Wednesday 5 November 2025 7:30pm

Bruch – Kol Nidrei, op 47             

Proto – Carmen Fantasy

Fauré – Les berceaux, op 23

Tabakov – Motivy

Montag –  Sonata in E minor

Piazzolla –  Ave Maria

Botessini –  Alla Mendelssohn

Will Duerden has been playing the double bass since he was 7 and was finalist in the BBC Young Musician strings category in 2018. He is a Classic FM ‘Rising Star’ and in June 2023 was selected to join the prestigious Young Classical Artists Trust’s (YCAT) roster. He is well set to become a noted virtuoso of the bass, following in the footsteps of Botessini and Chi-chi Nwanoku.

His programme combines modern solo pieces like Emil Tabakov’s Motivy with accompanied pieces from the wider repertoire like the Carmen Fantasy and the Alla Mendelssohn inspired by the Mendelssohn violin concerto. Bruch’s Kol Nidrei is more familiar on the cello while Les berceaux and Ave Maria are arrangements of songs. Svitlana Cosenko is a Ukrainian pianist with a rising reputation as an accompanist, having worked at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music where Will himself has been a student.