RNCM Sunday Concerts
Sunday 14 June 2015
This concert series is funded by the generous bequest left to the Friends of the Whitworth Art Gallery by Miss Gina Miller.
The programme:
Jaime M Zenamon; Reflexoes No 6 for cello and guitar.
Manuel De Falla; 7 Canciones Populares, arr. for cello and guitar.
Inés Mota, originally from Valencia, Spain, is currently in her 2nd year of study at the RNCM. Inés made her concerto debut with the Valencia Symphony Orchesta at the age of 15. Two years after, she was invited by the Orchestra Orquesta Filarmónica de Requena (Valencia) to perform the Dvorák’s Cello Concerto on tour.
James Girling is a nineteen-year-old guitarist studying at the Royal Northern College of Music. He won the Alcester Young Musician competition in 2010, and was awarded the Warwickshire Advanced Young Musician Scholarship.
More information:
Duo Del Sur
Inés Mota cello
James Girling guitar
James Girling is a nineteen-year-old guitarist studying at the Royal Northern College of Music, where his tutor is internationally renowned guitarist Craig Ogden. Initially self-taught, James won the Alcester Young Musician competition in 2010, and was awarded the Warwickshire Advanced Young Musician Scholarship. After achieving the ABRSM Performance Diploma, he performed Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Fantasía para un Gentilhombre in the Girling Duo. As a member of the RNCM Big Band, James has performed alongside soloists Tim Garland, Julian Joseph and Mark Nightingale, and was recently broadcast on Radio 3. His own jazz quintet has played at Bridgewater Hall and Manchester Jazz Festival
Among his ensembles, ranging from Afrobeat and Swing bands to classical chamber duos, James’ Nexus Guitar Duo has given recitals at the Etihad Stadium, Liverpool and Manchester Universities, and Ribchester Music Festival. James has performed in masterclasses for Elena Papandreou, Katona Duo, Edoardo Catemario, and Gordon Crosskey.
Inés Mota, originally from Valencia, Spain, is currently in her 2nd year of study under the prestigious cellist Karine Georgian at the Royal Northern College of Music. She began studying the cello when she was seven. At the age of twelve she began receiving lessons from Iván Balaguer, Principal Cellist of Orquesta de Valencia. Inés has performed with a range of Spanish and EU orchestras, including Master Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Requena, JOSC, Manchester Festival Orchestra, PSO, RNCM Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe (workshop).
Inés made her concerto debut with the Valencia Symphony Orchesta at the age of 15. Two years after, she was invited by the Orchestra Orquesta Filarmónica de Requena (Valencia) to perform the Dvorák’s Cello Concerto on tour. The prizes Inés has won include the "2011 Fin de Grado Prize” and the Valencia Concerto Competition in 2013. She has recently won the Raphael Sommer Cello Prize (March 2015) and the 1st Prize Cum Laude in the European Music Festival for Youth in Neerpelf, Belgium, in the chamber music category.
All students appear by kind permission of the RNCM.
