Spring Concert 2024 - Bruch Violin Concerto 1

A Spring Concert with the Cornwall Concert Orchestra

We are deilghted to welcome back Madeleine Pickering to perform Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1 with us. Madeleine previously played the Mendelssohn Concerto in E Minor with us in June 2022, which was a hugely popular success. Whether you saw her or not, do make every effort to come and hear her play.

Madeleine studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Maureen Smith, Tasmin Little and Michael Foyle (violin), Garfield Jackson and Martin Outram (viola). She has been the recipient of several prizes, including the Theodore Holland Viola Prize (2016), the Winifred Small Prize for Solo Violin (2020) and the Martin/Hooton Violin Concerto Prize (2021). She became a member of the Musicians’ Company Young Artists’ Programme in 2019 when she received the Biddy Baxter and John Hosier Music Trust Special Award, and she was a Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist 2021-22 for Making Music UK. She enjoys working with the London Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Symphony Orchestra, Fantasia Orchestra, Echo Ensemble and Piccadilly Sinfonietta. She plays on a violin by Giovanni Pistucci c.1800, generously loaned to her by the Harrison-Frank Foundation in association with J&A Beare.

Visit Madeleine’s web site: https://www.madeleinepickering.com/
Watch Madeleine play two movements from Bach’s D minor Partita for Solo Violin, BWV 1004: III. Sarabanda, and IV: Giga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z4NeB-grU4

You can also see a film of the Bruch concerto played by the excellent young South Korean violinist Bomsori on BBC iPlayer – well worth watching!
Starts at 21 minutes in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001p8zl/bbc-proms-2023-bomsori-plays-bruch-at-the-proms

Programme
Johann Strauss Snr – Overture, Die Fledermaus
Max Bruch – Violin Concerto No.1 ni G Minor; Madeleine Pickering, violin
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.5

Soloist: Madeleine Pickering
Conductor: Chris Morgan
Leader: Sue Stone

Concert generously supported by Raymond James Wealth Management of Truro