Saturday 15th March 2025

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.

Here is a PDF of the Poster for this Concert (click to VIEW or right click to SAVE). Please feel free to print and display the poster to help publicise this concert.

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

Millie Huang Elia Karim
Madeleine North James Uttley
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“.
  • Kent Kennan’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.
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