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SARITA URANOVSKY Violin Recital
2018-06-14

With Annalien Ball (piano)

14 June 2018
Odeion
19:30

A native of Cape Town, Sarita Uranovsky, enjoys an exceptionally active and diverse career as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral musician and teacher across the globe. She held positions of Concertmaster with Orchestra Geminiani de Fallonica (Italy), the RSAMD Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Concertmaster of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra. A founding member and violinist of MONTAGE Music Society, she can be heard on Montage Music Society's "Starry Night Project" released on MSR Classics and has recorded and broadcast for both the BBC and SABC and appeared on numerous recordings for BMOP (Boston Modern Orchestra Project). She can be heard performing regularly in groups around Boston including Boston Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, the Cantata Singers, BMOP, Boston Pops and Emmanuel music. She performed regularly for Sir Yehudi Menuhin's "Live Music Now!" scheme while in the United Kingdom and appeared as first violinist of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Quartet in concert for HRH Prince Charles, HRH Princess Anne and at the church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Ellie Marx Memorial and Du Toit van Tonder Scholarships and was silver medallist and University of Natal Prizewinner at the SASOL Music Competition (South Africa). She was awarded an Audrey Macklin Bursary (England) from the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music and won the prestigious Governors Recital Prize at the RSAMD as well as the Ian D Watt and Dunbar Gerber Prizes (Scotland) for violin and piano duo. An avid teacher, Uranovsky is on the music faculty at Tufts University and maintains a private teaching studio. She has been on the faculty of the Vianden International Music Festival (Luxembourg) and the Saarburg International Music Festival (Germany). She holds an Artist Diploma from Boston University, a BMus (with honours) and MMus (with distinction) from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Professional accompanist Annalien Ball regularly performs with various South African and International artists. Highlights of 2017 include recitals in Cape Town and Johannesburg with French violinist Philippe Graffin, accompanying for a week of singing masterclasses with Professor Klesie Kelly-Moog as part of the Mozart festival, and concerts with cellist Berthine van Schoor (Port Alfred and Grahamstown). Annalien started piano at an early age and her piano teachers include Adolph Hallis and Marian Friedman. She completed a BMus, BMusHons and MMus at the University of Pretoria. After finishing her studies her main focus moved away from solo performance to chamber music and piano accompaniment. Annalien has been the pianist of numerous ensembles: The Allegri Trio, Trio Con Brio, Chalumeau trio, Trio Gloriosa, The Aulos trio, The Integration trio as well as The Magic Flutes. She performed at the Wakkerstroom festival in March 2018 with violinist Miro Chakaryan and flautist Malané Hofmeyr-Burger, as well as playing recitals with violinist Viara Markova. At present she is the accompanist of pre- and postgraduate music students at the University of Pretoria.

PROGRAMME

  • Dvorák: Romance in F minor Op. 11
  • Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24
  • Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza
  • Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
  • Smetana: From My Homeland

ADMISSION

  • R140 (adults)
  • *R100 (pensioners)
  • *R80 (UFS staff)
  • *R60 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket or online at http://online.computicket.com/web/

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above mentioned discount.

ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)


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The Art of Romanticism

Samson Diamond & Laura Pauna in concert

19 November 2015

Odeion

19:30

 

Samson Diamond – concert master of the FSSO and leader of the Odeion String Quartet - performs with pianist Laura Pauna in an exciting programme titled The Art of Romanticism with works by Khachaturian, Ysaÿa, Lekeu, Ravel and Strauss. 

 

Samson is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), where he obtained his BMusHons degree First Class (2006) and MMus performance degree with distinction (2007). He got his first taste of music in Soweto where he studied with founder director of Buskaid, Rosemary Nalden and further on with Richard Ireland, Pauline Nobes and Philippe Graffin. Samson won numerous prizes including the 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist for Music, the Charles Hallé Award, the RNCM Eric Nicholson Bow Prize, the RNCM Major Entrance Award, Edward Heaton Scholarshp, the RNCM Philip Newman Violin Prize, and appeared in the 2010 publication of Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans: Arts and Culture.

 

As a freelance orchestral player in the UK, he played in the Hallé Orchestra, the Academy of St Martins in the Fields, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, and the Academy of Ancient Music. Diamond was leader of the internationally acclaimed Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble from its inception in 1997.   Samson has performed before many distinguished guests including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. In 2009, he performed privately for Mr Nelson Mandela under the invitation of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. He has received quartet masterclasses from internationally acclaimed chamber musicians such as Andras Keller, Johannes Meissl, Christoph Richter, Seppo Kimanen, Roger Tapping, Vladimir Mendelssohn, members of the Endellion String Quartet and The New Zealand String Quartet.  He plays a fine 1803 Wagner violin.

 

South African/Romanian pianist Laura Pauna has established herself internationally as soloist and chamber musician. She was awarded a Master’s in Performance Diploma from the prestigious Hannover Music Conservatoire (Germany). In Germany she studied under Prof Einar–Steen Nokleberg and the Silver Garburg Duo.

 

As duo pianist she has performed at many prestigious venues.  Carnegie Hall have had rave reviews ("...lavish, enthusiastic, brilliant"); Laura has also performed  at the Salzburg Grosse Saal, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Jerusalem Theatre, Yasi (New York), Zagreb Institute Hall, Z.K. Matthews Hall, Cape Town City Hall, to name a few.

 

Competition prizes and scholarships include 1st Prize in the Grieg Competition, "Prix de Oslo" in 2007 and again in 2009. IBLA Grand Prize winner (2006), Valentino Bucchi (Rome, 2006), and the Mozarteum Prize in 2007.

 

Laura is also the recipient of the National Arts Council scholarship 2009, Ottilie-Selbach Stiftung (Berlin, Germany), and the Oscar und Vera Ritter Stiftung (Germany).   She has performed with orchestras such as Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Cape Town Philharmonic, KZNPO, Pro Musica et al, and at series such as the Piano Fortissimo series (Croatia), Piano Duo Festival Bad Herrenalb, Oslo Grieg Festival, UNISA Concert Series, and the Johannesburg Music Society concert series. Laura had her solo debut in 2011 at the Bucharest Music & Film Festival.

 

Programme

Khachaturian: (1961) Andante from piano solo sonata

Lekeu: Sonata for violin in G

Ravel: Tzigane

Ysaye: Sonata No.3 for solo violin Op. 27 in D minor “Ballade”

Strauss: Sonata for violin in E flat major Op. 18

 

Admission

R110 (adults), R70 (pensioners), R60 (UFS staff), R40 (students and learners), R40 (group bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.

 

Enquiries

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

 

 

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