join us for an interview to talk about her work as a composer and performer.  Running time: 90 minutes plus interval The Menuhin Hall, Cobham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Menuhin Hall
The Yehudi Menuhin School
Stoke Road
Stoke D'Abernon
Cobham
Surrey
KT11 3QQ
England

Monday 11th December 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Claude Debussy – Des pas sur la neige (arr. by pupils of The Yehudi Menuhin School)
Sergei Rachmaninov – Symphonic Dances, Op.45
Sally Beamish – Partita for String Octet

Performers

Yehudi Menuhin School

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Programme Note

As the School launches its first study Composition programme this September, we are delighted to appoint Sally Beamish OBE
as our first Composer in Residence. Not only one of the UK’s leading composers, but also an immensely accomplished violist and chamber musician, Beamish will join us on stage to perform her Partita for String Octet with our pupils. Framing the work, we will have arrangements of a selection of Debussy Preludes by pupils of the School. To close the evening, we will present the two-piano arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances Op 45, his last major work and, through its sentiment, its energy, and its kaleidoscope of quotations, a powerful summary of a life in music.

Preceding the concert, Sally Beamish will join us for an interview to talk about her work as a composer and performer.

Running time: 90 minutes plus interval

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