There will be no Villa Music concerts in 2009

KONSTANTIN SHAMRAY plays May 8 
and 
Neal Peres de Costa (harpsichord) will play the J.S.Bach Goldberg variations on May 9 2010

Konstantin was born in Novosibirsk and began studies in the Kemerovo Music School. From 1996 he continued his studies in Moscow at the Gnessin Special Music School and in 2003 at the Russian Gnessin Academy of Music with Tatiana Zelikman. He has been the recipient of several Foundation awards. He has performed in many concert halls in Moscow and other cities in Russia and also in Italy, Germany, Holland, Austria, Czech Republic and USA. His solo recitals have many different programs and he has performed with international orchestras including the Prague and Moscow Philharmonic Orchestras. He has recorded CDs in Holland and the Czech Republic.

Neal Peres Da Costa, harpsichord, specialises in performance on historical keyboard instruments of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. He lectures at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in the Musicology and Keyboard units and is Chair of the Early Music Unit. His current research activities include converting his PhD into a monograph for publication, giving papers at national and international conferences, and recent creative research output in the form of a CD recording with Richard Tognetti and Daniel Yeadon of J.S. Bach's Sonatas for violin and obbligato keyboard were released on the ABC Classics label.