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A TALENTED Irvine musician will be studying at London’s Royal College of Music. Ex-Greenwood Academy pupil and Senior Concert Band member Adam Lee has now secured a place on the top school’s Masters in Performance course. We reported last year Adam scooped the top prize in the Royal Scottish Conservatoire’s coveted woodwind music performance competition – after using his lockdown time to perfect his art ahead of his online performance. A spokesperson for North Ayrshire Music Service said: “Congratulations to former Senior Concert Band member and Greenwood pupil Adam Lee who has accepted a place and scholarship for the Master in Performance course at the Royal College of Music London.
Kanneh-Mason family concert at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, rescheduled to June
| Updated: 08:56, 11 February 2021
A new date has been set for a concert featuring all the Kanneh-Mason siblings at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham.
Originally scheduled for February 14, it will now take place on Sunday, June 30.
Original tickets remain valid.
The Kanneh-Masons. Photo: Stuart McIntyre. (43620869)
Often billed as Britainâs most musical family, the Kanneh-Masons are seven siblings Ââ Isata, Braimah, Sheku, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata and Mariatu Ââ raised in Nottingham and range in age from 24 to 11 years old.
All play either violin, piano or cello.
They have won numerous awards and the children all attend, or have attended, Londonâs Royal Academy of Music and its Primary and Junior Academies, apart from Jeneba, who instead has chosen to study at Londonâs Royal College of Music.
BACH’S Goldberg Variations present a daunting challenge to artists of any calibre. A keyboard legend in the classical repertoire, one of its major tasks is marrying the intimidating intellectual demands of the work with the need for the player to find their own interpretation.
Now London-based, Siberian-born pianist Pavel Kolesnikov was a student of Moscow State Conservatory, London’s Royal College of Music and Brussels Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. He was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2014 to 2016 and his albums to date include works by Frederic Chopin, Ludwig Van Beethoven and Louis Couperin.
As well as matching the holy with the worldly, Kolesnikov performs Bach’s masterpiece with all the precision of a luxury Swiss watch, combining a powerful inner passion and heightened meditative power.