Stavroula Thoma to Play Music Illustrating the Cycles of Life
The next performance in the Iris Axon Concert series
Stavroula Thoma
April 18, 2024
The next concert in the Iris Axon series sees the return of pianist Stavroula Thoma who previously played in Acton in December 2022.
She has performed across Europe since her concert debut in 2014 and has been a Concordia Foundation Piano Artist since 2016 for which she performed solo recitals at St James' Piccadilly Church and Macmillan Cancer centre in London.
She will be playing a concert of music illustrating and evoking the cycles of life and reminding us of the tranquillity Nature provides in the concert at Acton Hill Church on Sunday 5 May at 4pm.
Event organiser Jane Schopf says Liszt's Au lac de Wallenstadt, which had the following quote from Byron on its initial printing, provides the perfect antidote to the inhumanity that dominates our news channels at the moment.
Thy contrasted lake
With the wild world I dwell in is a thing
Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake
Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.
Also on the programme is Andrea Granizio's 3 Concentric Circles of Water and Tchaikovsky's The Seasons Op. 37a, a collection of pieces encapsulating the emotional atmosphere of each of the twelve months of the year.
Ms Schopf adds, “ I hope you will be able to come and relax and unwind with us and gain a glimpse of those other spaces humans create to sustain us. “
Iris Axon Concert Series Schedule 2024
June 2nd Lance Mok – piano
July 7th Susie Gibbons – soprano
Now in its seventeenth year, the Iris Axon Concert Series is an annual season of short (60-70 minute) monthly recitals on Sunday afternoons at the Acton Hill Church. The series was started by Music Director Jane Schopf in 2004 to provide a venue for young musicians starting on their professional careers, many of whom have subsequently enjoyed international success in competitions and on the concert platform. The series has continued to grow and now attracts established international artists as well.
Originally called the Acton Classical Music Concert Series, it was re-named in 2009 in memory of one of its most loyal supporters, Iris Axon, who made possible the purchase of a concert grand, handmade by Clive Pinkham.
The church is deemed ideal for concerts as it has the largest unsupported wooden barrel-vault ceiling in London which brings out the middle harmonics, creating a luxuriously warm sound.
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