St Mary’s Chrch, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EB. Doors open 6.30pm. Bar.
Two fresh new faces in Hay with remarkable credentials. They bring a brand new work by Welsh composer Edward-Rhys Harry.
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Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Duo in G (originally for violin and viola)
Maurice Ravel: Duo for cello and violin
Edward-Rhys Harry: New work
Reinhold Glière: Selection of duos
Béla Bartók: Selection of violin duos, arranged for violin and cello
Erwinn Schulhoff: Duo for violin and cello
Born in France, violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux is the 2021 grand prize winner of Young Classical Artists Trust and Concert Guild International Competition. Recent highlights include appearances at Wigmore Hall, a BBC Prom with the dynamic 12 Ensemble (a string collective of world class chamber musicians), and a performance of the Franck Piano Quintet at the Gstaadt Festival with Alina Ibragimova, Lawrence Power, Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou. Her debut album for Champs Hill records of music for solo violin is due for release later this year.
An avid chamber musician, Charlotte has taken part in Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove, the Santander Encuentro Festival, East Neuk Festival, the Musethica Festivals in Zaragoza and Berlin, the Evian Festival in France and Stift Festival in Holland
She is leader of the prize-winning Quatuor Confluence who are currently young artist in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris. The Quartet studies with Mathieu Herzog (founder member of the Quatuor Ébène).
Charlotte enjoys playing a wide variety of repertoire, including more rarely heard solo concertos by Panufnik, Vasks and Joachim, the latter which she has performed, alongside Bernstein’s Serenade, with the Budapest Concerto Orchestra conducted by András Keller.
Charlotte is currently playing on a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, kindly loaned to her by the Swiss foundation Boubo-Music.
Born in Wales, cellist Ben Tarlton studied with Sharon McKinley and Alexander Baillie before attending the Yehudi Menuhin School to study with Thomas Carroll. He completed his Bachelors and Masters at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Louise Hopkins, supported by Help Musicians UK and The Countess of Munster Trust. In 2016, Ben was selected as a Fellow to participate in the Piatigorsky Cello Festival in Los Angeles and in November that year performed as a soloist for The LSO’s Donatella Flick Conducting Competition Semi-Finalists with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra.
Whilst a student, he was a finalist in the Guildhall Gold Medal concerto competition, a Concordia Foundation Artist, a Park Lane Group Artist, recipient of The Suggia Gift by Help Musicians UK and The David Goldman Award from The Worshipful Company of Musicians, as well as receiving their prestigious Silver Medal Award in 2020, nominated by the Guildhall School.
Ben recently performed in a world premiere of a cello and choir work by Christian Henking with the Basler Madrigalisten in Schwarzenburg, Switzerland. In 2020, he gave the UK Premier of Anders Hillborg’s work Duo for Cello and Piano in a BBC Radio 3 Total Immersion Concert in Milton Court Concert Hall, about which The Guardian commented ‘playing with extraordinary precision and insight.’ Other concert highlights include Recitals at Wigmore Hall, St James’s Church Piccadilly, St Martin-in-the-Fields and Concerto performances at Cadogan Hall, St John’s Smith Square, West Road Concert Hall and Dora Stoutzker Hall.
In January 2022, Ben performed in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time in The Barbican Hall, which was broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 and reviewed by The Guardian as ‘sensationally played’. He was one of six cellists invited to perform at Temple Music Foundation, where they presented the six Bach Cello Suites to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Paul Tortelier’s famous recording at Temple Church. Ben performed the 2nd Cello Suite in D minor.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Ben has performed in many venues and Festivals in the UK and abroad and is Festival Director of the Llantwit Major Chamber Music Festival and was awarded the '2022 Master's Award' from the Livery Company of Wales, contributing to the Festival's educational work. He is a cello teacher at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, regularly performs chamber music concerts across Wales for Sinfonia Cymru and was invited to be guest Course Director for the Pro Corda 2022 Cello Course in Suffolk.
He currently plays a William Forster cello generously loaned to him by The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain.