Overview
The Mary Bevan Recital began in 2011 when former Honorary Fellow, the late Professor Hugh Bevan, funded an annual concert in memory of his late wife, Mary Bevan. Mary was a great music lover, and also a Senior Member at Wolfson. Every year, winners of the prestigious Cambridge University Concerto Competition perform at the concert, one of the biggest musical events in the College calendar.
Join us following our garden party to hear competition prize winners, pianist Eliza Ruffle and saxophonist Jack Marley.
Performers
Eliza Ruffle is a first year Bio NatSci at Newnham college. She attended the junior department of Royal Academy for six years and was the principle orchestral keyboardist at NYO for four years. At Cambridge, she is a choral scholar in the Selwyn Collegiate choir and enjoys performing with her piano trio as part of the Chamber IAS Scheme, and with her singer as part of the Lieder Scheme. Her performance highlights include performing Saint Saens Concerto No. 2 in St John Smith Square and performing a collection of Chopin Etudes in Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall.
Jack Marley was born in Brighton, East Sussex. He started playing the saxophone with his school at the age of nine. Whilst studying for his GCSEs he was accepted into the junior department of the Royal College of Music, were he spent three years (2018-2021) studying saxophone with Sarah Markham and composition with Simon Speare, performing in a range of quartets, ensembles, and wind bands alongside solo concerts and competitions. Jack matriculated at Pembroke College to read music in Autumn 2022. In his first year, he led the saxophone section of the Cambridge University Wind Orchestra and sang in the Pembroke College Chapel Choir under the directorship of Anna Lapwood. He stepped back from both of these commitments in his second year to pursue theatrical projects, being co-president of a large student theatre society and co-directing Shakespeare’s King Lear in the Cambridge Union debating chamber in February 2024. For the academic year of 2024-5, Jack was accepted onto the Faculty of Music’s “CAMRAM” scheme, in which a number of students are selected to study with professors of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he now travels regularly for lessons with saxophonist Simon Haram. This year Jack was also president of the Pembroke College Music Society, led a student saxophone quartet, and was a Student Representative to the Centre for Music Performance’s performance committee. In February, he was awarded the Denis Moriarty Prize for Musical Excellence at the Oxford and Cambridge Club’s annual Music Prize, and is incredibly proud to have won the University’s Concerto Competition alongside Eliza Ruffle in March. He looks forward to returning to Cambridge in the autumn to perform a concerto alongside the Cambridge University Orchestra.
Details
This event is open to everyone and there is no need to book.
Attendance is free. Donations to the Music Society are welcome.
There will be a drinks reception during the interval.
Access
This event will take place in the Lee Hall which has step-free access and an accessible toilet.
Music at Wolfson
Under the direction of Lyn Alcántara, 鶹Ӿhas a thriving Music Society and College Choir with a full programme of concerts - please sign up to their to keep up to date with their upcoming events.
