Overview
The Mary Bevan Recital began in 2011 when former Honorary Fellow, the late Professor Hugh Bevan, funded an annual concert in memory of his late wife, Mary Bevan. Mary was a great music lover, and also a Senior Member at Wolfson. Every year, winners of the prestigious Cambridge University Concerto Competition perform at the concert, one of the biggest musical events in the College calendar.
Join us following our garden party to hear competition prize winner, saxophonist Jack Marley, and finalist, pianist Aidan M贸dica.
Performers
Jack Marley was born in Brighton, East Sussex. He started playing the saxophone with his school at the age of nine. Whilst studying for his GCSEs he was accepted into the junior department of the Royal College of Music, were he spent three years (2018-2021) studying saxophone with Sarah Markham and composition with Simon Speare, performing in a range of quartets, ensembles, and wind bands alongside solo concerts and competitions. Jack matriculated at Pembroke College to read music in Autumn 2022. In his first year, he led the saxophone section of the Cambridge University Wind Orchestra and sang in the Pembroke College Chapel Choir under the directorship of Anna Lapwood. He stepped back from both of these commitments in his second year to pursue theatrical projects, being co-president of a large student theatre society and co-directing Shakespeare鈥檚 King Lear in the Cambridge Union debating chamber in February 2024. For the academic year of 2024-5, Jack was accepted onto the Faculty of Music鈥檚 鈥淐AMRAM鈥 scheme, in which a number of students are selected to study with professors of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he now travels regularly for lessons with saxophonist Simon Haram. This year Jack was also president of the Pembroke College Music Society, led a student saxophone quartet, and was a Student Representative to the Centre for Music Performance鈥檚 performance committee. In February, he was awarded the Denis Moriarty Prize for Musical Excellence at the Oxford and Cambridge Club鈥檚 annual Music Prize, and is incredibly proud to have won the University鈥檚 Concerto Competition alongside Eliza Ruffle in March. He looks forward to returning to Cambridge in the autumn to perform a concerto alongside the Cambridge University Orchestra.
Jack Marley will be accompanied by pianist Matthew Cresswell, and will perform:
- Paul Creston, Sonata for Alto Saxophone (1945)
- Bernard Heiden, Sonata for Alto Saxophone (1937)
- Pedro Iturralde, Peque帽a Czardas (1997)
Aidan M贸dica was born in Dartford, Kent, in 2005. Three years after starting piano lessons at the age of thirteen, he was awarded a scholarship to study both piano and composition at Junior Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Here, he composed for new music ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta and the New London Chamber Ensemble, and was also awarded the Spencer Boney Memorial Prize for a pianist. In the Summer of 2023, he performed with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra on their UK tour, as well as giving a series of solo recitals. He is currently an undergraduate student reading Music at Christ鈥檚 College, University of Cambridge, where he is Chair of the Music Society and sings in the Chapel Choir. Due to his high standard of performance in his first year, he was selected to continue his piano lessons at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of William Fong; he has previously been taught by many eminent musicians including Riyad Nicolas, Matthew Schellhorn and Leslie Howard. An ardent musicologist, he has published the first volume of a new thematic catalogue of Liszt's music with Leslie Howard and Minkyu Kim, and, since 2021, has served as one of the editors of The Liszt Society Journal.
Works may include pieces by Beethoven, Field, Chopin and Bortkiewicz.
Details
This event is open to everyone and there is no need to book.
Attendance is free. Donations to the Music Society are welcome.
There will be a drinks reception during the interval.
Access
This event will take place in the Lee Hall which has step-free access and an accessible toilet.
Music at Wolfson
Under the direction of Lyn Alc谩ntara, 性视界传媒has a thriving Music Society and College Choir with a full programme of concerts - please sign up to their to keep up to date with their upcoming events.
