Concerts & Events

The Pixels Ensemble

Sophie Rosa (violin), Jonathan Aasgaard (cello) and Ian Buckle (piano).

This is a dinner and concert evening starting at 6.30 pm with dinner followed by the first part - intermission and dessert - final recital. £45.00 per guest includes both recital and dinner. Booking essential owing to limited seating.

Programme to be confirmed

Sophie Rosa first garnered attention after winning the Second Prize and Audience Prize at the 2nd Manchester International Violin Competition 2011. She has performed across the UK as a recitalist in venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall and Bridgewater Hall.

Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard studied the cello at the Barratt Dues School of Music in Oslo with Bjørn Solum. Jonathan won all the cello and chamber music prizes and was a Gold Medal finalist. He received his recital Award in 1998 together with a medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. In 1999 he was appointed principal cello of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and has since performed more than 25 works for cello and orchestra with the RLPO.

Ian Buckle maintains a varied freelance career working as soloist, accompanist, chamber musician, orchestral pianist and teacher. He enjoys longstanding associations with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

Proggrame

Friedrich Gernsheim - Sonata in C minor, op 4 for violin and piano

      1. Andante con moto

      2. Allegretto scherzando

      3. Allegro

Francis Poulenc - Sonata for cello and piano

      1. Allegro - Tempo di marcia

      2. Cavatine

      3. Ballabile

      4. Finale

interval

Franz Schubert - Trio in E flat, D929

      1. Allegro

      2. Andante con moto

      3. Scherzo: Allegro moderato

      4. Allegro moderato

Hatty Haynes Violin and Charlie Woof-Byrne Piano

This is a dinner and concert evening starting at 6.30 pm with dinner followed by the first part - intermission and dessert - final recital. £40.00 per guest includes both recital and dinner. Booking essential owing to limited seating.

Programme

Programme

Schubert Violin Sonata Op.137 No.3 in G minor D.408

Clara Schumann Three Romances Op.22

Lili Boulanger Deux Morceaux

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Brahms Sonata No.2 in A major Op.100

Debussy Violin Sonata

Hatty Haynes is a violinist enjoying a varied musical life performing as a recitalist, chamber musician and orchestral player on both modern and historical instruments. She has performed extensively throughout the UK at venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, BBC Proms, IMS Prussia Cove, Salzburg Festival, Berlin Philharmonie, Lake District Summer Music, Buxton and Highgate Festivals. She has played with artists such as Alexander Melnikov, Andrew Marriner, Levon Chilingirian and Milos Karadaglic. Hatty is a member of the 1st violin section of the London Mozart players, and regularly plays with ensembles including La Serenissima, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Jess Gillam Ensemble, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, 12 ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Royal Northern Sinfonia and London Symphony Orchestra. She is also the violinist in Trio Cordiera, a piano trio studying with Catherine Manson and Christoph Richter on the Chamberstudio scheme.

During her studies, Hatty was awarded the J&A Beare Bow prize which is awarded annually to the most promising graduating student in the strings department. She was also the recipient of numerous awards including the Waddell Prize, John Waterhouse Prize, Amadeus Prize, Sir John Barbirolli Prize and the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize

Charlie Woof-Byrne is an acclaimed chamber pianist based in London. He is in demand playing with both instrumentalists and singers, and has performed at many

prestigious UK venues including Kings Place, St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Purcell Room, St Georges’ Bristol, St James’ Piccadilly, Milton Court, and the Bristol

Beacon.

In 2024 he was invited by Iain Burnside and Rebecca Nicholls to be a Chamber Soloist at the St Endellion Summer Festival in Cornwall where he performed with

esteemed instrumentalists including Thomas Bowes (Maggini Quartet, LMP), Joely Koos (ESO) and Lynsey Marsh (Hallé Orchestra Principal). He also performed Lied

and English Song with highly acclaimed singers including Elizabeth Watts (ROH), Gareth Brynmor John (WNO), Felicity Buckland (ENO) and Isabelle Peters (ENO).

He has subsequently been invited back for the 2025 season, and has also been invited to play with the London Conchord Ensemble.

Charlie was invited by Graham Johnson to be part of the Song Guild 2024, and was the sole recipient of the Paul Hamburger Award for Outstanding Pianism, for his interpretation of Wolf Lieder at Milton Court Hall, London. Other recent awards include the Dennis Horner Accompanist Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Society 2024.

Graham Caskie Piano and Thomas Carroll Cello

This is a dinner and concert evening starting at 6.30 pm with dinner followed by the first part - intermission and dessert - final recital. £45.00 per guest includes both recital and dinner. Booking essential owing to limited seating.

Programme to include Brahms Sonata in F and Rachmaninov Sonata

Thomas Carroll Cello

Described by The Strad as a player of ‘authority and passion, with an unerring sense of direction, full of colour and underpinned by a clear musical intelligence’, Welsh cellist Thomas Carroll launched his career when he won both Young Concert Artists Trust, London and Young Concert Artists, New York, following on from many prizes at numerous international competitions. He has since gone on to give critically acclaimed debut recitals at Wigmore Hall (London), Alice Tully Hall (NY) Konzerthaus (Vienna) and in Boston, California, Florida and Washington DC, as well performing in many major venues and festivals across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and America.

As a concerto soloist Thomas has appeared with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Mozart Players, Royal and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Heinrich Schiff), English Chamber Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra.

Graham Caskie Piano

Internationally acclaimed pianist Graham Caskie is renowned particularly for his interpretations of piano music by Brahms and Debussy. Recitals have included most works by Debussy including both books of Preludes, and pieces by Brahms such as the Sonatas, the complete Klavierstücke and chamber music works. He is a keen advocate of contemporary music, jazz, ragtime and improvisation, commissioning several works from leading composers including Stephen Goss, Matthew King, John Cooney and Marcel Baudet.