• 7th Jun 2022
  • 1:00pm
  • £0.00

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Programme
Vinter – Hunter’s Moon (6’) 
Damase – Pavane Vairee (4’)
Draeseke – Adagio (8’)
Jane Vignery – Horn Sonata (18’) 
I. Allegro  II. Lento ma non troppo III. Allegro ben moderato 
Street/Tweed – Epilogue (4’)
 
Zoë Tweed
Zoë began playing the French Horn aged 10 and was a specialist musician at Wells Cathedral School for 7 years, learning with Simon de Souza. She won the WCS Concerto Competition in her final year and was awarded the opportunity to perform Franz Strauss Horn Concerto with the WCS Symphony Orchestra. She has  also performed as a soloist with the orchestra of European Youth Summer Music and Mill Hill Music Club.
She studied her undergraduate degree at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is also currently undertaking an intensive postgraduate degree, and is taught by Martin Owen, Michael Thompson, Richard Watkins and David Pyatt. Zoë is currently on trial for Principal Horn with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and performs with various orchestras across the UK including working as Guest Principal with the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra. She has also performed with London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.  Zoë has a passion for chamber music and is part of London based wind quintet, Sylva Winds. Sylva Winds won the Nicholas Blake Woodwind Ensemble Prize 2020 at the Royal Academy of Music, and were joint winners of the RAM Digital Chamber Music Competition in 2021, for which Zoë composed, mixed and edited their winning entry, “Jabberwocky”. 
Zoë was the recipient of the Sir Elton John Scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music during her undergraduate degree, and her postgraduate is generously supported by the Craxton Memorial Trust and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. This year she is a Brass Fellow with the The Philharmonia MMSF Instrumental Fellowship Programme.     
The MMSF Horn Fellow is supported by the Oliver Green Memorial Trust. 
The MMSF Instrumental Fellowship Programme is supported by the Eranda Rothschild Foundation, The Sidney Perry Foundation, The Oliver Green Memorial Trust, The Emanuel Hurwitz Charitable Trust.
Edward Leung
Lauded as one of 2016 Incredibly Impressive Students at Princeton University’ by Business Insider, American pianist Edward Leung has performed in concert halls across North America, Europe, and Asia. Most recently, he won First Prize and the Felix Marr Award at the 2021 Stratford and East London Music Festival. As a member of the Kapoor-Leung Duo with violinist Usha Kapoor, Edward is the winner of the 2020 Tunnell Trust Awards, and joined the 2020 – 2021 Chamber Studio scheme as the first ensemble to be mentored by Tasmin Little. Highlights of the 2019 – 2020 season included performances with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Stephen Mulligan, and solo recitals at Cranleigh Arts Centre and Steinway Hall, London. He  as won all the major prizes at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
“Superlatives are inadequate in response to the recital by Edward Leung … Here was an exceptional pianist” ~ Newport Adviser 
 “a name to watch … Edward displayed a virtuosic technique coupled to a profound musicianship” ~ Malvern Gazette  
 “a very heated totally committed performance that took us all by storm and of course won him quite rightly the zizzling jackpot. It has all the makings of a great interpretation” ~ Christopher Axworthy  
Zoe and Edward appear courtesy of the Philharmonia Orchestra LOGO The MMSF Horn Fellow is supported by the Oliver Green Memorial Trust.  The MMSF Instrumental Fellowship Programme is supported by the Eranda Rothschild Foundation, The Sidney Perry Foundation, The Oliver Green Memorial Trust, The Emanuel Hurwitz Charitable Trust.
 
This concert is supported by Informed Choice Financial Planning 
 
Lunchtime Concerts at Cranleigh Arts
Enjoy fine chamber music during daylight hours in our series of monthly lunchtime concerts. These performances offer a vibrant selection of performances by young international professionals in the intimate setting of our Jack Wagg auditorium. Seating will be informal and unallocated, and performances around 40 minutes long. 
 
Cranleigh Arts is a charitable community arts venue. We are delighted to present this series of live performance for the enjoyment of all. If you wish to support our work, you are invited to give generously by means of retiring collection in the auditorium in favour of Cranleigh Arts (reg charity no. 284186) or via the website https://cranleigharts.org/donations/ 




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