Surrey Mozart Players

Next Concert 

Sunday 28th April 2024
4.30 pm

The Menuhin Hall

Stoke d'Abernon


Fauré - Masques et bergamasques
Mozart - Oboe Concerto
Poulenc - Sinfonietta



Oboe - Layla Baratto
Conductor - Philip Ellis
Supported by the SMP Young Soloists Fund

Tickets 

Adult £21.00; 21 & under £5.00 

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Monday - Friday, 10am - 3pm
01932 559400

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Until sold out

More about the soloist

Layla Baratto

Layla Köhler Baratto is an Italian/Portuguese oboist born in Brazil in 2000. She is a member of the Orchester-Akademie of the Opernhaus Zürich and is studying her Master degree at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin in the class of Dominik Wollenweber and Viola Wilmsen. In 2022, she finished her Bachelor degree at the Royal College of Music of London, where she studied with Olivier Stankiewicz and Juliana Koch. During her bachelors, she was accepted to the Erasmus+ program at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris under Jacques Tys.

Layla was part of the São Paulo Symphony Music Academy from 2016-2018, and won the Eleazar de Carvalho prize and the São Paulo Symphony Young Soloists in 1st place, which gave her the opportunity to perform the R. Strauss oboe concerto in D major with the São Paulo Symphony and Robert Trevino. She also won the Grimaldi Cor Anglais Competition in 1st place at RCM in 2021, and the RCM Concerto Competition in 3rd place in 2020.

In 2022, OSESP invited her once more as a soloist, playing the A. Marcello oboe concerto in C minor. She has also performed the B. Martinu oboe concerto with the West Forest Sinfonia, the R. Strauss oboe concerto with the Kensington Philharmonic Orchestra, and L`Horloge de Flore with the Vacation Chamber Orchestra. Layla has played with professional orchestras such as Opernhaus Zürich, London Symphony Orchestra and the Opera North. Layla became a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and Gustav Mahler Jungendorchester in 2023.

More about the conductor

This concert will be conducted by Philip Ellis who was appointed as Music Director of the Surrey Mozart Players in March 2023.  

Since winning first prize in the Leeds Conductors’ Competition in 1991, Philip Ellis has worked extensively throughout the UK conducting many concerts with the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, London Mozart Players, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, City of London Sinfonia, Northern Sinfonia and over 400 concerts with English Sinfonia.  He is a passionate supporter of Music Education and has worked extensively with amateur orchestras, community and youth groups throughout his career.  He is very much looking forward to a long and exciting collaboration with Surrey Mozart Players as their new Music Director, working together with this wonderful orchestra on the next stage of their already distinguished musical journey.

He made his international debut conducting the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 1987, leading to engagements with Hong Kong Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Symphony, Belgian National Orchestra, Flanders Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic, St Petersburg Symphony, National Orchestra of Mexico, Western Australian Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Würtembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Neue Philharmonie Westfallen and many broadcast concerts with the BRTN Philharmonic (Brussels) for radio and television.

Philip Ellis works extensively as a conductor for dance.  As conductor for Birmingham Royal Ballet since 1989, he has conducted the majority of their productions.  He also regularly guest-conducts for international ballet companies: The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, La Scala Ballet in Milan, Paris Opera Ballet at the Opera Garnier, The Australian Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Mikhailovsky Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Hong Kong Ballet, Tokyo Ballet, Korean National Ballet and Gothenburg Ballet.

On CD, he has recorded Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf and Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals with the Philharmonia. Copland Rodeo, Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, El Salon Mexico and a series of Concert Classics discs with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Contemporary Clarinet Concertos for Nimbus with Emma Johnson and Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations with Dimitri Ferschtman, recorded live in concert from the Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam.   


In his free time, he is a keen artist, particularly interested in portraiture - working in a wide range of media. A selection of his work can be seen on his website www.philipellisconductor.com and on instagram @philellisart

More about the music

Surrey Mozart Players present three beguiling masterpieces by composers not trying too hard to impress.  Fauré showed very little interest in a valuable royal commission for the Monte Carlo Theatre.  He eventually revamped some early songs and a discarded symphonic movement, little expecting that these brilliant and charming Masques et Bergamasques would become one of his most celebrated works.

 

Mozart gave of his very best to produce a splendid Oboe Concerto for Archbishop Colloredo.  But then he liked the concerto so much that he later recycled it as a flute concerto, with so much time saved.  The brilliant young oboist Layla Baratto joins SMP as soloist. 

 

Finally, Poulenc’s ebullient, carefree, radiant and seductive Sinfonietta was commissioned by that most high-brow institution, the BBC Third programme.  When reviewers complained that his piece lacked symphonic gravitas, he quipped that they should not try to analyse his music – just enjoy it.  We fully intend to.


Philip Ellis  

More about the venue

The Menuhin Hall

https://themenuhinhall.co.uk/

Cobham Road
Stoke d'Abernon
Surrey
KT11 3QQ

Box Office Telephone - 01932 559400
Email - boxoffice@menuhinschool.co.uk

How to Get There and Parking

Accessibility

Drinks will be available before the concert and during the interval in the bar.