Thursday 12 December 2.00 pm
Indira Grier (cello)
Francis Grier (piano)
Schumann:
Fantasiestücke Op 73 (11')
3 short pieces
Schubert: A selection of Lieder transcribed for cello
Ständchen, D.889
Auf dem Wasser zu Singen, D.774
Litanei, D.343
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118
An die Musik, D.547
Ave Maria, D.839
Fauré: Cello sonata no 2 in G minor Op 117 (20')
Allegro / Andante / Finale
Indira Grier has performed as soloist and chamber musician across the UK and Europe in major venues such as the Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square and Èglise de Verbier. The recipient of several international prizes, Indira has been invited to such prestigious festivals as the Verbier Soloist and Chamber Music Academy and Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music. She won the 2018 Royal College of Music Concerto Competition with her performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto, a Gold Medal in the 2019 Vienna International Music Competition, and awards from the Hattori Foundation and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. Other successes include winning prizes at the 2016 Royal Overseas League Competition, the 2014 Tunbridge Wells International Young Artists Competition and the 2012 Bromsgrove International Young Musicians' Platform. She has performed as concerto soloist with conductors such as Stephen Cleobury, Jonathan Willcocks and Martin Andre. In 2024 Indira was appointed assistant teacher of cello at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
Francis Grier used to be organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and gave the first ever Prom concert given over to a solo performer in 1985. He is now a psychoanalyst – Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis – and composer. In 1996 he was commissioned by St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, to write a setting of Psalm 150 to celebrate the Queens 70 th birthday. In 2006 his Passion, commissioned by the BBC and VocalEssence (Minneapolis), was reviewed as “a work of vital attack, shivering beauty and compelling power…”, “a modern masterpiece”. He was awarded a British Composer Award in 2011. He has recorded with Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis, and has performed with Colin Carr, Louise Williams and Andrew Marriner – as well as with his daughters Savitri and Indira, including many performances at Saint Mary's, Perivale. Recent recordings of his work have included Lit by Holy Fire by the choir of King's College Cambridge, recordings of his organ music by Tom Winpenny in St Alban's Cathedral and Stephen Farr in Merton College, Oxford, the latter also featuring Indira. 2023 also saw a recording of three carols for a CD of Christmas music sung by the choir of the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court, and Francis is currently working on compositions for performance in 2025 by the choirs of Bath Abbey and Clare College, Cambridge.
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