Lunchtime Classical Recital | Clare Crinson, Deborah Thorne, and Alison Gill

Friday 6th June | 1pm

Clare Crinson (flute), Deborah Thorne (cello), and Alison Gill (piano)

Performing works by Hummel, Gaubert and Martinu

Clare Crinson studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and Durham University and enjoys a varied career as a performer and educator. She performs regularly as an orchestral flautist with groups such as the Mowbray Orchestra, as well as in projects such as Kerin Tattman’s Requiem for a Fading World, premiered at The Glasshouse ICM in June and recently released on streaming platforms. She teaches both instrumental and classroom music for many of the top schools in the region, as well as flute students at Durham University. She is a Lay Clerk in Newcastle Cathedral choir and the Assistant Director of the cathedral’s School Singing Programme and a flute tutor for the Glasshouse’ In Harmony project.

Alison Gill is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, specialising as an accompanist and répétiteur. Whilst at the RAM she made her Wigmore Hall debut, filmed for Channel 4, and was chosen as one of ten pianists to perform alongside Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars in Satie’s 19 hour work Vexations, taking place in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern.

Alison Gill, pianist | Photo by Andrej Grilc

Alison has now returned to the North of England and is highly sought after as an accompanist across the region, working regularly with soloists and ensembles that include the Chorus of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Jervaulx Singers and has accompanied choral masterclasses with composers including John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Will Todd and Eriks Esenvalds. Alongside these regular collaborations Alison works as an accompanist in residence for Leeds Conservatoire, Durham University, Samling and for the BBC Proms held at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music. Alison is also accompanist-in-residence for the Berkshire Choral International, collaborating with them for their courses and performances in Durham Cathedral, Barcelona’s Palau de la Musica, the Teatro Verdi in Florence, the Musikverein in Vienna and in 2025 for a summer residency in Berlin. In March she will appear with the Tynedale Orchestra to perform Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F and at the Newcastle Piano Festival with three fellow pianists for a recital of repertoire for eight hands

Deborah Thorne studied at Clare College Cambridge, Royal Academy of Music and Maastricht Conservatorium and joined the Northern Sinfonia in 1986. She has extensive experience playing baroque cello most recently in the Avison ensemble and Haydn festival orchestra and enjoys a wide-ranging musical career as player and teacher and chamber music coach.

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