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Fox Bursary | Ashley Wass Raymond Fox Bursary, ashley wass, Piano (1996), The young British pianist,ashley wass, is recognised as one of the rising stars of his generation. http://www.makingmusic.org.uk/html/85.shtml
Extractions: The young British pianist, Ashley Wass, is recognised as one of the rising stars of his generation. Only the second British pianist in 20 years to reach the finals of the Leeds Piano competition (in 2000), he was the first British pianist ever to win the top prize at the World Piano Competition in 1997. He appeared in he "rising Stars" series at the 2001 Ravinia Festival and his promise has been further acknowledged by the BBC, who selected him to be a New Generations artists over two seasons. This season, Wass has appeared with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (with Osmo Vanska) and the BBC Philharmonic (with Yakov Kreizberg) and has recorded the Poulenc Piano Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic. Other engagements in the past year have included recitals and chamber music in the USA, Finland, Estonia, Paris, Germany, Holland and Switzerland. Forthcoming recitals around the UK will include works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Liszt, Stravinsky and Ravel. In September, he opens the Hong Kong Philharmonic's 2002/3 season with Beethoven's First Piano Concerto under Christopher Seaman. Ashley Wass made his debut recording in 1999 with a solo recital disc of works by Cesar Franck for Naxos. Diapason commented: "No less remarkable is the way that he delivers the Prelude, Aria et Final with great precision and taste and always with a sense of dynamics and articulation that is reminiscent of old masters such as Bolet and Ciccolini. The quality and height of inspiration of his playing makes this disc a revelation."
Fox Bursary | Ashley Wass Raymond Fox Bursary. ashley wass, Piano (1996). The young British pianist,ashley wass, is recognised as one of the rising stars of his generation. http://www.makingmusic.org.uk/cms/htmlaccessible/85.shtml
Extractions: The young British pianist, Ashley Wass, is recognised as one of the rising stars of his generation. Only the second British pianist in 20 years to reach the finals of the Leeds Piano competition (in 2000), he was the first British pianist ever to win the top prize at the World Piano Competition in 1997. He appeared in he "rising Stars" series at the 2001 Ravinia Festival and his promise has been further acknowledged by the BBC, who selected him to be a New Generations artists over two seasons. This season, Wass has appeared with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (with Osmo Vanska) and the BBC Philharmonic (with Yakov Kreizberg) and has recorded the Poulenc Piano Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic. Other engagements in the past year have included recitals and chamber music in the USA, Finland, Estonia, Paris, Germany, Holland and Switzerland. Forthcoming recitals around the UK will include works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Liszt, Stravinsky and Ravel. In September, he opens the Hong Kong Philharmonic's 2002/3 season with Beethoven's First Piano Concerto under Christopher Seaman. Ashley Wass made his debut recording in 1999 with a solo recital disc of works by Cesar Franck for Naxos. Diapason commented: "No less remarkable is the way that he delivers the Prelude, Aria et Final with great precision and taste and always with a sense of dynamics and articulation that is reminiscent of old masters such as Bolet and Ciccolini. The quality and height of inspiration of his playing makes this disc a revelation."
Press Quotes The young pianist ashley wass played impeccably not only stylishly, butalso with subtle, expressive shading and lovely liquid tone quality.. http://www.ashleywass.btinternet.co.uk/pressquotes.htm
Extractions: Press quotes The Independent Make no mistake about it: this boy is special. What I love about his playing is its sincerity and tenderness. He doesnt just caress the piano, he probes its soft depths with the utmost consideration. The Independent That maturity may have little to do with age is proved by the altogether exceptional artistic character of Ashley Wass. Here is a very special, precious talent...I am sure that for music, the future is safe in Wasss hands. Seen and Heard "Ashley Wass has developed into a mature, thoughtful musicians pianist. He judged the Wigmore Hall acoustics perfectly in his dynamic range, pedalling clarity and beautiful tone quality ..It made for a fulfilling hours music, with a palpable silence from his listeners in the hall contributing to what will have been a memorable broadcast at home ..Even those of us who had travelled far departed without any feeling that an hour of music had been short measure. Daily Telegraph For any twenty-year old to take on such a grandly massive work and bring to it this kind of mature reinterpretation is an achievement in itself...his first movement second main theme was more than usually poetic and passages of the slow movement almost achingly poignant. Passion erupted in time for the finale. [Brahms Concerto No.1] The Independent The young pianist Ashley Wass played impeccably - not only stylishly, but also with subtle, expressive shading and lovely liquid tone quality.
Biography Biography. The young British pianist, ashley wass, is recognised asone of the rising stars of his generation. Only the second British http://www.ashleywass.btinternet.co.uk/biography.htm
Extractions: Biography The young British pianist, Ashley Wass, is recognised as one of the rising stars of his generation. Only the second British pianist in 20 years to reach the finals of the Leeds Piano Competition (in 2000), he was the first British pianist ever to win the top prize at the World Piano Competition in 1997. He appeared in the Rising Stars series at the 2001 Ravinia Festival and his promise has been further acknowledged by the BBC, who selected him to be a New Generations Artist over two seasons. Ashley Wass studied at Chethams Music School and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music to study with Christopher Elton and Hamish Milne. He was made an Associate of the Royal Academy in 2002. In 2000/1 he was a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival, playing chamber music with musicians such as Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode and David Soyer. He has given recitals at most of the major UK concert halls including the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall and St Davids Hall. Wass' concerto performances have included Beethoven and Brahms with the Philharmonia, Mendelssohn with the Orchestre National de Lille and Mozart with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Brucknerhaus in Linz . Wass has also worked with Sir Simon Rattle and the CBSO, and the London Mozart Players.
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Biographies and pianist and is ashley wass studied at the Royal Academy of Music and is recognised as one of the rising stars of his generation. Only the second British pianist http://www.londonorganforum.com/biographies.htm
Extractions: Saturday 25 October 2003 Home [ Biographies ] Timetable Prices Bryce Morrison is an internationally famous teacher, critic, broadcaster and pianist and is considered among the world's leading authorities on piano performance. He studied at the Kings School, Canterbury, where he held a music scholarship and at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. His teachers have included Ronald Smith, Iso Ellinson and Alexander Uninsky. He is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in a pioneering programme in repertoire and performance tradition affiliated with King's College, London. Anne Page is well known to audiences in the UK and abroad as an organist of great virtuosity, integrity and musicianship. Born and educated in Perth, Australia, she studied in Europe with Marie-Claire Alain and Peter Hurford, giving her London début at the Royal Festival Hall in 1988. Now based in Cambridge, she directed the Cambridge Summer Recitals for eight years, presenting many world an dUK first performances. Her commitment to music by living composers has led to the commissioning and premiere of new works. As an enthusiast for early music, Anne Page performs frequently on historic instruments in Holland and Belgium. She has appeared many times in recitals for trumpet and organ with Crispian Steele-Perkins, virtuoso of the Baroque trumpet. She is acknowledged as one of this country's leading exponents of the art harmonium. Ann Elise Smoot
Wass, Ashley hands The Independent Recognised as one of the rising stars of his generation,25year-old ashley wass became in 2000 only the second British pianist in 20 http://www.hkpo.com/eng/musicians/guest/w/wass_ashley.jsp
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Extractions: The young British pianist, Ashley Wass, is recognised as one of the rising stars of his generation. Only the second British pianist in 20 years to reach the finals of the Leeds Piano competition (in 2000), he was the first British pianist ever to win the top prize at the World Piano Competition in 1997. He appeared in he "rising Stars" series at the 2001 Ravinia Festival and his promise has been further acknowledged by the BBC, who selected him to be a New Generations artists over two seasons. This season, Wass has appeared with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (with Osmo Vanska) and the BBC Philharmonic (with Yakov Kreizberg) and has recorded the Poulenc Piano Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic. Other engagements in the past year have included recitals and chamber music in the USA, Finland, Estonia, Paris, Germany, Holland and Switzerland. Forthcoming recitals around the UK will include works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Liszt, Stravinsky and Ravel. In September, he opens the Hong Kong Philharmonic's 2002/3 season with Beethoven's First Piano Concerto under Christopher Seaman. Ashley Wass made his debut recording in 1999 with a solo recital disc of works by Cesar Franck for Naxos. Diapason commented: "No less remarkable is the way that he delivers the Prelude, Aria et Final with great precision and taste and always with a sense of dynamics and articulation that is reminiscent of old masters such as Bolet and Ciccolini. The quality and height of inspiration of his playing makes this disc a revelation."
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Extractions: Saturday 25 October 2003 Home Biographies [ Timetable ] Prices October 25, Dukes Hall Coffee/tea and registration Session I, Bryce Morrison on Francks piano repertoire Mini-recital involving Piano plus harmonium arrangement of Prelude, Fugue and Variation featuring students of the Royal Academy of Music Lunch (not provided). Participants should either bring their own lunch, or buy lunch in one of the many restaurants and sandwich bars in the area Session II, Masterclass on LOrganiste: Anne Page and students from the Royal Academy of Music on the harmonium in the David Josefowitz Recital Hall Discussion on various aspects of Francks instruments: Anne Page David Titterington and Wijnand van der Pol Tea Session III: William Whitehead on the organ repertoire Panel discussion, chaired by Jeremy Summerly Supper break (food not provided). Concert in the Dukes Hall, featuring organist
Extractions: Playing without music, Ashley Wass showed that he has developed into a mature, thoughtful 'musicians' pianist'. He judged the Wigmore Hall acoustics perfectly in his dynamic range, pedalling clarity and beautiful tone quality. Wass gave an impression that having assimilated the scores completely, he was thinking and feeling these two sonatas whilst performing them. It made for a fulfilling hour's music, with a palpable silence from his listeners in the hall contributing to what will have been a memorable broadcast at home, as balanced from the BBC's five microphones. The E minor sonata of Beethoven (1814) is one of those smaller, concentrated middle period works (this one in two contrasted movements) which are more often encountered in complete cycles than chosen on their own. Its first movement requires meaningful juxtapositions of extreme contrasts; the second a relaxed melodic rondo which is Schubertian in feeling, both perfectly realised here. That was a perfect preparation for tackling the Everest of the young Brahms' huge five movement F minor sonata of 1853, his largest solo keyboard composition. The
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Extractions: All this week, Donald Macleod journeys to countries that played a part in the life and music of Frederick Delius, beginning today with America. The composer spent two years there as a young man, where, for the most part, he ostensibly oversaw an orange plantation in Florida. However, he was more preoccupied with the sights and sounds around him and composing for the first time. This programme features music that Delius wrote during this period, as well as music he composed later in which he drew on the memories of his American sojourn. Polka: Zum Carnival - Eric Parkin (Piano)
Extractions: Crotchet Amazon UK Amazon USA Ashley Wass was the first British winner of the triennial World Piano Competition (London 1997) and he has chosen Cesar Franck 's piano music for his debut CD. The early glogue Op 3 and Caprice Op 5 (both are rarely played pieces from 1843) date from his period as a virtuoso pianist, which was however not greatly successful. From 1870, he devoted himself to composition and returned to writing for the piano in his last years. Here we have his major works for the piano from the 1880s, both of which reflect his career as an organist in their texture and general style. The Pr and Pr are important works, which maintain a tenuous place in the repertoire, though they are heard less often nowadays. Wass gives fluent accounts of both, and his choice is auspicious in its avoidance of more popular and over-recorded music. His playing is fluent and preserves a beautiful tone, reinforcing my good impression upon hearing him live at a recital in the prestigious Wallace Collection recital series. It is well worth acquiring. Wass shows himself here as a serious minded pianist, who has much to offer. His future will be watched with interest, as will that of the Finnish pianist Antti Siirala, the controversial winner of the recent 2000 competition who had, uniquely, emerged as a last minute substitute, having not been selected as a finalist! A Naxos CD is anticipated in due course.
Ashley Wass (piano) | Lunchtime Recital Season | Classical Music C minor, Op.13 (Pathétique) Arnold Bax Dream in exile for piano Johannes Brahms7 Fantasias, Op.116 ashley wass piano This inspired young pianist, winner of http://www.rfh.org.uk/main/events/91800.html?section=classical&file=index&month=
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Musical Pointers ashley wass, first winner of the London Internationsl Piano Competition and subsequently mustbe a good thing for any young virtuoso pianist s development to http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/reviews/liveevents/Bartholdy3o.htm
Extractions: Ashley Wass (piano) Jesse Mills (violin) and Sarah Carter (cello) Ashley Wass, first winner of the London Internationsl Piano Competition and subsequently admired on his Naxos debut CD (Cesar Franck) ,in recital at Wigmore Hall and in the City of London Festival , brought his own piano trio (with new strings colleagues) to London. It must be a good thing for any young virtuoso pianist's development to engage actively in chamber music, and I was keen to hear this trio which was formed in USA at Marlboro. It was disappointing, because of mismatch between pianist and his colleagues, and crucially because of the pianist's dominance. Balance was seriously awry throughout Beethoven's Ghost trio, only partly because the string players were unable to bring intensity or character to their playing; Wass was assertive as if he was playing a concerto in a large hall. Moving across to the keyboard side of the Duke's Hall, things were a little better for Saint-Saens Trio No 1, which I fear is nowhere near so interesting as No 2, heard recently
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Extractions: The New Generations series gave a fine opportunity to visit or revisit a number of the city churches by Wren and others for short recitals, convenient for city workers on their way home, and mostly within walking distance to concerts later in the evenings. At the very beautiful St Olave's Church in the City, where Samuel Pepys and his wife are buried; Elisabeth [ pictured ] looking down over the piano, we enjoyed a recital by Ashley Wass , a thoughtful pianist who won the first World Piano Competition in London and chose solo piano music by Cesar Franck for his debut CD Wass framed his programme with pieces from the Swiss book of Liszt's musical travel diary; sensitive, warm playing, never bombastic nor perfunctory in the more dramatic and overtly virtuosic passages, showing this unfavourite composer of mine to best advantage, in contrast to a recent unhappy experience from a far more famous Liszt specialist. Similar approaches stood him in good stead for Prokofiev's 3rd sonata (a reworking of earlier material) and for Bartok's
Soloists Born in Lincolnshire, ashley wass began to play the piano at the age of five. ashleyis the first British pianist to achieve the distinction of First http://www.iosoc.org/soloists.htm
Extractions: IOS Thanks Past Soloists Grace Francis Summer Concert 2003 ~ Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Grace Francis attended the Yehudi Menuhin School before studying with Irina Zaritskaya at the Royal College of Music, where she won the Chappell Gold Medal, the highest accolade for any pianist. Since then her career has taken her across Britain, playing to critical acclaim in the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the- Fields, and the Barbican, as well as making broadcasts for BBC, Radio 3. Recent engagements included a performance of Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto, and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Currently Grace is recording a recital of works by Chopin, Novak and John Field for Radio 3. Please click here for a photograph of Grace. Kerenza Peacock Summer Concert 2003 ~ Mendelssohn Violin Concerto A former student of Ipswich High School, Kerenza graduated in 2002 from the Royal Academy of Music. She studied with Howard Davis and was awarded the D M Lloyd Prize and the Marjorie (Bunty) Llempfert Prize for Violin Playing. She led the Symphony Orchestra and Concert Orchestras at the Academy, as well as the Britten-Pears Orchestra. Kerenza's string quartet, the
