Saturday September 13th
2008
'Sumptuous Pearls'
French preludes and dances interspersed with the following pieces:
Handel Trio sonata in C major, opus 1 no 7
Fontana Sonata
Jim Ledger Reinventions
Peter Sculthorpe Night Song
Morel Chaconne
Vivaldi Concerto in D minor
Elena Kats-Chernin Russian Rag
Genevieve Lacey
is acclaimed as a recorder virtuoso. Her repertoire
spans ten centuries. She works as concerto soloist with orchestras such as ACO,
ABO, MSO, WASO, TSO, Academy of Ancient Music and The English Concert. Her
regular chamber music collaborators include Neal Peres da Costa and Daniel
Yeadon, Karin Schaupp, Marshall McGuire, Poul Hřxbro, The Song Company,
Astra,
Elision. Genevieve is a champion of contemporary music and has commissioned and
premiered many works.
An
active
member of the Australian music community, Genevieve works as a director of arts
boards (Astra, AMC), and sits on advisory panels (Ian Potter, Musica Viva).
Between 2001-3, Genevieve was the Artistic Director of the Melbourne
Autumn Music Festival. She has recently been appointed Artistic Director for the
2010 and 2012 Four Winds Festivals. She
holds academic and performance degrees (including a doctorate) from Australian
and European institutions, is a Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and in
2009 will become an artist in residence at the VCA. Her work has won her
multiple awards including an ARIA (Best
Classical Recording 01),
Freedman Fellowship (01), Churchill Fellowship (06), Best Performance
(Australian Classical Music Awards 06), Outstanding Musician (Melbourne Prize
for Music 07).
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.
Daniel
Yeadon
has established a reputation as a leading chamber musician in Australia.
Equally at home on modern/baroque cello and viola da gamba, his
repertoire ranges from renaissance to contemporary. He is a member of
the groups Ironwood, Romanza, Kammer, Elision and The Collective. He has
appeared as soloist with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, tours
frequently with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and records regularly
for ABC Classics. Daniel is guest principal cellist with many of the
period instrument ensembles based in London, including the English
Baroque Soloists and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Originally
from the UK, Daniel read physics at Oxford University and specialised in
early music performance at the Royal College of Music in London. For
many years Daniel was a member of the renowned period instrument
ensemble Florilegium and later joined the Fitzwilliam String Quartet,
performing in major venues throughout the world and recording many
award-winning CDs.
Sunday 14th 2008 - Sold Out
 KONSTANTIN
SHAMRAY
RUSSIAN 27-05-85
Konstantin was born in Novosibirsk and began studies in the Kemerovo
Music School and from 1996 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 programmes and he has performed
with international orchestras including the Prague and Moscow Philharmonic
Orchestras. He has recorded CDs in Holland and the Czech Republic.
PRIZES:
The Young Pianists Competition, Senigalia – 1995 – 3rd
prize
Concertino-Praga – 2000 – 1st prize
Higher Academies of Music International Competition. Russia - 2007 –
2nd prize
The Russian Delphic Games – 2007 – Gold medal
PRIZES AWARDED IN THE 2008 SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION
1st Prize
National tour with the Australian String Quartet in 2009
ABC Classics recording prize
Naxos recording prize
People’s Choice Prize
Best Performance of the 19th/20th Century
Concertos
Best Performance of a Mozart Concerto
Best Performance of a work by Beethoven
Best Performance of a work by Mozart (excepting Concertos)
RECITAL
Partita
No 5 in G major
Bach
Sonata KV 533 and KV 494 Mozart
Fantasistüke Op 111 No 2 Schumann
Toccata Op 7 Schumann
Isolde’s Liebestod from ‘Tristan and Isolde’ Wagner/Liszt
Interval
Twelve Etudes Op 10 Chopin
Polonaise Op 53 in A Flat Major Chopin
Four Etudes Op 2, Op 8 Nos 10, 11 & 12 Scriabin
Detailed Program Notes can be requested for the above Programs
Please email Warren Thomson on warren.thomson@bigpond.com
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