University Choir and Orchestra Concert and Guests
Director/curator – Dr David Milsom
Saturday, April 13th, St Paul’s Hall, 6.30pm
This concert, featuring Haydn’s Little Organ Mass and Bach’s Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, takes an Austro-German nineteenth-century approach and includes a number of shorter, chamber-sized items, featuring University of Huddersfield students.
The performance also espouses the university’s proud heritage as a teaching institution by including the opportunity for a young and gifted student, Maria Nikolaeva, under Dr Milsom’s teaching and guidance, to perform this seminal Bach concerto with him, as part of a pathfinding research and performance project embedding the fruits of Milsom’s historical performance research in formative instrumental teaching and training. The performance of this concerto provides the chance to hear the very rarely heard finale cadenza by Joseph Hellmesberger.
A varied and exciting event – not one to miss!
Bach ‘double’ concerto soloists David Milsom & Maria Nikolaeva
Dr David Milsom is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, an active and versatile modern and period instrument violinist and violist, and a well-respected and long-established instrumental teacher (including at Huddersfield, where he is upper strings tutor), as well as conductor and liturgical singer. Dr Milsom heads up classical performance activities and ensembles and directs the university chamber choir and chamber orchestra. His research hitherto has focused on nineteenth-century performance, but, of late, has increasingly encompassed pursuing ground-breaking project-based ways of working with some of his more promising students, embedding a range of research and historical elements into pre-HE teaching, as demonstrated in this concert.
