Saturday 7 May 2022
ARNOLD Beckus the Dandipratt Overture
ELGAR Cello Concerto Indira Grier
ARNOLD Symphony No. 6
Already the recipient of several international prizes, Indira was recently selected to be one of only eight cellists worldwide to participate in the 2020 Verbier Festival Academy Soloist programme. She has completed a Masters degree with Alexander Chaushian at the Royal College of Music, London, where she held an RCM Scholarship. Previously she was taught by Melissa Phelps and then by Troels Svane at the Musikhochschule Luebeck. Indira has won Making Music’s 2019 ‘Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist Award’, the 2019 RCM Unaccompanied Bach Prize, the 2018 RCM Concerto Competition performing the Elgar Cello Concerto and a Gold Medal in the 2019 Vienna International Music Competition. In the last year she has also won awards from the Hattori Foundation and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and she is very grateful to be supported by Help Musicians UK. Other competition successes include winning prizes at the 2016 Royal Overseas League Competition, the 2014 Tunbridge Wells International Young Artists Competition and the 2012 Bromsgrove International Young Musicians’ Platform. She was awarded the Junior Guilhermina Suggia Gift on two consecutive occasions (2010 & 2012) and she won all available prizes at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, including the 2013 Concerto Competition.
Indira has performed across the UK and Europe and has participated in masterclasses with David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Thomas Ades and Steven Isserlis at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, IMS Prussia Cove and Wigmore Hall.
She has been performing as soloist from the age of twelve working with conductors such as Stephen Cleobury, Jonathan Willcocks and Robert Max, and also frequently performs across the UK as part of the Grier Trio. A keen chamber musician, Indira has enjoyed working with artists including Simon Crawford-Phillips, Andrew Marriner, Clio Gould, Matthew Truscott, Rebecca Gilliver and the Castalian Quartet in festivals such as Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music and Wye Valley Chamber Music. Indira believes strongly in promoting diversity in classical music and has taken part in projects with Chineke! In addition to her playing, Indira read English Literature at University College London from 2014-17.
St Mary's Church, Aylesbury, HP20 2JJ
Saturday 9 July 2022
Film Music Concert
BERNSTEIN To Kill a Mockingbird
WILLIAMS A Child's Tale: Suite from the BFG
WILLIAMS Theme from Jurassic Park
MANCINI Overture to a Pops Concert
WILLIAMS Suite from JFK
GIACCHINO Music from Up
MENKEN Beauty and the Beast Overture
MORRICONE Cinema Paradiso
WILLIAMS Adventures of Indiana Jones
St Mary's Church, Aylesbury, HP20 2JJ
Saturday 19 November 2022
COLERIDGE TAYLOR Balade
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto
BEACH Gaelic Symphony
St Mary's Church, Aylesbury, HP20 2JJ