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Our 2025-26 Season
Godalming Baptist Church, Queen Street GU7 1BA
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Next Concert
Saturday 25th April 2026 – 7.00pm
La Belle Epoque
Violin and Piano Recital
Joel Munday (violin) and Julian Trevelyan (piano)
PROGRAMME
Boulanger – D’un matin de printemps
Bonis – Violin Sonata
Poulenc – Sonata for Violin and Piano
Interval
Boulanger – Introduction & Cortège
Fauré – Violin Sonata No.1
Boulanger – Pièce
Ravel – Tzigane
British violinist Joel Munday performs widely as a soloist and chamber musician, combining a deep affinity for the classical canon with a strong commitment to contemporary music. In 2025, he joins the roster of Tillett Debut Artists, recognising emerging soloists of exceptional promise.
A committed advocate for the music of our time, he has collaborated with composers including Pēteris Vasks and Osvaldo Golijov. Highlights of the 2024/25 season include performances of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the London Mozart Players, recitals with pianists Julian Trevelyan and Sam Haywood, and appearances at the Stift Festival and the Two Moors Festival. He will also perform Philip Glass’s ViolinConcerto No. 2 and Brahms’s Double Concerto.
Joel made his concerto debut in 2017 with Korngold’s Violin Concerto, performing with the Royal Collegeof Music Junior Department Symphony Orchestra under Jacques Cohen. He has participated in leading festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove and the Kronberg Academy’s Violin and Viola Masterclasses, receiving guidance from Shmuel Ashkenazi, Mihaela Martin, Joel Smirnoff and Vadim Gluzman.
He studied with Ani Schnarch at both the Junior Department and throughout his undergraduate degree at the Royal College of Music in London. Joel is currently undertaking an Artist Diploma there, supported by the Orpheus Foundation, now studying with Daniel Rowland and receiving guidance from Alina Ibragimova. In 2024, he was one of eleven musicians worldwide to receive the London Symphony Orchestra’s Conservatoire Scholarship.
Joel performs on a 2024 violin by Andreas Hudelmayer, made possible through the generosity of over one hundred supporters. He gratefully acknowledges support from Talent Unlimited, the Joanna Leach Foundation, Help Musicians UK, the Dulce Haigh Marshall Trust, the Stephen Bell Charitable Trust, the Craxton Memorial Trust, the Finzi Trust, the Kathleen Trust, and the Wayne Sleep Foundation. Joel is represented by Mr Roger Hendy.
Julian Trevelyan is a British pianist. He moved to France after winning the Concours Long-Thibaud in 2015 at the age of 16, becoming the youngest prize-winner in the competition’s history. He also won laureates at international piano competitions such as the Leeds, Géza Anda, Horowitz, and many others.
He has appeared as Soloist with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestre de Toulouse, Orchestre de Picardie, Orchestre de la Suisse Romandie, Tonhalle Zurich, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic and many others.
Julian has made recordings with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The first CD under the baton of Christian Zacharias was released in 2022 with the label ALPHA: Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 23 and 24. Further releases under the baton of Howard Griffiths will follow in 2025.
Julian studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot” with Rena Shereshevskaya. He studied in London with Christopher Elton and Elizabeth Altman. As a teenager he was part of Aldeburgh Young Musicians. This fuelled his love for contemporary music, where he premiered new music every month. He cares about supporting female and living composers and is pianist and composer in residence with Ensemble Dynamique.
Future Dates for your diary….
May 23rd – Violin and Guitar Duo
June 27th – Vocal Concert with Opera Favourites
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We are grateful to
HSH Dr Donatus, Prince of Hohenzollern
for generously sponsoring our Baroque Festival 2026
and to
George and Daphne Burnett
for generously sponsoring our Chamber Music Festival 2026
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