Cellist Alexandra Mackenzie is internationally recognised as an outstanding performer and educator, has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall and Alice Tully and played concerts in 43 of America's 50 States. She has been a guest artist at Banff Centre for the Arts, a Fellow at Tanglewood, and has performed across the globe. Alexandra teaches at the junior department of the Royal Academy of Music and was elected an ARAM in 2011.
Pianist Ingrid Sawers is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and is equally at home collaborating in instrumental and vocal repertoire. She is a passionate advocate for new music, having premiered works by composers including Judith Bingham, Graham Fitkin, Martin Butler, and Thomas Adès. She runs a thriving teaching and coaching studio, travels worldwide as an examiner and coaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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Please note: this event is in the past
Come and listen to the enchanting pieces of 19th century women composers brought back to life by cellist, Alexandra Mackenzie, and pianist, Ingrid Sawers.
When concerts were cancelled in lockdown cellist, Alexandra Mackenzie, and pianist, Ingrid Sawers, dedicated time to repertoire hunting. Among the first pieces they found was an enchanting miniature by A.E.Horrocks. Published at the turn of the century it had languished, unchecked out, in the Royal Academy of Music library since. They were stunned to discover that the composer was Amy Horrocks who studied at RAM in the 1880s and premiered works at the Proms. Alexandra and Ingrid realised that many composers were hidden behind bland initials and started searching in other libraries, amassing a treasure trove of lost gems. This concert features the initial miniature ‘Twilight’ by Horrocks alongside pieces by Avril Coleridge-Taylor, (over-shadowed by her famous father Samuel), the virtuoso violinist Ethel Barns, Scottish cellist Marie Dare and others. This concert celebrates the release of a CD of the repertoire.
With great thanks to the Francis Routh Trust, who have sponsored this concert.
Marie Dare (1902-1976) - Hebridean Suite
Annie Maria Grimson (1870-1949) - Nocturne
Christabel Baxendale (1886-1950) - Plaintive Melody
Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-98) - Two Songs
Margaret Jacobohn (1875-1971) - Romanza
Harriett Claiborne-Dixon (1880-1930) - Andante Religioso
Isobel Dunlop (1901-1975) - Suite
Ethel Barns (1873 - 1948) - Idylle
Marie Dare - Romance
- The Spanish Shawl
Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867-1919) - Irish Melody
- Country Dance
- Twilight
