Matilda Lloyd
ECHO Rising Stars
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- 19:00 / Cancelled 19:00 / Sold out Sunday, 19:00
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation- Trumpet
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Matilda Lloyd
Trumpet
Matilda Lloyd is a true champion of her instrument: the trumpet. Not only does she impress audiences with her virtuosic skill and panache, but she also “produces a seamless legato, a wide range of colour and shapes the music like a fine singer.” (Fanfare Magazine). These lyrical capabilities are showcased to their full extent in Casta Diva, her debut album of opera aria transcriptions for Chandos Records. The disc was BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Month in June 2023 with a five-star review. In the 2024/25 season, Matilda is a European Concert Halls Organisation (ECHO) Rising Star with 18 recitals on Europe’s most prestigious stages, including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Musikverien Wien, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Philharmonie de Paris. November 2024 sees the release of Resonance, Matilda’s second album for Chandos Records, featuring Weinberg’s Trumpet Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Lee Reynolds. Concerto engagements lead her to Szczecin to perform the Weinberg Concerto for the launch of the disc and to the Malta Philharmonic with Anu Tali. Matilda returns to the UK to perform the Richard Rodney Bennett Concerto at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and to bring in the New Year with the BBC Concert Orchestra at Saffron Hall. Alongside her ECHO recitals, Matilda continues her collaboration with the vocal consort The Gesualdo Six, releasing their programme Radiant Dawn on disc for Hyperion Records in Spring 2025. Last season’s highlights include Matilda’s “marvellous and meticulous” (Planet Hugill) performance of the world premiere of Robin Haigh’s Trumpet Concerto LUCK at the Aldeburgh Festival with Britten Sinfonia and Jessica Cottis. She travelled all over Europe for engagements with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Bloxham, Orchestre National de Lille with James Feddeck, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Mark Elder and Martyn Brabbins, Ulster Orchestra and Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz with Paweł Kapuła, and the orchestra of Teatro San Carlo with Marco Armiliato. Matilda also regularly collaborates with orchestras such as Britten Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Sinfonia and Manchester Camerata. Music education is very important to Matilda; she is a London Mozart Players’ Education Ambassador and has recently been a guest professor at music conservatoires including the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Irish Academy of Music and Hochschule für Musik Lübeck. Matilda is an ambassador for the charity Brass for Africa and saw first-hand on her trip to Uganda in February 2024 the transformative power of music and how essential it is to the strength of a community. She is also working with charity Future Talent to mentor young brass players in the UK. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, Matilda Lloyd went on to study under Håkan Hardenberger at the Malmö Academy of Music. In 2014, she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Brass Final and made her BBC Proms solo debut two years later with Alpesh Chauhan and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. She has won many prizes at international competitions, including First Prize at the Eric Aubier International Trumpet Competition in Rouen, France in 2017. Matilda is a Yamaha Artist. -
Jonathan Ware
Piano
Acclaimed for his exemplary and spirited playing, chamber musician and accompanist Jonathan Ware is a regular guest at the world’s leading recital venues, and recent appearances include Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center, Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie Luxembourg, L’Auditori, the Concertgebouw, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Pierre Boulez Saal.
Appearing alongside some of today’s most exciting singers and instrumentalists, last season saw Jonathan Ware with Samuel Mariño at the Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico, with Simon Bode at Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall, with clarinetist Jonathan Leibowitz on a UK tour to Bath, Falkirk and the Isle of Wight, with Timothy Ridout at the Vancouver Recital Society, with Bilal Alnemr at the Raketenstation, Hombroich, a new collaboration with violinist Leia Zhu in Reims. Of special interest is his project - Kinderlieder - a concert series curated for young children with Lydia Mankopf from Lullula Music and Simone Easthope, which debuted at the Pierre Boulez Saal. Previous seasons’ highlights include recitals with Elsa Dreisig at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Kölner Philharmonie and Wigmore Hall, with Bejun Mehta at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Luxembourg and Mozartfest Augsburg; with Camilla Tilling at Spivey Hall in a Jenny Lind-inspired selection; and Brenda Rae at Wigmore Hall in a programme of Schubert and Strauss. Following recent appearances at Verbier Festival and Lied Festival Würzburg with Ema Nikolovska, the pair reunited at Wigmore Hall this season, where he also collaborated with tenors Simon Bode and Kieran Carrel.
Highlights in 2024/25 include a new collaboration with Matilda Lloyd at Fundação Gulbenkian, Kölner Philharmonie, MUPA Budapest and Konzerthuset Stockholm and a return to Wigmore Hall with tenor Robin Tritschler and violinist Hana Chang. Jonathan reunites with violinist Leia Zhu for a concert at Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, with soprano Siobhan Stagg for a recital entitled ‘Origins’at Pierre Boulez Saal, with violist Tim Ridout for a recital at Konserthaus Dortmund, and with mezzo-soprano Rowan Hellier at Glasgow Cathedral Festival.
Soprano Golda Schultz is a key collaborator with the duo’s specially devised programme of female composers ‘This Be Her Verse’ touring to Berlin, Cologne, Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, Philadelphia and Vancouver among others, and appearing last season at the Elbphilharmonie, Munich Festival, Schubertiade and Staatstheater Darmstadt as well as a North American tour visiting Princeton and the Schubert Club. This season will see the pair at Kirche Saanen in Gstaad. Highly acclaimed for his “especially fine form” (BBC Music Magazine) and “theatrical sensibility” (New York Times) for the related CD release on Alpha Classics, ‘This Be Her Verse’ complements a quickly expanding discography with baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer for Berlin Classics, mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty for Genuin, oboist Olivier Stankiewicz for Delphian, and Elsa Dreisig for Warner Classics.
Awards include the Pianist’s Prize at both Das Lied and Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song competitions, as well as First Prize with Ludwig Mittelhammer in the International Hugo Wolf Competition.
Born in Texas, Jonathan now resides in Berlin where he teaches at Hochschule Hanns Eisler and Barenboim-Said Academy. In addition, he frequently attends Samling Institute, Academia Vocalis and Verbier Festival as a mentor.
Arthur Honegger
George Enescu
Claude Debussy
Dani Howard
Maurice Ravel
Pauline Viardot
Gabriel Fauré
Pauline Viardot
As a member of the ECHO – European Concert Hall Organisation network, comprising a group of prestigious concert halls across Europe, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is once again opening its doors to receive the Rising Stars cycle.
Throughout a musically intense day, the focus will be on the rising stars of contemporary interpretation and music creation, and the public will be able to see live the exceptionality of some of the youngsters selected to be part of the Rising Stars. Once again, the programme privileges the diversity of proposals, with performances by musicians of exceptional talent. In the context of Open Doors, a varied programme and a festive musical atmosphere is provided in an informal setting.
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