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Programme:

Hamish MacCunn – The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 – Soloist: Mabelle Park
Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No.7 in D minor Op.70

Conductor: Chris Morgan

Leader: Hywel Webley

We are delighted that Mabelle Park will be our soloist.

Mabelle is a German-born violinist from South Korea with passionate and dedicated performances on stage. Mabelle won the Musicians’ Company Prince’s Prize as well as the Prudi Hoggarth Audience Award, and she is the winner of 2025 ROSL Strings Prize. She received the Clarence Myerscough Award and David Goldman Award and is supported by the Leverhulme Arts Trust and Harbour Foundation. Having graduated with distinction and full scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, Mabelle is currently studying on the MA intensive programme with So-Ock Kim.

Find out more about Mabelle at her website: mabelleparkviolin.com

Hamish MacCunn’s Land of the Mountain and the Flood is a spirited, bold and yet charming Scottish overture that carries you over the hills and far away. It was composed in 1886 when MacCunn was only eighteen years old – a staggering achievement. It gained familiarity when it was used from 1973 to 1976 as the theme for the BBC television series Sutherland’s Law.

The Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 was the only concerto for violin composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. While recovering from a shattered marriage and a near breakdown in 1878, he spent March and April in the Swiss resort town of Clarens, and it was there, in a sudden burst of inspiration, that he wrote one of the most brilliant and cheerful of all his works.

Dvořák’s Symphony No.7 in D minor Op.70 was completed in March 1885 and is highly regarded by critics and musicologists as one of the greatest and purest examples in this art-form since Beethoven. Dvořák resolved that this symphony would reflect the political struggles of the Czech nation. It would also reveal something of his personal struggle in reconciling his simple and peaceful countryman’s feelings with his intense patriotism and his wish to see the Czech nation flourish.

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Adult £10
Concessions £5 (full time students / income support / disability benefit only)
Under 19 £2
Under 5 free

Kindly supported by Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme.

Generously sponsored by Raymond James, Truro, for Wealth and Investment Management in the heart of Cornwall.