Friday 13 December 2024
6:00pm John McCabe Book Launch Reception
6:30pm - 7:30pm Free Violin/Viola, Recorder, and Piano Recital with Benedict Holland, John Turner, and Harvey Davies
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Time and Location:
Friday 13 December, 6:00 PM doors open for John McCabe book launch reception in the sheet music department (refreshments provided).
6:30 - 7:30 PM Recital in 1st floor piano showroom.
Forsyth Music Shop, 126 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2GR
Booking:
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Entry is free, but spaces are limited. Reserve your spot to ensure entry. Any queries please email [email protected] or phone 0161 834 3281 ext 100.
About The Event:
We are delighted to welcome back the wonderful trio of Benedict Holland (violin/viola), John Turner (recorder), and Harvey Davies (piano) to play a wide-ranging programme, including works by John McCabe.
Tonight we will also be launching the recently published book of letters to/from John McCabe that his widow Monica has lovingly compiled: *So Written to After-Times*. It will be a fantastic opportunity to hear more about this fascinating book, purchase copies, and hear his music alongside a varied programme of other pieces.
Learn more about this Forsyth publication and purchase it via our website here.
Recital Programme:
Domestic Life (recorder and piano)
About the Performers:
Ben Holland
Benedict Holland studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Manoug Parikian and was subsequently a prize winner at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Yossi Zivoni.
As a chamber musician, he was a founder member of the Matisse Piano Quartet and the Music Group of Manchester, broadcasting regularly for the BBC, recording, and undertaking British Council tours. He is currently a member of virtuoso ensemble I Musicanti and of the Victoria String Quartet whose acclaimed début concert took place in 2017. As an experienced orchestral leader, he has guest-led many of the UK’s major orchestras, including the Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Orchestra of Opera North and BBC Philharmonic and was leader and Artistic Advisor of chamber orchestra, Sinfonia Vivia from 2001-2019.
Ben has always been a champion of contemporary music and of working with living composers and has been contemporary ensemble, Psappha’s violinist (and occasional violist) since 2010. Highlights with Psappha have included working with the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, taking Klas Torstensson’s Violin Concerto to a two-week residency at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, premiering Mark Simpson’s chamber opera Pleasure, and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Black Milk.
Ben has always put teaching at the heart of his work, at the RNCM where he was awarded a professorship in 2016. He also teaches a class of talented young violinists at the Junior RNCM gives consultative classes in orchestral and contemporary techniques at Birmingham and Trinity Laban Conservatoires and professional development lessons and classes throughout the UK.
Ben’s violin is a rare Rogeri, c. 1710.
John Turner
John Turner is one of the leading recorder players of today. Born in Stockport, he was Senior Scholar in Law at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge before pursuing a legal career, acting for many distinguished musicians and musical organisations (including the Halle Orchestra, the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain), alongside his many musical activities. These included numerous appearances and recordings with David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London, the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the English Baroque Soloists. He now devotes his time to playing, writing, reviewing, publishing, composing and generally energising. He has played as recorder soloist with the Hallé Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, the English Baroque Soloists, the English Chamber Orchestra, and many other leading orchestras and ensembles. Concertos and works with orchestra have been written for him by Gordon Crosse, Anthony Gilbert, Peter Hope, Kenneth Leighton, Elis Pehkonen, Alan Bullard, John Casken, and many other distinguished composers.
Harvey Davies
Harvey is a well-known pianist based in Manchester. He is director of The Pleyel Ensemble, a chamber group with its own concert series in Didsbury. The Ensemble celebrated its 10th Anniversary last year. The Pleyels were Making Music Featured Artists for 2019/20 for the second time in three years and have recently completed a major project with the MPR label to record a world première four-CD set of the chamber music of the English composer Arnold Cooke.
Harvey is a Fellow in Historical Performance and staff pianist at the RNCM from where he was awarded a PhD in 2022 for his work on the chamber music of Arnold Cooke. He is the harpsichordist in Manchester Baroque and, as a pianist, has collaborated with many eminent musicians including the Alberni, Benyounes, Callino and Carducci Quartets, Atar Arad, Alison Balsom, James Bowman, Rebecca Evans, James Gilchrist, Guy Johnston, Jennifer Pike and Elena Urioste.