braimah kanneh-mason + junyan chen
29 october 2023 / 8pm / the elgar room, london
100% funded (sold out)
Violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason is joined by Junyan Chen on piano to perform a selection of his favourite music live in the Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room.
7.30pm: doors open
8pm: braimah + junyan set
9pm: jazz, funk, and latin DJs until close
what are noisenights?
noisenights are our vision for the future of classical music: informal crowdfunded events featuring international soloists in bars, converted warehouses, and nightclubs.
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Most noisenights feature two short classical sets, one early evening, one late. All tickets to the late set include live music or DJs for the rest of the night, including jazz, latin, afrobeat, swing and funk acts.
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Please note that due to the venue's license, all customers aged 14 years or below must be accompanied by an adult aged 18 years or over at this noisenight.
the venue:
The Elgar Room is the Royal Albert Hall’s versatile contemporary performance space, bar, and home also to The Elgar Room Brasserie restaurant.
Their series of late night jazz and contemporary classical gigs have become a staple of the London scene. We're so excited to be partnering with them to bring noisenights to this historic venue.
the music:
Violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason is joined by Junyan Chen on piano to perform a selection of his favourite music live in the Elgar Room, including music by Ernest Bloch, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Henri Vieuxtemps, Liszt, and Mendelssohn.
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the programme:
Mendelssohn: Song Without Words in E major Op.19b Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song
J.S Bach: Violin Partita No.1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: VI Double
Regrets Henri Vieuxtemps
Liszt - Au bord d’un source
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Méditation from Souvenir d’un lieu cher
Ernest Bloch: Nigun from Baal Shem
braimah kanneh-mason (violin):
Braimah Kanneh-Mason is a dynamic and versatile young violinist. He has performed throughout the UK, Europe, USA and the Australia. Recently, Braimah has appeared as a soloist with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bath Philharmonia and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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An avid chamber musician, Braimah is a member of the Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio, Festival Academy Budapest Ensemble and Kaleidoscope Collective. He has performed at venues and festivals such as the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, Melbourne Symphony Hall, Highgate International Chamber Music Festival, Leicester International Chamber Music Festival and collaborated with artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Tom Poster and Priya Mitchell.
Through playing and presenting Braimah has an episode in the BBC series, ‘In the Studio’, has co-presented a radio programme for Classic fm and recorded as a soloist for BBC Radio 3.
Braimah is a passionate advocate for equal opportunity and diversity in music education and is a Cultural Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda and a Junior Ambassador for Music in Secondary Schools Trust. He has been a mentor at Sistema England, Junior Music Works and a mentor for consecutive years for the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Orchestra.
Braimah is currently studying with Barnabás Kelemen and Eszter Perenyi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where he was a scholarship student with Mateja Marinkovic and Jack Liebeck, winning the Harold Craxton Prize, the John McAslan Prize and the Dame Ruth Railton Chamber Music Prize.
Braimah currently performs on a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, kindly lent to him by the Beare’s International Violin Society.
junyan chen (piano):
Chinese pianist Junyan Chen is an enthusiastic and accomplished musician with a wide range of experiences performing as a soloist in high-profile situations and working with other musicians in small ensembles and large orchestras covering all musical genres.
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Her confident playing with a virtuoso technique, warmth, and vibrancy has brought her to prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall, KKL Lucerne, Brighton Dome, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall, Guangzhou Grand Theatre, Xiamen Concert Hall, and Takatsuki Gendai Gekjio, among others.
She has worked with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, and XinZhu Symphony Orchestra. Junyan has also performed and live-streamed on Classic-FM with Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4, conducted by Edward Gardner, the Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. She is also an enthusiastic performer of contemporary music and has recently worked with Hans Abrahamsen and performed his Piano Concerto with conductor Franck Ollu and Manson Ensemble. She was also a part of 'Arcadia,' Eleanor Alberga's music festival in 2022, recorded and performed "Dancing with the Shadows," "On a Bat's Back I Do Fly.", album release in 2023.
Junyan's debut solo album, "It's Time," was recorded at the Royal Academy of Music in April 2022 and was released by Linn Records on December 16, 2022. She strongly identifies with living composers who explore their cultural identity through music. The four composers presented in "It's Time" - Fazil Say, Unsuk Chin, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Eleanor Alberga - brilliantly absorb other genres and art forms while also reflecting their lives: the Turkish folk ballad, jazz, Russian poetry, and African dance.
After receiving her first Honours BMus degree and the Principal's Award with a full scholarship supported by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), Junyan continued her intensive one-year postgrad study as a Bicentenary scholar at the Royal Academy of Music under Professor Joanna MacGregor CBE. She is in masterclasses with Pascal Roge, Thomas Kreuzberger, Paul Badura-Skoda, Christopher Elton, Tomas Vasary, Yevgeny Sudbin, Tamara Stefanovich, Adrian Brendel, and also Claudio Martinez Mehner at Prussica Cove IMS 2023.
At the 2018 City of Vigo International Piano Competition, Junyan was the winner of the Silver Medal, People's Choice Award, Best Spanish Composition Performance Award, and City Award as the youngest and the only female competitor in the final. She was also a prize winner of all the piano categories at the Osaka International Music Competition in 2016, as well as winning the prestigious Osaka Prefecture Governor's Award and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna Awards. She has been selected as one of 32 pianists for the Sydney International Piano Competition in July 2023.
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