Come and hear Bulgarian born cellist Angel Tarpov in a free evening recital in St Mary’s Church. Angel will be accompanied by pianist Tom Jesty in repertoire by J.S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, and Gabriel Fauré. The programme will feature audience favourites such as Bach’s Air on the G string and the Swan from Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, along with less well known repertoire. The evening will end with a selection of Angel’s own compositions.

1 hour 15 mins, including an interval. This event is free and you do not need a ticket.

Angel Tarpov was born in 1993 in Bulgaria and started studying music and playing the cello at the age of four. He began to take music lessons at the age of five and at this age gave his first stage appearance. From the age of five, Angel has had numerous performances and concerts including twelve solo recitals. At the age of sixteen years, Angel began to write his own music and by the age of nineteen, started composing and performing his own classical music. To date, he has composed over 100 pop songs and 50 classical pieces. His professional music career began when the title track from his first solo record titled “Dream” was released in the summer of 2012. The album was recorded between the US and Europe. It combined with four classical pieces, and eight original works by Angel, showing for the first time his composing skills publicly. A few years later he shot a music video for the first single on the 'Dream' album named 'Darkness'. The video took place in Vienna. 'Darkness' itself got lots of attention and quickly becomes a favourite 'modern-classical' style piece. His second full album was released in December of 2013 under the title 'So Far...Yet... So Close'. The album includes eight tracks, of which seven are original, and one classical. In this album, Angel shows off a more modern side to his compositional skills. The third album that Angel released is on a topic concerning the situation of the world. The title of the album is 'Broken World'. So far, Angel has released Five singles off the album one of which is named 'Who Am I?' – which was released in late July of 2014. The second single is named 'Disconnected', and was released in January of 2015. The third single is titled "The Knight Spirit" which was released in May of 2015. The fourth leading single from the album is "Save Me From This Hell". This single reached first place in a world music platform charts for Austria. "Save Me From This Hell" was rated by the platform to be the best modern classical musical piece written in the last decade. "Save Me From This Hell" stayed at number one for five consecutive months.

Tom Jesty (piano): Tom sang as a Winchester College Quirister from the age of 8. While studying with Nick Salwey at Winchester College, he gained an FTCL diploma in piano performance. After graduating from St Peter’s College Oxford, Tom has worked as a piano teacher and accompanist. Tom has just completed a masters course in piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with Pamela Lidiard and Iain Burnside. Tom has recently worked on lesser-known repertoire by Russian composers Nikolai Roslavets and Arthur-Vincent Lourié under the tuition of Iain Burnside, as well as George Crumb’s Apparition, and a programme of German Lieder, for which he received coaching from Graham Johnson. In March, Tom won the Paul Harmburger Prize for Voice and Piano, accompanying baritone George Robarts.