SCO – Mozart & Strauss

April 4th 2025 at 14:00 – 15:30

Francois Leleux conductor / oboe
Cerys Ambrose-Evans Bassoon

Zedginidze Symphony No. 1 (Scottish Premiere)

Mozart Bassoon Concerto

R Strauss Serenade for Winds, Op 7

R Strauss Symphony No. 1 in D minor

Unfailingly charming and breathtakingly expressive, Francois Leleux delivers profound musical insights and high drama as both oboist and conductor. His matinee programme with the SCO is one of discoveries, written by teenage composers.

SCO Principal Bassoon Cerys Ambrose-Evans is the soloist in the expressive, cheeky concerto that Mozart composed aged 18, while Richard Struass blends influences from Mozart and Medelssohn in the richly lyrical Serenade for 13 wind instruments he wrote as a 17-year-old. His passionate, poewrful Symphony comes from a year earlier, but Georgian teenager Tsotne Zedginidze – born as recently as 2009 – has already been celebrated as a major musical prodigy.

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SCO – Mozart & Strauss

April 5th 2025 at 14:00 – 15:30

Francois Leleux conductor / oboe
Cerys Ambrose-Evans Bassoon

Zedginidze Symphony No. 1 (Scottish Premiere)

Mozart Bassoon Concerto

R Strauss Serenade for Winds, Op 7

R Strauss Symphony No. 1 in D minor

Unfailingly charming and breathtakingly expressive, Francois Leleux delivers profound musical insights and high drama as both oboist and conductor. His matinee programme with the SCO is one of discoveries, written by teenage composers.

SCO Principal Bassoon Cerys Ambrose-Evans is the soloist in the expressive, cheeky concerto that Mozart composed aged 18, while Richard Struass blends influences from Mozart and Medelssohn in the richly lyrical Serenade for 13 wind instruments he wrote as a 17-year-old. His passionate, poewrful Symphony comes from a year earlier, but Georgian teenager Tsotne Zedginidze – born as recently as 2009 – has already been celebrated as a major musical prodigy.

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ECHO Rising Stars: Carlos Ferreira – Clarinet

April 6th 2025 at 11:00 – 12:00

Programme
Widor – Introduction and Rondo
Debussy – Première Rhapsodie
Langing Ding – Echo new commission
Pedro Emmanuel Pereira – Suite Duas Igrejas
Horovitz – Sonatina for clarinet and piano

Portuguese clarinettist Carlos Ferreira pursues a twin career as an orchestral player (formerly with the Philharmonia Orchestra and, most recently, as Principal Clarinet with the Orchestre National de France), chamber musician and recitalist. His magnetic playing, deep rooted understanding of musical style and attention to the finest detail, have won him widespread praise. He’ll bring all these qualities to Debussy’s expressive and seductive First Rhapsody, a deserved cornerstone of the clarinet repertoire, and to his specially commissioned work for this ECHO Rising Stars tour by Lanqing Ding, a fresh and inventive voice in contemporary music.

Ferreira’s partnership with the Portuguese pianist and composer Pedro Emanuel Pereira has resulted in their first album XX-XXI which includes the Suite Duas Igrejas that Pereira has written for Carlos Ferreira. Its angular Praeludium, atmospheric Portuguese Fado and jazzy Postludium contrast with the bucolic and playful melodies of Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina, which also features on the recording. All of which makes for an ideal Sunday morning concert spent in the relaxed setting of the Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space.

Rising Stars are nominated by the artistic directors of Europe’s most prestigious venues which are members of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO).

An hour-long Sunday morning concert, with coffee/tea and a slice of cake available before the concert, included in your ticket.

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