For our second Sunday Morning Music concert, we are delighted to welcome clarinettist Matthew Wilshire and pianist Morgan Hayes, an old friend of Folkestone, who will be performing a lovely programme of duos and solos.
Matthew Wilsher is a highly versatile clarinettist who has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Contemporary Orchestra and the Philharmonia, and has appeared in leading venues such as Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
A graduate and double fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, Matthew is committed to reimagining how performance can connect, challenge and inspire. In particular, Matthew is passionate about shaping opera in innovative and accessible ways. He is principal clarinet of Dorset Opera Festival, Devon Opera and Waterperry Opera, and works regularly with English Touring Opera, Birmingham Opera and Tête à Tête. As a founding member of the charity Hold the Drama, he performs non-verbal musical shows across the UK, and collaborates widely on education and outreach projects with English National Opera, The Mozartists and the London Sinfonietta.
Morgan Hayes
Morgan Hayes is Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy and is a much-loved figure in classical music. His compositions have been described as ‘sexy’. ‘brilliant’ and as having an ‘unusually wide expressive range’. The Telegraph critic’s review of his 2005 BBC Proms commission ‘Strip’ said that he wanted ‘to hear the piece again, there and then’.
Morgan is also a superb and deeply sensitive pianist, and is in that guise Morgan is with us this morning.
