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Lunchtime Music

Lunchtime Music

RBC Musicians

Date and time
09 Dec 2024 (1:05pm - 2:00pm)
Location

Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

Free - booking required

Booking Information

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Percussionist Jordan Ashman

Jordan Ashman percussion

Programme tbc

Ella Blair soprano
Beth Haughan piano

Liszt Comment, disaient-ils
Liszt S’il est un charmant gazon
Dove Five Am’rous Sighs
Strauss Muttertändelei
Strauss Meinem Kinde
Mozart Nehmt meinen Dank

Jordan Ashman is a 19 year old percussionist from Cambridge. He started playing drums aged seven and soon moved on to wider percussion aged ten, gaining grade 8 distinction aged 13 and a distinction in his ATCL diploma aged 15.

He has played with the National Children’s Orchestras and the National Youth Orchestra as well as the National Youth Brass Band where he was principal percussionist for three years.

In 2022 Jordan won the Grand Final of BBC Young Musician at The Bridgwater Hall accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. His performance of Jennifer Higdon’s percussion concerto was described by Alexis Ffrench as having “riotous power but also sublime tenderness”. In the previous round, Anna Lapwood said “all three of the judges came off the stage in tears” at his performance, described by Paul Filbert as “exquisite”. He was subsequently named as a Rising Star in BBC Music Magazine and by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

More recently he won critical acclaim at the 2023 Cheltenham Festival where Ivan Hewett (Telegraph) described him as a "real star in the making" for his solo recital and was described as “exceptional” by Jeremy Pound (BBC Music Magazine) for his Mixtape performance.

In February 2024 Jordan made his debut concerto performance at Symphony Hall in Birmingham playing Juvenalia by Robert Honstein with the City of Birmingham Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Ella Blair is a soprano in her second year of postgraduate study on the MMus Vocal Performance course at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire studying under Amanda Roocroft.

In RBC’s Opera Scenes last November, she played the role of Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and this summer, performed the role of Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music at The Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham.

She is the recipient of the 2nd place prize in the Edward Brooks Lieder Prize 2024 and was a member of the renowned Young Artist programme Genesis Sixteen (2023-2024).

Ella frequently performs as a soloist for choral societies and choirs in their concerts around Birmingham and in the South where she is originally from.

Running time approx. 55 minutes

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