Amy Dickson wins Breakthrough Artist award at Classic BRITs 2013 – Amy Dickson News.
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ABC Young Performers Award 2013
Delighted to report the great success of two of our Awardees in the ABC Young Performers Award 2013. The 12 finalists have now been reduced to 6 overnight after outstanding performances from everyone. Two of the remaining finalists on piano are Stefan Cassomenos and Hoang Phan.
Stefan has performed for the TMT in London at 49 Queen’s Gate Terrace and for the TPAA at the Savage Club twice and Hoang has also performed as part of the Melbourne Piano Trio and was awarded our prize last year when he studied at the Royal College of Music in London.
The next round is Chamber Music & will take place on Wednesday 9th October at the Iwaki Auditorium and Stefan or Hoang will then proceed to the final which takes place on Saturday evening 12th October at 7pm with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and recorded on ABC FM.
The prize money for this year is:
Best Recital Prize – $5,000
Best Chamber Music Performance Prize – $5,000
People’s Choice Prize – $5,000
Best Performance of an Australian Work Prize – $5,000
Concerto Finalist Prize x 2 (runners-up) – $7,500
Young Performer of the Year – $25,000
After two days and four concerts to hear each competitor play a recital program, the following six have been chosen to go through to the next round.
Concert 1
1pm, Wednesday 9 October, Iwaki Auditorium
Grace Clifford (violin) performing the Brahms Piano Trio in C minor Op 101
Andrew Kawai (oboe) performing the Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K 370
Stefan Cassomenos (piano) performing the Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 49
Concert 2
7pm, Wednesday 9 October, Iwaki Auditorium
Harry Ward (violin) performing the Brahms Piano Trio in C minor Op 101
Hoang Pham (piano) performing the Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 49
Jonathon Ramsay (euphonium) performing the Brahms Horn Trio Op 40
The adjudicators are Ian Munro, Barbara Jane Gilby, Catherine McCorkill and chair of the panel is Huw Humphreys. Both of these concerts will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM. Tickets are free and available at the door an hour prior to each concert.
Catch up on recitals from round one via the individual competitor, or listen to the entire concerts for Day 1and Day 2.
You can read about the performers and follow their progress on the website: http://symphonyinternational.net.
We wish both of them Toi Toi Toi!!!
Stop Press – Tait Winter Prom Raffle and Online Sales
This year’s prize is a long weekend stay (Thursday to Monday between December ’13- May ’14) in The Fiougiere, a charming country house in Provence near the village of Correns. The house sleeps six, has a swimming pool, plenty of small ‘basins’ to paddle in and a river running through the property, great for walks and picnicsetc… Tickets are £20 and can be purchased online before the concert. For details please see below.
Online sales
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Ruthless Jabiru to play at the Union Chapel. October 14. Maralinga with Lara St John
A message from Kelly Lovelady
I very much hope you’ll be free to join me for my next performance on Monday 14 October at the Union Chapel in Islington. I will be conducting my orchestra Ruthless Jabiru and internationally-acclaimed violinist Lara St. John in a London tribute to Maralinga.
I hope our concert will raise awareness of the injustice that has happened at Maralinga over the years. I’m working to create as much dialogue around the event as I can on Facebook and Twitter so I hope you’ll consider sharing details of the concert with friends and family. You can also show your support and+Follow our blog to receive updates by email.
Advance tickets can be bought through the Buy Now link on our website. I’m also selling groups of 20 and 50 tickets at a reduced price, please contact me to take up this offer for your organisation. It would be a pleasure to welcome you to the Union Chapel on 14 October.
Lara St. John violin
Kelly Lovelady conductor
London’s all-Australian chamber orchestra, Ruthless Jabiru, and guest artist Lara St. John perform a concert tribute to the complex history of the Maralinga land in remote South Australia. Maralinga was chosen as a site for undercover British nuclear testing in the 1950s and 60s, leaving the area heavy with radioactive waste and thousands of Indigenous people and servicemen affected, both British and Australian. A musical programme by Matthew Hindson, Paul Stanhope, Linda Buckley, Arvo Pärt and Samuel Barber evokes the loss and the chemical strangeness which has become integral to the Maralinga landscape.
Monday 14 October, 7:30pm
Union Chapel, Islington N1, entrance on Upper Street
Tickets £16 advance / £18 door
Tait Winter Prom 2013
We have added a link to purchase tickets online via ticketsource.
“Fear in a handful of dust”: the legacy of Maralinga
We are sharing this post because we believe that Ruthless Jabiru are performing a work which has great significance to us all. The article written by Dr Liz Tynan is beautifully written and captures the madness of the time.
Ruthless Jabiru and Lara St. John perform Maralinga Lament at the Union Chapel, London at 19:30 on 14 October.
Tickets are £16 advance from the Union Chapel online store or £18 at the door.
Tait Winter Prom 2013
We look forward to hearing Dame Gillian Weir, Primavera Shima, Travis Baker and the lovely Valda Wilson again at the 2013 Winter Prom at Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, Chelsea 26 November 2013.
This concert was completely arranged by John Amis. The notes, the artists and the concept was all John’s work.
The concert will be dedicated to his memory.
John Amis – A Concert in Celebration, October 8th 2013 at St Paul’s Knightsbridge
We all hope you can come to the John Amis Concert on 8th October at St Paul’s Knightsbridge at 12 noon. The concert has been developed with the assistance of Isla Baring, Michael Rose, Steuart Bedford and Denis Moriarty and will be a fitting celebration of his life and work. Please come … and in the spirit of John, colourful clothing and flamboyant dress will be the order of the day!
We are delighted to announce that the Faust Ensemble, an exciting new chamber orchestra in London, founded by conductor Mark Austin, will be playing. One of John’s oldest friends, Steuart Bedford , who recently conducted Grimes on the Beach as part of the Aldeburgh Festival, has graciously agreed to conduct the Britten Tippett and Walton, Aldeburgh Variations and the Grainger, Handel in the Strand with Jayson Gillham playing the fiendishly difficult piano part. Mark Austin, will conduct the Britten, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal with the young Australian tenor, Christopher Diffey This song was removed from the famous, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings for no other reason than the composer wished to have one poem from each poet in his cycle. A condition for public performance is that it may only be done on its own. The song was first recorded by Steuart Bedford in 1987. Mark will also conduct the trio from Cosi fan tutte, Soave sia il vento with Elena Xanthoudakis, Lauren Fagan and Morgan Pearse and will conduct Lauren Fagan in Handel’s Largo, Ombra mai fu.
Elena will also sing one of John’s favourite songs, L’invitation au voyage by Duparc accompanied by Mark Austin on the piano. A treat will be to hear celebrated flautist, Phillippa Davies playing a flute sonata by Poulenc accompanied by Jan Willem Neileke, piano
The concert will include memories of John by old friends and colleagues, David Cairns CBE and former head of Dartington, Gavin Henderson CBE. The Trogs, the administrative staff at Dartington, will be represented by Jeremy Barker,. Recordings of John singing with Donald Swann will delight and show the lighter side to one of the great men of modern British music.
JOHN AMIS
A CONCERT IN CELEBRATION
Salut d’amour (Elgar): whistled by John Amis Amiscellany CD
Sonata for flute and piano (Poulenc): Philippa Davies, flute & Jan Willem Neileke, piano
David Cairns CBE
L’invitation au voyage (Duparc): Elena Xanthoudakis, soprano & Mark Austin, piano
Ombra mai fù (Handel): Lauren Fagan, soprano & Faust Ensemble cond. by Mark Austin
Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (Sellenger’s Round) -Variations 2,4 & 6 (Tippett, Britten & Walton): Faust Ensemble cond. Steuart Bedford
Handel in the Strand (Grainger): Jayson Gillham, piano & Faust Ensemble cond. Steuart Bedford
Now sleeps the crimson petal (Britten): Christopher Diffey & Faust Ensemble cond. Mark Austin
Soave sia il vento from Così fan tutte (Mozart): Elena Xanthoudakis, Lauren Fagan & Morgan Pearse, with Faust Ensemble cond. Mark Austin
Gavin Henderson CBE
Bilbo’s last song (Swann): John Amis & Donald Swann Amiscellany CD
Trogs of Dartington
Yes we have no bananas: John Amis My Music tape, CD
Tutto nel mondo è burla from Falstaff (Verdi): London Symphony Orchestra & cast cond. Sir Colin Davis CD
John Amis has left a remarkable archive of interviews – more than 500 – with some of the most famous and influential musicians of our age – including Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Myra Hess, Earl Wild, Sergiu Celibidache, Percy Grainger, Leopold Stokowski and many many more… Broadcaster and musical polymath John Amis celebrated his 90th birthday with a retrospective on his career broadcast on BBC Radio 3. After turning pages for Myra Hess as a youth and his early years as a concert manager for Sir Thomas Beecham, to organising the Summer School of Music with William Glock at Dartington, and his many, many links and associations with some of the most important names in music in the post war years, Amis enjoys an astonishingly comprehensive artistic legacy – something he has succesfully shared over forty years as a much loved broadcaster. He is fondly remembered as a presenter of several music magazine programmes on BBC radio, and as a panellist on the television and radio quiz show, “My Music”. His extensive BBC archive of his many interviews, includes Britten reading a letter he wrote to Tippett, Earl Wild on improvisation, Frankie Howerd on his musical roles, Percy Grainger on folk music, and much much more.
Related articles
- Genial John has died and, with him, a gentle era (artsjournal.com)
- An interview with: Jayson Gillham (2mfblog.wordpress.com)
- John Amis (telegraph.co.uk)
- John Amis obituary (theguardian.com)
John Amis
The funeral is over and he is laid to rest in Aldeburgh, not far from Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Imogen Holst. The last few days have been a wonderful celebration of the life of John Amis, due to the love and support of his many friends the services were very special and … unforgettable.
Thank you so much to you all for the touching messages of love and support. John was a remarkable man, an irreplaceable man who I will never forget. I was blessed to have eight happy years with him. Over the coming months the Trust will celebrate his life with the John Amis – A Concert in Celebration and the Tait Winter Prom on November 26th and a new award, the John Amis Award., more below.
The funeral for John was held at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in London on Tuesday 20th August led by John’s old friend, The Reverend John Wates. A witty eulogy from John’s long time friend, and former BBC colleague, Humphrey Burton and memories from another dear friend, Michael Rose were a welcome respite from the grief most of us have been experiencing these past few weeks.
Joanna McCallum; daughter of founding Tait Trust Patrons, Googie Withers and John McCallum, and now a member of the TMT committee, read:
Reading – Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
Joanna McCallum
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to gain, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace.
Dame Felicity Lott sang a song which was very dear to John, ‘Beim Schlafengehen‘, one of Strauss’ four last songs, accompanied beautifully by Graham Johnson. This was a particularly poignant moment as Dame Felicity visited John near to his death and sang some songs quietly into his ear. Her singing of the Strauss was an unforgettable moment in the service. If John was writing this I am sure he would find a way to better express the joy that she shared with the congregation and most especially to John’s partner, Isla Baring.
A lovely recording of John singing, Bilbo’s Song by Donald Swann, was played with his dear friend, Donald Swann singing in harmony and accompanying and a hauntingly beautiful 1927 recording of, The Power of Love by Percy Grainger with the pure tones of Anita Atwater, soprano and Percy Grainger accompanying on the harmonium and Ralph Leopold piano.
The service ended with Steal Away, the famous Negro spiritual arranged by Michael Tippett from ‘A Child Of Our Time’ sung beautifully by, The Choir of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate led by Andrew Earis, Director of Music .
On Wednesday at St Peter and St Paul Church, Aldeburgh a short service was held with a reflection on John’s life by conductor, Steuart Bedford and Humphrey Burton again provided the Eulogy before the committal. This service was marked by the recordings of John whistling and being back in his spiritual home the service had an added colour.
To read the order of service of John’s funeral please download it here
John Amis Memorial Concert, October 8th 2013, St Paul’s Knightsbridge
We all hope you can come to the Memorial Concert on 8th October at St Paul’s Knightsbridge. The concert is being developed with the assistance of Michael Rose and will be a fitting celebration of his life and work. Please watch this space. Artists and the concert repertoire is being confirmed and the theme will most definitely be as broad as the tastes for which John Amis was justly famous. Flanders and Swann to Mahler, Percy Grainger, Wagner and of course Britten and Tippett….plus?
John Amis Award
As we look back at John Amis’ funeral on Tuesday 20th August the idea of a legacy, a tangible way to remember John, has been at the forefront of our thoughts. He was a man of rare talent, and was an inspiration to so many and his life deserves to be fully celebrated.
For the last six years of his life John was a Patron and an active supporter of the Tait Memorial Trust, arranging many successful and popular events and working tirelessly to further the Trust’s work. In recognition of his substantial contribution, Isla Baring OAM, Chairman of the Trust, wishes to create an Award in his honour to be called the John Amis Award.
We have created a JustGiving page in the name of John Amis which is attached to the main TMT JustGiving page. Any money donated via John’s page will go directly to fund this new award. We are delighted to report that the fund has got off to a good start with the generous donations made at John’s funeral and at his committal in Aldeburgh.
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Save the Date – Tait Winter Prom 2013
We look forward to hearing Dame Gillian Weir, Primavera Shima, Travis Baker and the lovely Valda Wilson again at the 2013 Winter Prom at Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, Chelsea 26 November 2013.
This concert was completely arranged by John Amis. The notes, the artists and the concept was all John’s work. It will be dedicated to his memory.
Below are some photos of John Amis from 2013
Tait Memorial Trust website
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Related articles
- John Amis – Critic, Broadcaster and Patron of the TMT (taitmemorialtrust.wordpress.com)
- John Amis: Music critic and broadcaster who graced radio’s ‘My Music’ for two decades (independent.co.uk)
- A Farewell to John Amis (taitmemorialtrust.wordpress.com)
- John Amis (telegraph.co.uk)
- John Preston Amis ( 17 June 1922 – 1 August 2013 ) (taitmemorialtrust.wordpress.com)
- Genial John has died and, with him, a gentle era (artsjournal.com)
- John Amis obituary (theguardian.com)
- Jayson Gillham to play for Tait Performing Arts Association (taitmemorialtrust.wordpress.com)