The Lark Ascending in conversation

with Jennifer Pike and guests

Venue:

Online
Time:

18:00
Date:

Sun 6 Dec 2020

Writer and broadcaster Andrew Green looks at the background to the composition of The Lark Ascending and talks to guests about the real-life skylark. What is revealed when larksong is slowed down? What threats are posed to the bird’s wellbeing in the modern world? All this, plus poetry and a range of music to celebrate this magical bird.

Guests include

Jennifer Pike
Violinist and soloist for The Lark Ascending Centenary concert

Cheryl Tipp
The British Library’s Curator of Wildlife & Environmental Sounds

Paul Donald
Author of The Skylark, a guide to everything you might want to know about larks

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Andrew Green

Andrew has been writing, talking and broadcasting about music and the music industry for over three decades. After initially plotting a career as a light baritone, Andrew then worked as an artist manager, representing the likes of Mitsuko Uchida, the Endellion String Quartet and Julian Lloyd Webber. For Radio 3 he has presented such programmes as In Tune, Proms broadcasts and dozens of documentaries. As a journalist Andrew has written for a string of national newspapers and journals – and especially for a range of Rhinegold titles. Among his current projects are books on Vaughan Williams and Clara Butt.

Jennifer Pike

Renowned for her “dazzling interpretative flair and exemplary technique” (Classic FM), British violinist Jennifer Pike has taken the musical world by storm with her unique artistry and compelling insight into music from the Baroque to the present day. In demand as soloist and recitalist all over the world, she is known as an artist of exceptional integrity and depth, whilst her ability to “hold an audience spellbound” (The Strad) and “luminous beauty of tone” (The Observer) have established her as one of the most exciting artists performing today.

She first gained international recognition in 2002, when, aged 12, she became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the youngest major prizewinner in the Menuhin International Violin Competition. Aged 15 she made acclaimed débuts at the BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall, and her many subsequent Proms appearances have included the role of 2009 “featured artist”. She was invited to become a BBC New Generation Artist (2008-10), she won the inaugural International London Music Masters Award and became the only classical artist ever to win the South Bank Show/Times Breakthrough Award. Passionate about helping young people from all backgrounds enhance their lives through music, she was recently invited to become an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust and Foundation for Children and the Arts, and patron of the Lord Mayor’s City Music Foundation.

In 2015 and 2016 Pike toured to Mexico with the London Philharmonic, performed in the Sibelius Festival 150th year celebrations, gave a special performance to an audience of 11,000 at the Atlas Area in Poland as part of the ‘Night of the Proms’ tour broadcast on Polish TV as well as many notable performances with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra to name a few.

In 2017 she curated an unprecedented event at the Wigmore Hall with three concerts in one day celebrating Polish music, in which she gave the UK premiere of Penderecki’s Capriccio for solo violin and a specially commissioned new work by Paulina Zalubska. An enthusiastic promoter of new music, she has had many works written for her, including Hafliði Hallgrímsson’s Violin Concerto, which she premièred with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Bray’s Scenes from Wonderland which she premièred with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall and Andrew Schultz’s Violin Concerto and Sonatina for solo violin, for which her recording was nominated for ‘Best Performance of an Australian Composition’ at the Australian Classical Music Awards.

The Lark Ascending in conversation

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