YETHOLM Sinfonia's summer concert takes place in the orchestra's usual venue of Kelso Old Parish Church this Saturday, and will introduce a new piano soloist to Scotland.
Barbara White studied with the internationally-famous teacher Fanny Waterman, and as an outstanding student, performed in many of her master classes, notably at the Aldeburgh Festival. She then studied with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris and at the RNCM i
n Manchester.
Since her London debut in the Purcell Room, she has given countless recitals throughout England, and has a wide range of concertos in her repertoire, from Mozart to Gershwin. Throughout her career, Barbara has performed chamber music with a wide variety of both wind and string ensembles, and has appeared with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet on a number of occasions.
She is also the founder and director of the Four Seasons Music School, which she founded in 1994. This gives children in the Teesside area the opportunity to spend a week in the summer making music together, and many children have started to learn an instrument after their experiences at the summer school.
The programme will also feature Mendelssohn’s famous Fingal’s Cave overture, old favourite Plymouth Hoe by John Ansell, as well as the very engaging Sinfonietta written in 1944 by the now sadly-neglected composer Ernest Moeran.
Tickets for the orchestra, which begins at 7.30pm, cost £8 (Yetholm Sinfonia friends: £6, students: free – no ticket required) and are available from Kelso shops Latimer’s Bookshop, Oven Wynd and Hector Innes Photography, or by telephone on 01573 420279.
