THERE’S A chance next week to hear one of the area’s best young musicians in concert.
Trumpet player Rebecca Robertson plays a lunchtime recital at St Paul’s Hall on the campus of the University of Huddersfield on Tuesday (1.15pm).
Rebecca, a former pupil of Holmfirth High School, started playing the cornet and trumpet when she was 11. She spent four years as a member of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain and has played with Rothwell Temperance and Yorkshire Imps brass bands. She is also a former member of Kirklees Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Three years ago, Rebecca won a scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where she is in her fourth year. She is now studying trumpet with Murray Greig.
Two years ago Rebecca won the Rotary Club of Holmfirth Millennium Prize and in 2009 she was awarded the title of Kirklees Young Musician of the Year.
It has been a busy year for her which has already included a solo recital with Kirklees borough organist Gordon Stewart, played with a brass quartet for the opening ceremony of Pembroke House Music Academy in London and performing with the RNCM Symphony and Concert Orchestras in Manchester.
Next spring, she will be performing the Haydn and Hummel Trumpet Concertos with local orchestras.
When she graduates from college at the end of next year Rebecca hopes to combine a solo performing career with professional orchestral trumpet work.
At Tuesday’s concert she will be accompanied on piano by Jane Robertson and will play pieces by Philip Sparke, Georges Enesco and George Gershwin. The second concert at St Paul’s next week is on Thursday (October 29), also at 1.15pm and features Helen Thatcher on cello and Darius Battiwalla on piano playing Beethoven and Rachmaninov.
Admission is free to both these concerts.
