Wye Valley Music proudly present the best young students of music from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Amongst the players there will be a string quartet and a piano trio in addition to two pianists. This concert will feature 11-year-old Charlotte Kwok, who attends the Junior Academy in Cardiff. In January she won second prize in the College Junior Piano Concerto competition and last month won joint first prize in the Senior Piano Recital class at the Abertawe Festival of Young Musicians in Swansea.
Charlotte will open the concert by playing the first movement of Mozart Piano Concerto No 12 in A major K 414, accompanied by the Lunar String Quartet.
The Lunar String Quartet, comprised of Jordan Earnshaw and Charlotte Price (violins), Matt Jones (viola) and Cai Waverley Hudson (cello), will then play Beethoven's String Quartet Op 18 No 1 in F major, followed by a very special piano piece played by a graduate student, Tonglin Lin. Her choice is from Messaien's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus, the 11th movement called Premiere communion de la vierge.
The second half of the programme sees the return of the Portuguese pianist Nuno Lucas, whose superb previous performances elicited very high praise from the audience. He will be performing with his all-Portuguese piano trio Maria Luis Garcis dos Santos (violin) and Matilde Viegas (cello), to play Piazzolla's Trio Revolucionario and Brahms's Piano Trio Op 8 in B major.
It is rare to be able to assemble such a range of youthful talent for a single concert. This promises to be a very special afternoon and is highly recommended.