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Student Chamber Recital

Carnegie Mellon University

A 2022 BBC Next Generation Artist and Winner of the Silver Medal and “Audience Favorite” at the 2019 Tchaikovsky International Competition, Cañón-Valencia performs a lush program of Bach, Ravel, Ginastera and one of his own compositions. The Strad magazine proclaims his playing as, “technically flawless, he’s totally under the skin of the composers’ idioms.”

Santiago Cañón-Valencia

Shalin Liu Performance Center

They don’t seem an obvious match.  Joanne is spikey, defensive, a survivor, whilst Paul is quiet, considered - and hiding profound grief for his father.  But the pleasure he takes in cooking - and the astonishing food he prepares – creates a bond between them. So, when the hotel where they both work closes and they start to spiral into poverty, it throws everything up in the air – first the dreams of a cookbook and a restaurant, and, eventually, even the dreams of a future together…

Gareth Farr is an award-winning writer for theatre and TV. His play Britannia Waves the Rules (Royal Exchange Manchester) won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2011, toured twice, and has since been produced in Australia. His play The Quiet House was performed at Birmingham Rep and Park Theatre and was directed by Tessa Walker. Biscuits for Breakfast is Tessa Walker’s second collaboration with Gareth Farr, and she returns to Hampstead Theatre following her productions of Ravenscourt, Big Big Sky and The Glad Game Downstairs.

Biscuits for Breakfast will star Boadicea Ricketts whose recent theatre work includes Addictive Beat (Boundless Theatre), She Ventures & He Wins (Young Vic) and East (King’s Head) where she was Offie nominated for Best Actress. Her television work includes Call the Midwife, Grantchester and Unprecedented: Going Forward. She will be joined by Ben Castle-Gibb who has recently been seen in Frankenstein (Perth Theatre/ Belgrade Theatre/UK tour) and Season 4 of the television show You.

Biscuits for Breakfast

Hampstead Theatre

Winner of the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition, conductor Tianyi Lu opens her concert with the self-standing first movement of Gareth Farr’s From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs. Farr is one of New Zealand’s leading composers and a distinguished percussionist whose music pulsates with exultant rhythms and colors reflecting his love of the landscapes and surrounding oceans of his native islands, as well as his fascination with his country’s Māori musical and mythic traditions which go back hundreds of years before the arrival of Europeans.

Gareth Farr

Events

Upcoming events

29 - 30 Mar, 2025

From the Depths: Lu Leads Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony · San Diego Symphony

Past events

1 - 2 Dec, 2023

Student Chamber Recital · Carnegie Mellon University School of Music

Jun 29, 2023

Santiago Cañón-Valencia · Rockport Music

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