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Bach’s Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Chromatic Fantastic and Fugue BWV 903
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Sonata in B Minor, BWV 1030
Beth Stone | flute
Jack Gonzalez-Harding | harpsichord
As an avid player of all flutes from renaissance all the way through to modern flute, Beth Stone enjoys a colourful career performing in many different settings in the UK and Europe. She has had the pleasure of working with a variety of orchestras including the Academy of Ancient Music; Ex-Cathedra; Cambridge Handel Opera Company; Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra; The Sixteen; National Youth Jazz Orchestra among many others. Her playing can also be heard on recordings with the Taverner Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. Beth’s radio debut took place in Germany for WDR3 and she has won several prizes in competitions including the 2023 International H.I.F. Biber Competition; the Telemann Fantasia Recording Competition 2021 and the 2020 Samnium University’s International Orchestra Auditions Awards.
Chamber music has always been a central part of Beth’s music making. She has performed with several chamber groups, and now primarily, the award-winning Flutes & Frets Duo and Lumas Winds which have enabled her to perform in many festivals, concerts, competitions and events. Supported by several schemes and trusts, she has had the opportunity to tour Scotland, perform in festivals in Krakow, York, Spain, Italy, Antwerp and many other exciting recitals as a chamber musician. Beth spent seven years studying at Chetham’s School of Music from age eleven, taking an interest in historical flutes in her final two years there. As an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar, she graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours in 2022, where she studied modern flute with Gitte Marcusson and historical flutes with Rachel Brown as part of the joint principal course, winning the RCM RCM McKenna Prize for the highest end-of-year recital mark in a baroque instrument.
Praised for his ‘brilliant infectious enthusiasm’ (The Spectator), British conductor Jack Gonzalez-Harding is a Ryedale Festival 2024 Emerging Artist.
The 2024/25 season sees Jack join the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Opera Studio as a répétiteur and assistant conductor. During the season, Jack returns to conduct the London Mozart Players with whom he is now a regular guest, to St. John’s Smith Square for Haydn’s The Creation and Mayfield Festival for Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius. As a keyboardist, Jack has enjoyed performances at Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre and Barbican Centre.
Increasingly in demand as an assistant conductor for leading conductors and ensembles, Jack has worked as an assistant conductor for Sir Mark Elder, Hallé Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo and Orchesta Haydn di Trento e Bolzano.
Born in Kent in 2003, Jack began his musical education studying the organ as a junior exhibitioner at the Royal Academy of Music. His harpsichord tutors have included Pierre Hantaï (Paris), Carole Cerasi (GSMD) and David Gordon (Purcell School). Alongside his current studies for an Artist Masters at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Jack is mentored by John Carewe who was mentor to Sir Simon Rattle, whom Jack now regularly observes.
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To attend this concert in person: click here to reserve your seat.
MUSICAL OFFERING JULY:
Programme:
Bach’s Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Chromatic Fantastic and Fugue BWV 903
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Sonata in B Minor, BWV 1030
Beth Stone | flute
Jack Gonzalez-Harding | harpsichord
As an avid player of all flutes from renaissance all the way through to modern flute, Beth Stone enjoys a colourful career performing in many different settings in the UK and Europe. She has had the pleasure of working with a variety of orchestras including the Academy of Ancient Music; Ex-Cathedra; Cambridge Handel Opera Company; Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra; The Sixteen; National Youth Jazz Orchestra among many others. Her playing can also be heard on recordings with the Taverner Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. Beth’s radio debut took place in Germany for WDR3 and she has won several prizes in competitions including the 2023 International H.I.F. Biber Competition; the Telemann Fantasia Recording Competition 2021 and the 2020 Samnium University’s International Orchestra Auditions Awards.
Chamber music has always been a central part of Beth’s music making. She has performed with several chamber groups, and now primarily, the award-winning Flutes & Frets Duo and Lumas Winds which have enabled her to perform in many festivals, concerts, competitions and events. Supported by several schemes and trusts, she has had the opportunity to tour Scotland, perform in festivals in Krakow, York, Spain, Italy, Antwerp and many other exciting recitals as a chamber musician. Beth spent seven years studying at Chetham’s School of Music from age eleven, taking an interest in historical flutes in her final two years there. As an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar, she graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours in 2022, where she studied modern flute with Gitte Marcusson and historical flutes with Rachel Brown as part of the joint principal course, winning the RCM RCM McKenna Prize for the highest end-of-year recital mark in a baroque instrument.
Praised for his ‘brilliant infectious enthusiasm’ (The Spectator), British conductor Jack Gonzalez-Harding is a Ryedale Festival 2024 Emerging Artist.
The 2024/25 season sees Jack join the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Opera Studio as a répétiteur and assistant conductor. During the season, Jack returns to conduct the London Mozart Players with whom he is now a regular guest, to St. John’s Smith Square for Haydn’s The Creation and Mayfield Festival for Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius. As a keyboardist, Jack has enjoyed performances at Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre and Barbican Centre.
Increasingly in demand as an assistant conductor for leading conductors and ensembles, Jack has worked as an assistant conductor for Sir Mark Elder, Hallé Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo and Orchesta Haydn di Trento e Bolzano.
Born in Kent in 2003, Jack began his musical education studying the organ as a junior exhibitioner at the Royal Academy of Music. His harpsichord tutors have included Pierre Hantaï (Paris), Carole Cerasi (GSMD) and David Gordon (Purcell School). Alongside his current studies for an Artist Masters at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Jack is mentored by John Carewe who was mentor to Sir Simon Rattle, whom Jack now regularly observes.
Donate to support the musicians, the technical team and our overheads.
Thank you