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College News
14 May 2004
Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra: Summer Concert
Royal Holloway is delighted to announce two summer concerts, the first of which is to be held in the College's renowned Picture Gallery.
With Guest Conductor Levon Parikian, the Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra will perform a varied programme: including Fauré's Suite Masques and Bergamasques, Britten's Suite on English Folk Tunes, Op. 90 and Soirées Musicales, Op. 9 and Elgar's Wand of Youth Suite No. 2. The performance will take place on Sunday 30 May at 7.30pm.
Levon has pursued a varied musical career that has led him to work with musicians as diverse as Hans Werner Henze, Donald Swan, and Joanna McGregor. After studying timpani and percussion at the Royal Academy of Music, Levon went on to study conducting with Michael Rose and David Parry, and with George Hurst at the Cranford School of Music. He then travelled to Russia to study under the legendary Russian teacher Ilya Musin at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire.
During his career, Levon has worked as Music Director of Opera del Mar and the Elektra Ensemble, and is Chief Guest Conductor of the City of Oxford Orchestra, with whom he made his South Bank debut in July 2000. He has also been Assistant Conductor on recordings with the Philharmonia and the Academy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
The Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra has given acclaimed performances including the London première of Robert Simpson's Piano Concerto, Mahler's Kindertotenleider, Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 and the second British performance of Vagn Holboe's Cello Concerto.
For further information visit http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/about-us/concerts.html
Tickets are priced at £6, concessions: £3 senior citizens, £2 students.
ENDS
For further information contact
Royal Holloway, University of London, Press Office:
Christine Long, Press & PR Officer
01784 443967, email: christine.long@rhul.ac.uk
Vicky Cousins, Assistant
Press & Communications Officer
01784 414480, email: victoria.cousins@rhul.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
Royal Holloway will host a second summer concert in the Chapel. A Twentieth-Century Miscellany, performed by the College's Chamber Choir, will take place on Wednesday 9 June, at 7.30p.m. Directed by Simon Whiteley and Dominic Wells, the programme will include music by Rachmaninoff, Walton, Fauré and Poulenc. Tickets are priced at £5, concessions: £3 senior citizens, £2 students.
The Department of Music at Royal Holloway is renowned nationally
and internationally, and attracts first-class students from across the
world. The Department was rated 5* (the highest grade) in both the 1996
and the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercises, one of only three UK
Music Departments to achieve that distinction, and the only one in the
University of London awarded 5* in 2001. This attests to a sustained
record of research activity at the highest levels of international excellence.
It has one of the largest postgraduate communities in the UK, and has
established itself as one of the premier institutions for postgraduate
education in Music, thanks in large part to its research profile of
international standing. Staff specialisms range widely from the Middle
Ages to the twentieth century, encompassing popular/commercial musics,
world musics and music of the western tradition, and exploiting a wide
range of research methodologies, including the social, political and
institutional history of music; historiography; opera studies; women's
history; music and early print culture; aesthetics; music and media;
studio composition for TV and film performance; performance studies;
theory and analysis; composition; and ethnomusicology. It is one of
the country's leading music departments for nineteenth-century studies
(particularly the 'long' nineteenth century), for early music, and for
performance studies, with performers of professional calibre among its
staff. In recent years the Department has become a major centre for
the study of composition, both acoustic and studio-based. In addition
to undertaking collaborative research projects, the Department is involved
in two teaching collaborations with London institutions: the Royal College
of Music and the British Library. http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/
