Musing on a Sunday Afternoon
- Shona Maciver
- Sep 30
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 6
Listen to Callum Campbell on double bass and Aeronwy Gault on piano play a wonderful programme of music, "Musing on a Sunday Afternoon" this Sunday 5th October at 2pm at St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow.
Callum Campbell is 16 and studies with Tom Berry at the Music School of Douglas Academy. He began playing Bass at the age of 8 after being entranced by the sound of the instrument at a workshop given by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with the aim of recruiting bass players; this clearly worked very well, as he began taking lessons at the Junior Conservatoire shortly afterwards.
Callum has been a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for the last 3 years and this year takes the position of Principal Bass. He has had many successes at the Glasgow Music Festival, including winning the Concerto and String final classes, and he also won the Douglas Academy Concerto Competition, the prize being a chance to perform Koussevitsky’s Double Bass concerto with an orchestra made up of professionals from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Opera Orchestra, alongside students from Douglas Academy and St Mary’s Music School.
When not playing his Bass, Callum enjoys cycling, hiking, unwinding with a nice cup of tea, and the occasional highly competitive game of Scrabble.
Aeronwy Gault is 15 and studies piano, violin, and harpsichord at the Music School of Douglas Academy and the RCS Junior Conservatoire. She has been playing the piano since she was born but began connecting the dots on the page with the notes that come out of it when she was around 8. She studies with Claire Haslin and Jean Hutchison, and during the last year won the Piano category of the Scottish Young Musician of the Year, as well as being runner-up overall She also won the Douglas Academy Concerto Competition (performing Bach’s Keyboard Concerto number 5 in F minor) and has had successes and commendations in the Gilbert Innes Piano Competition and the Glasgow Music Festival.
She has played orchestral piano and celeste for Edinburgh Youth Orchestra (The Planets - Holst; Star Wars suite - Williams), the RCS Junior Conservatoire (Nutcracker Suite - Tchaikovsky), and the RCS Juniors Alumni orchestra (Prélude à l’apres-midi d’un Faune - Debussy), as well as chamber music and piano duos. In spite of all this, she somehow manages to find time to have a great interest in Mandarin, for which she was awarded a scholarship to study for 2 weeks in Tianjin and Beijing and hopes to return to China to further explore its culture and language.
In any remaining free time, she enjoys fencing, knitting, crochet, beekeeping, and drinking tea whilst doing most of the above.
PROGRAMME
Une larme pour basse
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Prelude and Fugue in D major, Book 1, No.5, BWV 850
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
From Cello Suite no.1 in G major, BWV 1007
Johann Sebastian Bach
1. Menuet 1
2. Menuet 2
3. Gigue
Epigrammák
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
Serenade
Werner Henze (1926- 2012)
Oblivion
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Les cloches de Genève (Années de Pèlerinage Book 1)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Postlude
Sam Suggs
Aprés un rêve
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Admission FREE with an option to donate to An Organ for Glasgow
Musing on a Sunday Afternoon has been brought to St Mary’s Cathedral with the support of The Music School of Douglas Academy.
The Music School is a unit within Douglas Academy where young musicians of exceptional ability can continue their general education while receiving special instrumental tuition and extra time for their musical studies. www.douglas.e-dunbarton.sch.uk
