Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux and Joseph Havlat - CANCELLED
Lunchtime Concert
Tuesday 4 June 2024, 1.00pm
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux and Joseph Havlat - CANCELLED
Repertoire To Be Confirmed
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux
In 2021 Charlotte was a prize-winner in the YCAT (London) and Concert Artists Guild (New York) International Auditions.
Nominated as a 2022 Rising Star Artist by Classic FM, this season Charlotte makes her debut with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and East of England Youth Orchestra.
She returns to Wigmore Hall as soloist, Radio France in Paris, and to the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival where, as leader of the Quatuor Confluence, they won 1st Prize in the Competition in 2021. Further afield she makes her debut at the Australian Chamber Music Festival and in 2024 as soloist in the USA.
Joseph Havlat
Joseph Havlat is a pianist and composer from Hobart, Australia, based in London. Working as a soloist and chamber musician for music very new, very old and some things in between, he has performed in major concert venues around the UK, Europe, America, Japan and Australia.
He is a leading interpreter of new music, having collaborated with such composers as Hans Abrahamsen, John Adams, Thomas Adès, Gerald Barry, Brett Dean, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Michael Finnissy and Thomas Larcher. As a chamber musician he has performed with William Bennett, James Ehnes, Steven Isserlis, Katalin Károlyi and Jack Liebeck, alongside regular duo partners Lotte Betts-Dean, Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux and Tim Posner.
He is also a member of the LSO percussion ensemble with whom he has released a CD on the LSO Live label, featuring the premiere recording of John Adams’ two-piano work ‘Roll Over Beethoven’. As a composer his music often explores the sounds of the natural world, imbued with the harsher shapes of human modernity. He has written music spanning from solo voice to large ensemble, including for Ensemble x.y, of which he is a founding member.
Press
An impressively assured recording debut from a violinist to watch.
The Strad / Champs Hill Records Ostinata / June 2022
This sensitively recorded debut presents an artist with something of her own to say, and something worth hearing … while the five works are all in their own ways folk-informed, technically taxing virtuoso vehicles, they are also strikingly diverse in terms of stylistic and emotional expression ... An attention-grabbing debut.
Charlotte Gardner, Gramophone/ Champs Hill Records Ostinata / June 2022
For all the fireworks and superbly executed technical devilry, there is a feeling here of essential calm, which is shattered by the vehemence of the following Fuga, played with textural clarity and a great sense of line … Ysaÿe’s Fourth Sonata is a wonderful mixture of technical rigour and emotional flexibility, with Saluste-Bridoux bringing lyrical flow and tonal beauty to even the most complex passages of multiple-stopping.
Tim Homfray, The Strad / Champs Hill Records Ostinata / June 2022
Describe by the Gramophone as ‘an artist with something of her own to say’, in 2021 Charlotte was a prize-winner in the YCAT and Concert Artists Guild (New York) International Auditions. Nominated as a2022 Rising Star Artist by Classic FM, this season Charlotte makes her debut with the Bournemouth Symphony and CBSO Youth Orchestras.
- Standard Price: £6.50 in advance | £7.50 on the day
- Friends of St David's Hall | Under 16s | Over 60s | Students | Claimants | Disabled People plus one companion: £5.50 in advance | £6.50 on the day
- Time Credits (please contact Box Office on 02920 878444): 2 credits
Plus an optional £2.00 postage fee.
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In 2022 Champs Hill Records released her debut solo album Ostinata to critical acclaim, the Gramophone describing her as ‘an artist with something of her own to say’.
Over the last year Charlotte has given recitals and performed concertos across the UK including the Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ryedale, Lake District Summer Music, Brighton and King’s Lynn Festivals.
An avid chamber musician, highlights include appearances at the BBC Proms, and the Gstaadt Festival alongside Alina Ibragimova, Lawrence Power, Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou.
She has taken part in IMS Prussia Cove, the East Neuk and Evian Festivals, and is currently in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris with Quatuor Confluence.
Charlotte completed her Master’s at the Royal College of Music with Alina Ibragimova, having previously studied in Montpellier, and at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
Charlotte is currently playing on a Giovanni Battista Rogeri, kindly loaned to her by the Swiss foundation Boubo-Music.
Current work includes a piano trio for Trio Mazzolini, and a mixed ensemble piece for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music to which he returns this summer.
Joseph studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Prof. Joanna MacGregor, where he received his BMus and MMus with distinction, including awards for exceptional merit in studentship and the highest recital mark for a postgraduate pianist. He has been a Young Artist of St. John’s Smith Square, the Oxford Lieder Festival and Kirckman Concert Society, and was a first prize winner of the Royal Overseas League Music Competition.
Recent highlights include playing Adès’ In Seven Days with the LSO under the baton of the composer, as well as the premiere of his Növények at Wigmore Hall. In late 2021 he appeared with the BBC Philharmonic giving the premiere of Robert Laidlow’s piano concerto Warp, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and in 2022 he made his debut at the Concertgebouw Recital Hall in a programme of Dohnanyi and Mendelssohn with cellist Tim Posner. In 2023 Joseph will be featured on several CD releases: Finnissy vocal works on Divine Art Metier (with Lotte Betts-Dean and Marsyas Trio), Lisa Ilean’s Weather a Rare Blue and Rebecca Saunders’ murmurs for NMC (with Explore Ensemble), and two solo CDs, one with Debussy, Schumann and Abrahamsen, and the other the premiere recording of Isabella Gellis’ The Dissolute Society Comprised of All Sorts. Joseph teaches at the Royal Academy of Music. He likes ferns.