Cara Janes and Elly Kornas Lunchtime Concert

Beethoven Sonata No. 3

allegro ma non tanto scherzo allegro molto adagio cantabile – allegro vivace

Miaskovsky Sonata No. 1 adagio – andante allegro passionato

Cara is an experienced cellist from Sale, currently studying with Nicholas Jones at the RNCM. As an orchestral player, Cara regularly plays with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra, RNCM Opera Orchestra, RNCM Chamber Orchestra, RNCM Concert Orchestra and the RNCM Brand New Orchestra. She also is the principal cellist of the Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra, performing at Blackburn Catherdral and The Bridgewater Hall. Cara is also regular guest principal cellist of the Leeds Youth Opera Orchestra.Cara was recently awarded the RNCM Salon Prize, performing as part of a Cello Quartet.  Prior to attending the RNCM, Cara was a pupil at Chethams’ School of Music for 9 years, studying with David Smith, Stephan Threlfall and Chris Hoyle. Here, she was regularly principal cello of the Chethams’ Symphony Orchestra and performed at venues such as The Bridgewater Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, The Wigmore Hall and Manchester Cathedral. Cara was also invited to take part in regular master classes with Guy Johnstone. She frequently coaches the Altrincham Grammar School for Girls cello section, and is currently working at Chethams’ School of Music. In 2016, Cara was a successful applicant to the Liverpool Philharmonic Professional Experience Scheme.  In 2013 Cara was invited to play with the Alderley Edge Symphony Orchestra, where she performed Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1. In 2015 she was invited to Torbay to play the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Torbay Symphony Orchestra and in 2016 she was invited to America to play the Saint-Saens Cello concerto No. 1 with Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra. In March 2017, Cara will perform the Elgar Cello Concerto again, with Lancashire Chamber Orchestra, at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls.  In her leisure time Cara enjoys playing the Cello in various rock and pop bands including Public Service Broadcasting and Disturbed.

Eleanor Kornas

Eleanor Kornas is 22 and comes from Derbyshire. She began learning the piano aged 5 and, from the age of 9, Eleanor attended Chetham’s School of Music, studying piano with Dina Parakhina. From 2012 to 2015, Eleanor read Music at Cambridge, graduating with a First Class Honours Degree. Throughout her time at Cambridge, alongside studying Academic Music, Eleanor performed with Trinity College Chapel Choir as their Organ Scholar and was selected to participate as a pianist in various University music schemes. Eleanor also won the Trinity College’s Edith Leigh Piano Prize and the Cambridge University Music Society Concerto Competition.  For academic achievement, Eleanor became a Senior Scholar of Trinity College. Upon leaving university, having been the first female Organ Scholar of Trinity College, Eleanor was awarded the Forbes-Dunlop Grant by the Women’s Careers Foundation which enabled her to accept the offer to work at the Royal College of Music from September 2015 to July 2016. Eleanor now works as a Staff Accompanist at Chetham’s.  Eleanor has had many performing opportunities as a soloist, an accompanist, in chamber ensembles and in choirs, both in the UK and abroad. These have included performing in the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall, London; Bridgewater Hall and the RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester; Troldsalen (the concert hall at Troldhaugen, Norway), where she was invited to perform as part of Grieg’s bicentenary celebrations; and West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, where she was the soloist in a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Cambridge University Music Society Symphony Orchestra. As the Organ Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, Eleanor played the organ for chapel services three times per week and accompanied the choir for their recordings; Eleanor is the accompanist on discs of music by Ēriks Ešenvalds, Kenneth Leighton, and Herbert Howells, all released by Hyperion and nominated for Gramophone Awards. She also toured with the choir to Canada, Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Eleanor enjoys a busy musical life outside her work at Chetham’s as a duo partner, soloist (last summer Eleanor performed as part of the Royal College of Music’s Medtner Project and was the soloist for a performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Derbyshire City and County Youth Orchestra), and chamber/orchestral musician (Eleanor was recently the harpsichordist in a performance of Handel’s Messiah with soloists Anna Dennis, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks and Gavan Ring).