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Thinking about how lucky I am to have played this concerto last November with Camden Philharmonia 🙏 And I’m double lucky, because I’ll be playing it again with Richmond Orchestra this May 🌸 this is one of my favourite passages, I love how playful and conversational it is with the orchestra 🤪 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.

Rachele Howes