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Each year a few of the most outstanding players in the Festival are invited to give a lunchtime concert in the beautiful art nouveau Great Hall of The Bishopsgate Institute in the City of London. Each concert starts at 1.05pm and lasts about 50 minutes. Admission is free and no advance booking is required. The 2008 programmes are as follows:

Tuesday 11 November 2008
Aya Kiyonaga (violin) winner of the J & A Beare SOLO BACH Competition
Works by Bach, Nielsen and Bartok

Tuesday 18 November 2008
Asagi Nakata (piano) winner of the Emanuel Trophy for piano
Works by Bach, Chopin and Debussy

Claire Iselin (harp) second winner of the Camac Harp Competition
Works by Bach, Faure and Guridi

Tuesday 25 November 2008
Thomas Kennedy (baritone) winner of the Premier Challenge Cup for singers
Works by Shostakovich and Beethoven

Hannah Gill (piano) runner up in the President’s Prize Competition
Works by Prokofiev

Tuesday 2 December 2008
Joo Yeon Sir (violin) winner of the Premier Challenge Cup for instrumentalists and President’s Prize Competition
Works by Tartini and Darius Milhaud

Rachel Ridout (saxophone) runner up in the Premier Challenge Cup for instrumentalists
Works by Darius Milhaud, Ryo Noda and Francoise Borne

Tuesday 9 December 2008
Hannah Morgan (clarinet) runner up in the President’s Prize Competition
Works by Poulenc and Schumann

Caroline Tyler (piano) winner of the Piano Recital Class
Works by Liszt and Debussy

Come and support our young prizewinners and hear the very best of the 2008 Festival