7.30pm, 18 November at the University of Chichester Conservatoire
Come and experience a CMS-sponsored event along with University of Chichester Conservatoire with Imma Setiadi & Nigel Clayton, playing piano duets. It will include music for piano duet by Gershwin, Debussy, Holst, Bizet, Rachmaninoff and Ravel.
“..impressive precision and deep feeling. The sympathy that bonded the performers flowed freely through the hall, holding the near-capacity audience rapt” (The Jakarta Post)
This fabulously eclectic international piano duo has been featured at many of UK’s most prestifious venues including Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and St John’s Smith Square in London. They have commissioned and premiered pieces by Philip Wilby, Paul Robinson, Jean-Francois Michel, and in conjunction with Celebrating Australian Music, and premiered a suite by Wendy Hiscocks. They recently collaborated with the Joyful Company of Singers on Brahms projects, with the Musical Rainbow Ensemble for a programme based on Oscar Wildes The Happy Prince and for Music of The Spheres: The Planets Reimagined a spectacle based on a performance of Holsts masterpiece.
Imma Setiadi was born in Surabaya, Indonesia where she started her early training. She received her BMus degree from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore) and her MMus (distinction) where she studied with Nigel Clayton at the Royal College of Music London, and her Doctoral degree from the RCM, with Nigel Clayton and Amanda Glauert. She is truly grateful for the support of RCM Study Award, Indonesian Beasiswa Unggulan, the Seary Charitable Trust, Talent Unlimited Charity, anonymous, and PAL charity. Since coming to the UK, Imma has performed widely as a soloist and chamber musician and orchestral pianist at Bridgewater Hall (Manchester), the Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre, the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall, St Johns Smith Square BBC Proms and the Royal Festival Hall. A dedicated teacher, Imma currently is a lecturer at the Royal College of Music and holds teaching posts at Junior Trinity Laban. (www.immasetiadi.com)
Nigel Clayton has toured worldwide travel across India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan with Indian cellist Anup Kumar Biswas, the Middle East and America with Wissam Boustany, Scandinavia with Gerard LeFeuvre and throughout Europe; he has also appeared at most of the music clubs and festivals in the UK, BBCs radio network, the Wigmore hall, the South Bank Centre, as well as longstanding partnerships with Gina McCormack, Michael Cox, the Bingham Quartets among others. He has performed many times in Japan and made regular recital and lecture tours of Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Nigel has been a piano professor and Art of Teaching lecturer at the Royal College of Music for 25 years, and for his services in the musical world Nigel was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music (FRCM) presented by HRH Prince of Wales in 2017. (www.nigelclayton.com).
Meg Hamilton
