Hannah Roper - Violin
Anita D'Attelis - Piano
Hannah and Anita present a lunchtime programme of music from both sides of the Atlantic, including:
Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Sonata in D Minor
Holst: Song of the Night
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Suite (arr. Heifetz)
Copland: Hoe-Down from Rodeo
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Louisiana Blues Strut
Ethel Barns: Danse Caractéristique
Hannah Roper is a British violinist with a keen interest in the music of English composers. She enjoys a varied solo career with a particular focus on English music, and performs regularly with various chamber ensembles and as a freelance orchestral musician in major venues in the UK and further afield, including Carnegie Hall, New York. She has recorded an album of works by Elgar and Vaughan-Williams with pianist and conductor Adrian Partington, and in 2024 will release a new recording of music by Holst and his contemporaries, supported by the Gustav Holst Society.
Anita has performed extensively as a solo pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, with recitals at the Brighton and Cheltenham International Festivals, Snape Maltings, the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Symphony Hall, Birmingham. She is particularly keen on twentieth century and contemporary music, most recently commissioning and performing works by Graham Lynch and Libby Croad.