An Evening with pianist's Yoshie Kawamura & Alison Gill
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This evening of piano music reflects both the anniversary years of Strauss (200th birthday) and a dedicated second half to Ravel (150th birthday) with both his own music, his arrangements and his teacher's popular suite.
PROGRAMME
Bach: Gottes zeit ist der zeit allerbeste
Mozart: Andante & variations in G major
Schubert: Fantasie in F minor
Strauss: Tritsch Tratsch polka
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Debussy (arr.Ravel): Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faun
Faure: Dolly Suite
Ravel: La Valse
Yoshie Kawamura Biography
Yoshie Kawamura was born in Japan Nagoya and has been a resident in the UK
since she was 11. She has given many performances worldwide where her main appearances were; in Germany 200th year of celebration for Chopin at Freiburg Musikhochschule, Switzerland Chamber Music Concert at Luzern Marianischer Saal, Berlin Chamber Music Festival Lunchtime Concert Series at Berliner Philharmoniker, and Netherlands International Stichting Apeldoon Festival. She was also invited to join the Berlin Philharmonic Quartet in performing Schumann’s Piano Quintet on their tour of Japan; subsequently she received an invitation from the Poznan Philharmonia to perform as a soloist in Chopin’s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise in a series of concerts in Poland.
Her most recent appearances include Lunchtime Concert at King’s Hall Newcastle University, Brahms and Shostakovich piano trio at Sage Gateshead Hall 1 and Rachmaninov Suite no.2 for two pianos at Durham Cathedral. She received her Master of Music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and later went to Germany to further her studies with Prof. Mishory at Musikhochschule Freiburg. In 2013 she came back to the UK to receive her second master in Cultural Management at the Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Alison Gill Biography:
Alison Gill is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, specialising as an accompanist and répétiteur. Whilst at the RAM she made her Wigmore Hall debut, filmed for Channel 4, and was chosen as one of ten pianists to perform alongside Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars in Satie's 19 hour work Vexations, taking place in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern.
Alison has now returned to the North of England and is highly sought after as an accompanist across the region, working regularly with soloists and ensembles that include the Chorus of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Jervaulx Singers and has accompanied choral masterclasses with composers including John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Will Todd and Eriks Esenvalds. Alongside these regular collaborations Alison works as an accompanist in residence for Leeds Conservatoire, Durham University, Samling Artists and for the BBC Proms held at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music. Alison is also accompanist-in-residence for the Berkshire Choral International, collaborating with them for their courses and performances in Durham Cathedral, Barcelona's Palau de la Musica, the Teatro Verdi in Florence, the Musikverein in Vienna and in 2025 for a summer residency in Berlin.
Alison was invited to give the modern premiere of Charles Stanford's piano concerto in B flat, performed at Ushaw Hall in Durham with the Orchestra Cipriani. Other concerto performances have included the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F with Huddersfield Symphony Orchestra, both Shostakovich’s piano concertos and Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Mowbray Orchestra, Edward Gregson's Concertante for Piano and Brass Band with Fishburn Band, Roderick William's transcription of the Ravel Piano Concerto in G for piano and 8 voices with the Jervaulx Singers and in 2024 performances of Grieg’s Concerto in A Minor and Mozart’s Concerto no.21 in Durham Cathedral.
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https://www.yamahanorthumberland.com/concerts2
This evening of piano music reflects both the anniversary years of Strauss (200th birthday) and a dedicated second half to Ravel (150th birthday) with both his own music, his arrangements and his teacher's popular suite.
PROGRAMME
Bach: Gottes zeit ist der zeit allerbeste
Mozart: Andante & variations in G major
Schubert: Fantasie in F minor
Strauss: Tritsch Tratsch polka
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Debussy (arr.Ravel): Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faun
Faure: Dolly Suite
Ravel: La Valse
Yoshie Kawamura Biography
Yoshie Kawamura was born in Japan Nagoya and has been a resident in the UK
since she was 11. She has given many performances worldwide where her main appearances were; in Germany 200th year of celebration for Chopin at Freiburg Musikhochschule, Switzerland Chamber Music Concert at Luzern Marianischer Saal, Berlin Chamber Music Festival Lunchtime Concert Series at Berliner Philharmoniker, and Netherlands International Stichting Apeldoon Festival. She was also invited to join the Berlin Philharmonic Quartet in performing Schumann’s Piano Quintet on their tour of Japan; subsequently she received an invitation from the Poznan Philharmonia to perform as a soloist in Chopin’s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise in a series of concerts in Poland.
Her most recent appearances include Lunchtime Concert at King’s Hall Newcastle University, Brahms and Shostakovich piano trio at Sage Gateshead Hall 1 and Rachmaninov Suite no.2 for two pianos at Durham Cathedral. She received her Master of Music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and later went to Germany to further her studies with Prof. Mishory at Musikhochschule Freiburg. In 2013 she came back to the UK to receive her second master in Cultural Management at the Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Alison Gill Biography:
Alison Gill is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, specialising as an accompanist and répétiteur. Whilst at the RAM she made her Wigmore Hall debut, filmed for Channel 4, and was chosen as one of ten pianists to perform alongside Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars in Satie's 19 hour work Vexations, taking place in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern.
Alison has now returned to the North of England and is highly sought after as an accompanist across the region, working regularly with soloists and ensembles that include the Chorus of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Jervaulx Singers and has accompanied choral masterclasses with composers including John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Will Todd and Eriks Esenvalds. Alongside these regular collaborations Alison works as an accompanist in residence for Leeds Conservatoire, Durham University, Samling Artists and for the BBC Proms held at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music. Alison is also accompanist-in-residence for the Berkshire Choral International, collaborating with them for their courses and performances in Durham Cathedral, Barcelona's Palau de la Musica, the Teatro Verdi in Florence, the Musikverein in Vienna and in 2025 for a summer residency in Berlin.
Alison was invited to give the modern premiere of Charles Stanford's piano concerto in B flat, performed at Ushaw Hall in Durham with the Orchestra Cipriani. Other concerto performances have included the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F with Huddersfield Symphony Orchestra, both Shostakovich’s piano concertos and Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Mowbray Orchestra, Edward Gregson's Concertante for Piano and Brass Band with Fishburn Band, Roderick William's transcription of the Ravel Piano Concerto in G for piano and 8 voices with the Jervaulx Singers and in 2024 performances of Grieg’s Concerto in A Minor and Mozart’s Concerto no.21 in Durham Cathedral.
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