Day Two of Cordelia Williams Residency
Viola Masterclass with Gary Pomeroy
Start Time – 10:30
£11.50 Full Price
£4.50 Students
Gary Pomeroy enjoyed five years of guidance in solo and chamber music by Mark Knight, Chris Rowland and Thomas Riebl at the RNCM in Manchester UK, and went on to study at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. He is one quarter of the Heath Quartet, who have recorded the complete string quartets of Michael Tippett, Bela Bartok, Tchaikovsky String Quartets 1 + 3 and a Second Vienese disc of Berg and Schoenberg. Gary now lives in London and enjoys a range of education work, including coaching the Kuumba Youth Orchestra, chamber music mentoring and viola teaching at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Double Bass Masterclass with Lynda Houghton
Start Time – 10:30
£11.50 Full Price
£4.50 Students
Lynda Houghton is principal double bass with Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Having studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, Houghton rapidly went on to establish a reputation as a talented exponent of contemporary music, much in demand with London Sinfonietta. She was also invited to play with the London Symphony Orchestra – the first woman bassist with the orchestra. Houghton also enjoys playing with a number of other chamber orchestras and ensembles, such as the City of London Sinfonia and Orchestra of St John’s, where she is Principal Bass in both, and as a guest in many other ensembles, including The Nash Ensemble and The Fibonacci Sequence. She has played at the Sangat Chamber Music Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Orpheus & Bacchus Music Festival and Edinburgh International Festival. An enthusiastic period instrumentalist, she has toured and recorded with Trevor Pinnock’s The English Concert and John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists.
Houghton is an Associate at the Academy and, while being in demand as a teacher and examiner, her playing engagements encompass not only the world of contemporary, symphonic and chamber music but also films and popular music.
Duo Lunchtime Concert
Start Time – 13:00
£20 Full Price
£7 Students
Bach: Sonata in G major for violin and keyboard BWV 1019
Cage: Nocturne
Schubert: Wiegenlied (Lullaby), arr. Mischa Elman
Schubert: Fantasie in C D934
Cordelia is joined on Sunday by her regular duo partner Tamsin Waley-Cohen for the shimmering Fantasie in C, alongside the celebration and sunlight of Bach’s G major Duo Sonata and two ‘night-time’ miniatures.
Evening Chamber Concert
Start Time – 18:00
£20 Full Price
£7 Students
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata D821 (with Guy Johnston)
Schubert: Quintet in A major ‘Trout’
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Gary Pomeroy, Guy Johnston, Lynda Houghton, Cordelia Williams
In the final concert, Cordelia performs with fellow Chetham’s alumnus Guy Johnston in Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata, and then with the full group in the composer’s famous ‘Trout’ quintet, brimming with joy, spontaneity and humour.
