Gipps Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 Juliana Koch, BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba

• Ruth Gipps (1921 - 1999): Chanticleer Overture, Op. 28:
• 1Gipps: Chanticleer Overture, Op. 2808:56
• Oboe Concerto, Op. 20:
• 2Gipps: Oboe Concerto, Op. 20: I. Allegro moderato09:51
• 3Gipps: Oboe Concerto, Op. 20: II. Andante04:15
• 4Gipps: Oboe Concerto, Op. 20: III. Allegro vivace08:17
• Death on the Pale Horse, Op. 25:
• 5Gipps: Death on the Pale Horse, Op. 2508:02
• Symphony No. 3, Op. 57:
• 6Gipps: Symphony No. 3, Op. 57: I. Moderato11:15
• 7Gipps: Symphony No. 3, Op. 57: II. Theme and Variations09:03
• 8Gipps: Symphony No. 3, Op. 57: III. Scherzo05:15
• 9Gipps: Symphony No. 3, Op. 57: IV. Finale10:59
• Total Runtime01:15:53

Info for Gipps Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

Ruth Gipps (1921-1999) was born in the English seaside resort of Bexhill-on-Sea. Encouraged as a child by an ambitious pianist mother, she appeared locally as a prodigy pianist. She was accepted by the Royal College of Music in 1937, at the age of sixteen, having won the Caird Scholarship. She quickly matured, both as composer and pianist. She studied with Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob, and later the oboe with Leon Goossens. During the Second World War she gained a position as oboist with the City of Birmingham Orchestra and devoted a great deal of her time to composing. Three of the works on this album were composed during the war: the Oboe Concerto, the tone poem Death on the Pale Horse, and the overture Chanticleer (derived from an opera which, sadly, she never completed). The manuscript of the Third Symphony is dated 1 November 1965 and the work was first heard when Gipps introduced it with her London Repertoire Orchestra, on 19 March 1966. Its first professional performance took place on 29 October 1969, Gipps directing the BBC Scottish Orchestra, but it has since gone largely unheard, until now.

Juliana Koch, oboe
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba, conductor

Juliana Koch
is principal oboe of the London Symphony Orchestra (Music Director Sir Simon Rattle) and laureate of the ARD International Music Competition 2017.

Since September 2018 she teaches as professor of oboe at the Royal College of Music in London. ‍

For her debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2019, Juliana performed the Richard Strauss Oboe concerto together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Other solo engagements include appearances with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks at the Philharmonie im Gasteig (Munich), the Münchener Kammerorchester, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Hungarian National Philharmonic among others.

Juliana is an active chamber musician and has performed at many prestigious festivals around the world, including Musica Viva’s Huntingon Estate Music Festival in Australia, Lucerne Festival, Bachfest Leipzig and Paavo Järvi’s Pärnu Music Festival. She has appeared in recital performances in the Bamberg Konzerthalle, NDR Hannover and Deutschlandfunk Köln.

At the ARD international Music Competition 2017 Juliana won the second prize, audience prize and the Osnabrücker Musikpreis - no first prize was awarded.

After finishing her studies, Juliana first played as principal oboe with the Royal Danish Orchestra at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and with Filarmonica della Scala at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, before joining the London Symphony Orchestra in 2018.

Juliana has been invited all over the world as guest principal oboe with some of the most renowned orchestras, including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

She has worked with many of the world’s leading conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Bernhard Haitink, Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Pierre Boulez (+), Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Elliot Gardiner and Valery Gergiev.

Juliana has studied with François Leleux in Munich and Fabian Menzel in Frankfurt. Additionally she has worked with Jacques Tys in Paris. In her time in Munich, she also studied Baroque Oboe with Saskia Fikentscher.

Booklet for Gipps Orchestral Works, Vol. 2