North Wales Virtual International Music Festival
Friday 25 September
11.00am
Ensemble Cymru
Chamber Music
ENSEMBLE CYMRU
Cyfarwyddwr Artistig | Artistic Director:
PERYN CLEMENT-EVANS
Obo | Oboe
HUW CLEMENT-EVANS
Basn | Bassoon
LLINOS ELIN OWEN
Clarinét | Clarinet
PERYN CLEMENT-EVANS
Piano
RICHARD ORMROD
Cynhyrchydd Fideo | Video Producer
DEWI FÔN EVANS
Cynhyrchydd a Golygydd Sain| Sound Producer & Editor
(Perfformiadau o Glinka a Vivaldi | Performances of Glinka and Vivaldi)
RACHEL SMITH (Ophelia Productions)
Peiriannydd Sain | Sound Engineer
ALED IFAN (AL Touring Ltd)
Lleoliad | Location
CANOLFAN UCHELDRE (Caergybi)| UCHELDRE CENTRE (Holyhead)
Ffilmiwyd ar gyfer Gwyl Gerdd Ryngwladol Gogledd Cymru 2020
Filmed for North Wales International Music Festival 2020
© (P) Ensemble Cymru 2020
PROGRAMME
Sarabande o | Sarabande from
Partita rhif 6 yn E leiaf | Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV 830
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 – 1750)
Sonata yn C leiaf, RV 53 | Sonata in C minor, RV 53
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678 – 1741)
Trio Pathétique yn D leiaf (1827) | Trio Pathétique in D minor (1827)
MICHAEL GLINKA (1804 – 1857)
Ensemble Cymru, Resident Ensemble at Bangor University and Venue Cymru (Llandudno), is the leading chamber music performing group in Wales. It has a core membership of 20 instrumentalists and singers. Established as a charity in 2002, its mission is to champion Wales’ heritage and contemporary chamber music culture alongside chamber music from across the world to audiences in Wales and internationally.
Since September 2019, Ensemble Cymru has: toured performances of Schubert’s masterpiece the Octet and a new commission by Welsh composer John Metcalf; worked with over 60 Young Composers in South West Wales; toured across Wales with Mid Wales Opera in its critically acclaimed production of Figaro, and commenced a 6-month residency at Ysgol Tudno primary school in Llandudno. The Ensemble is looking forward to being part of a major 3-year project Canfod y Gân / Discover the Song led by the William Mathias Music Centre which will bring disabled and non-disabled people together to make music.
In the last 3 years, Ensemble Cymru has toured with Mid Wales Opera in productions of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Puccini’s Tosca; and with OPRA Cymru on its award-winning production of Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd by Gareth Glyn and Mererid Hopwood. The Ensemble performed with internationally celebrated French harpist Isabelle Moretti at the International Harp Festival in Caernarfon and undertook two national tours in the culmination of a two-year project of chamber music featuring the harp co-curated by the Ensemble’s principal harpist, Anne Denholm (former Royal Harpist) and its Artistic Director, Peryn Clement-Evans.
Ensemble Cymru’s International Cultural Exchange Programme was established in 2015. Following the launch, the Ensemble performed at the British Embassy in Berne, and in venues in Davos, Chur and Valais. The organisation is developing links with China and performed in Shanghai and Hong Kong as part of Welsh Government Culture and Trade Mission in February 2017. In 2014, Ensemble Cymru’s production of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf reached more than 15,000 people through its national tour and S4C broadcasts. The production and CD recording featured Welsh language narration by Hollywood actor, Rhys Ifans.