ONGOING GRANTS
Royal Academy of Music: We are supporting the Audience Prize at the CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition in memory of Rosemary Rapaport and Gerard Heller at RAM.The competition is for quartets and trios in alternating years. This year it is for quartets. It takes place in the Duke’s Hall from 4-9pm on April 30th and is open to the public.
Lauderdale House: The EFT provides financial support for Lauderdale House in its Sunday morning recitals by young professionals and students from London’s music colleges. This year we have increased our grant considerably. The trust usually has two “Specials” each season for our chosen musicians – often prize winners of our other awards. Check the calendar for the rest of this season’s concerts. The Spring 2012 season’s concerts started on February 19th and there ares several more wonderful concerts before the summer break. Lauderdale House is………
Learn more about Lauderdale House here.
Royal Over-Seas League Arts: An annual award in the Royal Over-Seas League highly acclaimed music competition. The prize goes to an outstanding young player or group in the London area. The 2011 award went to Fields String Quartet, now renamed The Castalian String Quartet. The Castalian subsequently gave a concert for us at Lauderdale House.
You can read more about the The Royal Over-Seas League Arts here.
Trinity College of Music: The trust gave a contribution to Trinity College of Music for the second Greenwich International String Quartet Festival in April 2011. In particular we sponsored The Marathon Project – a collaboration between dance and choreography students from Laban and composition students from Trinity, with the music played by by the Soltice and the Wu String Quartets. The project was performed at the National Maritime Museum to a packed and enthusiastic audience.
The Arensky Chamber Orchestra: London’s newest young orchestra includes many of the finest players of the up and coming generation of musicians. Last year’s programme at Cadogan Hall was innovative and ambitious and culminated in a concert conducted by their Artistic Director William Kundhart, with Melvyn Tan playing Ravel’s piano concerto in G. This year’s series at Cadogan Hall, The Revolutionaries of Vienna, will also receive support from our trust.
The Aurora Orchestra is by now quite established as the leading young orchestra in London. The trust will support their New Moves series which takes place mostly at LSO St. Lukes. The series involves a collaboration with an emerging artist in another art form or musical genre; programmes are eclectic and risk-taking, and attract new young audiences in ever-growing numbers. New Moves aims to reach new audiences for classical music and break new creative ground.
WHO WE HAVE HELPED
Since 1998, the EFT has supported young musicians in the London area in a variety of ways. We have sponsored recitals and school concerts, commissioned music, given educational prizes and helped young musicians acquire instruments. Below is a comprehensive list of past recipients and projects that have benefited from our support.
In September 2010 we supported a new composition by Andy Scott for harp premiered by Keziah Thomas to great acclaim at The Forge in Camden.
In December 2010 Fred Gibson and the Illumination Orchestra gave two performances, supported by our trust, at the Royal College of Music. A hugely ambitious and exciting project by energetic and gifted young musicians. we expect to hear more form them in the future!
Click on highlighted text to read more about that recipient.
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| Elysian Quartet at Greenwich International String Quartet Festival | Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition prize to the Brooks Quartet and Ksenija Sidorova (accordion) | |
| Brooks Quartet with Rafał Łuc (accordion) at Lauderdale House, Highgate. | Education award at London International Piano Competition | |
| Lauderdale House, Highgate, for Sunday Morning Concert Series (13 concerts) | Trinity College – for Greenwich International String Quartet Festival Composition Competition | |
| Sounds Underground: Claire Booth and Andrew Matthews-Owen song recital at Louise Blouin Foundation | Sounds Underground: Flights into Darkness composed by Robert Fokkens | |
| Sounds Underground: Robert Fokkens composition performed by Tom Frankland and Jakob Fichert at The Warehouse | ||
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| Catherine Hopper and Francois Salignat recital at Lauderdale House, Highgate | Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition prize to Rhodes String Trio | |
| Royal College of Music 125th Birthday Concert | Pro Corda for Chamber Music Festival for Schools | |
| More Than Muses – concert organised and performed by final year students from Trinity College, | ||
| Sounds Underground: ‘strings, sticks and…’ performed at the Bishopsgate Institute by Tom Hankey (violin), Oliver Coates (cello) and Sarah Cresswell (perc) | ||
| Lauderdale House, Highgate, for Sunday Morning Concert Series (13 concerts) | ||
| at The Warehouse, Waterloo. | ||
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| Erato Piano Trio at Lauderdale House, Highgate | Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition prize to Catherine Hopper (mezzo soprano) | |
| Ashok Klouda (cello) and Aya Kawabata (piano) private recital | Sounds Underground composition by Henry Ng ‘In an Artist’s Studio’ | |
| Sounds Underground performance at The Warehouse of Henry Ng’s ‘In an Artist’s Studio’ Anna Dennis (soprano), Oliver Coates (cello) and Jakob Fichert (piano) | ||
| Sounds Underground performance by Ensemble na Mara at Islington Town Hall of Piano Trios by John Herford and Cheryl Francis-Hoad | ||
| Lauderdale House, Highgate, for Sunday Morning Concert Series (16 concerts) | ||
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| Lauderdale House recital Jane Gordon (violin) and Jan Rautio (piano) | Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition prize to James Baillieu (piano) | |
| The Chekhov String Trio – recital in private house | Travel grant to cellist for music tour of USA | |
| Sounds Underground at The Warehouse performances by Sounds Underground Ensemble of two new compositions by Gregorio Zanon and Columina I Bosch | Pimlico School for restauration of two grand pianos | |
| Salomon Orchestra performance at The Hermitage Primary School, Wapping | South Haringey Junior School for musical instruments | |
| Lauderdale House, Highgate, for Sunday Morning Concert Series (13 concerts) | Sounds Underground for composition by Gregorio Zanon ‘CityDreams17’ | |
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| Lauderdale House, Highgate, for Sunday Morning Concert Series (15 concerts) | Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition prize to O’Duo percussion duo | |
| Sounds Underground for the Sounds Underground Ensemble performance at The Bishopsgate Institute of Open Secret and Cantilena | London International Piano Competition education award | |
| Pimlico School concert series at Bolivar Hall | ||
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| Artea String Quartet recital at private house | Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition prize to Jane Gordon (violin) | |
| Linos Wind Quintet recital at Lauderdale House | Sounds Underground commissions to Dylan Pugh for ‘Open Secrets’ and Tom Evans for ‘Cantilena’ | |
| Salomon Orchestra performance at The Hermitage Primary School, Wapping | Contribution towards purchase of cello case for music student | |
| Pimlico School concert series at Bolivar Hall | ||
| Sounds Underground for performance by the SU Ensemble at The Warehouse, Waterloo of ‘Open Secret’ and ‘Cantilena’ conducted by Matilda Hofmand and led by Tom Hankey. | ||
| Lauderdale House, Highgate, for Sunday Morning Concert Series (13 concerts) | ||
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| Private concert:Max Quartet (with Robert Max) | Education award to Russian student studying in London | |
| Artea String Quartet charity recital | Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition prize to The Tempest Saxophone Quartet | |
| Lauderdale House, Highgate, for Sunday Morning Concert Series (13 concerts) | ||
| Private house recital by Pavel Timofejevsky | ||
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| Lauderdale House, Highgate, for Sunday Morning Concert Series (13 concerts) | London International Piano Competition education award | |
| Max String Quartet recital in private house | Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition prize to Inon Barnatan (piano) | |
| Pimlico School concert | ||
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| Lauderdale House, Highgate, for Sunday Morning Concert Series (19 concerts) | Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition prize to Helena Wood (violin) | |
| Tavec String Quartet recital in private house | Pimlico School – for music stand lights | |
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| Pimlico School Choral and Chamber music concerts | London International Piano Competition education award | |
| Tavec String Quartet recital in private house | Contribution towards purchase of clarinet for Special Needs student. | |
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| Tavec String Quartet recital in private house | St. John’s Vale Primary School for musical instruments | |
| Pimlico School Choral and Chamber music concerts | Donation of full Drum Set to Pimlico School | |
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| Pimlico School Choral Concert | ||