Featured Young Performers
Jenny Hogan
flute
Jenni Hogan is a London based flautist specialising in contemporary and improvised music. She is highly in demand as a contemporary specialist, in solo and chamber music settings. Jenni has recently performed on BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM, and on BBC1, and several festivals including Darmstadt, Sounds New, London Ear, Isle of Wight and Manchester Pride. Whilst at Darmstadt, Jenni was delighted to have the opportunity to work with composers Aperghis and Fujikura. Jenni is a prolific chamber musician, regularly playing with various ensembles. Recent highlights include performing with FLAME, the South Iceland chamber choir, a performance of the Mozart Flute and Harp concerto and a duo with Anna Noakes. She is a founder member of Thumb, with whom she has performed at The Forge and the CBSO centre in a MBF and RVW Trust supported collaboration with the BCMG. Jenni performs with ANIMA, a new ensemble focusing on music and animation, whose debut concert sold out The Forge. Jenni also has a strong interest in improvised music; working as part of ensembles, with dance, and in solo and duo roles. She regularly plays with the London Soundpainting Orchestra and performs as an improviser all over London, in venues such as the Southbank, nonclassical at Troy Bar and the Golden Hinde.
Stephen Upshaw
viola
Since making his concerto debut at 17, violist Stephen Upshaw has won several competitions and played in festivals around the world including IMS Prussia Cove, Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Musica Nova Festival (Finland) and the Salzburg Chamber Music Festival (Austria). In recent seasons, recital and chamber music engagements have brought him to Boston’s Jordan Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall and Royal Opera House, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Vienna’s Konzerthaus. A recognized interpreter of contemporary music, Stephen has given numerous national and international premieres working closely with composers such as John Adams, Helmut Lachenmann, George Benjamin, Julian Anderson, Michael Finnissy and Christian Wolff. Additionally, Stephen has a strong interest in synthesizing music with other fields and has helped realize collaborative projects with the Boston Architectural College, Transport Theatre Company, Rambert Dance Company and Parasol Unit Art Space. He is also the artistic director of Sounding Motion – a new company exploring the relationship between live contemporary chamber music and dance. He holds a BMus from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston) and completed his postgraduate studies in the class of David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was elected a Junior Fellow.
Tom Bayman
cello
Tom Bayman was born in England in 1989 and started to play the cello at the age of eight. He studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Royal Academy junior department and the Royal Northern College of Music where he received awards for his performances of Bach and contemporary music. He has collaborated with composers such as Matthew Sergeant, Larry Goves, Steven Jackson, Gabriel Prokofiev and Laurence Tompkins; and has worked in consultation with Friedrich Cerha, Liza Lim, Fabrice Fitch and Judith Weir. Performances have taken place as part of slip discs, gaussian and Nonclassical events; and as part of festivals such as New Music North West (Manchester) and London Ear. He plays a cello made in 2013 by Andreas Hudelmayer.