Concerts in the West 2008

DYAD PERCUSSION DUO

Thursday 17 April

7.30pm

£10

Fans of the dramatic drumming of Kagemusha Taiko at the Marine Theatre earlier this year are in for a treat on Thursday 17 April when Dyad come to town. With a repertoire that includes music by the hugely popular Japanese composers Minoru Miki and Keiko Abe, alongside music by the marimba virtuoso Eric Sammut and music from America by Wayne Siegel, Steve Reich and Chick Korea this astounding duo will show the energy of classical drumming and percussion to an enthusiastic audience. Toby Kearney and Dan Jones met at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior School in 2004 and have been playing as a duo since 2005.    Over the last year the Duo has appeared at Wigmore Hall, St. George’s Bristol and venues up and down the country.  This year they give a series of concerts in the West Country, in Liverpool and give the world premiere of a new work by Dave Onac at the RNCM.  Tickets from Lyme TIC 01297 442138 are for sale at £10.00 for this concert that starts at 7.30 p.m.

Born in 1988, Toby studied percussion with Andrea Vogler at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior School, in 2006 receiving the Director’s award.  He is currently studying percussion with Ian Wright, Liz Gilliver and Dave Hassell at the RNCM on a graduate course.   He has participated in masterclasses given by the world renowned marimba player and composer Eric Sammut, Simone Rebello and the percussion quartet 4-MALITY and recently attended an intensive masterclass at the French Académie Musicale de Villecroze, to study with the legendary marimba soloist Keiko Abe. In 2006 Toby was a concerto finalist in the BBC Young Musicians Competition performing James Macmillan’s Veni, Veni Emmanuel with the Northern Sinfonia under Yan Pascal Tortelier. Dan has been playing percussion for nine years.  From 2001 to 2006 he studied with Ian Forgrieve at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior Department and is currently in his second year studying Music on the Joint Course at the University of Manchester and the RNCM with Ian Wright, Liz Gilliver, Paul Patrick and Dave Hassell. In 2006, Dan won the Rotary Young Musician of the Year competition and went on to become a Semi-Finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in the same year.