In association with Wilton’s Music Hall, BBT presented a series of concerts on the last Wednesday of each month from February to June 2015 to showcase some of the talented young musicians who have recently won BBT awards and fellowships.

BBT Wednesdays were some of the first events to appear in Wilton’s newly renovated and expanded cocktail bar, resulting from the Wilton’s Capital Project to repair the building and open up additional performance spaces. Upstairs, in this smaller ambient space (capacity 35-40), BBT’s young musicians shared their virtuosity, experimentation and profound passion for their instruments and their music.  We captured performances and artists’ reactions to the venue on video – scroll down to see them all, starting with an interview with Frances Mayhew, then Artistic & Managing Director of Wilton’s Music Hall on the collaboration with BBT:

Read Frances Mayhew’s Blog about Wilton’s collaboration with BBT

BBT Wednesday at Wilton’s Launch
25 February 2015
To open the series this concert took place in Wilton’s main hall

Kate Whitley composer/piano with Eloisa Fleur-Thom violin and Sarah-Jane Lewis soprano
Programme:
Kate Whitley Five piano pieces
György Kurtág Tre Pezzi per violin e pianoforte Op 14e
Kate Whitley Three pieces for violin and piano
Kate Whitley This is my love poem  for you (words by Sabrina Mahfouz)
Jonathan Harvey Tombeau de Messiaen
Antonio José Pavane Triste and Finale from Guitar Sonata – a guest spot from Sean Shibe who had his own recital later in the series

With concertgoers, performers and building ideally matched, this looks like the start of a meaningful friendship in East London – and you would be firmly advised to take the chance to see the musicians of the future in such a friendly and inspiring environment.

Ben Hogwood, www.arcana.fm

Kate performing her own Five Piano Pieces:

25 March 2015 at 8pm; Wilton’s Upstairs (Cocktail Bar)
Sean Shibe guitar with Ben Johnson tenor
Programme:
John Dowland: Two Fantasias
J S Bach: Prelude, Fuga and Finale in E flat BWV 998
Benjamin Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland Op 70
Benjamin Britten: Songs from the Chinese Op 58

Sean and Ben in performance:

29 April 2015
Erik Bosgraaf recorder
Programme: The Flute’s Garden of Delight
Jacob van Eyck Preludium of Voorspel, Phantasia, Lavolette and Comagain
Tomi Räisänen Dive (world première)
Igor Stravinksy Pièce III
Jacob van Eyck Engels Nachtegaeltje / Den Nachtegael
Luciano Berio Gesti
Louis Andriessen Ende
Jacob van Eyck Wat zal men op den avond doen

Erik’s introduces a world premiere and gives a children’s recorder workshop:

Erik perform works from over 350 years of recorder repertoire:

27 May 2015
Bram van Sambeek bassoon
Bach: Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV 1008: Prelude
Cliff Burton: Pulling Teeth from Metallica’s debut studio album Kill ‘Em All
Sebastian Fagerlund: Woodlands
and a series of 30-60 second Gaudeamus fragments from:
Bela Horvat, Gabriel Salcedo Sansón, Panos Iliopoulos, Arjan Linker and Rieteke Hölscher
(New works commissioned by Gaudeamus)
Werner Pirchner: mit faGottes hilfe

Bram puts democracy in music into action:

Bram’s wide-ranging recital (excerpts):

24 June 2015
Alec Frank-Gemmill horn with Eleanor Johnston harp
Programme:
Dauprat Introduction, Theme and Variations on a Scottish Air
Poulenc Elégie
Messiaen from Des Canyons aux Etoiles: VI Appel interstellaire
Britten from Suite for Harp Op 83: III Nocturne
Saint-Saëns Morceau de Concert Op 94
Jeanne Singer from Suite for Horn and Harp Op 94: IV Espana (Five-olé)

Alec Frank-Gemmill and Eleanor Johnston on coping with noises off…

Saint-Saëns’ Morceau de Concert Op. 94: