Daniel Browell Piano

Daniel Browell - Piano

Daniel Browell has given recitals in the U.K, France, Sweden and the U.S., most recently receiving acclaim in the national press for his London South Bank recital in the Purcell Room. Since studying in Birmingham, U.K. for his undergraduate degree, Daniel has been lucky enough to study in Paris, London and Chicago. In London whilst studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Colin Stone, he received the E M George award, and in 2004 was a prizewinner of the British Music Society Piano Awards. In 2006-7 Daniel became a Park Lane Group Young Artist.  

Daniel made his BBC Proms debut in 2008, as part of a composer portrait broadcast live on Radio 3. He is currently the Leverhulme Junior Fellow in piano at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he has recently won both the concerto prize and the recital prize. Daniel currently studies with Graham Scott and has played to Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Alexander Melnikov, Stephen Hough, Nelson Goerner and Phillipe Cassard. Future engagements include the Ravel left hand concerto this June in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. 

John Bush Trumpet

John Bush - Trumpet

John Bush lives and works in Cheshire and combines music making with a career as a senior executive in the energy industry. He has held the position of principal trumpet with the Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra for the past 16 years, performing the Haydn trumpet concerto with them in 1999 and 2010.

John plays regularly with Lancashire Chamber Orchestra, both as a member of the orchestra and as a soloist, performing the of the solo trumpet part in Copland's Quiet City and Shostakovich's first piano concerto in 2008. He also performs occasionally with Bolton Symphony Orchestra, Stockport Symphony Orchestra and recently joined with Cheshire Sinfonia to play the solo trumpet part in Bach's second Brandenburg Concerto.

As well as orchestral playing, John performs regularly at the Wesley Chapel in Chester where he gives concerts of music for trumpet and organ, and earlier this year gave the first trumpet and organ recital in Tarvin Parish Church as part of their regular series of spring concerts.

The trumpet concerto by Hummel is published in two alternative editions, in the key of E flat major and E major. Tonight's performance will be from the original edition in E major, first performed in Vienna in 1804.

 

Suzanne Casey Violin

Suzanne Casey - Violin

Violinist Suzanne Casey was born and brought up in Hereford. While a student at the Hereford Cathedral School she became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Upon completion of her years at the Hereford school, she was awarded a place at The Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Waley Violin Prize and the McEwen Prize for String Quartet playing. Two years later Suzanne received a Performers Diploma from Indiana University while studying with Mauricio Fuks under the auspices of the Starling Fellowship, and then took up a position in Florida's New World Symphony. She moved back to Britain to join the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 2000 and enjoys a busy musical life with the orchestra, as well as playing chamber music and recitals around the UK with friends and colleagues. She regularly appears on the BBC National Orchestra of Wales chamber series, which she helped found, at St David's Hall, Cardiff. She has also performed with many other leading UK orchestras, including the Hallé, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony. She has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras in the UK and the USA, and was recently featured as a solo recitalist at the prestigious Three Choirs Festival. Suzanne plays on a violin by Venetian luthier Eugenio Degani. She and her husband, the conductor Kenneth Woods, have two children- Samuel and Esther. They live in Cardiff with their dog Murphy and their well-traveled cat, Picasso.

 

Alison Rose Soprano

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Max Heaton Percussion

Max is 13 years old and a pupil at Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton. He is a percussionist and a pianist and studies at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music. Max has played in the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain for three years and has performed at the Brighton Dome, Birmingham Town Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. He has played in the Light Music Society Orchestra conducted by Gavin Sutherland and recently played in Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man conducted by Brian Kay. Max is also a member of the North Yorkshire Schools' Symphony Orchestra and timpanist for Settle Orchestral Society.