Hannah Marcinowicz saxophone and clarinet, Abigail Burrows flute
Concert Programme and Workshop Activities
Over the course of a one hour concert, we include the following:
- Discussion about our instruments, what they are made of, how they work etc.
- Interactive games showing common activities where ‘blowing’ is important
- ‘New Rag’ – – we use this Scott Joplin classic to explore how dynamics are used in music
- ‘La Basque’ – we use this mountain dance to introduce a baton and explore tempo changes
- ‘Composing Cockerel’ – this is an interactive composition game, where children can create their own piece of music, which will be played by ‘Tickled Pink’
- We play different dances from around the world, e.g. Tango and Irish dances to demonstrate cultural trends
- ‘Magic Hands’ – children are encouraged to be led by the mood of the music to create mirrored images with a partner (this is also a workshop activity)
In addition, ‘Tickled Pink’ will perform some solo and duet works.
Hannah Marcinowicz
Hannah made her Wigmore Hall debut in 2008 and performed there again in 2009. In 2007, she gave a recital at the Royal Festival Hall as an award-winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, and last year, she gave a Park Lane Group Young Artists’ recital at the Purcell Room, where she premiered a new work by Giles Swayne to universal critical acclaim.
A former Purcell School pupil, Hannah graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied both saxophone and clarinet with Richard Addison. Whilst there she received a Foundation Award and the Henry Ellice Lees Prize. Subsequently she has received awards from the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, Leverhulme Trust, Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Craxton Memorial Trust, which have enabled her to continue her studies at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Cergy-Pontoise in Paris with international soloist, Jean-Yves Fourmeau.
In June 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Médaille d’Or (Gold Medal) from the Conservatoire for both Saxophone Performance and Chamber Music.
Hannah has worked with a number of top UK orchestras, including the London Symphony, Philharmonia, BBC Concert, London Philharmonic, London Concert Orchestras and Northern Sinfonia. In September 2005, at the age of 22, Hannah played the bass clarinet and tenor saxophone solo in Vaughan-Williams’ Sixth Symphony, under Sir Colin Davis, at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall.
Hannah is currently an artist on the Live Music Now! scheme, a soloist on the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme, and a recipient of Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, leading to engagements throughout the UK including Sowerby Music in February 2010.
Abigail Burrows
Abigail attended the Purcell School of Music. Whilst there she was awarded a 9K Gold Brannen-Cooper flute by the Austin and Hope Pilkington trust. She continued her studies at The Royal College of Music before launching her free-lance career.
Abigail is a frequent concerto soloist and has appeared at major music venues including the Royal Festival Hall in London. As a recitalist she has performed at music festivals, music clubs and societies. International concerts have included two tours of Russia including the Rachmaninoff Festival (as winner of the Watford Concerto Competition). As a guest solo artist with the New English Singers she toured Germany for the Bach 250th Anniversary celebrations.
Abigail has broadcast as a soloist on Classic FM and several BBC radio and television channels.
She plays in a number of small group ensembles as a keen chamber musician and also plays in the folk-rock band Paris Hotel whose first album was released to critical acclaim. In May 2009 she was the classical guest artist at a Jethro Tull concert at The Barbican Hall performing on her unique crystal pearl flute as a Pearl Flutes International Artist.
Abigail has given many outreach concerts though Live Music Now! and Music in Hospitals schemes and has worked with the flute charity Flutewise tutoring on their courses in this country, Croatia and Slovenia.
Abigail and Hannah are members of the ‘Tickled Pink’ trio which includes pink instruments!