Two winners from past Young Musicians Competitions will give a recital exclusively for Members of the Two Moors Festival and their guests.
Cole Craggs - trumpet
Teagan Craggs - violin
The programme will include works by Bach, Ysaÿe, Paganini, Ost, Maxwell Davies, Britten and Berio.
The Two Moors Festival is delighted to welcome back two of its former Young Musicians’ Competition winners – Cole Craggs, who was 12 when he won the brass section on trumpet in 2022 and Teagan Craggs, who was 15 when she won the string section on violin in 2023. They will share this recital in the tiny historic church at Clannaborough Barton – signed and easily accessible from the A3072 with plenty of parking in an area of the neighbouring farmyard! There will be a tent outside the church where we will be offering our audience a glass of Swanaford Cuvee Brut, kindly supplied by Swanaford Vineyard, Exeter and a bowl of fruit after the concert.
This recital is open exclusively to Members and their guests; early booking is advised as the Church holds only 40 people seated.
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Teagan Craggs studies the violin with Natalia Lomeiko at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded a full Leverhulme Arts Scholarship by Professor Anna Vignoles. She is an alumna of Wells Cathedral School and long-term student of Ani Batikian. She performs regularly as a soloist, with recent appearances including Drapers Hall, Princess Alexandra Hall, Newport Cathedral with St Woolos Sinfonia, Brecon Cathedral with Brecknock Sinfonia and the Evaristo Valle Museum Foundation in Gijon, Spain. She has won first place prizes at the Two Moors Festival, Mid-Somerset Festival and Sussex Springboard Festival. In addition she has received the prestigious Future Talent Coombes Award, Young Sounds UK Peta Martin Award, Hatton Foundation Junior Award and the London Philharmonic Orchestra Junior Artist Award. Teagan has toured extensively with the National Youth Orchestra, performing in a plethora of top-tier concert halls, as well as leading with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra in Switzerland. Her playing has featured on numerous radio and television broadcasts for the BBC, Classic FM, Scala Radio and Medici TV. She plays a bespoke Melvin Goldsmith, Guarneri ‘del Gesu’ model, generously loaned by the maker.
Cole Craggs is a trumpet scholar at Wells Cathedral School and a Young Ambassador for Denis Wick Products Ltd. He represents his school regularly, performing in concerts in Wells Cathedral, Wigmore Hall, Glastonbury Abbey, The Royal Bath and West Show and the House of Lords. As a soloist he has given recitals for members of the Royal Family at St James’s Palace and won first place prizes with the Two Moors Festival, Mid-Somerset Festival, Sussex Springboard Festival and Taunton Festival of the Arts. He is also a recipient of the Future Talent Robinson award and a two-time Worsley Award winner. As a Young Sounds UK multiple awardee, Cole has collaborated with Jess Gillam as well as Phil Cobb, Niall Keatley, Martin Hurrell and many other members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studios and performed widely with the National Youth Orchestra.
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