Kenwood Reasbeck duo

music for piano and oboe/cor anglais

Elizabeth Kenwood studied oboe at the Royal Academy of Music, Rotterdam Conservatorium & the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. She won many prizes & held scholarships from the Countess of Munster & Rotary International. Her oboe teachers included Evelyn Rothwell Barbirolli, Tess Miller & George Caird. She has performed in Canada, throughout Europe, toured South East Asia for the British Council, & has visited Ukraine six times to give recitals, teach in conservatoires & music schools & adjudicate for the Dmitro Byda International Woodwind Competition. She has performed throughout the UK for Music Societies & has performed a bass oboe recital at the International Double Reed Society Annual Conference. She plays with orchestras as a free-lance player ( including the Sheffield Bach Choir ) and teaches woodwind with a double reed specialism in schools throughout West Yorkshire. Last month she played the Strauss Oboe Concerto with the Leeds Haydn players.

Peter Reasbeck studied piano with Elsie Werren in Doncaster and music at Doncaster Grammar School, before reading classics at Durham and theology at Cambridge. As a Methodist minister for over 40 years, he continued to develop his musical abilities and has specialised in accompaniment for lieder & in playing the organ for church services. In retirement he is active as an accompanist for vocal & instrumental soloists & choirs. He has many interests including gardening, bee-keeping and Leeds Rhinos.

Since 2014, the Kenwood-Reasbeck Duo has given recitals in many places, mainly in East ,West and South Yorkshire, including Wakefield and Sheffield cathedrals, Rawdon Amnesty Series, Guiseley,Chester, Chesterfield and Southport. .

Performers

Elizabeth Kenwood (oboe and cor anglais) and Peter Reasbeck (piano)

Programme

• J S Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze
• J S Bach.: Sonata in G Minor
• Sinigaglia.: Twelve Variations on a Theme of Schubert
• Weber: . Concertino for Oboe
• Loeillet: Sonata in D Major
• Liszt: Elegie for Cor Anglais
• Dvorak.: Theme from the New World Symphony for Cor Anglais
• Two Ukrainian pieces
• Znosko- Borovsky: Improvisation And Song
• Soltys.: Dance
• Bizet: Habanera and Chanson Boheme from Carmen
• Enrico Morricone: From the film, "The Mission" Gabriel's Oboe