Event overview
As part of the Department of Music's PureGold season, we present a lunchtime concert by the Cassidy/Tinker Piano Duo
Programme to feature works of American minimalism:
Philip Glass (1937 - ) In Again Out Again (1968)
Steve Reich (1936 - ) Piano Phase (1967)
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Enjoy your lunch whilst listening to some amazing music in the beautiful surroundings of Deptford Town Hall.
Paul Cassidy studied as a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music with Irina Zaritzskaya and Andrew Ball, graduating in 2001 as recipient of the Hopkinson Silver Medal for his performance in the RCM Chappell Medal Final. Since graduation Paul has been active as a freelance pianist and contemporary music specialist. He has twice reached the semi-finals of the British Contemporary Piano Competition, and has given numerous premieres of new works, including the world premiere of Kevin Malone’s Count Me In for piano and electronics at the University of Manchester. In 2007 Paul performed in the PLG Young Artists Concert Series at the Purcell Room, London, and later that same year he participated alongside Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars in a complete performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations at the Tate Modern, London. Since 2008 Paul has been a member of the six-piano contemporary music ensemble Piano Circus and has performed extensively with the group across the UK, Europe and the United States. Paul is currently in the third year of his PhD in Music Performance at Goldsmiths, were he has been working with Keith Potter and Andrew Zolinsky on his primary research and repertoire interest – American minimalist piano music. Paul will perform again at this year’s PureGold on Saturday 21st June in a solo recital featuring works by British and American Minimalist composers.
Katherine Tinker is a pianist residing in London, and is currently a Park Lane Young Artist. This season performances include works by Julian Anderson with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Foyle Future Firsts, at Spitalfields Music Summer Festival with the Harrison Ensemble, and with the City of London Sinfonia. Previously, Katherine has performed at the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, the Lindbury Studio Theatre Covent Garden, live on BBC Radio 3, and she will make her Wigmore Hall debut with clarinettist Max Welford in April 2015. She particularly enjoys playing contemporary music, and will be premiering new pieces by composers Martyn Harry and Phil Dawson later this year. Katherine studied music at Christ Church Oxford before being accepted at the Royal College of Music where she obtained a Masters degree, under teachers Niel Immelman and Andrew Ball. Her early piano studies were with Ronald Smith, Yonty Solomon and Ian Jones. At the age of fifteen she was invited to give her first solo public recital in London, and since then she has performed as solo pianist, orchestral pianist and repetiteur in Europe and the USA. As a chamber musician, Katherine has attended the Pro Corda International Chamber Music Academy where she won the course prize, and is an alumna of the London Sinfonietta Academy and the BBC Symphony Orchestra Pathway Scheme. She also has a keen interest in music outreach, and has performed in workshops run by English Touring Opera, Music in Prisons, and Wigmore Hall education teams.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 11 Jun 2014 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
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