Thursday 6 November 2.00 pm
Amber Emson (violin/viola)
Dafydd Chapman (piano)
Prokofiev: Four Pieces from 'Romeo and Juliet' Op 64 (16')
The Montagues and the Capulets
Dance of Antilles Girls
Masks
The Death of Juliet
Brahms: Violin Sonata no 3 in D minor Op 108 (24')
Allegro / Adagio / Poco Presto / Presto
Schumann: Märchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures) for viola Op 113 (16')
1. Not fast 2. Lively 3. Quick 4. Slow
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Amber Emson is a German-British violinist who is building a name for herself. Recently awarded with the Mica Comberti Price, she is the First Prize winner of the International Music Competition Hohenpriesnitz, and Germany's national “Jugend Musiziert” competition, as well as Second Prize at International Competition “Szymon Goldberg”. She has been invited for chamber and solo performances at major concert halls worldwide, such as Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berliner Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Singapore Victoria Hall, ANAM Quartethaus in Melbourne and Rheingau Musikfestival. A passionate chamber musician, she took part in ‘Mit Musik – Miteinander' at Kronberg Academy in 2018, and regularly participated at ‘MusicWorks' under the guidance of mentors including Catherine Manson, James Boyd, Robert Max and Alasdair Beatson. Between 2019 and 2022, she was a member of LGT Young Soloists, with whom she appeared playing Phillip Glass's Echorus on their recent album. She is a former pupil of Natasha Boyarsky and Maciej Rakowski, and currently studies violin at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of So-Ock Kim. In addition, she plays viola and has a strong interest in historical performance practice, studying baroque violin with Nicolette Moonen. During recent years, Amber has taken part in masterclasses with such professors as Gerhard Schulz and András Keller at IMS Prussia Cove, Mauricio Fuks at the Kronberg Academy Masterclasses, Pavel Vernikov, and Kolja Blacher at the Carl Flesch Akademie.
Dafydd Chapman is in his first year of Masters at the Royal Academy of Music studying Ensemble Piano under Mei-Ting Sun and James Baillieu. Originally from Cardiff, he spent most of his childhood studying at the Junior Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he studied with Nicola Meecham for 9 years. He became the first recipient of the Junior Conservatoire ABRSM Scholarship, won several prizes such as the Junior Conservatoire Prize for Solo Piano and won the Junior Conservatoire Chamber Prize. Most notably at his time there, he won the 2015 Junior Conservatoire Concerto Competition, in which he was given the opportunity to perform Chopin's Concerto No.1 with an orchestra at the conservatoire. Dafydd has also competed in several competitions including becoming a semi-finalist at the Gregynog Young Musician Competition and winning the national Urdd Eisteddfod 3 times. In 2012 and 2017, he also won the Piano Solo and the Repertoire classes at the Mid-Somerset Competitive Festival and also went on to win the Piano Concerto competition there in 2019. During his time at the Royal Academy of Music, Dafydd has gone on to perform a wide range of chamber and ensemble repertoire and internal competitions, notably, the Harold Craxton prize and performing with Trio Arisonto.
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