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The Little Proms is the first Sunday of every month, it's FREE admission and you can get the tube home afterwards..
On Sunday 2nd November Ben Wragg takes to the Stage for what will be an evening of extreme virtuosity.Ben was described by the legendary Ruggiero Ricci as “technically and musically out of the ordinary…one of our most talented young violinists…one to watch” and praised recently by Musical Opinion Magazine for his “smooth creamy sound”, Ben Wragg has established himself as one of the UK’s most promising young violinists.
Known for his exciting, expressive performance style, he plays a vast repertoire of the major classics, but is often known for wowing his audiences with his renditions – and often his own arrangements – of gypsy and film music repertoire.
Trained at the Purcell School, the Royal Academy of Music, London and at The Mozarteum, Salzburg, Ben has appeared as soloist in major concert halls throughout Europe and Asia. These include televised performances in a UNICEF Gala Concert in Munich, and concert for HRH Prince Charles at St. James’s Palace as well as performance and interview on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.
He has been winner of numerous awards and scholarships, most recently the Concordia Foundation.
KATY ELMAN, marimba
CLASSIC FM describe Katy as 'an outstanding percussionist with drive and passion’ Born in 1987, she began playing the snare drum at the age of eight and soon won a place as a junior exhibitioner at The Guildhall School of Music, where her love for tuned percussion flourished. She then studied at The Purcell School and completed her fulltime education at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester where she was tutored by Paul Patrick, David Hext and David Hassel. She then went on to study with Richard Benjafield,Mike Skinner and Davd Corkhill at the Guildhall school of music.
Katy has taken part in numerous master-classes including Evelyn Glennie, Graham Johns, Eric Sammut, N.J. Živković and world-renowned marimba virtuoso, Keiko Abe. She made her solo London debut at St. James Piccadilly at the age of 14 and subsequently played timpani and orchestral percussion in some of the country`s leading concert venues including The Bridge Water Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Symphony Hall and The Barbican and premiered The Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone, by the composer Tim Brice, in Manchester.
Katy is a performer with the Concordia Foundation with whom she has performed several solo recitals at venues including, St. Martin in the Fields and St. James’s Piccadilly. She also works extensively with Concordia’s Educational programme taking workshops and playing an integrual part in the children’s productions of ‘The Rhythm of Life’ and ‘The Spotted Cow and the Piano Forte’. She has been the focus for a BBC documentary and performed live on BBC radio 3 and is currently very much in demand as a guest timpanist and percussionist with several orchestras based in London and the Home Counties.
Katy is now the director of Southern Percussion, the UK’s leading supplier of percussion music.
The Little Proms exists to bring Classical Music to the Wider public, we thank all the wonderful Artists who make this possible!
