Amelia Wise – clarinet
Vitas Li – piano

The Programme

Amelia Wise – clarinet
Vitas Li – piano

Sonatina, Op 29 (1951)
1. Allegro con brio
2. Andantino
3. Furioso

Fantasy for solo clarinet (1966)

Troubadour Music (2006)

Sonatina (1981)
1. Allegro calmato
2. Lento, quasi andante
3. Con brio

The Artists

Amelia Wise is currently in her second year at the Royal Academy of Music, studying clarinet with Sonia Sielaff and bass clarinet with Laurent Slimane. Previously she has studied with Richard Russell, Anna Hashimoto and Claire King. She has also been on two summer courses in Belgium with Annelien Van Wauwe and two masterclasses with David Campbell.

Amelia has previously competed in the final of Bath Young Musician twice and won the Thelma King instrumental award at the Mid-Somerset Festival in 2023. She loves orchestral playing and is part of the University of London Symphony Orchestra where she primarily plays bass clarinet. She recently performed the Rite of Spring with the Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra and performed a successful recital at Sevenoaks Music Club for which she was selected following the Sevenoaks Young Musician competition. Amelia also enjoys playing the bass clarinet with Claritas Clarinet Quartet.

Outside of music Amelia enjoys going to the gym, running and reading classic literature.

Vitas Kai Yuen Li is a pianist, organist, and composer from Hong Kong. A winner of the Peter le Huray Prize, his upcoming engagements include concerto performances across Ukraine with the Dnipropetrovsk Symphony Orchestra, with whom he previously performed the Lyatoshynsky ‘Slavic’ Piano Concerto.

Vitas has performed under extraordinary circumstances. In 2024, he performed a piano recital at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine in Kyiv during an airstrike, offering music to those taking shelter. Vitas has given recitals across the UK, Europe and Asia at prestigious venues including the Daiichi Seimei Hall in Japan, the National Concert Hall in Taiwan, the Shanghai Oriental Art Center in China, the Primaciálny palác in Slovakia, the Abtei Neresheim in Germany and the Narodni dom Maribor in Slovenia.

Vitas is a postgraduate piano student at the Royal College of Music, where he studies with Sofya Gulyak and Vitaly Pisarenko.