Continuo Connect — Concert // English Haydn Orchestra: Grand Finale

Haydn: Symphony No 84 in E-flat major (Paris) (1786)
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor (1811)
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A K219 (1775)
Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in B-flat (1794)

Emily Worthington regularly performs as a guest principal clarinettist with leading ensembles around the world. She joined York University in 2022 as Lecturer in Music specialising in “Historical Performance”. Emily’s postgraduate training took place at the Royal College of Music and through the Formation Superieure de l’Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes, where she specialised in orchestral and chamber music performance of Classical and Romantic period instrument repertoire. Emily is acknowledged to be one of the outstanding period instrument performers-scholars of her generation.

Jennifer Pike first gained international recognition in 2002, when, aged 12, she became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the youngest major prizewinner in the Menuhin International Violin Competition. Aged 15 she made acclaimed débuts at the BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall. Jennifer was invited to become a BBC New Generation Artist (2008-10), she won the inaugural International London Music Masters Award and became the only classical artist ever to win the South Bank Show/Times Breakthrough Award. Passionate about helping young people from all backgrounds enhance their lives through music, she was recently invited to become an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust and Foundation for Children and the Arts, and patron of the Lord Mayor’s City Music Foundation.