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Pianist Julian Jacobson is celebrating his 70th Birthday with a series of recitals and concerts in London. For this concert, he will be joined by conductor Peter Robinson and the Brandenburg Sinfonia for Brahms's Second Piano Concerto and Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony.
JULIAN JACOBSON is one of Britain's most creative and distinctive pianists, acclaimed for the vitality, colour and insight he brings to his enormous repertoire. He studied at the Royal College of Music and at Queen's College Oxford. In the 1980s he established himself as a fine duo and ensemble pianist, partnering many leading UK instrumentalists. In 1994 he embarked on his first cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas, which he has now presented ten times. Julian has performed as soloist with orchestras including the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, the English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, London Sinfonietta, Bucharest Philharmonic, Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and Royal Omani Symphony Orchestra, with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Tamas Vasary and Jane Glover. An ongoing commitment to contemporary music has led to many commissions and premieres, and he has appeared in more than forty countries on five continents. Julian has a large and varied discography for labels including Meridian, Chandos, Hyperion and Decca. His piano duo with Mariko Brown recently released its first CD on SOMM, and he has embarked on a complete recording of the 35 Beethoven sonatas for Sleeveless Records. He is also a composer and arranger, and has produced five TV and film scores. Julian was Head of Keyboard Studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and is currently a professor at the RCM and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and a guest professor in China and Taiwan. His 70th birthday series has also included four recitals at St John's Smith Square featuring the Prokofiev "War Trilogy" (Sonatas 6, 7 and 8) and masterpieces by Beethoven, Schubert and Gershwin. www.julianjacobson.com
"A disarming technique coupled with an undoubted intellectual mastery made Julian Jacobson's recital an awe-inspiring experience"
Daily Telegraph
PETER ROBINSON is one of the UK's most experienced and versatile opera conductors. His repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary, with a special interest in Italian opera of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Peter studied music at St John's College, Oxford and began his operatic career at Glyndebourne, followed by several years with The Australian Opera in Sydney. He returned to London to become Assistant Music Director at English National Opera, where his repertoire included Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Otello, Rigoletto, Carmen, Maria Stuarda, Orfeo, Hansel and Gretel, The Turn of the Screw, and all the major Mozart operas. Performances in the UK and elsewhere have included L'amore dei tre re, Norma, I Gioielli della Madonna, and The Queen of Spades (Opera Holland Park), Aida, La Fanciulla del West, Andrea Chénier and Turandot (Opera Queensland), and the 25th anniversary revival of Jonathan Miller's ENO production of The Mikado, of which he was the original conductor. Further credits include Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Aida and Carmen (Royal Albert Hall), Falstaff (Scottish Opera) and Die Zauberflöte (Opera Zuid). Peter has worked with most of the major British orchestras, and for television he has conducted Jonathan Miller's productions of Così fan tutte and The Mikado, and The Marriage of Figaro for Channel 4. He was Artistic Director of British Youth Opera for eight years, and in addition to his work as a performer, he teaches and coaches singers regularly at the National Opera Studio, the GSMD, RCM, and RAM, where he was recently elected Hon ARAM. In 2017, he made his fifteenth consecutive appearance at Opera Holland Park, conducting Leoncavallo's Zazà, and Verdi's Requiem. www.peterrobinson.org.uk
"The hero of the evening was Peter Robinson, whose command of the score's colour and pace was complete, and he secured brilliantly responsive playing from the City of London Sinfonia. Indeed, it was hard to take your eyes off this outstanding conductor, as exceptional a technician as he is a musician."
Rodney Milnes, Opera (October 2007) L'Amore Dei Tre Re, Opera Holland Park
BRANDENBURG SINFONIA is renowned for its work throughout the UK, and equally in demand internationally, visiting France, USA, Bermuda, Barbados, the Channel Islands, Cyprus, Malta and St Petersburg. The orchestra has worked with a large number of international artists, including Richard Bonynge, Yvonne Kenny, Emma Kirkby and Emanuel Hurwitz, and gives over 100 performances of orchestral, chamber, choral and operatic music throughout the year. www.brandenburg.org.uk
Wine and fruit juice will be available (by donation only) in the venue from 6.45pm and also during the interval. Toilet facilities are available in the church. TICKETS will also be available at the door, for CASH payments only.
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LocationSt James's Church (View)
Sussex Gardens, Paddington
London W2 3UD
United Kingdom
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