About this Event
The Ionian Singers with Sarah Thurlow (clarinet) and Timothy Salter (conductor, piano) perform a programme of music from across the 20th century to the present with choral works by British composers including Parry, Stanford, Maw and the Americans Barber and Argento. Duos for clarinet and piano comprise the rarely-heard Three Intermezzi by Stanford and Bartók’s more familiar Romanian Dances. All the performers join in Salter’s Two Visions, settings of poems by Henry King and Emily Dickinson, and two English folk song arrangements.
The Ionian Singers is a chamber choir of about 25 singers, based in London, with a national and international reputation based on their performances and recordings.
The programming and recording policy of The Ionian Singers is to search out less familiar and unjustifiably neglected repertoire both sacred and secular from the 16th century to the present. Concert programmes frequently include collaboration with instrumentalists and solo singers.
The choir is known for its commitment to new music, has given many first performances and has commissioned and recorded new works from numerous British composers. Recordings by The Ionian Singers include a substantial amount of music that is unavailable elsewhere in the current catalogues.
www.ioniansingers.co.uk
Sarah Thurlow studied at the Royal College of Music in London and subsequently at the International Music School in Bobbio, near Milan, thanks to the RCM's Mills Williams Junior Fellowship.
Whilst a student, she won the Clarinet and Saxophone Society GB Young Musician of the Year, and an English Speaking Union Scholarship, as well as performing concertos with the Philharmonia and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Sarah has been lucky enough to perform and tour with the London Symphony Orchestra, RPO and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. She is now sub-principal clarinet of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, as well as 2nd clarinet with the London Concert Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Sinfonia.
Timothy Salter is active as a composer, conductor and pianist. His compositions include instrumental, chamber, and orchestral music, choral music and songs; many of his choral compositions have been written for The Ionian Singers. He has received publicly and privately funded commissions; his music has been recorded on various labels and broadcast throughout the world. For many years he taught composition and performance studies at the Royal College of Music, London. As a pianist, he performs widely with instrumentalists and singers.
www.timothysalter.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Gabriel's, Pimlico, Warwick Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 8.50 to GBP 18.50
