Jean-Babtistery Millot
Nicholas Daniel
Nicholas Daniel’s career got kick-started at the age of 18, when he won the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year Competition. He has played as soloist with several orchestras under the baton of such illustrious figures as Edward Gardner, Sakari Oramo and Roger Norrington. He is a master of both Baroque and contemporary music and has given the first performances of many works. His discs of concertos won a BBC Music Magazine award. Daniel is oboist with the Britten Sinfonia, is Artistic Director of the Leicester Festival and Professor of Oboe at the Trossingen Music Academy in Germany. He made his debut as a conductor with the Britten Sinfonia at the BBC Proms in 2004 and has also recently conducted orchestras in Finland and Norway. He is also an active chamber musician and founder member of the Haffner Wind Ensemble and Britten Oboe Quartet.Programme
22.7.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875—1912):
Nonet in F minor, Op. 2 (1894)
23.7.
Ethel Smyth (1858—1944):
Variations on Bonny Sweet Robin for flute, oboe and piano 'Ophelia's Song' (1927)
24.7.
Arthur Bliss (1891—1975):
Connelly's Jig from Oboe Quintet, F. 21 (1927)
25.7.
Francis Poulenc (1899—1963):
Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano (1928 edited by Sandro Caldini)
Orsino Ensemble
20.7.
Cecilia Damström (1988):
Wind Quintet 'Raakku' (2026, commissioned by Kuhmo Chamber Music, premiere)
20.7.
Jean Françaix (1912—1997):
L'Heure du Berger for wind quintet and piano (1947)
21.7.
Antonín Dvořák (1841—1904):
Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 (1878, arr. for wind quintet and strings by František Hertl)
22.7.
Antonín Reicha (1770—1836):
Lento. Allegro moderato from Wind Quintet in E flat, Op. 88 No. 2 (1818)
23.7.
Valerie Coleman (1970):
Danza from Concerto Afro-Cuban for wind quintet (2001)
23.7.
Mark Simpson (1988):
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows for wind quintet (2024)
23.7.