FUAIM Concert: The Vanbrugh & Friends, 30th September, 1.10pm, Glucksman Gallery, UCC

30 Sep 2022

FUAIM Music at UCC is delighted to bring you the first concert in the Autumn 2022 season this coming Friday 30^th September at the usual time of 1:10pm, The Vanbrugh & Friends, performing Tchaikovsky’s extraordinary String Sextet in D minor. The venue for our concert is the beautiful Glucksman Gallery, UCC, recently awarded the Art Museum Award for 2022 by the European Museum Academy, and for those who can’t attend in person, the performance will be livestreamed on youtube.com/musicatUCC.

We look forward to welcoming you to this opening performance and to the new season of FUAIM Music at UCC Friday Lunchtime Concerts.

The Vanbrugh & Friends
Keith Pascoe, violin
Brigid Leman , violin
Simon Aspell, viola
David Kenny, viola
Christopher Marwood, cello

Yseult Cooper Stockdale, cello

TCHAIKOVSKY – String Sextet in D minor ‘Souvenir de Florence’ (1890)

The Vanbrugh and their guests present Tchaikovsky’s epic string sextet ‘Souvenir de Florence’. Full of music of extraordinary vitality and energy, this work is always a favourite with audiences.

THE VANBRUGH

Keith Pascoe, violin - Simon Aspell, viola - Christopher Marwood, cello

The Vanbrugh has evolved from the work of the Vanbrugh Quartet which was based in Cork as RTE’s Resident Quartet from 1986 to 2013 and as Artists-in-Residence at University College, Cork from 1990 until the retirement of violinist Gregory Ellis in 2017. Over three decades the quartet gave close to three thousand concerts, presenting the chamber music repertoire to audiences throughout Ireland, Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. Commercial recordings include more than thirty CDs of repertoire ranging from the complete Beethoven quartets to many contemporary Irish works. In 2016 the group was presented with the National Concert Hall’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their contribution to music in Ireland.

Keith Pascoe, Simon Aspell, and Christopher Marwood continue to perform together as the nucleus of the Vanbrugh and are joined by guest artists for performances of a wide range of chamber music repertoire. 

Brigid Leman was born in Ottawa, Canada. She studied in San Francisco, Zurich and Weimar and from 2012 to 2019 held a contract position with the Hamburg State Opera in Germany under Simone Young and Kent Nagano. She has played as a regular guest in the Hamburg Symphony, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (Hamburg), the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Lübeck and the Århus Symphony in Denmark. In 2020 she moved to Ireland where she often plays in the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. 

David Kenny studied with Constantin Zanidache and Simon Aspell at the CIT Cork School of Music and played principal viola with the European Union Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland. In 2016, David was appointed to the viola section of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.  An experienced chamber musician, David has performed at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Music in Drumcliffe Festival, Interlaken Classics Festival and has collaborated with the Ficino Ensemble, Musici Ireland and the Vanbrugh Quartet.

Yseult Cooper Stockdale studied in Cork, Dublin and Leipzig and enjoys a versatile career between the UK and Ireland. She has worked with both RTE orchestras, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, Southbank Sinfonia and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. As chamber musician she has played in groups including the Vanbrugh, the Alberi Piano Trio, Musici Ireland, Crash Ensemble, Ficino Ensemble and London-based Scordatura Collective. She has a keen interest in exploring new music, and has performed over 50 premieres with Kirkos Ensemble.