Leo Popplewell & Antonina Suhanova – Sutton Valence Music Society Online Event

Sutton Valence Music Society, founded in 1973, normally offers concerts each year between September and March. These are held in the Music School of Sutton Valence School. Groves Hall is an acoustically designed music room providing a setting both intimate and friendly in which to enjoy performances given by young award winning musicians.

This season, because of the COVID pandemic, we have decided to organise on line concerts. The musicians will perform live at Groves Hall in the music school at Sutton Valence School and their concert streamed as they are being performed to our members. We are excited to be able to continue to offer concerts and also support musicians in performing live music in this way.

We will not be seeking subscriptions this year but instead ask our members and other viewers to donate to the society a fee for each concert.

Further concerts will be planned following the response to our first two concerts. We are following the government guidelines and would like to think we can be live again for our concerts from January 2020, but who knows….

Leo Popplewell

A dynamic young cellist who plays with "full-bloodied commitment", "ample emotionality" and "delicious dancing grace", Leo Popplewell studied at Clare College, Cambridge, and later at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Leo has performed in many of the world’s leading concert halls, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, and London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall and Southbank Centre among others. His festival appearances include the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Barnes Music Festival, Newbury Spring Festival, Orpheus and Bacchus Festival, Cambridge Summer Music Festival, Lake District Summer Music Festival and Highgate International Chamber Music Festival.

Watch Leo on You tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu8uAx0Ghrc

Antonina Suhanova

Pianist Antonina Suhanova has performed on international stages since 2000. After studies with Ludmila Kiselenko, Gunta Boža and Professor Juris Kalnciems in her native Latvia, she was admitted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD, London) where from 2012 to 2018 she acquired First Class Bachelor of Music and Master of Performance degrees, both with distinction, under the tutelage of the distinguished British pianist Ronan O’Hora.

During her studies, Antonina participated in numerous masterclasses of such world-renowned pianists as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Idil Biret, Pavel Gililov, Jaques Rouvier, Steven Osborne, Matti Raekallio, Richard Goode, Robert Levin and Yefim Bronfman.
Antonina has performed at the Steinway Hall in New York, the Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St James’s Piccadilly, Milton Court Concert Hall and Barbican Hall in London, the Riga Great Guild Hall, the Moscow International House of Music, and the Erin Arts Centre.

Watch Antonia on You tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2XQ4kJ1UJg