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Sunday 4th July Concert at 3pm
Karen Geoghegan: bassoon Timothy End: piano
Pierne Solo de concert
Saint-Saens Sonata
Devienne Sonata in G minor
Bonneau Caprice en Forme de Valse
interval
Telemann F minor Sonata
Elgar Romance
Jacobi Introduction and Polonaise
Karen Geoghegan
Karen Geoghegan began her studies at the Junior Academy of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Janet Bloxwich. During her time at the Junior Academy, Karen won the Gilbert Innes Prize for woodwind, the Concerto Competition, and was awarded the Wolfson Scholarship.
Karen is currently a fourth year undergraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music studying with John Orford. She was awarded a full entrance scholarship from the South Square Trust, the Leverhulme Foundation and the Elton John Scholarship Fund. Karen was awarded the Violet M. Wallace Award, the Helen Read Prize, and won the Florence Woodbridge Prize for bassoon in 2008.
Karen Geoghegan was runner-up in the recent BBC 2 competition “Classical Star”. Since then she has made several recordings with Chandos Records of bassoon concertos and, most recently, French works for bassoon with pianist Philip Fisher.
Karen has worked as a soloist with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestra of Opera North and the City of London Sinfonia. In recital, Karen has recently performed at the Wigmore Hall as part of the Royal Academy of Music’s Wigmore Award, and was recently invited to give a recital as part of the International Double Reed Society's annual conference. In 2009, Karen made her BBC Proms debut, performing the Mozart Bassoon Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda.
Timothy End
Timothy End, born in London, is a much in demand chamber music pianist. He graduated with a first class honours degree in Music from King’s College, London in 2006 before entering Postgraduate study in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music where he gained the prestigious DipRAM award for an outstanding recital in 2008. He held the Shinn Fellowship at RAM for the academic year 2008-09 under the tuition of Julius Drake and Patsy Toh.
Prizes at the Royal Academy of Music include first and second prize in the Delius Competition, the Sir Arthur Bliss Prize, the Flora Nielsen Prize, the Ludmilla Andrew Prize for Russian Song, the Evelyn German Prize for Piano Accompaniment and the Vivian Langrish Memorial Prize at the final of the RAM Club Prize Competition. Timothy was awarded the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize in 2007, accompanying the bass-baritone George Humphreys. As a result of winning the competition, the duo gave recitals in Leeds, Bristol and at the Barber Institute in Birmingham. Earlier this month Timothy was awarded the Parnell Award for an Accompanist at the ROSL Annual Music Competition. He not only accompanied the trumpeter Huw Morgan who won the Woodwind and Brass Section of the competition but also the baritone Jonathan McGovern who won the Singers’ Section. Both duos will perform at the Grand Final at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in June.
Timothy has given solo recitals in St. Paul’s Cathedral as part of the Kandinsky exhibition at the Tate Modern, as well as performing at Southwark Cathedral and Newport Music Society. Earlier this month, he performed a special recital in Cambridge to mark the bicentary of Chopin’s birth. Duo recitals include performances in the Isle of Man, Cologne and Graz and most recently his debut at King’s Place in September in a concert of French repertoire with the violinist Ellie Fleur-Thom. In July, he performed for a live Proms broadcast on Radio 3 of Jorg Widmann’s Five fantasy pieces for clarinet and piano. Timothy has recently struck up a successful duo with the Hungarian violist Eniko Magyar and in the autumn they performed two recitals at St. John’s Smith Square.
He has also given operatic galas at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and at the Wilton’s Music Hall in the City of London. In his final year at the Royal Academy of Music he gave a concert at the Wigmore Hall with fellow members of the Song Circle and this was followed by the release of a CD in September. Timothy is a member of the Pirani Horn Trio who is currently artist in residence at the Parisot Arts Festival in France. The group performed at the Red Hedgehog, Highgate and at the Norden Farm Centre for the Arts as part of the Maidenhead Music Society Concert Series earlier this month.
Timothy has considerable experience in performing contemporary music, regularly collaborating with composers at the Royal Academy. In a project that began in 2006 he has performed all of Dr Timothy Bowers’ (Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal Academy) works for brass, namely the sonatas for bass tuba, bass trombone, and tenor trombone. The premiere of the horn sonata last month was quickly followed by the first performance of the penultimate work in the series, the sonata for Trumpet and Piano.
Recent engagements include a lunchtime recital at the Purcell Room with the violinist Roisin Walters, a lunchtime recital at Magdalene College, Oxford with the bassoonist Karen Geoghegan and a series of concerts at Ham House.
Forthcoming engagements include a lunchtime recital with the horn player Michael Kidd in Colston Hall, Bristol, a lunchtime recital with Eniko Magyar in Banstead, and a recital with Samuel Corkin as part of the Iford Summer Festival.
Timothy has performed masterclasses with Thomas Allen, Robert Tear, Ann Murray, Felicity Lott, Barbara Bonney, Rudolf Jansen, Jean-Philip Schulz and most recently Margaret Price at the Machynlleth Festival in Wales, performing Schumann’s Liederkreis Op.39.
Timothy has recently been accepted onto the Live Music Now Scheme with the saxophonist Samuel Corkin and onto the Making Music Artists’ Scheme with the trumpeter Huw Morgan.
Timothy is most grateful for the support he received from the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund through the Sir Henry Richardson Scholarship in addition to generous awards from the Countess of Munster Trust, the South Square Trust, the Craxton Memorial Trust and the Tom Acton Memorial Trust.
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