Guernsey Symphony Orchestra

Credit Suisse Concert Series
15th November at 8.00pm
"In memory of an angel"

Programme includes:

	Alban Berg	- Violin Concerto
	Gustav Mahler	- Symphony no. 1 'The Titan'

To perform the Berg violin concerto, we are delighted to welcome back guest solist David Le Page. David Le Page was born in Guernsey and began learning the violin at the age of seven. He gained a place at the Yehudi Menuhin school aged eleven where he studied with Margaret Norris and received chamber music coaching from Peter Norris and Hans Keller. He was a prize winner in both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Yehudi Menuhin competition and completed his studies in Bern with Igor Ozim and in London with Sidney Griller.

David Le Page

Roger Coull

The guest conductor for this concert is Roger Coull. Roger Coull studied the violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Trevor Williams and later Frederick Grinke. As a string quartet leader of international standing, he has always been used to the interpretation of music and familiar with every aspect of the process of turning this vision into performance. A regular and popular visitor to Guernsey, he is often to be seen leading the Guernsey Symphony Orchestra and more recently, as in this concert, serving as guest conductor.

For the third concert of The 2008 Credit Suisse Series, The Guernsey Symphony Orchestra presents ‘In memory of an Angel’ including the violin concerto by Alban Berg, and Gustav Mahler's symphony no.1 'Titan'.

The violin concerto by Alban Berg was Composed in 1935, just four months before his death and was written as a requiem to a young dear friend Manon Grupius who died suddenly from a serious illness at the age of 18. It is the general concensus of authorities on music that this is one of the most significant violin concertos of the twentieth century and one of Berg’s masterworks. The GSO is delighted to welcome back Guernsey’s own virtuoso violinist David Le Page to perform this concerto.

The revised Symphony No.1 by Mahler, originally ridiculed at its first performance, is now considered as a masterpiece of orchestration and invention. Like all his music, it shows nostalgia for an ideal pastoral simplicity and for the innocence of childhood plus the turmoil of an individual yearning for a self-transcending union with the natural world.

A concert of emotional and powerful music. Ticket prices : £15 £12.50 £10.00 Students half price and £5.00 restricted view