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Lunchtime Concert: Tomos Xerri

Performance:
1.00PM Tuesday, 12th March 2019

Tomos Xerri is a Cardiff born harpist who attended the Junior course of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and was awarded a Major Music Scholarship to Eton College. He studied with Gabriella Dall'Olio and Frances Kelly at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance where he graduated with First Class Honours in 2014, and completed his Master of Music course with distinction in 2015, winning the John Marson prize for harp.


He is in high demand as a soloist, with regular performances at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Southwark Cathedral and Windsor Castle, has given solo performances for HM the Queen, and has won national and international competitions such as the UFAM International Harp Competition in Paris and the National Eisteddfod in Wales, as well as prestigious awards such as the Hattori Foundation Senior Award and the Philharmonia Orchestra's Martin Music Scholarship Award. He is an experienced chamber musician, having given sell-out performances with the Camilli string quartet and performed Ravel's Introduction & Allegro live on prime-time BBC News at the opening night of the Cutty Sark concert space in Greenwich.

Programme:

La Source - Alphonse Hasselmans
Sonate für Harfe - Paul Hindemith
Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn - John Thomas
Andante-Allegro from the Concerto in B-flat - G. F. Handel
Première Arabesque - Claude Debussy
Die Moldau (Vltava) arr. Hans Trnecek - Bedrich Smetana
Autumn - John Thomas

Duration: 1h

Tickets: £6, Student/Unemployed £5