Thursday Lunchtime Concert – cellist Erlend Vestby, pianist Alan Brown

Cello and piano recital

Programme:

J.S. Bach Cello Suite No 6 in D major, BWV 1012

− Prélude 

− Allemande

− Courante

− Sarabande

− Gavotte I & II

− Gigue

F. Delius: Five Songs from the Norwegian

1. Slumber Song
2. The Nightingale
3. Summer Eve
4. Longing
5. Sunset

J. Brahms: Klavierstücke 0p.119

-Intermezzo in B minor

-Intermezzo in E minor

-Intermezzo in C major 

Rhapsodie in E flat major

Norwegian cellist Erlend Vestby is a graduate from the Royal College of Music where he was an Anglo-Norse Award holder. He studied modern cello with Jakob Kullberg and baroque cello with Richard Tunnicliffe and works now professionally on both instruments. Erlend is in high demand as a recitalist and chamber musician and has performed with ensembles such as Gabrieli, Brandenburg Sinfonia and Baroque Soloists, British Sinfonia, Orchestra Nova, Ensemble OrQuesta, Piccadilly Sinfonietta, Florilegium, OAE Experience 2022 and Southbank Sinfonia. As a recitalist he can frequently be heard at St John’s Smith Square where he will appear at the London Festival of Baroque Music in May. Erlend performed at the Classic FM Christmas Concert 2022, and he played the three first Bach solo suites at the Dart Music Festival last year. He is looking forward to performingthe final three suites there in May. Erlend’s versatile musicality makes him not only a performer, but also a composer, teacher, and a keen researcher and lecturer on early 18th and early 20th century performance practices where the music of Bach and Elgar stand central.

www.erlendvestby.no

Born in England, Alan Brown studied piano with Ruth Harte at the Royal Academy of Music. Whilst there he was awarded the prestigious Recital Diploma, and was proclaimed National Most Promising Pianist of the Year. He was a finalist in the Royal Overseas League and National Federation of Music
Societies awards, and won the Hastings National Piano Concerto Competition. Since his acclaimed Wigmore Hall debut, Alan has appeared frequently throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, as well as in Australia, South Koreaand Japan. He has a repertoire of over forty-five piano concertos, and performs with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and many more.He is in high demand as a duo and chamber music partner to wind and string players throughout Europe, with whom he performs for recitals, concerts and competitions, as well asaccompanying and coaching students at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He regularly devotes his time as an accompanist to international string courses, where he works in collaboration with esteemed Professors such as Igor Ozim, Thomas Brandis, WonjiKim,Philippe Koch, Christiane Hutcap and Wen-Sinn Yang.