Sunday 21st April, 4:00pm
Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia is closing its 2023/24 season with a show-stopping afternoon of music, with a special focus on the bassoon. The Sinfonia is delighted to welcome Amy Harman, principal bassoonist of Aurora Orchestra, who will be performing the Maconchy Concertino for Bassoon, a perfect piece to show-off this often-overlooked instrument.
On either side of this, the Sinfonia will be playing the boisterous Academic Festival Overture by Brahms and finishing with Tchaikovsky’s much-loved 4th Symphony. It is a concert not to miss, and a perfect ending to a wonderful season. We hope you will join us!
Date and Time
Sunday 21st April 2024, 4:00pm
Venue
Bishop’s Stortford College, Memorial Hall, Maze Green Rd., Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 2PQ
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Conductor
Rebecca Miller
Soloist
Amy Harman
Amy Harman
A passionate advocate for the bassoon, Amy is much sought after as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher and communicator, regularly featuring on BBC Radio.
Solo highlights include premiering Roxanna Panufnik’s concerto for bassoon & string orchestra with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Strauss’s Concertino with the English Chamber Orchestra, Mozart’s Concerto at the Festival Suoni dal Golfo in Lerici and Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht with Birmingham Opera. Amy was the first bassoonist to perform a live in concert solo recital for BBC radio 3. She has taken part in festivals internationally including Parnu, Spoleto USA, Aldeburgh, Tbilisi, West Cork, Ryedale, Bath mozartfest and Mizmorim festivals and regularly attends IMS Prussia Cove.
Amy is a member of Orsino, a wind quintet founded by Adam Walker and performs as part of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Wigmore Halls’ artists in association from 2020.
Contemporary music is an important part of Amy’s work, and she has had works written for her by Helöise Werner, Roxana Panufnik, Simon Holt, Olav Berg and Robin Holloway.
At the age of 23 Amy was appointed principal bassoon of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and subsequently held the position of principal bassoon in ENO. Sought after as guest principal with leading orchestras in Europe including the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, she is currently principal of Aurora Orchestra. She was selected by YCAT in 2014 and has been a professor at the Royal Academy of Music since 2013. From 2024 Amy will be professor of bassoon at the Robert Schumann Hoschule, Düsseldorf making her the first woman bassoonist in Germany to hold a professorship.
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