End of Year Concert 2021: Trio Mazzolini

Programme:

Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op.49

Artist Bios:

Harry Rylance (Piano)

Harry Rylance is British-Korean pianist and current Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls including the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Wigmore Hall, the Grand Hall of Budapest, the Seoul Arts Centre, the Glenn Gould Concert Hall, and at international music festivals including Heidelberg, Aspen, Dartington and Petworth. He has featured in live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and “From The Top,” America’s leading classical music radio programme. He has performed with orchestras and ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra, the Nash Ensemble, the Royal Manson Ensemble, and the Royal Academy of Music Orchestra. In 2019, at the UK Foreign Office, he gave a solo performance to an audience of international dignitaries including five former British Prime Ministers.Harry graduated with First Class Honours (BMus and MA) and a Diploma (DipRAM) from the Royal Academy of Music, achieving the highest mark in the 2020 postgraduate piano final recitals. He was also the Academy’s nominee for the Musician’s Company Silver Medal, a prestigious award to recognise distinguished students of the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music. In September 2020, he was appointed as the Royal Academy Opera’s Répétiteur Fellow, as well as a Chamber Music Fellow at RAM. While at the Academy, Harry studied under Head of Piano, Professor Joanna MacGregor CBE. In earlier years, he was tutored by the late Zoltán Kocsis, and by Péter Nagy and Sergey Schepkin. He has also performed in masterclasses with Stephen Hough, Steven Osborne, Jenö Jandó, Thomas Hampson, Adrian Brendel, and Nicola Benedetti. In addition to his solo, orchestral and opera work, Harry is also a member of Trio Mazzolini with Jack Greed (violin) and Yurie Lee (cello). The trio are current Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music and recently joined the Britten Pears Young Artists Programme for ‘21/22. They made their international debut in Toronto, where they also performed a live broadcast on CBC Radio at the Glenn Gould Studio.Harry is the recipient of numerous awards including the Alexander Kelly Memorial Prize, Christian Carpenter Recital Prize, Isaacs and Pirani Piano Trio Prize, Elena Gerhardt Accompaniment Prize, May Mukle/Douglas Cameron Prize and the Skelton MA scholarship, generously supported by the Grand Duo Charitable Trust.Beyond his dedication to the core canon, Harry is also passionate about new and experimental music. British composer Daniel Kidane, whose music opened the 2019 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, selected Harry to premiere his solo piano work, "Carillon" at a PRS Foundation concert. Harry was also selected to premiere new works this year by renowned American composer, Augusta Read Thomas, and the LPO-designated composer, Keting Sun, whose piece was dedicated to him. He is also working with the film composer Garry Judd to record a collection of his solo piano works.

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Yurie Lee (Cello)

British cellist Yurie Lee of Japanese and Hong Kong-British descent, is currently based in London. A versatile musician, Yurie enjoys a career as a chamber musician, soloist and orchestral musician, having appeared regularly in some of the world’s leading concert halls throughout Europe, Canada and across the UK. Next season’s highlights include a collaboration with the Nash Ensemble at the Wigmore Hall where she will be performing Julian Anderson’s “Sky Piece” for solo cello amongst other works. She will also make appearances at Britten Pears Arts including a performance of Imogen Holst’s String Quintet and a SAGA Cruise tour of Germany and Amsterdam with Trio Mazzolini, ending with a concert at The Concertgebouw. Yurie has performed in prestigious venues across the Globe, including the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, the Glenn Gould Concert Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Salzburg Mozarteum, Casa da Música in Porto, the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican Centre. Yurie was a member of the Kirkman Quartet from 2016-2019, a string quartet with whom she gave recitals in some of the most prestigious venues across the country including Bristol Beacon, formerly known as Colston Hall. They held a place on the Royal Academy of Music’s ASSET Scheme, an intensive chamber music training programme, for three years under the guidance of Levon Chilingirian and won 1st Prize at the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize in 2017. Notable performances of theirs include recitals at Eaton Square as winners of the St Peter’s Eaton Square Fellowship, performing as the on-stage sextet in Strauss’ Capriccio at Garsington Opera, a concert tour of Porto, Portugal and holding the position of Quartet in Residence at the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival in 2019. In late 2019, Yurie co-founded Trio Mazzolini together with violinist Jack Greed and pianist Harry Rylance. Within three weeks of playing together, they travelled to Toronto, Canada to give performances around the city including a live broadcast of Weinberg Piano Trio Op.24 for CBC Radio at the Glenn Gould Studio. Together they have been invited to festivals such as the North York Moors Chamber Music, Petworth, Lichfield and Folkestone New Music. The Trio are currently Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music and Britten Pears Young Artists. An experienced orchestral player, Yurie regularly plays with the Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra as Principal cellist and has worked with the likes of Sir Mark Elder, Jac van Steen, Edward Gardner and Marin Alsop. She currently holds a place on the Royal Ballet Sinfonia Birmingham Side-by-Side Scheme and will be appearing with them in the future, once the pandemic has settled. Other past external engagements include performances at the Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival premiering “Love Me To Death” by Tom Randle, W11 Opera premiering “Eliza & the Swans” by John Barber, recording the soundtrack to BACCES Robin Hood Pantomime with the London Symphony Orchestra and recording with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for the BBC’s Ten Pieces Project. Born in 1997, Yurie began playing the cello at the age of five and was accepted to The Royal Academy of Music’s Primary and Junior Departments with a Scholarship. There she studied with Lara Moore, Bozidar Vukotic and Heather Harrison respectively. She graduated with First Class Honours and Distinction for her Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts degrees at the Royal Academy of Music and was also awarded a Diploma (DipRAM) for an outstanding final recital. Yurie plays on a Betts Panormo cello c.1800 which is kindly on loan from the Royal Academy of Music.

Jack Greed (Violin)

Jack Greed is a UK based violinist who enjoys a busy and varied schedule of orchestral, chamber, and solo playing. He is a member of Trio Mazzolini - a piano trio formed at the Royal Academy of Music, where Jack studied for 5 years under the tutelage of Joshua Fisher. Trio Mazzolini is passionate about collaborating with, and commissioning works from, living composers, and the trio enjoys programming these new works alongside some of the more established piano trio repertoire, in order to create a varied and (hopefully!) stimulating experience for their audiences. The Trio’s first project was to take Mieczysław Weinberg’s severely under-appreciated Piano Trio to Toronto in 2019, where they gave several performances of the piece and also recorded it at the Glenn Gould Studio - a recording which was later broadcast on CBC Radio. Since then, they have been invited to perform at festivals including the North York Moors, Petworth, Lichfield, Folkestone, Aldeburgh and Ferrandou festivals. In 2020, the Trio was awarded a Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music, where they regularly work with the composition department and give coaching to young chamber music groups. They are also part of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, an exciting venture which sees them collaborating with some of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming composers and singers. Jack also enjoys a busy schedule of freelance work with many of the UK’s top orchestras, and has appeared with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia of London, John Wilson Orchestra, Opera North, Garsington Opera, Knussen Chamber Orchestra, and Spira Mirabilis (Italy).