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Helen Grime Day
Alexandra Wood; Rachel Roberts; Philip Higham; Nicholas Daniel; Huw Watkins
Date
Sat 15 Oct 2016, 1.00pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
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Artists

  • Alexandra Woodviolin
  • Rachel Robertsviola
  • Philip Highamcello
  • Nicholas Danieloboe
  • Huw Watkinspiano

Programme

  • Helen Grime
    b. 1981
      • Three Whistler Miniatures
      • Aviary Sketches (after Joseph Cornell)
         [1]
      • To see the summer sky
      • Five North Eastern Scenes
        (UK première)
      • Oboe Quartet
  1. Co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center funded by a generous grant from Linda and Stuart Nelson in honour of Wu Han and David Finckel, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Overview

Chamber music occupies the centre ground of HelenGrime’s work, embracing everything from pieces for solooboe to scores conceived for small ensemble.

ThreeWhistler Miniatures draw inspiration from chalk and pastelpieces exhibited at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Museum,while Aviary Sketches comprises five miniatures influencedby the alluring ‘assemblage boxes’ of American artist andsculptor Joseph Cornell.

Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence is supported by The Marchus Trust

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