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Music for Summer Afternoons: Ivel Trio
Letchworth Festival – Music for Summer Afternoons
Ivel Trio
Programme:
- Beethoven – Trio Op.11
- Ethel Barns – Idylle, Capricieuse
- Robert Schumann – Phantasiestücke Op.88
- Peter Martin – Cakewalk, Paso Doble and Rumba
Tickets: £15 for adults, £5 for students and under 18s
Available on the door and from Ticket Source
Ivel Trio
Jill Morton An accomplished performer, Jill has appeared as a concerto soloist with orchestras throughout Britain and has been heard on BBC Radio’s Friday Night is Music Night as soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Beyond performance, Jill is a dedicated educator, serving as a Principal Tutor for the Piano Teachers’ Course UK, the country’s leading pedagogical programme, where she delivers lectures and mentors both aspiring and experienced piano teachers. Her expertise is widely sought after, and she is frequently invited to give masterclasses and adjudicate competitions. She is also a tutor for the Summer School for Pianists and Pianissimi courses.
Jill also has a popular YouTube channel featuring repertoire from the ABRSM and Trinity graded music syllabuses, as well as other piano repertoire, which has received over 3 million views. She teaches at the Perse School in Cambridge and is the founder of Encore! Concerts for All, Big and Small, a concert series designed to introduce preschool children and their carers to the excitement of live music.
Katie Wilkinson Katie was born in Oxfordshire in 1964 and started playing the violin at the age of 5. She transferred to the viola a few years later and studied with Margaret Major at the Royal College of Music . From 1983 – 1999 she was a member of the acclaimed Brindisi Quartet with whom she performed extensively at major festivals and concert halls throughout Europe and the US.
From 2006 – 2018 she was in the Balanescu Quartet with whom she performed internationally . Katie presently combines a commercial session, chamber music and solo career. Notable film scores in which Katie participated include several of the James Bond franchise, Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings and Wicked to name but a few. Katie also recorded for numerous pop artists including Oasis, Spice Girls, The Verve, Amy Winehouse, Madonna and her particular favourite , The Cure.
Catherine Wilmers’s CD (A Cello Century of British Women Composers), of lovely but neglected works for cello and piano by British women composers from 1894-1994 was released worldwide by ASV. It received the rare gold award from the French recordings magazine “Diapason”.
Her next CD: A Cello Galaxy of British Women Composers, 1899-1999, with Jill, is now available worldwide on CD and Spotify etc. The British Music Society says, ‘Go and search for this enterprising and very enjoyable disc’. There are 12 premiere recordings and lots of beautiful neglected music!
She was awarded a Wigmore Hall debut recital by the Incorporated Society of Musicians. For ten years sub-principal cellist in the London Philharmonic Orchestra, she particularly enjoyed recording music for Lord of the Rings, Porgy and Bess with Sir Simon Rattle and Mahler Symphonies with Klaus Tennstedt and was invited to teach Sir Georg Solti’s daughter. She gave concerts with top conductors all over the world, including eight visits to Japan.
“Catherine is a strong and communicative player who looks as if she enjoys being on the platform.” The Guardian
“An eminently serious, musicianly artist” The Times