Following their successful visit to San Francisco, Ysgol Greenhill Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra are to perform in the 2001 Tenby Arts Festival.
The concert will take place in the newly refurbished School Hall which has been altered to seat another 200 people in the audience. The hall has been equipped with modern sound and lighting which will enhance the versatility of the hall for both students and audience.
The programme will include Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, The Clarinet Concerto in Bb Major by Anton Dimler and music from Classic films.
Greenhill School and Chamber Orchestras are gaining a well-known reputation in Britain having performed as finalists at the National Festival Music for Youth in recent years both at the Royal Festival Hall, London, and in Birmingham Symphony Hall. They were invited to the Welsh Proms at St. David's Hall, Cardiff, in 1995, 1998 and 2000 and performed live on national television. They have also toured Paris, Austria and Germany.
The concert on Tuesday, September 25, will be conducted by Grant Llewellyn, a local boy who takes every opportunity to return to his roots.
His career has taken him to many parts of the world including Canada, Japan and Australia, having been assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, principal conductor of the Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Stavnger Symphony Orchestra, Norway.
Grant enjoys working in opera and has been musical director of a number of operas with the Scottish Opera Co., Opera Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri and the English Opera Co. having conducted 'The Magic Flute' by Mozart for a season at the Coliseum in London.
The summer of 2000 saw him in the Spoleta Festival, South Carolina, and the Round Top Festival in Texas.
He is conductor-in-residence of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and next month takes up the post of artistic director of the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, Massachusetts.
Prior to the concert in Tenby, Grant is conducting in San Antonio, Texas, and immediately afterwards goes on tour with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to the St. Asaph and Cheltenham Festivals.
This concert, using the talents of our local youngsters, should make for a most enjoyable evening.
OTHER MUSICAL EVENTS
La Volta, Pembrokeshire's Early Music Group, was formed in 1993 and is directed by Dr. Stuart Evans. Specialising in the performance of Mediaeval and Renaissance music and using period instruments, the group consists of versatile and talented musicians and singers who delight their audiences with music from times past. Listen to sweet (and sometimes raucous!) ballads, madrigals and lute-songs, and to instrumental music played on wonderful and unusual instruments, including the crwth, curtal, rebec, shawms and crumhorns, viols, mediaeval fiddle, recorder consort, lute, harp, pipe and tabor, Renaissance and Baroque flutes, psaltery, rommelpot, symphony, bagpipe, pibgorn, rackett, violin, percussion, and nakers! This concert is on Friday, September 21 at St. John's Church, Tenby at 8pm.
Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Paul Lewis and conducted by Michael Bell, is becoming well known in Pembrokeshire as a result of a number of fine recent concerts all under the sponsorship of Texaco. On Saturday, September 22, 7.30pm at the De Valence Pavilion, Tenby, they offer an interesting and varied programme, including two movements from a Suite by one of our Vice-Presidents, composer and Professor, Ian Parott. Derived from Welsh folk songs, the music depicts the Three Ladies, "Y Dair". We will also hear Richard Strauss' "Don Juan", Tchaikovsky's waltz from "The Sleeping Beauty", and Khachaturian's Suite from "Spartacus".
Telyneg, featuring sisters Iona Jones - soprano, and Lois Davies - harp, are two of the finest young professional performers in Wales. As soloists, each in their own right, they combine to entertain with a wide selection of music. They are mainly renowned for re-creating the lyrical spirit of Welsh folk song famed throughout the world. Festival goers will remember Iona as the superb guest vocalist with the Morriston Male Voice Choir at last year's Festival. This concert, which includes afternoon tea, starts at the Imperial Hotel on Sunday, September 23 at 3pm.
Trio Melzi, consisting of musicians Richard Howarth - violin, Jonathon Price - 'cello and Sarah Beth Briggs - piano, was established in 1999 to satisfy a demand for high quality piano chamber music. Richard is Leader of the Manchester Camerata and John the Principal Cellist. Sarah Beth was the youngest ever finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition in 1984 and joint winner of the International Mozart Competition in 1988. The concert, featuring Trios by Mozart, Debussy and Beethoven, takes place at St. Mary's Church on Sunday, September 23 at 8pm.