• Novelist Paul Haworth reads from his new novel “Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere”
• Salonnière Michael Hutchinson leads the debate on “Opera: Alive or Dead?” and is joined by special guest panellists the ENO’s Chris Calvert and opera enthusiast and raconteur Oli Jones
• The Sforzando House Band, lead by William Imbert, plays extracts from Schubert and Westlake
Our hosts, Lo & Behold, have an exhibition on so you’ll also be treated to a bit of art too: http://goo.gl/gS05q
Paul Haworth is currently working on his third novel, Jonny on a Chorizo, which will be published through TRUE TRUE TRUE, Amsterdam. His poetry has appeared in Linear Manual and he has made a hip-hop EP with Sam de Groot which is coming out summer 2012. He lives in London. See www.homelovin.co.uk
THE SFORZANDO SALON HOUSE BAND:
William Imbert:
William Imbert started the cello at the age of twelve and obtained a diploma from Aix-en-Provence conservatoire at the age of 16. William was awarded a full scholarship to study with Jerome Pernoo at the Royal College of Music as an undergraduate. During this time William has been able to participate in some major international music courses where he has followed the advice of world famous cellists such as Franz Helmerson, Arto Noras and Natalya Gutmann.
William has a keen interest in contemporary music which has led to him giving world premiere performances of works by composers such as Yann Robin and Francois Rossé. This year William is involved in the Elliot Carter festival in London and will be performing his Cello Sonata (1948).
In the summer of 2008 William was invited as a principal cellist for the Bordeaux festival orchestra, lead by Maxim Vengerov, and was several times principal cello for the RCM orchestra. William has recently been accepted on to the postgraduate course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he will study with Louise Hopkins.
He plays on a cello made by Joseph Hell (1889).
Laura Lutzke:
Violinist Laura Lutzke enjoys a musically versatile career, with a passion for solo playing, chamber music and new ways of making music. Born and raised in New York, she served as Concertmaster of the New York Youth Symphony from 2004 to 2007. Her playing has been described as “liquid, radiant and shimmering, with beautifully played solo lines” by “The New York Times”. As a soloist, Laura has performed with the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra in Philadelphia, the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Symphony, and most recently with the Santa Fe Pro Musica chamber orchestra in New Mexico. She has given recitals on the Belz-Parker Artists Ascending concert series in Memphis, Tennessee, at the Bowdoin, Caramoor, Great Mountains and Holland Music Sessions international music festivals, the Juilliard School, Kent State University, Klavierhaus in New York City, The Lausanne Academy, the Wave Hill Mansion in Riverdale, NY, and at Weill Recital Hall. As an avid chamber musician, Laura was one of the “Rising Stars” at the Caramoor International Music Festival, collaborating with artists such as Atar Arad, Pamela Frank and Arnold Steinhardt. In the summer of 2012, she will be a Bowdoin Virtuoso at the Bowdoin International Music festival, performing and teaching alongside musicians such as Frank Huang, Lewis Kaplan, Kurt Muroki and Paul Neubauer. She is a current member of the critically-acclaimed American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), based in New York City, performing regularly at well-respected venues such as Le Poisson Rouge, The Kitchen, St. Ann’s Warehouse and Galapagos Art Space. Having regularly attended the Open Chamber Music Seminar at Prussia Cove in Cornwall, UK since 2006, she was chosen to participate in their 2010 Autumn Tour, ending with a performance at the Wigmore Hall in London. Laura earned a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School as a student of Lewis Kaplan, and she is now pursuing a second postgraduate degree in Violin Performance with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Laura performs on an 1822 violin made by Pierre Pacherele, on a generous loan from The Christophe Landon Rare Violins Collection.
Matthias Wiesner:
Matthias Wiesner (born 1982 in Leverkusen, Germany) began violin lessons at the age of six. He studied at the Music Academy Frankfurt am Main with Hubert Buchberger and Karin Boerries before joining Ida Bieler’s violin master class at the Robert Schumann Academy of Music in Düsseldorf. In 2006 he took up the viola and studied with Alexander Zemtsov at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he was recipient of the Max & Peggy Morgan Viola Award.
As a chamber musician, Matthias attended master classes with Heime Müller, Bernard Greenhouse and members of the Belcea, the Takács and the Vogler Quartet and won several awards in the UK and abroad.
After having completed training schemes with the London Symphony and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Matthias is now a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Emily Dellit:
Emily Dellit was born in Brisbane, Australia, and began learning the violin at the age of 6. She studied at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University with Michele Walsh, and upon graduating in 2006 was awarded first class honours in Advanced Performance and the University Medal for outstanding academic achievement. Emily has appeared as a soloist with several of the Australian orchestras, and was awarded First Prize in some of Australia’s most prestigious competitions, including the National Youth Concerto Competition and the North Queensland Concerto and Vocal Competition. Since 2007, Emily has lived in Europe, studying violin and viola in Zürich, Switzerland, with Rudolf Koelman and Wendy Enderle-Champney, and in London, where she was recently awarded a masters in performance with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with David Takeno. Emily has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Austria, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Israel, the USA and Australia, and has participated in masterclasses with Richard Tognetti, Ilan Gronich, Yair Kless, Olivier Charlier and Ida Haendel. Emily’s studies in the UK were generously supported by the Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Award and the Dorothy Fraser Scholarship.
Emily has a particular love for chamber music, and has performed alongside artists including Rudolf Koelman, Satu Vänska, Markus Stocker, Boris Brovtsyn, Oleg Kogan, and the Badke Quartet. Emily is a founding member of the London-based Geminiani Quartet, and as second violinist in this group, she has performed in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Schoenberg Centre in Vienna, appeared in the City of London Festival and the International Chamber Music Festival Viana in Portugal, and participated in masterclasses with members of the Kuss, Endellion, Takacs, Alban Berg, and Kronos Quartets. Emily teaches violin at the Razumovsky Junior Academy in London, and freelances regularly with various ensembles around Europe.
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