Jaren Ziegler (viola) and Heath Quartet combine in Chichester

SussexWorld

Jaren Ziegler (viola) is delighted to join the Heath Quartet for their recital in Chichester as part of the Chichester Chamber Concerts series on Thursday, February 27.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Registrar at Sussex Newspaper. It's really

00:06lovely to speak to Jaron Ziegler this afternoon. Jaron, a winner of the BBC Young Musician

00:11String Final 2022, heading to Chichester as part of the Chichester Chamber Concert Series

00:17in February, end of February, with the Heath Quartet. And it's a lovely programme, isn't

00:22it? And tell me about the collaboration with the Heath Quartet. What does that mean to

00:27you at this stage in your career? You've just started at the Royal Academy, haven't

00:30you? And here you are working with them.

00:33Yeah, thank you for having me. Yeah, it's a real, real privilege to be playing with

00:38the Heath Quartet and it's a group I've admired and looked up to for a long time. So it's

00:45quite surreal to be playing with them. And yeah, I just hope to kind of take as much

00:52and absorb as much kind of the wealth of experience that they have and really kind

00:58of learn from them and also, yeah, have a have a fun time playing with them.

01:05What do you think you can learn from them? That learning, as we were saying, is listening

01:10and just watching, isn't it? But what do you think you can gain from the experience?

01:15Yeah, I mean, it's kind of being able to just kind of see what they do, because obviously

01:25they're so experienced at this and kind of how they rehearse, how they kind of interact

01:32in performance, how they communicate, kind of how they approach chamber music in general.

01:39So it's something that I really hope to gain a lot from and I'm sure I will, yeah.

01:46And your first year at the Royal Academy of Music, so it must be lovely to have this chance

01:50to step out of that student life into the real life of performing.

01:55Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm very, very lucky to have this opportunity and I have a lot of

02:04support from the Royal Academy, which I'm also very grateful for.

02:08So, yeah, very lucky.

02:10And you and the Royal Academy go back a long time, didn't you?

02:13When did you start coming to the Royal Academy?

02:16I started at Primary Academy when I was eight and then went on to Junior Academy.

02:24So, yeah, I've known the building and the people for a long, long time.

02:29And it's, yeah, so it's nice, really nice to still be here.

02:33Yeah, that must be a fabulous way to ease into your post-school education, to go to a place

02:40that you've known for 10 years already.

02:42Exactly, yeah.

02:43And how do you feel you're developing? Early days at the Royal Academy of Music, but do you feel you are changing?

02:50Yeah, I think, yeah, a huge amount.

02:54I think, kind of because I was, I wasn't at a music school before, it was quite difficult

03:02to juggle academics and music and practice.

03:07And so I feel kind of very free and kind of just being able to do what I love on a day-to-day basis and kind of really

03:18have just one goal and be going for it and giving everything, giving it everything I can.

03:26So, yeah, I feel that progress is a lot faster, which, yeah, which is a nice feeling.

03:32Well, that's the definition of education, isn't it?

03:34As you progress, you leave behind the bits you don't want to do, don't you?

03:38Yeah, yeah.

03:39Brilliant. Well, all very best wishes for your education and your time there.

03:44And hope you have a fantastic trip to Chichester when it happens with the Heath Quartet for the Chichester Chamber Music Concert Series.

03:51Thank you so much for having me.

03:53Thank you for your time.

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