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The Somerset series with a big agenda |
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Saturday 26 May at 7.30pm in a recital of music by modern and contemporary composers including Britten and Dutilleux All proceeds of our sixth recital sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust will go to the Fund for Young Musicians. Peter Facer is one of the most talented oboists of his generation. He currently studies with Professor Klaus Becker at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover, having previously attended the Royal Academy of Music in London and Girton College, Cambridge; where he graduated with a double first class honours degree. As a soloist, Peter has given recitals at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge; St-Martin-in-the-Fields, St Paul’s Cathedral and the Foundling Museum, and has performed concertos with the Penzance Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Academy of Music’s Baroque Ensemble. Peter is currently a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, and played principal oboe with them on their Summer 2011 tour to Austria, Germany and Italy, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy and Jac van Steen. Peter has also played with many of the Royal Academy’s orchestras and ensembles as well as the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Peter is very grateful to be assisted in his studies by the Charles Leggett Award from the Musician’s Benevolent Fund, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Martin Musical Fund and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. When not playing the oboe, Peter enjoys cheese, both edible and musical. He loves musicals, and occasionally writes his own and then persuades people to put them on. His most recent creation: The Crystal Maze Musical is currently being recorded and the satirical review of his Cambridge college (Girton – the Musical!) was recently performed for the fifth year running! His favourite cheese is Cambozola.
Performing widely as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician, James Sherlock has been a frequent performer at festivals throughout the UK and abroad. Over the past 18 months these have included the Edinburgh Fringe, Leeds International, Harrogate, Ryedale, Deal, Chelsea Schubert, Cambridge Summer Music, Music Festivals at Sea, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St John's Smith Square, the Wigmore, Queen Elizabeth and Barbican Halls, alongside visits to Japan, South Africa and Brazil. James studied music at Trinity College Cambridge where he was Organ Scholar, and became conductor of the University Musical and Opera Societies and the Symphony Orchestra. He now specialises in Song accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with Joan Havill, Graham Johnson and Pamela Lidiard. His studies are supported by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors and the City of London Corporation. He is a regular accompanist for the classical-chart topping vocal groups Tenebrae, Voces 8 and Blake, with whom he has recorded, toured and broadcast, and has guest conducted choirs including Canticum and I Fagiolini. His recording of David Earl’s Cello Sonata was named runner-up in International Piano’s best new disk of the year (2008), and he continues to work with some of today’s leading young singers and instrumentalists, and as a member of the Accordi Piano Trio. Notable competition successes include the Royal Overseas League Piano Competition (2010), BBC Fame Academy (2007) and Gold Medal at the Marcello Galanti International Organ Competition (2005). In 2011 he was selected by Making Music (Philip and Dorothy Green Award) and Park Lane Group for their Young Artist Programmes. He is a popular presenter and speaker, introducing and performing regularly for Cunard’s Music Festivals at Sea, and leading workshops nationwide for Live Music Now in schools, prisons and hospitals. He has given numerous first performances of works by composers including Huw Watkins, Julian Anderson, Francis Pott, Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Causton. When not involved with music he travels, cycles and makes wine. |
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