This weekend, on Saturday 21st January 2017 at 1:30pm, the Charles Blackham Memorial Competition will take place in the College Chapel.  This competition is held every year in memory of the late chair of the College Music Society, Charles Blackham (m.2007), and the winning musician will receive a prize of £200, generously donated by Sally Blackham, Charles’ mother.  The competition is free to attend, so please do come and listen to a competition with an extremely high standard of music making.

Programme

Maisie Hulbert (3rd year) Soprano
Accompanied by Sid Prabu-Naik

Henry Purcell:   If Music Be the Food of Love
Robert Schumann:   Leid der Suleika from ‘Myrthen’
Ernest Chausson:   ‘Le Charme’ and ‘Papillons’
Gustav Holst:  ‘A Little Music’ from Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs

Luke Pitzer (1st YearPiano

Free improvisation
Scott Joplin:   Maple Leaf Rag
William Bolcom:  Graceful Ghost Rag
Luke Pitzer : The Lion and the Duck