As part of Southend City Council's Concert Series.

Emma Johnson is one of the few clarinettists to have established a career as a solo performer. Her career was launched at the age of 17, when she won BBC Young Musician of the Year followed by the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York.  She studied Music and English at Pembroke College, Cambridge before embarking on music full time and since then she has performed all over the world, including as soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras. Gregory Drott is a concert pianist, conductor, organist, composer and academic. He was a prize-winning organ and piano student at both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. He is a Britten-Pears Young Artist, and an alumnus of the Georg Solti Accademia for Répétiteurs.

Emma Johnson will deliver a “master class” for young musicians during the afternoon. Contact musiconsea@southend.gov.uk for more information.

PROGRAMME TO INCLUDE:-

Variations on La Ci Darem La Mano - Beethoven

Fantasiestucke Op.73 - Schumann

Larghetto from K581 - Mozart

Clarinet Sonata - Poulenc

Works by Stravinsky, Goodman and more.