{"id":13928,"date":"2019-10-31T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=13928"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T23:16:17","slug":"saki-kato-to-premiere-new-edward-cowie-work-at-julian-bream-trust-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/saki-kato-to-premiere-new-edward-cowie-work-at-julian-bream-trust-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Saki Kato to Premiere New Edward Cowie Work at Julian Bream Trust Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wonderful charitable group known as the Julian Bream Trust<\/a> is dedicated to providing financial assistance to promising young guitarists, as well as commissioning new works for the classical guitar\u2014something Julian Bream himself was passionate about during his own performing and recording career. Occasionally, too, the Julian Bream Trust stages concerts at London’s historic Wigmore Hall<\/a> to showcase those guitarists and to premiere new works.\u00a0 In 2014, Andrey Lebedev used a Julian Bream Trust concert to introduce new pieces by Leo Brouwer and Harrison Birtwistle. In 2015, it was Laura Snowden premiering a work b<\/a>y Julian Anderson. She returned in 2017 to introduce a new sonata by Finnish composer Olli Mustonen.<\/p>\n

This coming November 21\u2014two years to the day of that second Snowden concert\u2014Wigmore will be hosting another Julian Bream Trust recital, this time featuring Japanese guitarist Saki Kato<\/a>, and featuring the world premiere of a piece by noted British composer Edward Cowie<\/a> called Streams and Variations<\/em>. Also on Kato’s program that night will be Bach’s Cello Suite No. 6<\/em>, BWV 1012<\/em>, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Sonata ‘Omaggio a Boccherini,’ Op. 77,<\/em> and Antonio Jos\u00e9’s Guitar Sonata<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Saki Kato is currently a student at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Michael Lewin, and an active player in at least two chamber duos: the Sakura Duo with flautist Jennifer Stinton<\/a>, and the Miyabi Duo with guitarist Hugh Millington<\/a>. It was just in March of 2019 that the Miyabi Duo premiered another piece by Cowie called Bash\u014d Meditations<\/em> (based on eight haiku by the 17th century Japanese poet). Below, watch the Miyabu Duo play the ‘Pure Peace Music’ from Geoffrey Poole’s 1984 Wild Goose<\/em> (for two guitars), in which each movement is based on a different Chinese poem.
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