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Thursday 29th October 2020

From JS Bach to film music composer John Barry

Phil Hopkins, chromatic harmonica

Stuart Whatton, accompanist


Starts: 12.30 on Thursday 29th October (available online afterwards)
this recording has been produced specifically for our friends and supporters in the Music on Thursdays audience and for your Mole Valley Arts e-Live Festival

Listening position:

Relax with your choice(s) of beverage, in a place of your choosing, alone, or with company
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From JS Bach to film music composer John Barry


Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata No 2 in Eb for flute BWV 1031 (arranged for harmonica)
    Allegro moderato (in Eb major)
    Siciliano (in G minor)
    Allegro (in Eb major) (1877-1962)


Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924)
Berceuse     Lullaby  Op 16 (1879)

from Trois Mélodies Op 7 (1870-77)
Après un rêve   After a Dream


George Gershwin (1898-1937)
arr Phil Hopkins
Suite from Porgy and Bess


Movie Medley
    Midnight Cowboy (John Barry 1933-2011)
    Dances With Wolves (John Barry)
    The Entertainer (Scott Joplin c1868-1917)


Johann Sebastian Bach
from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben    Heart and mouth and deed and life  BWV 147 (1723)
   10  Jesus bleibet meine Freude    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring


Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
from Children's Corner L113 (1906-08)
    VI Golliwog's Cakewalk


Concert duration: 40-50 minutes


The youtu.be link for this

concert is

https://youtu.be/L-QJXP6iM_8
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Phil Hopkins

Phil Hopkins was a music scholar at King's School Canterbury, then completed a BA Hons at Oxford University while regularly travelling to London to study jazz drums with Guildhall School of Music professor Trevor Tomkins. While at university Phil played drums with many of the UK's top jazz soloists such as Peter King, Hank Shaw and Stan Robinson. Phil then went on to learn chromatic harmonica with the world's finest classical harmonicist Tommy Reilly.

On graduation at the age of 21, Phil immediately started work in London's West End, playing percussion for Snoopy the Musical at the Duchess Theatre and recording the cast album at Abbey Road Studios. More theatre work followed,  and soon Phil was getting invited to play for major West End shows such as Guys and Dolls with Lulu and Aspects of Love ​with Michael Ball and Sarah Brightman.

At this point Phil was called by legendary Irish songwriter and producer Phil Coulter who invited him to join Coulter’s  recording and touring band. Over a period of six years Phil played on seven Coulter-produced albums and toured the USA four times, performing in major concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall N.Y., Symphony Hall Boston, the Kennedy Center Washington and Roy Thomson Hall in Canada. ​With Coulter at the helm, Phil got to play with many of Ireland’s finest artists including Rory Gallagher, The Dubliners, Maura O’Connell and Liam Clancy - as well as featuring in the Boyzone video filmed at Wembley Arena!

Returning to London, Phil worked for the Royal National Theatre on some of their most acclaimed hits, including Sweeney Todd (with Adrian Lester), A Little Night Music (with Judi Dench), Oklahoma! (with Hugh Jackman. Maureen Lipman) and Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. Phil also found himself busy in London’s recording studios, playing on original cast albums such as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark and recordings of original music for plays at Shakespeare’s Globe. He also played on many sessions for TV and radio shows including drumming for the iconic 1996 Christmas Special of Only Fools and Horses  which remains the most watched non-documentary programme of all time in the UK.

Since then Phil has continued to work extensively in London theatre. At Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre he has been performance musical director for twenty one productions and played percussion and harmonica for many more featuring actors such as Sir Mark Rylance and Vanessa Redgrave. In 2012 Phil played in the fanfare group which welcomed the Olympic torch to the Globe Theatre on its way through London. In 2018 Phil played percussion for the cinema broadcast of The King and I filmed at the London Palladium in front of a live audience.

Phil has also had an active career as a jazz musician and has performed with many of the UK and USA's most well-known jazz artists including  Leon Redbone, Duncan Lamont, Claire Martin, Guy Barker, Stacey Kent  and Julian Joseph. His tribute to Toots Thielemans, The Toots Project, has played at jazz venues throughout the UK - for more information on this please visit tootsproject.com.

Phil is regularly asked to coach actors who need to play harmonica for shows and has worked as harmonica consultant for many West End plays including Girl from the North Country (Old Vic and Gielgud), One Man Two Guvnors (National Theatre, Broadway and Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Night of the Iguana (Lyric Theatre), Peter Pan (Barbican and Stratford) and Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory).

www.philhopkins.org.uk

Stuart Whatton

Stuart Whatton’s musical career began at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School and later took him via the King’s School (where he and Phil Hopkins were bandmates together) to University College Oxford, where he was organ scholar from 1981 to 1984.

After 14 years in the Civil Service, including two years as Private Secretary to the Attorney General (his original degree having been law), Stuart decided to follow his heart into music full-time, and this led to a B.Mus with 1st class honours from King’s College London, where he also won the Purcell Prize.

Following PGCE studies at Cambridge, Stuart pursued a school-teaching career for eight years, running a variety of school music departments in Dorset, Essex and Scotland.

In past chapters of his life, Stuart has been Assistant Organist to the Parish of Waterloo, Organist of the Ealing-based Questors Choir, and Director of Music at St Matthew’s Church, Southwark. His varied performing career has included appearing in a jazz piano sketch on Channel 4’s Banzai!, accompanying an international youth choir at a plenary session of the United Nations in Geneva, and a role in the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, as part of Danny Boyle’s ‘cast of thousands’.

A Fellow of both the Royal College of Organists and the Royal Society of Arts, Stuart has been Director of Music for the Parish of Esher since 2011 and he recently took over the conductorship of the Weybridge-based A Cappella Singers.

For the past five years, he has also been Artistic Director of Music-at-Hill, a leading concert society in central London which last year celebrated its golden jubilee, and since 2018 he has curated the Summer Music Festival at St Lawrence Jewry, the official church of the Lord Mayor of London.
Presenter: Peter Steadman
Assisted by: Richard Miller & Jane Forrester


The youtu.be link for this

concert is

https://youtu.be/L-QJXP6iM_8

We hope you have enjoyed your time with

Phil Hopkins & Stuart Whatton

That concludes our series of 5 'as live' concerts for the

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Oct 1st

Eddie Lee's Jazz on Thursday

Oct 8th

Diphonon viola & accordion Duo

Oct 15th

organist
Marion Bettsworth

Oct 22nd

Carmenco
flute, voice & 2 guitars
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