Lunchtime Recital - Iagoba Fanlo (cello) and Inja Stanović (piano)

L. van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Major No. 3, Op. 69

Allegro ma non tanto

Scherzo. Allegro molto

Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace

J. Brahms: Sonata for Piano and Cello in e minor No. 1, Op. 38

Allegro non troppo

Allegretto quasi Menuetto

Allegro

Iagoba Fanlo, violoncello

Sony Classical includes in his most recent recording of 2021, the cello concerto, Act of Contrition op.76 by Jorge Grundman, achieving number 1 on platforms such as iTunes and Amazon, and obtaining the prestigious Melómano de Oro award. He has regularly collaborated as a tutor and as conductor of the Junger Künstler Festival in Bayreuth, and a cello tutor for the European Union Youth Orchestra (E.U.Y.O). Iagoba's recordings of the cello and piano music of the Spanish Cello Sonatas as well as the Six Suites for solo cello by J.S. Bach, have received the best reviews from the specialized media, being an album especially recommended in El País, El Mundo or ABC and in the magazines CD Compact, Ritmo, The Strad and Scherzo.

In 1994 he is selected to perform E. Elgar's concerto under the baton of Yehudi Menuhin and makes his debut with the orchestra of the Royal Academy of London that same year. He has been a soloist with London New Sinfonia, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Saint Petersburg's Chamber Orchestra, Ciudad Real Symphony Orchestra, Euskadiko Orkestra, Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra, Murcia Region Symphony Orchestra, Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra of Spain, Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Murcia Camerata, Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra, North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Seocho Philharmonic Korea, Navarra Symphony Orchestra, Virtuosi di Prague or the National Orchestra of Panama performing the concertos of J. Haydn, A, Dvorak, L. Boccherini, Mª Teresa Prieto, P. Tchaikovsky, M. Martínez Burgos, A. Romero , L. van Beethoven, F. Gulda, J. Grundman, J. Nin-Culmell or J. Rodrigo among others, under the batons of O. Vlcek, J. Bernàcer, P. Halffter, R. Sanz-Espert, Jong Bae, Y. Sharovsky, R. Milanov, C. Olivieri-Munroe, H. Ávila, O. Lenard, J. Cantarell-Rocha, A . Ros-Marbá, J. de Eusebio or Colin Metters.

In 2009 he offered the first audition of the unpublished work for cello and piano by Pau Casals at the request of the Casals Foundation itself. His commitment to Spanish music has led him to be the dedicatee of compositions by prestigious composers such as A. Aracil, B. Casablancas, J. Grundman, E. Guimerá, M. Del Barco, T. Aragüés, I. Bagueneta, A. Romero , R. Paús, J. Jacinto, M. Martínez Burgos, G. Díaz Yerro, P. Halffter or C. Perón, as well as recovering scores by P. Casals, A. Rubio, S. Bacarisse, S. Tapia, J.M. Guelbenzu, I. Albéniz, J.M. Franco, B. Pagola, D. de Araciel, G. Cassadó…

In his activity with baroque cello he shares the stage with S. Standage, D. Schrader or L. Dreyfus and about his recording together with A. Martínez Molina of sonatas by D. Porretti and L. Boccherini, Anner Bijlsma mentioned: “this album gives you the chance to hear Boccherini as he would himself play…”.

An active chamber musician, he has performed recitals with the Casals Quartet, Gerhard Quartet and the Hanson String Quartet, among others. He has been cello soloist of the European Union Youth Orchestra (E.U.Y.O.), Spanish Radio Television and the Nagaokakyò Chamber Orchestra (Japan), working with conductors such as CM. Giulini, M. Rostropovich, B. Haitink, K. Sanderling, G. Prêtre, R. Norrington and Colin Davis, recording for the Phillips Classics, E.M.I. labels. and Virgin.

He completed his training in the Konzert Exam Diplom at the Universität del Künste of Berlin in the class of teacher Wolfgang Boettcher. Previously, he received the Diploma of Advanced Studies from the Royal Academy of Music in London, in the class of David Strange. He graduated in his hometown, Donostia-San Sebastián, together with his first teacher and father, E. Fanlo Altuna. Among his teachers are great artists such as E. Arizcuren, L. Harrell, H. Schiff, and P. Müller.

Iagoba Fanlo is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music of London, full member of the Royal Basque Society of Friends (1764), and Doctor in Arts and Humanities from the URJC. In addition to publications in indexed magazines as well as in other popular ones - The Strad, Scherzo, Ritmo -, Iagoba Fanlo has edited recovered scores, original for cello, by composers such as L. Boccherini, B. Pagola, S. Bacarisse or E Casals, for publishers such as Boileau, Arpegio or KlasiKart. Professor at the Aragon Conservatory of Music, he teaches master classes at centers such as the Royal Academy of Music in London, Liceu in Barcelona, ​​the Norwegian Academy of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, where he taught between 2001 and 2020.

Inja Stanović, piano

Dr. Inja Stanović is a Croatian pianist and researcher, currently residing in London. Inja finished her PhD at the University of Sheffield, focusing on the nineteenth-century performance practice relating to the work of Frédéric Chopin (“Chopin in Great Britain, 1830 to 1930: reception, performance, recordings”, 2016). She has performed throughout the world, including concerts in Croatia, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Inja’s pianism focuses upon 19th Century performance practices, as she combines musicological research (with particular emphasis upon 19th Century reception, stylistic tendencies, and performance techniques), and practice-based research, involving historically-informed performance practice.             

Inja completed a BA (hons) at the Ino Mirkovic School of Music, licensed under the P. I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Marina Ambokadze). After winning a French Government Scholarship, she moved to Paris and completed two postgraduate programmes at the Schola Cantorum (class of Eugen Indjic). Soon after that, she won full-merit scholarship for MMus at the Boston Conservatory (class of Michael Lewin). Inja moved to Sheffield in 2010, where she completed the PhD on nineteenth-century performance practice relating to the works of Chopin (supervised by Prof. Simon Keefe). Collectively, she has received scholarships and grants from the Leverhulme Trust (2017), Australian Government (2012); Boston Conservatory (2008); French Government; (2006), amongst many others. 

Besides being an active pianist, Inja is a published author. Most recent publications include the co-edited (with Dr. Eva Moreda Rodríguez) volume Early Sound Recordings: Academic Research and Practice (Routledge, 2023), research album Austro-German revivals: (Re)constructing Acoustic Recordings (co-authored with Dr. David Milsom; University of Huddersfield Press, 2023) and the article for Music & Practice, '(Re)constructing Early Recordings: Reviving the Brave Belgians' (co-authored with dr. Jeroen Billiet, 2023). 

Inja has held various academic posts, including research fellowship at the Sydney Conservatoire, visiting lectureship at the Birmingham Conservatoire, and a lectureship at City, University of London. Inja currently works as Surrey Future Senior Fellow, and the University of Surrey where she directs the digital platform for historical recording research and practice - Early Recordings Association. ERA embodies forward-thinking research and serves to educate and inform researchers and students, generating innovative paths in the field of early recording research.

Venue

PATS Studio One, PATS Building, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH

(Yellow building opposite big marquee)

Parking

Public parking can be found in the pay and display campus car park. Please be aware that this operates via the RingGo app only and the machines don't accept coins.