Luise Adolpha Le Beau Canon
Felix Mendelssohn Trio in C minor
Julia Simpson Curious Music (world premiere)
Melanie Bonis Soir! Matin!
Valerie Capers Portraits Reframed
George Gershwin Summertime (arr. Williams/Taylor-Cohen)
Shirley Turner studied violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Simon Fischer and Yfrah Neaman, winning numerous awards including the Sir James Caird Bloch Prize and the Waddell Memorial Prize. She has played principal second violin with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with the London Mozart Players, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Ulster Orchestra; she has been a first violinist in the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2001. As a chamber musician Shirley has a wide range of interests, from mainstream repertoire to unfamiliar or newly-commissioned works. She has appeared with the Degas Quartet and gives regular recitals throughout the UK of music for violin and viola. She recently featured, briefly, on the album Brief Encounters for Meridian Records. Shirley plays a Luigi Cardi violin from 1886.
Peter Mallinson enjoys both modern and period viola performance. A member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2012, he has also played with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Hanover Band, and Arcangelo. As a soloist Peter has given many first performances, including the UK premiere of Sally Beamish’s That Recent Earth, and the world premieres of Robin Holloway’s Suite en Saga, Edwin Roxburgh’s Sonata for Three, and Detlev Glanert’s The Pleiades. He recently released Brief Encounters with Meridian Records; a two-CD set which explores the notion of brevity in music through the works of 23 different composers. Before studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Martin Outram and Jane Rogers, Peter read music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
Richard Pearce was organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, before studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he now teaches. Richard records and broadcasts with the BBC Singers as organist, pianist, and conductor. He has a long-standing association with the Royal Choral Society, performing with them many times a year at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In December last year he played organ in seventeen Christmas concerts in their Christmas festival. He conducts Romsey Choral Society and Waverley Singers in Farnham, and performed Bach’s St. John Passion and Will Todd’s Mass in Blue with them last season. Richard is regular organist with the Philharmonia and BBC Symphony Orchestras, and plays for the Last Night of the Proms.