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Thrilled to be a part of the Mulberry Centre’s 25th Anniversary concert! 🎶 May 16th 🎶Come and enjoy this vibrant programme and support the Mulberry Centre - see you there 👋🥰 This clip is from a practice session last year, preparing Florence Price "Dreamboat". I thought of it while listening to the Coleridge-Taylor class at the Croydon Performing Arts Festival this year. The adjudicator admired the concept of a festival class dedicated to the works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. He remarked that he hopes to see more classes championing other under-represented composers too and mentioned Florence Price. This piece is such a sweet and brief escape to a dream-like world. It was a joy to bring it to life after it stayed hidden in a university library, and to perform at a @97ensemble concert. Making happy memories in Milton Keynes with the VTE Rotary exchange 😊🐄 Learning to prepare a piano and performing this interlude was one of my highlights of my time at Trinity Laban. This is: John Cage - Interlude no. 4 In June, I performed, with professor Martino Tirimo, Mozart’s piano concerto no. 22 in E Flat. I took on the challenge of composing my own cadenza in the style of Mozart. Thanks to his own cadenzas and listening to many recordings of other’s compositions, I got the inspiration to try my own. I tried to incorporate as many of my favourite elements of the first movement as I could, found improvising and trying things out with friends to be really helpful processes. I was editing right up until the concert day! I have a feeling I’ll never consider if perfect, but I’m very proud and enjoyed performing it immensely!! Snippet from a tense moment in Mikis Theodorakis ‘Sonatine’. A great pleasure to be a part of the New Lights Concert “100 years of Greek Music in Context” A clip from my final 🧡The final movement of Schumann Carnaval was so much fun to play! In rehearsal, I found the build up of emotion and excitement could trip me up and so I worked hard on controlling that. On the day, I found myself feeling totally calm and in control through this passage 🧘‍♀️ All the breath work paid off, and I just ended up having so much fun 🤩 Celebrating finishing postgraduate studies with our professor, Gabriele, who I haven’t been able to stop thanking for all the support and expert guidance throughout my masters. But what else can I say! I remember feeling similar after finishing my undergraduate, just being incredibly grateful for all of the learning along the way when reflecting on the end of this chapter. It was an emotional recital, I loved playing every second 🤗 thank you to everyone who came, all of the messages and for all the support!

Rachele Howes