Jess Gillam and percussionist Elliott Gaston-Ross (BBC Young Musician of the Year Finalist) will give solo performances accompanied by David Jones at the Grange Over Sands Concert Club.

“Jess, who lives in Ulverston, and Elliott, who lives in Lytham, are both studying at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music. Elliott won the percussion category and was a concerto finalist in the BBC Young Musician 2014 competition, and Jess who was also a finalist was awarded the Walter Todds Bursary for showing exceptional promise.
Since then they have both won many awards and performed at prestigious venues and perform for us together with David Jones, Head of Accompaniment at the RNCM.”

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Jess will perform her composition which is inspired by and incorporates by a poem by John Ruskin entitled “Night” at Brantwood, the home of Ruskin. She will also perform the pieces she commissioned by  John Harle (Berlin Tango) and Barbara Thompson (The Sky’s the Limit).
Brantwood Website

Jess will perform with the National Youth Wind Ensemble as principal saxophonist. The concert will be held at the Royal College of Music.

“One of the finest wind ensembles in the world.”
Timothy Reynish

The National Youth Wind Ensemble of Great Britain, conducted by Phillip Scott, is a one-player-per-part wind ensemble of about 40 players which has established an enviable international reputation since its foundation in 1998. The group specialises in the performance of music which has appeared during the last thirty years, although music of earlier eras is also performed.

NYWE regularly commissions important composers, most recently Philip Grange, Joseph Phibbs, Chiu-Yu Chou, Jacques Cohen, Anthony Bailey and Michael Torke. In July 2009, NYWE gave the world premiere of Philip Grange’s Cloud Atlas at the Cheltenham Music Festival, a major work which went on to win a 2010 British Composer Award.

NYWE Websitw

Jess performs in the formal concert at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music.
RNCM Website

Jess will perform “The Celtic” – a concert for soprano saxophone and string orchestra – by Dave Heath with the Lakeland Sinfonia.
“The Society started out as the Kendal Chamber Orchestra, which played in Kendal Parish Church and Kendal Town Hall. The orchestra was renamed the Lakeland Sinfonia, and its series of concerts, augmented by other orchestras, notably the Northern Sinfonia, proved to be very popular. The Society held a gala concert in May 1982 at the opening of the Kendal Leisure Centre, and concerts have been in the Westmorland Hall there ever since.
The BBC Philharmonic came for the first time in 1984, and their concerts were broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Nowadays the orchestra still records its concerts in the Westmorland Hall for future broadcasting. The Hallé first played for us in 1989.
Many well-known artists have graced our stage, some in the early stages of their careers: Dimitri Alexeev, Imogen Cooper, Emma Johnson, Nigel Kennedy, Julian Lloyd Webber, Christina Ortiz, Maxim Vengerov and Simon Rattle. More recently we have given performing opportunities to Alina Ibragimova, Giovanni Guzzo, Robin Ticciati, Garry Walker, Sam Boden and Elena Urioste, all of whom are now carving out their careers on the international stage.
Over the last three years well-established performers such as Freddy Kempf, Nicola Benedetti, Angela Hewitt, Julian Bliss, Tasmin Little, Andrew Gourlay, Thomas Zehetmair and Sir Mark Elder have all brought great pleasure to our audiences with their expert music-making.
The Lakeland Sinfonia, which is the Society’s own orchestra, plays two of the subscription concerts each season. The players greatly appreciate the opportunity to play with internationally renowned conductors and soloists – such an opportunity is not available elsewhere in the area. The orchestra is managed by Peter Crompton.”

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Lakeland Sinfonia Concert Information