Summer Sonatas

Date/Time: Sunday 8th June 7pm

Venue: United Reformed Church, Broadstone,

Tickets £12, U19 concessions £3 – includes interval refreshments

Violin and Piano recital by our alumni violinist Lewis Lee with pianist Mar Umbert Kimura. 

Tickets available via Ticket Source above (small fee applies)

This is a wonderful full-circle moment when one of our longstanding young musicians wishes to bring a recital back to our series and we could not be more excited for Lewis to come with Maria del Mar Umbert Kimura (piano) back to Broadstone. It really will be a fabulous opportunity to hear these young musicians. For regulars to our series over the years you will no doubt recognise Lewis.

 From the impressionistic colours of Debussy to the rhythmic jazz of Grant Still, and with seasonal scenes by Clarke and Pejačević after the interval, join Lewis and Mar for a tour through the sights, sounds, and colours of summer with what’s sure to be a wonderful programme!

Debussy – Sonata in G minor

Grant – Still Suite

Clarke – Midsummer Moon

Pejačevic – Sonata in D major “Spring”

Young white male standing casually in church doorway with arms crossed musician from the Broadstone Music Series

Lewis graduated from Merton College, University of Oxford, with a First Class degree in Music in 2024 – where he held a Music Award and academic Exhibition Award. He is currently pursuing his masters in violin performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as a Guildhall Scholar. He studies with David Takeno, Eugène Ysaÿe International Chair of Violin. He enjoys an eclectic range of orchestral, chamber, and solo performances, including being awarded the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra’s Young Artist Platform in 2023. He is grateful for masterclasses from musicians including Maxim Vengerov, Natalia Lomeiko, Benjamin Gilmore, and Ruth Rogers, and for his previous teachers – Simon Blendis and Jennifer Curiel.

Mar is a Spanish-Japanese pianist who recently completed her MSt in Music Performance from Somerville College (University of Oxford) with distinction, where she also read Music as an undergraduate student.

She is particularly passionate about piano accompaniment and chamber music and is in demand in Oxford as a collaborative pianist. Mar has performed with leading ensembles such as the Oxford University Orchestra, Oxford University Sinfonietta, orchestra VOX, Ensemble Isis, Somerville College Choir, Schola Cantorum Oxford, Opus 48 Choir, and Komuna Collective. As an accompanist, she has worked with professional musicians including Emma Kirkby, Anthony Roth Constanzo, and Will Dawes as well as with numerous university and conservatoire students.

Over the years she has received solo and chamber music masterclasses from Libby Burgess, Anna Tilbrook, Tom Poster, Marta Zabaleta, and the Castalian Quartet, among others. Mar was awarded the Margaret Irene Seymour Music Award as an undergraduate student, as well as a substantial music scholarship towards her MSt. She recently won the Davison Young Musicians Foundation Recital Award (2024), and received the Archibald Jackson Prize for high performance in her master’s degree. Mar studies piano with Anna Markland, and this September she will move to London to continue her collaborative piano studies at the Royal College of Music with a full scholarship.