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Cello and Piano recital at West Wight Arts Association

Saturday 8 7.00pmNovember
2014

Music

Freshwater Memorial Hall

Avenue Road
Freshwater
PO40 9UU

01983 752 956

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Cello and Piano recital at West Wight Arts Association

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Halsey duo

Bonchurch based father and daughter musicians James and Sally Halsey will give a cello and piano recital at Freshwater Memorial Hall on Saturday November 8th at 7.00pm as part of the West Wight Arts Association's season. Tickets at £12.00 available on 756028 or via westwightarts.co.uk

James is a very experienced chamber musician, currently cellist of the Bingham String Quartet, the Tagore String Trio and the Dartington Piano Trio. He teaches the cello in Aberdeen (a far cry from the Isle of Wight) and at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and is the director and founder of the Aboyne Cello Festival. Sally is in her fourth year at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, studying with Gabriele Baldocci. Sally won the first Bursary awarded by WWAA which enabled her to have lessons in London with Nigel Clayton in her gap year.

They will play Bach’s much loved Sonata in G Major for cello and keyboard This will be followed by the Divertimento for cello and piano by Elizabeth Maconchy, one of a rare breed of female British composers who died 20 years ago,and then Beethoven’s fourth Sonata for cello and piano, in C major. The concert will finish with Prokofiev’s sonata composed in 1949 for the Soviet giants Rostropovich and Richter.