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 Høxbro, 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.

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.

Higher Academies of Music International Competition. Russia - 2007 – 2^nd prize