Classical Concerts In Weybridge & Cobham Surrey – St Patricks Day Harp Concert with Seana Davey
Saturday March 17th 2018 – A St Patricks Day Harp Concert with Seana Davey
Organised by: Surrey Concerts
Where: St James Church, Weybridge
Church Street,
Weybridge, Surrey KT13 8DF
Other Concerts: Monthly in both Weybridge and Cobham – see programme lower on this page.
Ticket Prices: from £13.50/£15/£20 in advance or from £17 on the door)
Book Tickets Online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-patricks-day-harp-concert-with-seana-davey-tickets-42132015994
Tickets On The Door: From the Parish Hall concert reception desk at 6.30pm on the night.
We will be including a reception drink in the ticket price (prior to the concert) in the adjacent hall.
Seana Davey – Harp
Seana studied with the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and holds the Associate Diploma in Teaching. She also holds a 1st class honours degree B.A (hons) in Music (performance major) and Irish language from National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and a Master’s of Science (M.Sc) in Music Technology from Univeristy of Limerick, Ireland.
The youngest of a musical family, Seána is also a successful Irish dancer, competing in international and national Irish dancing competitions before joining various dance shows and touring internationally with them.
Now based in London, Seána leads a busy life as a professional harpist. She has toured extensively as harpist with the critically acclaimed international production, Celtic Thunder and other artists extensively throughout Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. Amongst these countries she has performed on stages such as the Fox Theatres in Detroit, St. Louis and Atlanta, The McCaw Theatre in Seattle, The Sony Centre in Toronto, The Beacon Theatre in New York City, The Olympic Park Arena in Sydney, Melbourne Sports Arena, Hyde Park; PROMS in the Park, London amongst many more. She has recorded one duo and two solo albums to date, two of which were released in 2017.
She now composes music, and collaborates with artists of other genres, including Classical, Folk, South American, Jazz, Celtic, Asian Fusion and World Music. She was featured in ‘Vogue’ magazine as being the harpist on site at Dolce & Gabbana’s home in Portofino, Italy for the launch of the Autumn couture line.
She records regularly with producers for television library music, guesting most recently on the new album of the famed Afro Celt Sound System, and has worked with producers and musical directors associated with Real World Records, Birdy, Peter Gabriel and more.
A regular harpist at The Ivy Club, Seána performs in many well known venues, including; Kensington Palace, Hyde Park: Proms in the Park, The Ritz, The Rosewood Hotel, Coworth Park, The Savoy, The National Portrait Gallery, Blackheath Music Conservatoire, The Oriental Club, The Langham, The National Festival Hall and many more. When not in London, Seána travels internationally regularly (Middle East, Italy, Germany, France and North America) for private work including corporate entertainment, location weddings, private parties and on-site recording.
You can listen to her in the video below.
Programme Of Classical Concerts In Weybridge & Cobham
St James Church, Weybridge
Tickets from £13.50 in advance or from £17 on the door
More Information: Saira Luther and Emily Leather page
St Andrews Church, Cobham
Tickets from £11.70/£13/£15 in advance or from £15 on the door)
Book Tickets:
St Andrews Church, Cobham
Tickets from £13.50/£15/£20 in advance or from £17 on the door)
Book Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-of-piano-and-vocals-with-tim-owen-tickets-42629755747
St James Church, Weybridge
June 30th 2018 – Act TBC
St Andrews Church, Cobham
July 14th 2018 – Act TBC
St James Church, Weybridge
July 28th 2018 – Act TBC
St Andrews Church, Cobham
About Our Guest Musician: Tau Wey, Pianist
Born in Taiwan, Tau subsequently lived in Germany and then in England. After reading music at Cambridge, he studied with Yonty Solomon and Douglas Finch at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and with Jacob Lateiner at Mannes College of Music in New York.
He was awarded First Prize in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Competition.
He gave his London debut solo recital at Blackheath Halls in 2006 and his overseas debut at the Music Forum in Taipei the following year. He has made appearances on Radio 3, at the Aldeburgh Festival and at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms season.
Tau is currently Head of Keyboard at Sevenoaks School and a piano tutor on the Kent International Piano Course.
After entertaining us in 2013 as a part of a two-piano duo, he pays a return visit to Esher, this time in a solo capacity, and the core of his programme will be the ever popular ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ by Mussorgsky
Programme For Tau Wey’s Concert
Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte also has a double life as an orchestral piece. It is a beautifully evocative dance in the neo-classical style, and inspired by a picture of a little dancing princess by Velazquez.
Ginastera was one of the most important Argentine composers. The Danzas Argentinas, though they do not relate to pictures and have not been orchestrated, are wonderfully descriptive pieces ideally written for the virtuosic medium of the piano.
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
Promenade
1 Gnome[Promenade 2]
2 The old castle[Promenade 3]
3 Tuileries (Dispute between children at play)
4 Cattle[Promenade 4]
5 Ballet of the unhatched chicks
6 “Samuel” Goldenberg and “Schmuÿle”[Promenade 5]
7 The market (the big news)
8 Catacombæ (Sepulcrum romanum)
Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (With the dead in a dead language)
9 The hut on hen’s legs (Baba-Yaga)
10 The Knight’s Gate (in the ancient capital, Kiev)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 (1937)
I Dance of the old herdsman
II Dance of the beautiful maiden
Musicians Art Gallery
Sera accepts commissions, so if you have a photo of musicians, a dancer or something else you’d like painted in her style, then please get in touch with Sera. Her contact details are on the Surrey Artists website.
