VICTORIA DAVIES and
                        JAMES TURNBULL
Thursday 26 March 2009
8:00pm at Delrow Community in Patchetts Green

Victoria Davies - harp
James Turnbull - oboe

will be performing:

Bach - Sonata in G minor
Hoddinott - Bagatelles for oboe and harp
Britten - Metamorphoses
Berkeley - Second Still Life
Britten - Suite for harp, Op. 86
Piazzolla - L'Histoire du Tango

Victoria Davies and James Turnbull are supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

Victoria studied the harp at the Royal College ofMusic Junior Department and at the Royal Academy of Music. She read music at Christ Church, Oxford, where she was an Academic Scholar and Instrumental Exhibitioner.

She was winner of the London Harp Competition in 1999 and 2001, and in 2002 was Principal Harp of the National Youth Orchestra. She has performed live on the BBC Radio 3 programme “In Tune” and on Howard Goodall's BBC Radio 2 programme. Future engagements include recording Howard Goodall's Requiem and a concert in St. John's, Smith Square.

James began playing oboe aged 7, before studying at the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Junior Academy of Music. In 2005 he graduated with First Class Honours in Music from Christchurch, Oxford.

As a soloist James has performed live on BBC Radio 3's “In Tune” and on BBC Television's “Songs of Praise” and currently freelances with orchestras abroad such as the Russian Chamber Orchestra of St. Petersburg and PolyphonieT in Germany.