Lunchtime Concert: The London Piano Duo - Elizabeth Mucha and Nigel Foster

Name: Lunchtime Concert: The London Piano Duo - Elizabeth Mucha and Nigel Foster
Start: 2024-10-08T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-08T13:45:00+01:00
Location: Events at St John's

Schedule

Tue Oct 08 2024 at 01:00 pm to 01:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Events at St John's | Peterborough, EN

Our Tuesdays Till Two concert season continues with a return appearance by the London Piano Duo - pianists Elizabeth Mucha and Nigel Foster. They'll be playing piano duets by three different composers - Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, and Johannes Brahms - all three of whom are believed to have
first played the pieces we'll be hearing with Clara Schumann.
As ever the church will be open for an hour before the concert begins, with volunteers from the pop-up café team offering lots of home made sweet and savoury treats as well as hot and cold drinks.
The concert will begin promptly at 1pm. Admission is free, but those who are able to afford it are asked to make a donation. The suggested amount is £6.
Programme:
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) Andante and Allegro brillant Op.92
Robert Schumann – Bilder aus Osten (Pictures from the East), Op 66
Clara Schumann – March in E-flat
Johannes Brahms – 3 Hungarian Dances from Book 1
　　No 1 in G minor
　　No 3 in F major
　　No 5 in F# minor
About Elizabeth Mucha:
Scottish-Polish pianist Elizabeth Mucha has performed throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Far East as a critically acclaimed song accompanist, chamber musician and solo pianist.
She has broadcast for the BBC in Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as other classical music stations in Holland, Brazil, Canada, and the Philippines. For the British Council, she toured the Philippines with soprano Miranda Keys and flautist Kirsten Spratt with whom she released five CDs of flute/piano repertoire. She has appeared at music festivals in Brazil, Slovenia and in Poland. In the UK she took part in the Hull City of Culture celebrations and, most recently, at Late Music in York.
While living in Holland she played for the prestigious “Friends of the Lied” organisation, co-founded the vocal group “Songcircle”, and was involved in a multi-media project to commemorate the life and works of the Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan.
In the UK, she worked at the Britten-Pears school and performed with the experimental music theatre group “Opera Circus”. In 2018 she celebrated a 10-year partnership with Bulgarian violinist Krassimira Jeliazkova with a series of concerts in and around London.
In addition to her playing, Elizabeth has devised several programmes including scripts for the Verdi celebration concerts in 2001 for Singapore Lyric Opera; Music Travels (solo programme) and a multidisciplinary programme, “Art Sung – Alma Mahler”, which played to great acclaim at Wilton’s Music Hall in London, at the Wandsworth Arts Fringe and at the London Song Festival in 2018. Art Sung- Clara Schumann is her second production in the Art Sung series.
About Nigel Foster:
Nigel Foster was born in London and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Graham Johnson, and also privately with Roger Vignoles. At both the Academy and the Guildhall he won every prize and award available for piano accompaniment, and has been appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Nigel enjoys a busy schedule performing on the concert platform. He has played for artists including the late Philip Langridge, Sarah Walker, Ian Partridge, Roderick Williams, Neil Jenkins, Yvonne Kenny, Jeremy Huw Williams, Maire Flavin, Anna Devin, Ruby Hughes, Gillian Keith, Nicky Spence, Jane Manning, Marcus Farnsworth, Benedict Nelson and violinist Madeleine Mitchell, as well as many of Britain's leading young singers. He performs at major venues including the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, St John Smith Square and Royal Opera House (Crush Room) in London, and St David's Hall in Cardiff.
In his formative years Nigel played for Graham Johnson's Songmakers Almanac, the Park Lane Group and several opera companies including Glyndebourne. Nigel has worked with John Eliot Gardiner CBE, and he has happy memories of his time as a rehearsal pianist for the late Georg Solti, playing for singers including Renee Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. Nigel worked closely with Sarah Walker in the Vocal Department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Nigel's CD recordings include several discs of contemporary music and anthologies of songs of Alun Hoddinott and Mansel Thomas with baritone Jeremy Huw Williams for the Sain label. He features on the soundtrack of the French film L'Homme est une Femme Comme les Autres.
Nigel performs extensively abroad. He has played all over Europe, Asia (Japan, Malaysia), New Zealand and the Americas (USA, Canada, Colombia) and has broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and on French, Welsh and Greek television.
　　