"a luscious recital"
American Record Guide
UNHEARD HARMONIES
Tonight our outstanding young artists have joined forces to perform sonatas by two unjustly neglected Edwardian women composers alongside lesser-known works by Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, the Seven Variations on Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and Six Studies in English Folk Song respectively. All the compositions are hidden gems of the cello and piano repertoire that deserve a wider audience. Join us to celebrate a programme of musical revelations.
Tonight's Programme:
Rebecca Clarke - Sonata for Cello (Viola) and Piano
Vaughan Williams - Six Studies in English Folk Song
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L. van Beethoven - Seven Variations on a Theme from Mozart's Magic Flute 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen', WoO 46
Dora Pejačević - Sonata for Cello and Piano
Cellist Lydia Hillerudh was born into a musical family in Stockholm, Sweden - she is in fact the oldest out of seven sisters who all grew up playing the cello. In 2022, she was awarded the coveted Swedish music award for string players, the Jä rnå ker prize. Lydia is currently active in the UK and Sweden, mainly as a chamber musician and soloist. Recent highlights have included performing concertos by Schumann and Elgar with Henley Symphony Orchestra and Wyatt Sinfonia, and performing chamber music at festivals such as Kempten, Ashwell, Buxton, Islington, Dartington and Romsey. As an orchestral principal and co-principal, she regularly guests chamber orchestras such as Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae and Vä sterå s Sinfonietta. She has a particular interest in music that is rarely performed, whether that is contemporary music or forgotten gems from the past, and enjoys bringing these pieces into her repertoire. Lydia is featured on several discs of contemporary chamber music: ‘Lunaris’, music by Jonathan OV stlund, ‘Translations’, music by Peter Dickinson and ‘In Passing’, music by Giles Easterbrook (with the Tritium Trio). Lydia is a sought-after teacher, and teaches cello, chamber music and orchestra at the music school Lilla Akademien in Stockholm, Sweden. In addition to her teaching, she is also an avid arranger and her arrangement for string orchestras and ensembles have been performed all over the UK and Scandinavia. Lydia studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Mats Lidströ m and Robert Cohen, and was also awarded a Chamber Music Fellowship at the Academy with the Tritium Trio after graduating.
Cristian Sandrin is a London-based pianist of Romanian heritage. Born into a family of musicians, he has been surrounded by classical music all his life, making his debut at the historic Romanian Atheneum Concert Hall in Bucharest at the age of 13. At 19 he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he studied under professors Diana Ketler and Christopher Elton, before making his solo debut at the Wigmore Hall in 2017. He has won many awards, including the Roslyn Tureck Special Prize for the best inter- pretation of Bach at the 2019 International Piano Competition in Albuquerque NM. Critics on both sides of the Atlantic have praised him for his immaculate technique, crystalline clarity and mature inter- pretations. He has recently had his Konzerthaus Berlin solo debut and LSO St Luke's in London. His debut Cd "Correspondances" (Antarctica Label) has been praised by the BBC Music Magazine and has been voted as the Recording of the Month by the Piano News magazine in Germany, featuring on radio stations across Europe: Radio France Musique, RAI Tre, Bayerische Rundfunk, Rundfunk Berlin, Radio Romania Muzical. In 2025 Cristian prepares exciting debuts at St John Smith Square in London, Beethovenhaus in Bonn and Serate Musicali in Milan.