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.