Catherine Underhill to Perform Next Iris Axon Concert

Programme for oboe and cor anglais at Acton Hill Church

Catherine Underhill
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The Iris Axon series of concerts resumes on Sunday 6 February at 4pm at Acton Hill Church with a performance by Catherine Underhill with pianist Neus Peris.

The programme includes works by Dutilleux, Silverstrini, Debussy, Poulenc and Charles Colin.

Catherine Underhill is a woodwind musician who is a double reed specialist (oboe & cor anglais) along with saxophone, flute and clarinet. She is also co-artistic director of Collective31 and a music educator.

She is currently studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance as a Helen Roll Scholar and Trinity Laban London Scholar. She studied the oboe with Andrew Knights and graduated from University of Southampton with a first class BA Hons in Music. She also studied privately with Adrian Rowlands and received a bursary in 2016 to study with David Theodore at the British Isles Music Festival. She regularly plays in pit bands across the UK for musicals, including Oklahoma, Oliver! and Guys and Dolls and operas such as Mozart's, The Marriage of Figaro.

She has performed in venues such as Cadogan Hall and St John Smith's Square.

In February 2017, she performed the Marcello Oboe Concerto with Hillingdon Chamber Orchestra and has recorded solo and duet repertoire with harpist, Charlotte Grimsey.

Programme

Henri Dutilleux - Sonata for Oboe & Piano
i. Aria
ii. Scherzo
iii. Final

Giles Silverstrini - 6 Etudes for Oboe
A selection of these etudes will be interspersed throughout the programme

Claude Debussy - Rhapsodie for saxophone and orchestra (transcribed for cor anglais)

Francis Poulenc - Sonata for Oboe & Piano
i. Elégie
ii. Scherzo
iii. Déploration

Charles Colin - Solo de Concours, Op. 33

Programmes at the door cost £5.00 for concessions, for £6.00 adults, and £2.00 for children.

Iris Axon Concert Series Future Concerts

February 6th Catherine Underhill – oboe
March 6th Ida Pelliccioli – piano
April 3rd Marianna Kapsetaki – piano
May 1st Lance Mok – piano
June 5th Jelena Makarova – piano

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January 25, 2022

 

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