featuring
Stephanie Tepper / flute
Russell Lomas / piano.

Stephanie Tepper was born in Manchester in 1989. She began flute lessons at the age of seven and was awarded a Music Scholarship to Manchester High School for Girls four years later. Her flute teachers included Arna Einasdöttier, Linda Verrier and Nic Dowton prior to being accepted by the Junior School of the Royal Northern College of Music in 2004, where she had lessons from Laura Jellicoe and played principal flute in the Junior RNCM Chamber Orchestra, a position she held for two years. During her final year at Manchester High School she was awarded a scholarship to the RNCM, where she now studies with Peter Lloyd and Laura Jellicoe.
Stephanie has won numerous prizes in Music Festivals and competitions and has given many solo performances in venues throughout the north of England, including the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. She has also taken part in masterclasses of William Bennett, Michael Cox, Emily Beynon and Kate Hill amongst others.
She has a particular interest in early music, and has recently given performances of Bach’s B minor Suite, for which she was awarded the RNCM prize for the best Bach performance in the 2nd year. Contemporary music also plays a large part in her musical life, and after hearing Stephanie perform the World Premiere of ‘Ezra’ for solo flute written by Gillian Menichino for the Stephen Mackay Festival, a member of the audience was prompted to write in his review - ‘I have been listening to new music premieres for about 35 years and this was one of the most memorable performances I have heard - certainly in my top three and possibly the best ever’. This achievement was followed by a second prize in the RNCM chamber music competition for a performance of George Crumb’s ‘Voice of the Whale’ by her flute, cello and piano trio, and the opportunity to work with the composer Ailí Ní Ríain on a new work ‘10,000 Deviants’ for flute, piano and speaker which will be premiered in the New Music North Festival.
After graduation Stephanie would like to continue her studies abroad and is hoping for a career combining teaching with the post of principal flute in a major orchestra.

Russell Lomas was born in Manchester and began piano lessons at an early age. When he was fifteen, he won a scholarship to study with Gordon Green, Clifton Helliwell and Franz Reizenstein at the Royal Manchester College of Music from where he graduated with a Distinction in both Performers and Teachers Diplomas and was awarded the Ricordi Prize for Accompaniment.
He has given piano duet concerts and accompanied chamber music and vocal recitals throughout the UK, Europe, Jordan and Lebanon, and has made several visits to the United Arab Emirates where he has given concerts in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. He has broadcast for the BBC, Classic FM and a number of European and local radio stations and has also performed on television for the BBC and several ITV channels, and for the past six years he has been one of the accompanists at the Oxford Flute Summer School.
Until his retirement in 2003, he was a member of the Music Department of Chetham’s School of Music for over 30 years, and Head of Accompaniment for the final twelve, during which time, he gave numerous concerts with instrumentalists of the school. He is also the only accompanist to have appeared on at least one televised programme in every series of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition between 1978 (the year of the first competition) and 2004.

PROGRAMME:

Sonata No. 4 - La Lumague                                                        Blavet

        La Lumague (Adagio)

        Allemanda (Allegro)

        Ciciliana

        Presto

        Le Lutin (Allegro)

Syrinx                                                                                         Debussy

Sonata in A for Flute and Piano                                             Gaubert

       Modéré

        Lent

        Allegro moderato

Romance Opus 11                                                                       Dvořák

Fantaisie in G minor                                                                        Hüe