Junior RNCM
“Before They Become Famous XVIII”
Another visit by students from the Junior Royal Northern College of Music. See their previous concert in March 2024 for an idea of the sort of entertainment they provide. This season’s students will be different, but the performances promise to be just as exciting.
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Programme (announced on the night)
Millie Huang (harp)
Elias Parish Alvars: Introduction, Cadenza and Rondo
Elia Karim (trumpet) with Pete Durrant (piano)
Kent Kennan: Sonata for Trumpet (ii) Rather Slowly and with Freedom
Leonard Bernstein: Rondo for Lifey
Madeleine North (soprano) with Pete Durrant (piano)
Felix Mendelssohn: O Rest in the Lord
George Frideric Handel: Ah Mio Cor
Eric Thiman: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
James Uttley (violin) with Pete Durrant (piano)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No 8 in G major Op 30 No 3 (i) Allegro assai
INTERVAL
Elia Karim (trumpet) with Pete Durrant (piano)
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (iii) Vivace
James Uttley (violin)
J S Bach: Sonata No 3 for Solo Violin in C major BWV 1005 (iii) Largo
James Uttley (violin) with Pete Durrant (piano)
Fritz Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani
Madeleine North (soprano) with Pete Durrant (piano)
Franz Schubert: An die Musik D547
Franz Schubert: Stanchen D899
Reginald Morgan: Count your Blessings
Millie Huang (harp)
John Parry: Sonata No 1 (i) Allegro
William Mathias: Santa Fe Suite (iii) Sun Dance
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| Millie Huang | Elia Karim |
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| Madeleine North | James Uttley |
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| Pete Durrant |
Brief Report “on the night”
Another splendid concert attended by around 40 people. The highlights (for me personally) were:
- Millie Huang’s opening the concert with Alvars 3 very different movements + her charming Mathias’s “Sun Dance“.
- Elia Karim’s lively rendering of Bernstein’s “Rondo for Lifey“.
- Madeleine North’s enchanting Thiman’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud“.
- James Uttley’s exciting Beethoven Sonata + his magnificent rendering of the Kreisler piece, especially the amazing climax.
Press Report
We have become accustomed to excellent performances by students from the Junior Royal Northern College of Music and this concert was one of the best. The Head of the JRNCM, Aled Tudor, introduced the students and gave an insight into the work of the college and the commitment of the parents. Pete Durrant provided the piano accompaniment where appropriate.
Millie Huang (13) opened the concert with Introduction, Cadenza and Rondo by Elias Parish Alvars. She has already won many competitions playing the harp and it was instantly clear why. What a talent! Later she played the Allegro from John Parry’s first sonata and Sun Dance from the Santa Fe Suite by William Mathias.
We have never seen as many mutes as employed to great effect by Elia Karim (trumpet) in the second movement of Kent Kennan’s sonata. He also gave rousing performances of Rondo for Lifey by Bernstein and the Vivace movement from Neruda’s Trumpet Concerto.
The singer this year was Madeleine North, with a wide range of pieces by Mendelssohn, Handel, Eric Thiman, Schubert and Reginald Morgan, which held the audience spellbound throughout. She had excellent diction, a lovely tone and great control.
James Uttley (16) also grabbed the attention of the audience with commanding performances of movements from Beethoven’s sonata for violin and piano, Opus 30/3 and the sonata for violin BWV1005 by JS Bach. His delivery of Kreisler’s Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani was extraordinary.
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