BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1516@poonamusic.com DTSTART:20200312T140000Z DTEND:20200312T140000Z DTSTAMP:20250707T042610Z URL:https://poonamusic.com/events/savitri-grier-violin-and-tom-poster-pian o/ SUMMARY:Savitri Grier\, violin and Tom Poster\, piano DESCRIPTION:In a programme of Beethoven: Sonata in E flat\, Op. 12 No. 3\; Brahms: Sonata No. 1 Op. 78\; Messiaen: Theme and Variations and Fauré: S onata No. 1 in A major Op. 13 and Berceuse Op. 16\n\nDuring the 2019/20 se ason Savitri Grier makes her debut as soloist with the Concerto Budapest\, City of Birmingham Youth and Qatar Philharmonic Orchestras.  She gives recitals in Mumbai and concerts across Europe at the Podium Festival (Stut tgart)\, in Warsaw\, Sendesaal Bremen\, Chapelle Royale Brussels\, Royal W elsh College of Music and Cambridge Music Festival.  In 2020 she guest le ads the Budapest Festival Orchestra at major venues across Europe. Over th e last year Savitri has undertaken a British Council chamber project in Qa tar\, given a series of concerts in China\, collaborated with the renowned sarod players Amaan Ali and Ayaan Ali Bangash at The Times Swarsangam Mus ic Festival and worked closely with a youth orchestra\, within their commu nity in Balanyá\, Guatamala.\n\nOther highlights include recitals at Wigm ore Hall and Carnegie Hall\, a collaboration with the Dvořȧk Quartet at Berlin Konzerthaus and Laeiszhalle Hamburg\, an IMS Prussia Cove tour\, an d a residency at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival performing the complete Bee thoven Violin Sonatas. As a soloist Savitri has appeared with the Royal Ph ilharmonic\, Bournemouth Symphony\, English Chamber\, London Mozart Player s\, Welsh National Opera\, Barbican Young and Oxford Philharmonic Orchestr as\, among many others.  She has given recitals at major venues and festi vals across the UK including the St Magnus\, Bury St. Edmunds\, Newbury\, Norfolk &\; Norwich\, Portsmouth\, Harrogate and Roman River Festivals. \n\nSought after as a chamber musician she has taken part in numerous fest ivals including the East Neuk Festival retreat\, the Holland International Music Sessions\, Musique à Marsac in France\, Krzyzowa Chamber Music in Poland and Avigdor Classics in Bern.  She has collaborated with Susan Tom es\, Christoph Richter\, Steven Isserlis\, Kryzstof Chorzelski\, Tom Poste r and the Kaleidoscope Collective\, Richard Uttley\, Andrew Marriner and A lasdair Beatson\, and regularly gives recitals with the Grier Trio.  Sav itri studied at Oxford University\, the Guildhall School of Music and Dram a with David Takeno\, and the Universität der Künste Berlin with Nora Ch astain. She was selected for representation by Young Classical Artists Tru st in 2015.\n\nDuring her studies she participated in masterclasses with F erenc Rados\, Johannes Goritski\, Maxim Vengerov\, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Thomas Adès\, and was especially grateful for guidance from Ana Chumachen co and Andras Keller. Awards include 1st Prize at the Oxford Philomusica a nd Tunbridge Wells International Competitions.\n\nSavitri plays on a Matte o Goffriller violin on generous loan from the Aidan Woodcock Charitable Tr ust. \n\nTom Poster is a musician whose skills and passions extend well b eyond the conventional role of the concert pianist. He has been described as “a marvel\, [who] can play anything in any style” (The Herald)\, “mercurially brilliant” (The Strad)\, and as having “a beautiful ton e that you can sink into like a pile of cushions” (BBC Music).\n\nSince his London concerto debut at the age of 13\, Tom has appeared in a wide-ra nging concerto repertoire of over forty major works. Equally at home in th e high-octane virtuosity of Rachmaninov or Ligeti\, as directing Mozart an d Beethoven from the piano\, Tom has appeared as soloist with the Aurora O rchestra\, BBC Philharmonic\, BBC Scottish Symphony\, China National Symph ony\, English Chamber Orchestra\, Hallé\, Philharmonia\, Royal Philharmon ic\, Scottish Chamber Orchestra\, St Petersburg State Capella Philharmonic and Ulster Orchestra\, collaborating with conductors such as Vladimir Ash kenazy\, Nicholas Collon\, Thierry Fischer\, James Loughran\, Robin Ticcia ti and Yan Pascal Tortelier.\n\nTwo outstanding new concertos have been wr itten for Tom: David Knotts’ Laments and Lullabies\, commissioned by the Presteigne Festival\; and Martin Suckling’s Piano Concerto\, commission ed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Tom features regularly on BBC radio and television and has made multiple appearances at the BBC Proms\, and hi s exceptional versatility has put him in great demand at festivals across the world. He is a regular performer at Wigmore Hall\, and is pianist of the Aronowitz Ensemble (former BBC New Generation Artists) and the Aronowi tz Piano Trio. Tom enjoys established duo partnerships with Alison Balsom\ , Guy Johnston and Elena Urioste\, with whom he made his Carnegie Hall deb ut in 2018. He also collaborates with Ian Bostridge\, Steven Isserlis and Matthew Rose among many others\, and has performed piano quintets with the Brodsky\, Callino\, Carducci\, Castalian\, Danish\, Elias\, Endellion\, H eath\, Martinu\, Medici\, Navarra\, Sacconi\, Skampa and Tippett Quartets. \n\nTom’s passion for bringing wonderful musicians together\, and for cr eative and innovative programming\, has led him to found the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective\, an ensemble with a flexible line-up and an ardent com mitment to diversity. Kaleidoscope’s recent and forthcoming highlights i nclude residencies at Wigmore Hall\, Kettle’s Yard\, and the Cheltenham and Ischia festivals. Tom has previously been invited to curate series for BBC Radio 3\, the Roman River Festival and Wilton’s Music Hall. Tom’s critically acclaimed recordings include solo discs for Champs Hill Record s (In Dance and Song) and Edition Classics (Light and Shadows)\; three dis cs for Chandos with Jennifer Pike and the Doric Quartet\; Finzi’s Eclogu e with Aurora Orchestra for Decca Classics\; works by Thomas Ades for EMI\ ; and a duo album with Alison Balsom for Warner Classics.\n\nHis most rece nt releases are a duo disc with Elena Urioste\, Estrellita\, on BIS Record s\, which includes Tom's own arrangements\; and the premiere recording of Cliff Eidelman’s Symphony for Orchestra and Two Pianos with the London S ymphony Orchestra. Tom also regularly features as soloist on film soundtr acks\, including the Oscar-nominated score for The Theory of Everything. T om studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama\, a nd at King’s College\, Cambridge\, where he gained a Double First in Mus ic. He won First Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition 200 7\, and the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competi tion in 2000.\n\nAs a composer\, Tom’s recent commissions include two pi eces for Alison Balsom\, Turn to the Watery World! and The Thoughts of Dr. May\, the latter recorded for Warner Classics\; a set of songs for Matthe w Rose commissioned by Wigmore Hall\; and The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak\, a chamber opera for Wattle &\; Daub\, which received a cri tically acclaimed three-week run at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2017. A lifel ong devotee of the Great American Songbook\, Tom’s arrangements of Gersh win\, Cole Porter and others have been extensively performed\, broadcast a nd recorded. Tom has also recently appeared on stage as conductor\, cellis t\, recorder player\, swanee-whistler and Reciter in Walton's Façade. His other passions include Indian food\, redwood forests\, yoga\, contrabasso ons\, bright blue skies\, wild freestyle dancing and animals with unusual noses. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://poonamusic.com/pms_wp/wp-content/uploads /2020/02/Savitri-Grier-crop.jpg CATEGORIES:Violin and piano recitals LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India GEO:18.5198845;73.87824479999995 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Mazda Hall:geo:18.51 98845,73.87824479999995 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR