Representing the Park Lane Group Young Artists
Programme
A programme to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Sir Granville Bantock and exploring the imaginative and harmonic piano writing of Bantock and Sibelius with words from Dr Cuillin Bantock, the composer’s grandson.
Bantock – Cloisters at Midnight
Bantock – Memories of Sapphire
Bantock – Two Scottish Pieces
Sibelius – Impromptu No 4 in E minor
Sibelius – Impromptu No 5 in B minor
Sibelius – Impromptu No 6 in E minor
Bantock – Saul
Maria Marchant Piano
Performer
BBC Music Magazine Rising Star and British pianist Maria Marchant is active as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician and gave her debuts in the Southbank Centre (in the Park Lane Group Young Artists series) and Wigmore Hall to critical acclaim. She has since performed in many festivals including the Burford Festival, Cambridge Summer Music Festival, Cheltenham International Music Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, ‘John Ireland in Chelsea’ Festival, King’s Lynn Festival, Proms Plus and Stratford-upon-Avon Festival.
She has also performed for numerous music societies and at many leading venues in the UK and elsewhere and is pianist-in-residence at the Shipley Arts Festival.
A passionate advocate of British music, Maria Marchant performs frequently for the John Ireland Trust and regularly features works by Britten, Holst, Ireland and Roderick Williams in her concerts. Many of her live performances have been broadcast on Radio 3, most recently on ‘In Tune’ and her debut CD, ‘Echoes of Land & Sea’ for SOMM Recordings was released in 2017 gained 5 stars on Classical Ear and 4 stars in the BBC Music Magazine and The Observer with her second CD due for international release later in 2018.
She frequently performs contemporary music and gave the world premieres of both ‘Goodwood by the Sea’ and ‘Sea Fever’ – new solo piano works by Roderick Williams written for her and commissioned by the Shipley Arts Festival and John Ireland Trust respectively.