Wight Proms Wednesdays: James Longford (Piano)

Wed. Feb 5, 2025 at 12:30pm GMT
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Join Ryde-resident James Longford - Steinway Artist and award-winning Pianist, for an intimate lunchtime recital in the stunning setting of Northwood House's Ballroom. You can join us for lunch directly after the concert, served in the Drawing Room. Select from our three options when buying tickets.


Programme
William Byrd:
Fantasia
The Carman’s Whistle
 
Joby Talbot: from Once Around the Sun
February – the arctic circle
 
Maurice Ravel: Sonatine
I. Modéré
II. Mouvement de Minuet
III. Animé
 
Frederic Chopin: Waltz in C# minor, op.64 no.2
Stephen Hough: Matilda’s Waltz
Ernst von Dochnányi: Waltz on themes from Delibes’ Coppélia


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If you would like to join us for lunch afterwards, please pre-order by the end of the Monday, two days before the concert.


Welcome to Wight Proms Wednesdays! We would like to bring you a bit of the Wight Proms throughout the year and not just in August, and so we launched this lunchtime concert series. Taking place at 12:30 on Wednesdays and each lasting 40 minutes, they are the ideal addition to your lunch break.


BIOGRAPHY

“A very special, very beautiful sound...” Jury, International Schubert Competition

“Exquisitely detailed playing...” Birmingham Post

James Longford has a wide-ranging career as a collaborative pianist, soloist and chamber musician.


Forthcoming engagements include concerts with the BBC Singers and Eric Whitacre, the BBC Concert Orchestra, an opera gala for Cowes Fringe and solo recitals in Japan and New York City.


He works regularly with major opera companies and BBC ensembles, as well as with many island choral ensembles.


James won the Tagore Gold Medal at the Royal College of Music and was organ scholar at St.Martin-in-the-Fields. A Junior Fellowship at the RCM followed, and residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, and the Britten-Pears School. He was delighted to be selected as a Steinway Artist in 2014.


For more information visit linktr.ee/jameslongford


 

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Northwood House Ward Avenue
Cowes, Isle of Wight PO31 8AZ
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