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‘Uplifting’ music from 19th and early 20th centuries

THIS week’s Wednesday Lunchtime Live Concert at Wesley Music Centre focuses on one of Canberra’s up and coming talents.

Pianist James Huntingford and guest artist Angharad Johnson on horn will perform a program of uplifting music chosen from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pianist James Huntingford
The program includes excerpts from Liszt’s Years of Pilgrimage, Gershwin Prelude No.2; Beethoven’s Sonata in F# major, 2nd movement; Nielsen’s Canto Serioso (horn and piano); Rachmaninov’s Prelude in Gb major (arranged for horn and piano) and Rachmaninov’s Prelude in Bb major.

Huntingford has been playing the piano since the age of six. In 2009 he performed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 with the Canberra Youth Orchestra. He was the winner of the Haydn Festival competition in 2009, which resulted in a concert tour in Austria.

He plays in numerous chamber ensembles, accompanying for exams and recitals, as well as recently taking on conducting, adjudication and choral direction jobs around Canberra. He studies piano, fortepiano and harpsichord with Geoffrey Lancaster AM, and will graduate from the School of Music at the end of this year.

Johnson studied horn with Dominic Harvey at the ANU School of  Music. She has also performed with the CSO, CYO, and Melbourne Opera Company. She moved to Hobart in 2010, where she was awarded a scholarship in orchestral brass.

She was a participant in the San Francisco International Horn Symposium in 2011 and was principal horn of the Tasmania Discovery Orchestra in 2011. She now lives in Sydney, where she is part way through a Masters of Clinical Audiology, as well as privately teaching the horn.

James Huntingford, piano and Angharad Johnson, horn, “Wednesday Lunchtime Live series” at Wesley Music Centre, 20 National Circuit, Forrest, 12.40 to 1.20pm, Wednesday, October 17, $2 or paper note entry. Refreshments – gold coin. No bookings required.

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