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19 January: Philippa Mo – ‘SUITE FANTASIA CAPRICE’ @ 3.30
After a highly successful solo concert in January 2024, Calstock Arts is delighted to welcome back the virtuosa violinist, Philippa Mo.
Between January and November 2025, Philippa will be playing a series of concerts ‘SUITE FANTASIA CAPRICE’ in which the music of Johann Sebastian Bach will be highlighted, tracing his progression as a composer from his earliest compositions written for solo violin to his later works.
We are very fortunate that Philippa will be playing the first and final concerts of the series at Calstock Arts.
Further information about the other concerts, all of which will be performed at other venues in the south-west, will be publicised at a later date.
Tickets can be purchased for either CA concert individually or for both concerts at a reduced price (see below for details).
Philippa studied at the royal Academy of Music, London and at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. She performs extensively as a chamber musician and has given performances and live broadcasts worldwide, including her acclaimed debut at the Wigmore Hall, recitals at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, the Deutsches Museum, Munich, and further afield at the Ankara International Music Festival, the Lincoln Center, New York and Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia.
As a champion of contemporary music, Philippa has worked closely with many leading British composers including Gabriel Prokoviev, David Matthews, John McCabe, Cecilia McDowell and Jim Aitchison and has given premieres of their solo and violin duo works.
Philippa was appointed Senior Lecture in Violin at Leeds Conservatoire and was awarded Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2015. In 2020, she won the Future Classic Women Awards held by the Women’s Radio Station.
In the January concert, Philippa will present some of the most expressive and colourful music written for single violin. To counter the dark and cold of January we will hear Bach’s Partita in E major shot through with sunlight, balanced by his most famous and joyous first cello suite. There are elements of folk music in works by two British women composers Sally Beamish and Wendy Hiscocks and an exotic glimpse into the Brazilian rainforest in the piece ‘Pernambuco’ by Nigel Clarke. The eerie ‘Written in Sand’ by Icelandic composer Haflidi Hallgrimsson explores yet another sound world – and the muscular and virtuosic sonata by Prokofiev brings the journey to a close.
Programme
Telemann Fantasia no.6 in E minor
Bach Partita in E major BWV
Hiscocks Caprice
Beamish The Wise Maid
Clarke Pernambuco
Interval
Telemann Fantasia no.10 in D major
Bach Cello Suite no.1 in G major BWV 1007 arr. for violin
Haflidi Hallgrimsson Written in Sand
Prokofiev Sonata for Solo Violin in D major Op.115
