Violist Rachel Roberts performs chamber works by Schubert, Ravel and Emma-Ruth Richards at the Leicester International Music Festival (LIMF) this week.
Taking place between 17th and 20th September, this year’s festival is presented under the banner ‘Vibrant Landscapes’. Artistic Director Nicholas Daniel writes that the idea behind the theme is “to let these composers speak across time – to allow their music to illuminate and challenge one another, and to draw us as listeners into the depths and details of their musical worlds.”
Respected internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, Rachel enjoys a busy schedule of chamber music. She has appeared as chamber musician at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Musikverein (Grand Saal) Vienna, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Cadogan Hall, St John’s Smith Square and King’s Place in London. She is a regular guest at international chamber music festivals such as Salzburg Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Heimbach “Spannungen”, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Hamburg “Oestertone”, Lofoten in Norway, and Stift in Holland.
During this year’s LIMF, Rachel will perform in four concerts alongside violinists Anna-Liisa Bezrodny and Elizabeth Ball, cellists Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Gemma Rosefield and Ashok Klouda, double bassist Lynda Houghton, oboist Nicholas Daniel and pianist Charles Owen. The festival opens on 17th September with a programme that sees Rachel perform Schubert’s monumental Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, The Trout. On 19th September, Rachel will take part in the world premiere of Emma-Ruth Richards’ Still Life, a multi-media composition for oboe, viola and cello with poetry by Nic Chalmers. During the final day of the festival, Rachel will perform in a family concert, to which young listeners and their families are invited free of charge. The ‘Festival Finale’ on the same day includes a performance by Rachel of Emma-Ruth Richards’ Hora for solo viola, and culminates with Schubert’s timeless String Quintet in C major.
For details of each of these concerts, please follow the links below, or visit the festival website for complete information and tickets.
