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Inverness Chamber Music Society are delighted to present this promising local duo, Fiona Macleod and Lesley Bell.

Fiona, who was born in Inverness and went to school here, started her music studies in 1997 in the B. Mus. course at Napier University in Edinburgh. Under the advice of her piano teacher, Nicholas Ashton, she auditioned for the Royal Northern College of Music, transferred there and graduated in 2002. In 2002 she won the European Piano Teachers Association Pedagogy Prize. Fiona completed a Postgraduate Diploma in accompaniment with John Gough as well as winning the Stella Bradshaw award for accompaniment.

In September 2002, she performed Beethoven's 2nd piano concerto with the Highland Chamber Orchestra. From September 2003 to June 2005 Fiona was a Junior Fellow accompanist at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she gained a PGDip in Advanced Accompaniment.

Lesley was a pupil at the Junior Academy of Music in Glasgow with Alison Waller. After two years at Napier University in Edinburgh she went on to do the BA Music course at the RSAMD in 1999. She studied with Yann Ghiro, Joe Pacewicz and John Cushing, and graduated with a First Class Honours in 2003.

Lesley now combines teaching at Aberdeen City Music School and St. George's School for Girls in Edinburgh with a freelance career. She has performed with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Tonight's programme:

Finzi 5 Bagatelles Op. 23

Debussy Rapsodie for clarinet and piano (1910)

Horowitz Sonatina for clarinet and piano (1981)

Schumann Fanatasiestuck Op. 73

This concert is supported by the Inverness Community Events Fund