Hannah Condliffe oboe,
Mark Rogers piano
Hannah Condliffe is a first class graduate of the Royal Academy. She was the recipient of the University of London Scholarship, Nicholas Blake Memorial Prize Scholarship and was awarded the prestigious Munster Trust Neil Black Prize in 2019. She is a Munster Trust Recital Artist, giving recitals across the UK. She has performed as a concerto soloist with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, and looks forward to more concerti with this orchestra. Hannah performs with many orchestras including the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Hannah studied with a full scholarship at Aspen Music Festival in 2019 and was the principal oboe is of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 2015.
Mark Rogers is an American pianist specializing in vocal and chamber music. He has been a Young Artist at the Leeds Lieder Festival, the Ludlow English Song Weekend, and the Britten Pears program and has played for masterclasses with Christian Gerhaher, Martin Fröst, Felicity Lott, and Lawrence Power among others.
Mark was recently awarded the first prize in Art Song accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music and has previously been awarded the Alex Menzies Memorial prize and the Hester Dickson Lieder prize with soprano Rosie Lavery at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he completed his undergraduate studies with Graeme McNaught in 2021.
Mark performs recitals regularly with singers and instrumentalists including concerts at Scottish Parliament, the Malmö Radhuset, and a series of recitals at Atelier Ferrandou in the south of France with cellist Kristian Chojecki. Previously, he was the accompanist for BBC Choir of the year Les Sirenes, and is now a staff pianist at Oxenfoord summer school run by Malcolm Martineau.
He recently won first prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society for his article on Samuel Barber in their new Young Classical Writers competition, and writes program notes for the Wigmore Hall. Mark is currently supported by a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music where he is finishing a masters in Piano Accompaniment with James Baillieu, Malcolm Martineau, and Michael Dussek.
Bach, Sonata in G Minor BWV 1020, Allegro
Trad arr Coleridge-Taylor/Maud Powell, Deep River
Debussy, Preludes, Footprints in the snow, Girl with the flaxen hair.
Britten, Temporal Variations
Britten, 6 metamorphosis after Ovid, 1. Pan, 2. Phaeton, 4. Bacchus
Ravel, Vocalise, Etude en forme de Habanera.
Debussy, Preludes, Feuilles mortes, La Puerta del Vino
Poulenc, Oboe Sonata
Jeffrey Agrell, Blues for DD
Tickets for this concert: £18. Season Tickets for all six concerts are available: £64
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