7 February 2009

7 February 2009 at 7.30pm

Guy Johnston (Cello)

Conductor: Brian Wright

Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphoses on

themes by Weber

Elgar - Cello Concerto

Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra

Here are three 20th century masterpieces. Former BBC Young Musician, Guy Johnston, plays Elgar’s evergreen Cello Concerto. Elsewhere, Bartok’s Concerto is the ultimate in exciting orchestral showpieces, while Hindemith’s Metamorphoses would be a perennial audience favourite had he only given it a more digestible title.

Maidstone Leisure Centre, Mote Park, Maidstone.

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Guy Johnston is a British cellist and the winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year award in 2000, where he broke a string in the concert broadcast of his winning Shostakovich No. 1 concerto . A chorister at King's College, Cambridge, he attended Chetham's School of Music in Manchester from the age of 13, and then Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York. He was the cello soloist on the first recording of Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man, released in September 2001. His cello is a rare 1820 instrument by Antonio Pellizon (or Pelizon) of Gorizia, which was bought for him anonymously.