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Hannah Condliffe is a first class graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, having been awarded a Regency Award, the University of London Scholarship, Paton Award and Nicholas Blake Memorial Prize Scholarship. In 2019, Hannah won the Munster Trust Neil Black Prize, given annually to an outstanding woodwind player.
Hannah has played guest principal oboe with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra and Ulster Orchestra. She also freelances with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Royal Opera House. As a Munster Trust Recital Artist, solo playing also forms a large part of of Hannah’s career; she has performed as a concerto soloist namely with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, also regularly hosting recitals around the UK.
Dominic Doutney has recently graduated from the Royal College of Music, where he was the recipient of the Fishmongers' Company Beckwith Scholarship. At his graduation he was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal, given to two students annually for outstanding contribution to the Royal College.
Dominic was awarded 3rd prize at the Jaén International Piano Competition in Spain in April 2021. In July the same year, he was awarded 1st prize in the Norah Sande Award, and in September, 3rd prize in the Clamo International Piano Competition in Murcia, Spain. Dominic is also the 2020 winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Award for Keyboard. Last summer Dominic attended the Oxford Piano Festival on the personal invitation of Sir Andras Schiff, having played in a highly publicised masterclass with him at the Royal College of Music in May. In the summer of 2019 Dominic studied at the Aspen Festival and School in Colorado, on a Polonsky Foundation Fellowship, having previously taken part in the piano masterclass programme at the Banff Centre in Canada (thanks to the English-Speaking Union’s Yehudi Menuhin scholarship).
Concerto appearances include Brahms 1st concerto with the Malaga Philharmonic and the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra in the Gewandhaus Mendelssohn-Saal, Schumann concerto with the Young Musicians’ Symphony Orchestra at St John’s Smith Square, Beethoven’s 5th with the Dorset Chamber Orchestra, and Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments with the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Martyn Brabbins.
Dominic has made appearances on BBC Radio 3 (performing Chopin and discussing the art of virtuosity) and on CNBC (discussing the experience of participating in a masterclass with Lang Lang).
Programme:
Telemann - Fantasia in A Minor
Telemann’s writing allows for harmony to be created using a single note instrument, playing both the bass line and the melody.
Ravel - Vocalise-étude en forme de Habanera
A slow, sultry étude originally written for Bass voice and piano, this work is regularly played on different instruments and is a bite-sized musical treat.
Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit - Ondine
Gaspard de la nuit evokes poems and drawings by Aloysius Bertrand, and is a fiendish competition piece regularly performed by Dominic.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor arr. Maud Powell - Deep River
Deep River is a slow, beautiful African-American spiritual expressing protest and resistance.
Britten - 2 insect pieces - 1 The Grasshopper, 2 The Wasp
The oboe is the ideal instrument to depict the snappy sounds of the insects with its double reed, in these 2 charming pieces.
Poulenc - Sonata for Oboe and Piano - 1 Elegie, 2 Scherzo, 3 Deploration
A firm favourite of both Hannah’s and the oboe repertoire, Poulenc’s oboe sonata is a beautiful work dedicated to the memory of Prokofiev.
Agrell - Blues for DD
This showstopper compiles swing, latin and jazz in an unexpected work for oboe, different from the rest of the oboe repertoire. Encompassing the oboe's complete range, and a range of extended techniques, Blues is an absolute joy to play.