Pro Corda
 The National School for Young Chamber Music Players

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PRO CORDA WEST

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PRO CORDA NORTH and PRO CORDA WEST hold annual courses each summer at Aysgarth School, Bedale, Yorkshire, and Wells Cathedral School, Somerset. The idyllic and peaceful surroundings of both Schools have generated a great deal of interest in both courses. Designed for 8-18 year old string players and pianists both courses prove very popular with students who live in the North of England, the South West, the Midlands, and South Wales. The Young Music Makers non residential scheme is also included in the Pro Corda West course.
Course Director West IOAN DAVIES

Ioan Davies was a founder member of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet (1968-1986). For eighteen years he toured as a quartet cellist throughout Europe, North America, the USSR and Japan. He participated in many world premieres and worked in close contact with Shostakovich in the last years of the composer’s life. He took part in recordings on the Decca label of string quartets by Beethoven, Schubert, Sibelius Brahms, Borodin, and Shostakovich (the complete quartets). He appears on the last Shostakovich disc as a soloist with Elisabeth Soderstrom and Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Since 1986 he has enjoyed performing the Piano Trio repertoire with The Debussy Piano Trio (Switzerland) and the Bohemia Piano Trio, resident ensemble at UCNW Bangor. He gives solo recitals throughout the UK and Europe. During the past fourteen years has worked extensively with the pianist Jana Frenklova and has broadcast with her on Radio 3.
 

Dr Davies’ contribution to the education of young gifted string players in the UK has been far reaching.

As a member of the Master Panel for The Cambridge Symposiums for Young String Quartets he worked closely over a number of years with Lord Menuhin and Yfrah Neaman. He was Head of Strings at the Specialist Music School at Wells Cathedral School from 1994 to 2003. His close association with the DfES Music and Dance Scheme continues at the Yehudi Menuhin School where he is the principal chamber music coach. In 2003 he was appointed Director of Music for Pro Corda, The National School for Young Chamber Music Players. He regularly gives masterclasses and acts as adjudicator in Music Colleges and Schools throughout the UK. He is a member of the invitation jury for the London International String Quartet Competition 2006.
 

Sample Repertoire
Gritton

Hewitt Jones

Mazas

Mendelssohn

Mozart

Nardini

Pleyel

Stamitz 		Bumble Bee’s Waltz

The Spider’s Web

String Quartet in D Major

Piano Trio in D minor

String Quartets K 157 and K 168

String Quartet in A Major

String Quartet in E minor

Quartetto Concertante

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