In the 40th of a series of articles, David Bird discusses the work of Redbridge Music Society and introduces pianist Emilie Capulet, who will be performing at Wanstead Library this month
Two essential aims of Redbridge Music Society are to enhance musical knowledge and music appreciation within the borough via high-quality, live chamber recitals featuring distinguished musicians. These aims will be realised on 22 October at Wanstead Library when celebrated pianist and lecture-recitalist Emilie Capulet will introduce and perform a diverse programme of music, featuring works by Haydn, Beethoven, Dohnanyi, Tomasi and Debussy.
Emilie is a cross-disciplinary musician and academic having a Master of Music in Performance, an MA on Shakespeare and a dual French Doctorate and British PhD on musical forms and aesthetics in the works of Virginia Woolf. Whilst touring Latin America, she received the ExpressArte award for her contribution to Nicaraguan culture, art and education. She is in much demand and is regularly invited to give recitals and concerts at music festivals and concert venues across Europe, USA and Canada. Emilie is also in demand as a guest artist on luxury cruise liners and musical river cruises.
Emilie has developed a considerable reputation as a guest speaker and lecture-recitalist and is often invited to give talks on the relations between music and other art forms and to give piano master classes and workshops in colleges, schools and universities worldwide, including the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Sorbonne in Paris and Chichester University in the UK.
She has appeared on radio and TV in France, Germany, Canada, Nicaragua and the UK and has made recordings of works by Beethoven, Chopin, the contemporary composer Richard Lambert and the French-Corsican composer Henri Tomasi (an award-winning and ground-breaking recording of his solo piano music).
Emilie is currently BMus (Hons) Programme Leader at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Greenwich. Previously, she held the posts of Head of Classical Performance Studies and Course Leader in undergraduate and postgraduate Music Performance courses at the London College of Music, University of West London. She has been a Music Lecturer at the University of Surrey and was recently appointed Visiting Fellow at Keble College, Oxford University, for 2025. She is very active in research and is currently the recipient of a prestigious Leverhulme Research Fellowship to write the first critical study and biography of Henri Tomasi.
Please come along to support the opening event of Redbridge Music Society’s 76th season and to hear Emilie perform and talk – a recital not to be missed.
Emilie will perform at Wanstead Library on 22 October from 8pm (tickets on the door; visitors: £12; members: £9). Call 07380 606 767. Redbridge Music Society is affiliated to Making Music.