Martin Roscoe 2020 Launch Concert CANCELLED

Thursday, 7th May 2020 7.30pm.

Croston Theatre, Westholme School, Meins Rd, Blackburn, BB2 6QU

CANCELLATION of RVIPW launch concert, Martin Roscoe Solo Piano Recital on 7th May 2020
We have watched closely as the current Covid-19 crisis has unfolded with increasing dismay as concerts have been cancelled in rising numbers over the last week. The Government advice we are now faced with has led us to the inevitable conclusion that, with enormous regret, we must take the
unprecedented step to cancel our RVIPW launch concert – Martin Roscoe’s solo recital on May 7th 2020.
This has been an extremely difficult decision – but the RVIPW committee of volunteers who all care deeply and passionately about this festival were, in the end, unanimous.
Whilst this is incredibly disappointing we will be monitoring the situation as it unfolds over the coming months and we very much hope to be able to go ahead with the summer festival from 15 th to 18 th July. We are also working towards providing some on-line resources – news of this will appear on our website www.rvipw.org.uk and RVIPW Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Anyone who has bought tickets for the launch concert already is fully entitled to a refund. Anyone wishing to claim their money back please email info@rvipw.org.uk
Although this is a difficult time for us at RVIPW, it is far more difficult for all the musicians who have watched their diaries empty at a terrifying rate, leaving them with no income whatsoever. We are hopeful that when concert halls open their doors again the current enforced concert embargo might make us appreciate all the more just how vitally important live music is for our culture and society.

MARTIN ROSCOE

POSTPONED TO JULY 2021

Wednesday 15th July 2020, 7.30pm

The festival’s opening concert will this year be given by our Artistic
Director. With an extraordinary career spanning over four decades,
Martin Roscoe is unarguably one of the UK’s best loved pianists.
Renowned for his versatility at the keyboard, Martin is equally at home
in concerto, recital and chamber performances. His enduring popularity
and the respect in which he is universally held are built on a deeply
thoughtful musicianship and his easy rapport with audiences and fellow
musicians alike.
Martin recorded all of Beethoven’s Sonatas to great critical acclaim
between 2010 and 2018, and it seems only fitting that he revisits two
of those sonatas in this celebratory year. His programme concludes with
works inspired by poetry. Liszt’s Sonetto Del Petrarca, ‘I find no peace’
paints the protagonist’s confused state of mind whilst Ballade No. 2 is
inspired by Gottfried August Bürger’s Gothic horror ballad. We’re in for
quite a night!
6.30pm Pre-concert talk – FREE.
Tickets: £20 (£16 concession)

VICTOR BRAOJOS

Postponed

THURSDAY 16th JULY 2020, 12 NOON

MID-DAY RECITAL

Victor Braojos studied his Bachelor’s Degree at Escola Superior de
Música de Catalunya (Barcelona) before moving to London to gain his
Masters in Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
thanks to an Excellence Scholarship Award. Prizes to date include: 1st
prize in the Catalunya Piano Competition (the youngest winner in it’s
50 year history); 1st prize in the Barcelona Piano Competition; and 1st
prize in the Girona Music Competition.
In the year in which we celebrate 250 years since Beethoven’s birth,
Victor’s programme will take the audience through a musical journey
with a selection of Beethoven’s most well-known and contrasted piano
works. Braojos begins with the bright and humorous Sonata in F, Op.
10/2, the apparently naive although astonishingly revolutionary 6
Bagatelles Op. 126 and, of course, Beethoven’s Sonata in F minor, Op.
57 “Appassionata”, probably one of his most powerful and dramatic
piano works.
Tickets: £13 (£9 concession)

STEVEN OSBORNE

POSTPONED

Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist
of the Year in 2013, Steven Osborne is one of Britain’s
most treasured musicians. Celebrated for his insightful
interpretations, his musicality and technique, Osborne is
much sought after as soloist, chamber musician and recitalist.
2020 will see the release of his 30th recording for Hyperion.

Steven’s programme this evening combines works by two formidable
forces in the canon of piano repertoire. Opening with Schubert’s final composition for piano, the sonata in B flat major D960, he concludes with
Rachmaninov’s Sonata No. 1; a work of symphonic scale to
suitably draw an epic evening of pianistic repertoire to a close.

6.30pm Pre-concert talk – FREE.
Tickets: £20 (£16 concession)

KARNSIRI PRIM LAOTHAMATAS

POSTPONED

Pianist Karnsiri Laothamatas is a winner of various awards, including the
2nd prize at the Birmingham International Piano Competition, the 3rd
prize at the ASEAN International Concerto Competition and a laureate of
the 2018 Shean Piano competition. A native of Chiang Rai, Karnsiri studied
piano from the age of 5, and is currently in the Artist Diploma program
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of Martin
Roscoe and Ronan O’Hora.

Karnsiri will play Haydn’s Sonata in A flat, described as the work that
saw him bursting out of the ‘modest classical mould’. Central to the
programme are two contrasting Nocturnes by Chopin whose unmistakable
influence can be heard in the concert’s concluding works by Scriabin.
Prelude and Nocturne for left hand were written during a time of injury and sing a simple plaintive song of great beauty and harmonic richness whilst “Sonata-Fantasy” will transport us to the calm and storm the composer witnessed on the Baltic coast.

Tickets: £13 (£9 concession)

LAUREN ZHANG

POSTPONED

Making her Ribble Valley International Piano Week debut in a
lunchtime concert in 2019, Lauren Zhang left so many of you
asking for more that we’ve invited her back immediately for an
evening concert in this year’s festival. Lauren won the BBC Young
Musician Competition in 2018 and later that year made her BBC
Proms debut. She has already gained wide spread critical acclaim
for her musical intelligence alongside exceptional technical
mastery.
Lauren Zhang’s programme showcases works by prolific classical
and romantic composers exploring a variety of compositional
forms. Her recital concludes with Liszt’s mighty Réminiscences de
Norma paraphrase, a piece which takes the drama and passion of
Bellini’s opera and creates out of it a masterpiece for solo piano
that combines virtuoso demands with a striking nobility.

6.30pm Pre-concert talk – FREE.
Tickets: £20 (£16 concession)

JONATHAN AND TOM SCOTT – FAIRY TALES AND FANTASY

POSTPONED

Brothers Jonathan and Tom perform in instrumental combinations
which cover the entire keyboard spectrum, including Piano Duet, Piano &
Organ, and Harmonium & Piano. Born in Manchester, Jonathan and Tom
both studied at Chetham’s School of Music and at the Royal Northern
College of Music (RNCM). Scott Brothers Duo are the winners of the 2019
ECHO (European Cities of Historical Organs) competition to create a
performance which introduces the pipe organ to a young audience. Their
project combines animation and organ music and will be performed at
major festivals across Europe in 2019 and 2020.

In an enchanting lunchtime concert entitled Fairy Tales and Fantasy, the
Scott Brothers Duo will perform a programme of fantastic piano duets
accompanied by Tom Scott’s award winning magical animations on the
big screen. This is a concert to delight adults and children alike, suitable
for all ages.

Tickets: £13 (£9 concession), Children under 16 go FREE.
£15 Family ticket – 2 adults accompanying at least 1 child.

CLOSING GALA CONCERT – TASMIN LITTLE & MARTIN ROSCOE

CANCELLED

When Tasmin Little announced her intention to retire in the
summer of 2020 after more than 30 years on the concert platform
there was no doubt that an invitation should be extended for a
final appearance at Ribble Valley International Piano Week. Once
again joined by Martin Roscoe, these two outstanding British artists
and great friends will close our 2020 festival with one of their
final performances together. Their recital seamlessly intermingles
cornerstones of the repertoire with a programme that is sure to fuse
their instruments together to create one incredibly beautiful voice.

6.30pm Pre-concert talk – FREE.

Tickets: £23 (£19 concession)

RVIPW Play Our Piano! July 11th to July 14th 2019

Throughout the main festival we are fortunate to have use of a wonderful Yamaha CFX 9′ Concert Grand piano. This piano is very generously supplied to us by Yamaha UK.

If you’ve always dreamed of playing one of these fabulous instruments, why not book a 15 minute slot, (or multiples of slots!) and have the auditorium, and the piano, all to yourself? This opportunity would be of particular benefit to Piano Groups, instrument teachers and music students in preparation for exams or auditions – or invite your friends and family to listen in and hold your own “mini-concert”!

We make a charge of £15 for each 15 minute slot. All money raised will be used to support our Young Artists programme of lunchtime recitals.

Reserve your slot

Wednesday 18th July 7.30pm- Moricosta Trio and Martin Roscoe

Discovering a mutual love of the string trio repertoire, these internationally acclaimed musicians met at the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and all are in high demand as chamber musicians, soloists and orchestral musicians.  They performed their inaugural concert in January 2013 and were Selected Artists for the Making Music Concert Promoters Group 2015/16 season in collaboration with Pianist, Martin Roscoe.  Back by popular request, the Moricosta Trio will be making their second RVIPW appearance with a generous programme that will delight chamber music lovers, mixing 20^th Century English writing with classics cornerstones of German chamber repertoire.

www.moricostastringtrio.com

6.30pm Pre-concert Talk – FREE

Tickets: £20 (£16 concession disabled/full-time education)

Evening refreshments available

Thursday 19th July, 12 noon – Ryan Drucker

Ryan, a graduate of the RNCM and a current student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama begins our lunchtime emerging artists series. Ryan was recently awarded first prize in the Brant International Piano Competition and the fourth prize in the Dudley International Piano Competition and has performed in many distinguished venues throughout the UK and Europe. Ryan will play J. S. Bach’s relentless, energetic and chromatic Fifth English Suite followed by two works in theme and variation form. Bernstein’s Touches draws on his eclectic compositional skills fusing both jazz and contemporary classical elements together whilst Rachmaninoff’s late work, Variations on a theme by Corelli opens with the familiar Baroque theme, La Folia, which he playfully and daringly explores with a variety of textures and characters.

Click here for Ryan’s website

Tickets: £13 (£9 concession disabled/full-time education)

1.00-2.00pm Buffet Lunch with the Artist: £17 (please email any special dietary requirements) – all proceeds to St Catherine’s Hospice

Menu for The Mill Outside

Thursday 19th July 7.30pm – Katya Apekisheva

Katya, born into a family of musicians, studied at the Gnessin School in Moscow followed by Rubin Academy in Jerusalem and then Royal College of Music in London. She was a prizewinner in several international competitions, holds a professorship of piano at Guildhall school of music and is currently curator of the exciting new London Piano Festival.  Katya’s programme takes us from Russia, through Europe and across the pond, encountering the expression of personalities, seasons, moonlight and birdsong before the final fiery conclusion of dances.

 Click here for Katya’s website

6.30pm Pre-concert Talk – FREE.

Tickets: £20 (£16 concession disabled/full-time education)

Evening refreshments available

Friday 20th July, 12 noon – Kathy Chow

Born in Perth Australia, Kathy is currently completing an Artists Masters in Piano Performance at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, supported by the Guildhall School Trust.  Kathy begins her programme with the affectionately known “Little” A major sonata before switching the mood to Brahms’ deeply elegiac Variation on a theme by Schumann, considered a true masterpiece in the genre.  After journeying through the immense grief of Chopin’s Nocturne in c min, our second lunchtime recital of the festival concludes with Chopin’s exuberant fourth Ballade.

Click here for a fascinating interview with Kathy Chow

Tickets: £13 (£9 concession disabled/full-time education)

1.00-2.00pm Buffet Lunch with the Artist: £17 (please email any special dietary requirements) – all proceeds to St Catherine’s Hospice

Menu for The Mill Outside

Friday 20th July, 7.30pm – Pavel Kolesnikov

Pavel Kolesnikov was a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists from 2014 to 2016 and his recording of Mazurkas was nominated by Gramophone magazine as one of their “10 best recordings of Chopin”!  The first half of the evening’s performance will transport us to an aural gallery of works evoking the innocence of child’s play, their toys and imaginings, interspersed with adult contemplations and reflections. Chopin’s Nocturne is considered his greatest emotional and masterly expression of a great and powerful grief whilst Schumann’s Fantasie was born out of his distress from being separated from Clara.

Click here for Pavel’s website

You Tube interview with Pavel about his life as a pianist Click here

6.30pm Pre-concert Talk – FREE.

Tickets: £20 (£16 concession disabled/full-time education)

Evening refreshments available

Saturday 21st July, 12.00pm Family Friendly Concert, Jonathan & Tom Scott PIANO DUET with Keyboard Projection and Animations

A concert for all the family with live keyboard projection and animations. Acclaimed keyboard duo Scott Brothers Duo present an unmissable fun-filled concert for all ages! With thrilling piano duets featuring keyboard projection on the big screen, and Tom Scott’s animations to accompany Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Saint-Saëns The Carnival of the Animals this is a perfect concert for all the family. Tom’s animations have been enjoyed by thousands of people in classical concerts worldwide and we are thrilled to present them here at RVIPW.

www.scottbrothersduo.com

You Tube clip of Scott Brothers organ and piano version of Carnival of the animals

You Tube clip of Scott Brothers duet version from Beethoven’s 5th Symphony

You Tube clip of Scott Brothers piano duet Mother Goose

Tickets: £13 (£9 concession disabled/full-time education) – Children under the age of 18 are very welcome to come free of charge, with an accompanying fee-paying adult!

1.00-2.00pm Buffet Lunch : £17 (please email any special dietary requirements) – all proceeds to St Catherine’s Hospice

Menu for The Mill Outside

Saturday 21st July, 7.30pm – Martin Roscoe

Festival Director and internationally acclaimed concert pianist, Martin Roscoe, concludes the 2018 Ribble Valley International Piano Week with a fifty year window into the keyboard delights of the masters; Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.  Opening with Mozart’s tense and dramatic stand alone Adagio, we move through to Beethoven’s progressive sonata (in the manner of a fantasy) to a conclusion of two of Schubert’s final works, now recognized as mature masterpieces, deeply embedded with autobiographical emotional expression. Join us for this epic evening of great piano music to celebrate the close of our 2018 festival.

Martin’s website

Click here for a fascinating interview with Martin from 2013

5.30pm Supporters reception

6.30pm Pre-concert Talk – FREE.

Tickets: £20 (£16 concession disabled/full-time education)

Evening refreshments available

Lunchtime Buffet with The Mill Outside

After every lunchtime concert, you can join us and, whenever possible, the young artists you have heard playing at midday.

We are delighted that The Mill Outside are joining us again to provide their delicious meals – and the extra good news is that ALL profits go directly to St Catherine’s Hospice. Buffet  style meals will be served straight after each lunchtime concert in the dining hall adjacent to the theatre.

Either pay in advance by buying your tickets below, or there will be some availability on the day. The delicious menu is here –

The Mill Outside Menu

Martin Roscoe (Piano)

This programme by Festival Director and internationally acclaimed concert pianist, Martin Roscoe, is a piano enthusiast’s dream. The three Titans of the piano repertoire – Beethoven, Chopin & Schubert – harness the emotional power of the instrument in such different ways and their music speaks to the core of the human spirit. Join us for this epic evening of great piano music to celebrate the close of our 30^th Anniversary festival.

Programme

BEETHOVEN  Sonata in E, Op.109
NIELSEN  Chaconne, Op.32
CHOPIN  Ballade No.1 in G min, Op.23
CHOPIN  Nocturne in D flat, Op.27/2
CHOPIN  Polonaise in A flat, Op.53
SCHUBERT  Sonata in B flat, D.960

Tickets: £20 (£16 concession)

Festival Anniversary Tea Party – 5-6pm: £15 – See Here

Evening refreshments available

Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm (free to ticket holders)

Tonight’s pre-concert talk will be given by our Piano Technician Marianne Bailey, in conversation with Martin Roscoe

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