LUNCHTIME RECITAL
Faulkner Peacock Duo
Jane Faulkner – violin
Gary Peacock – piano
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The Programme
Jane Faulkner – violin
Gary Peacock – piano
Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op 75
1. Allegro moderato
2. Allegro maestoso
3. Allegro appassionato
Première Arabesque
(arr. Peacock)
Sonata in F, Op 8
1. Allegro con brio
2. Allegretto quasi Andantino
3. Allegro molto vivace
The Artists
Jane Faulkner studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Manoug Parikian. While there she was the recipient of various prizes. After leaving the RAM she worked as a freelance orchestral player before joining the orchestra of English National Opera where she held a sub principal position. She subsequently formed the English Piano Trio, and with this group has performed throughout the UK, on London concert platforms and abroad, and recorded many CDs.
Her interest in the piano trio led to her forming the Piano Trio Society, a flourishing organisation promoting the piano trio, particularly in education. Jane was also the founder of the Sarratt Festival of Music, now in its 26th year. She is an established violin teacher and chamber music mentor. Jane plays on a violin by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume of 1855.
Gary Peacock studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has performed extensively as recital accompanist and repetiteur in this country and abroad, and has enjoyed wide ranging work as a singing coach, much of it in the singing department at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He was for sixteen years conductor of West London Opera, and also of the Amici Chamber Choir, with whom he gave many concerts in the UK, Hungary and France, most notably in Notre Dame, Paris.
Gary also composes. Commissions include music for the International Shakespeare Festival in Germany, a dramatized documentary at the University of Essex, two full masses, and many anthems and carols. Most recently he has completed a song cycle of Emily Bronte poems, and a new work for violin and piano – given its first performance at the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival.
