Concert Details
| Title: | Lunchtime Concert St Leonard's Church Seaford. Julia Kemp - Soprano. Rosemary Kemp - Piano |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 21 March 2015, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Sonata in A major Op. 17, No. 5 Johann Christian Bach (1735 – 1782) Allegro Presto Piano Sonata in C major, K. 545 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) Allegro Andante Rondo - Allegretto Fantasie in C moll K.V. 397 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Élégie – (Text after Thomas Moore) Henri Duparc (1848 – 1933) Chanson Triste Op. 2, No. 4 (Text by John Lahor) Henri Duparc L’Invitation au Voyage (Text by Charles Baudelaire) Henri Duparc From Suite bergamasque Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918) II. Menuet III. Clair de Lune Liriche su Verlaine Bruno Maderna (1920 – 1973) I. Aquarelles II. Sérénade III. Sagesse An die Nachtigall (No. 4 from 4 Lieder Op, 46) Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Julia Kemp went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read Music as an undergraduate. She was also a choral scholar in the Choir of Trinity College for three years, where she sang numerous concerts (including two performances which were broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from St John’s, Smith Square) and toured with the choir to the USA, Canada and Germany. She also appears on the choir’s recordings of music by Eriks Esenvalds, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Chandos Anthems and Britten’s Saint Nicolas. While studying at Trinity, Julia received singing lessons from Sheila Barnes and participated in her Lingua e Lirice opera course, culminating in a performance of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Panicale, Italy. In her professional life, Julia is a Teaching Assistant working with children with autism. Julia joins her new mother-in-law for today's concert. Rosemary Kemp, formerly a scholarship pupil and prize winner at the Royal College of Music London, performs and teaches electronic and digital keyboard, piano and harpsichord professionally. She is a qualified secondary school teacher with post graduate qualifications in special needs. She contributed to A Common Approach for the Federation of Music Services and has been a moderator for the ABRSM Music Medals. She was Keyboard Co-ordinator for East Sussex Music Service prior to her current position teaching keyboards for Brighton and Hove Music and Arts. Rosemary set up the SNAPPS Special Needs Advocates Group based in Seaford East Sussex and ran it for twenty years prior to its closure in 2012. Rosemary played professionally prior to having a family and she has continued to play at a local level for festivals, clubs and theatre groups as well as in recitals more recently. |
| Tickets: | Free Admission with a retiring Collection. Concert lasts approximately an hour. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
