A unique afternoon of live music in our newly renovated shop with internationally-renowned flautist Lisa Friend and her piano accompanist Mark Kinkaid.

About this event:

• Pre-Booking Required
• £25 per person - includes choice of Artisan Pizza
• Bookings by Table (groups of 2-4)
• Bar service available (soft & alcoholic)
• Doors open 11:45am | Music starts 12pm
• 12pm-1pm First Set
• 1pm-2pm Lunch (choice of Artisan Sourdough Pizza Included - Paid Bar)
• 2pm-3pm Second Set
• Covid-secure precautions in place (full details on email confirmation)

"The venue was excellent. The revamped Dawkes shop area adjusted beautifully into a club-like atmosphere. There was a relaxed welcoming attitude from the staff and they were attentive to the needs of the audience." - Live Event Visitor Feedback

LISA FRIEND:

Lisa Friend (Flautist) has appeared as a soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, City of Prague Philharmonic, Virtuosi Pragenses Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. In January 2020, she performed as a soloist with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum, Salzburg for the opening concert of 'Mozart Week 2020'.

She has toured throughout Europe, the USA and Asia and has been broadcast on radio stations around the world including Classic FM, Scala Radio, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 2, BBC London, RTE Lyric FM, ORF Radio, WQXR Classical Radio-New York, WFMT Radio-Chicago and with the Brodsky Quartet live in the Classic FM Studios and on BBC One TV 'The Andrew Marr Show'.

Her many recordings as a solo/chamber artist include Voyage (Chandos), Essence-Lisa Friend and Rohan De Silva (Chandos), Mozart Quartets-Lisa Friend & the Brodsky Quartet (Chandos), Cinema Affair (Silva Screen), Luminance (Champs Hill Records) and Deep in My Soul (Signum Records). All have been widely praised in the press including the BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone and the Mail on Sunday and many of her CDs have been chosen as Classic FM’s Album of the Week/Weekend and Drive Discovery. Both her CDs ‘Cinema Affair’ and ‘Essence’ have also been featured albums on board British Airways 'Highlife In Flight Entertainment'.

She has also featured on a recording for Malcolm Martineau and friends of songs by Poulenc (Signum Classics) and as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on a CD by Ian Mulder. Solo recital highlights include performances for Steven Spielberg and his USC Shoah Foundation, for the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, at the LG Arts Center in Seoul, at the Wigmore Hall and Cadogan Hall in London. She has also performed live on stage as a soloist with Principal dancers of the Royal Ballet for Sergei Polunin’s 'Project Polunin' and appeared at the Tenth Anniversary Concert for Children and the Arts in collaboration with Classic FM.

Lisa performed as a soloist for Bill Kenwright's production 'Orchestra 2000' with Boy George backed by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

After signing a deal with Universal Publishing, Lisa wrote original arrangements for her trio based on some of the great film scores as well as her own compositions, performing at venues such as St Martin- in-the-Fields, St. John’s, Smith Square, and the British Embassy in Paris.

She has given masterclasses in South Korea and the UK, including, most recently (January 2019), a woodwind performance masterclass at the Royal Academy of Music, and runs an annual international flute master-class, The Friend International Flute Academy. In April 2017, she was a jury member for the Concours du Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste at the École Normale de Musique de Paris ‘Alfred Cortot’.

Having spent her early years in the USA, Lisa Friend studied with Renée Siebert of the New York Philharmonic before winning a scholarship, at seventeen, to study with Susan Milan at the Royal College of Music; she pursued her postgraduate studies as a ‘Martin Music Scholar’ with the late Alain Marion in Paris.

www.lisafriend.com

Mark Kinkaid:

As a freelance accompanist Mark Kinkaid has worked for the Royal College, Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Pegasus Opera. He has accompanied the Basingstoke Choral Society since 1976 and was appointed Assistant Musical Director in 1997. In 2010-2012 and 2015-2016 he was the accompanist for the Lisa Friend London Flute Summer Masterclass. In 2012- 2017 he was an official accompanist on the Cambridge International String Academy Course and also an official accompanist at the Suzuki Course in Bryanston 2016-2018. He has been a repetiteur for Opera South (Manon) as well as completing a season with Opera Integra. Mark was the official accompanist on the Torroella de Montgri Summer Course in Spain 1992- 1993, accompanist in Janacek Cunning Little Vixen(2007) at Woodhouse in Surrey where he also was also musical director in 4 performances of Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel(2008). Mark is currently pianist in residence at the prestigious Centre for Young Musicians in London.

Mark regularly collaborates with solo flautist Lisa Friend. Together, they have broadcast a live duo recital on Classic FM, performed at the ‘White Rose Ball’ Holocaust Fundraiser alongside artist Liza Minnelli in 2011, given a Wigmore Hall Recital and recorded a cd of romantic works on Signum Records. He has also released a cd with Lisa Friend and Anna Stokes ‘Luminance’ on Champs Hill Records.

Mark has performed various works with orchestra and played at the Purcell Room with flautist James Dutton as part of the Park Lane Group Recitals.

Bonus Interval 'Mini-Set'

Our main goal as a business and as fellow musicians is to create, inspire and support our musical community. As such we've reached out to various different youth organisations to offer young musicians the opportunity to play on a live stage with professional sound, lighting and video. During the interval of selected Live @ Dawkes events, we are giving the stage to these youth ensembles to showcase their talents. These 'mini-sets' are a musical bonus for guests and help give valuable performance opportunities and experience to young musicians. 

At this event, we will be joined by the students of local musician, teacher and music promoter Julia Bentley-Dawkes.