about this event
Beautiful melodies to relax and inspire you for the New Year.Folk style pieces from Dvorak’s ‘Dumky’ trio, the sublime ‘Andante’ from Schubert’s Bb major trio, Viennese dances by Kreisler, Amy Beach’s ‘Invocation’ and ‘Tango’ by Albeniz, performed by three international musicians. Katherine, Jennifer and Ilana have been enjoying working together since 2019. Katherine is a member of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and we welcome her to Cranleigh Arts to join Jennifer and Ilana as they return with this fresh programme.
Katherine Wilson (violin)
Born in New Zealand, Kathy Wilson won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Hugh Maguire and Manoug Parikian. A highly experienced orchestral player, she first joined the English National Opera Orchestra before moving to the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Subsequently, for many happy years, Kathy has been a member of the First Violin section of the Royal Opera House Orchestra. She has enjoyed playing under conductors such as Georg Solti, Bernard Haitink, Simon Rattle, Andrij Nelsons and Antonio Pappano and regularly works with the world’s finest singers. With the ROH, Kathy has toured to Japan, USA, Italy, Germany and Finland. In her free time she enjoys playing chamber music, cycling around London and visiting the various chamber music festivals where her son, also a violinist, is playing.
Jennifer Janse(cello)
Jennifer read music at Selwyn College, Cambridge before winning several scholarships to study the cello at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2002 Jennifer became an Associate of the RAM, an honour given to musicians who have achieved distinction in the profession. For more than 20 years Jennifer performed, broadcast and recorded with her chamber ensemble, The Musicke Companye, and as an orchestral musician she has played for many orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the period instrument ensembles The King's Consort and The Sixteen. Jennifer was principal cellist of Northern Ballet and the European Baroque Orchestra. As well as her private teaching practice, she teaches cello at Cranleigh School.
Ilana Mordkovitch-Roos (piano) was born in Odessa, USSR (now Ukraine), the 3rd generation of musicians who were influential in the musical and cultural life of the city and she attended a specialist Central Music School for talented children. Ilana emigrated from the Soviet Union with her family in 1974 and continued her musical education here in the UK. She studied with Professor Sulamita Aronovsky at The Royal Northern College of Music and completed her graduate education at The Royal College of Music, London with Professor Irina Zaritskaya. After an extended break from performance due to illness and then to raise her children, Ilana has gone back to performing - playing chamber music in recitals and supporting instrumentalists in competitions and master classes. Ilana also has a strong interest in music education and has been teaching for more than 40 years.