Bourgie Hall presents

Clare Hammond

Journey through the Classical and Romantic eras in a program that is both brilliant and poetic.

Acclaimed as a “pianist of extraordinary gifts” (Gramophone) and “immense power” (The Times), Clare Hammond is recognised for the virtuosity and authority of her performances and won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award in 2016. This year sees her debuts at the BBC Proms, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Salle Bourgie in Montréal, alongside return visits to the Wigmore Hall, London’s National Gallery, and Raritäten der Klaviermusik in Husum. She records a disc of concertos by Britten, Tippett and Walton with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and George Vass, performs Rachmaninov with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Tom Fetherstonhaugh, and Hesketh with the Ulster Orchestra and Anna Rakitina. Clare will give the World Premieres of the newly discovered Fantasia by Andrzej Panufnik with the Filharmonia Poznańska and Łukasz Borowicz, and a new concerto by Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Recent highlights have included Rachmaninov’s Paganini Variations with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Lionel Bringuier, Grace Williams’ Sinfonia Concertante with BBC NOW and Jac van Steen, works by Piers Hellawell and Samy Moussa with the Ulster Orchestra and Jamie Phillips, and recitals at the Aldeburgh Festival, Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice (broadcast on RAI 3), and Festival Baroque de Pontoise. Clare gave sold-out performances of Ghosts and Whispers for piano and film with composer John Woolrich and animators the Quay Brothers at Fundación Juan March in Madrid and the Barbican, and continued her collaboration with actor and writer Tama Matheson.

Clare has recorded six discs for BIS, most recently releasing an album of Etudes by visionary French composer Hélène de Montgeroult in November 2022, launched in a special concert at London’s National Gallery and featured extensively on BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week and Essential Classics. The disc was selected as Editor’s Choice in Gramophone. Reviewers noted the historical importance of the etudes and the ideal match with Hammond’s virtuosic and lyrical abilities. She previously recorded a disc of disc of 20th- and 21st-century variations which received extensive critical approval, and a disc of Etudes by Unsuk Chin, Nicolai Kapustin, Sergei Lyapunov and Karol Szymanowski which won her an Opus d’Or from Opus HD Magazine and 5 diapasons from Diapason.

Clare completed a BA at Cambridge University, where she obtained a double first in music, and undertook postgraduate study with Ronan O’Hora at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Program
MOZART Piano Sonata in D major, K. 311
MONTGEROULT Etudes Nos. 62, 67, 104, 110, 111
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2
CHOPIN Etudes, Op. 25, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 11 and 12
C. SCHUMANN 3 Romances, Op. 21
Jeffrey MUMFORD of ringing and layered space, I. Jenny
FAURÉ
Nocturne No. 12 in E minor, Op. 107
Nocturne No. 8 in D-flat major, Op. 84
CHAMINADE
Impromptu (Étude de concert), Op. 35, No. 5
Étude romantique, Op. 132

Friday, November 15, 2024 at 7:30pm
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