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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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William Berger (baritone) & Melvyn Tan (piano)


William Berger (baritone) & Melvyn Tan (piano)
4 November 2010
Odeion
19:30

"...one of the best of our younger baritones."
Gramaphone Magazine

"…Tan's technical skill and sensibility produced a very special interpretation of the work, harmonious, and most coherent."
Kronenzeitung (Oliver Lang)

William Berger is an associate and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. In concert William has performed with the CBSO, LPO, English Concert, Philharmonia Baroque (San Francisco), Hanover Band and Cape Town Philharmonic. Recitals include his Wigmore Hall debut and Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch (Oxford Lieder Festival) as well as two recordings: Songs of Spring and October Roses. Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers in 1999, he was also awarded a Countess of Munster Trust Scholarship, an MBF grant and the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Award. William’s opera roles include roles in La Boheme (Schaunard), Don Giovanni (Masetto), Madam Butterfly (Prince Yamadori), A Hand of Bridge (David), Barber of Seville (Fiorello), The Carmelites (Monsieur Javelinot), Salome (Second Nazarene), Billy Budd (Novice’s Friend), Cosi fan tutte (Guglielmo), Zauberflüte (Papageno), Le Nozze di Figaro (Count Almaviva), The Cunning Little Vixen (Harastra) and Orfeo (Shepherd).

Melvyn Tan has lived in London (UK) since leaving his native Singapore at an early age to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music. His teachers have included Nadia Boulanger, Marcel Ciampi and Vlado Perlemuter. He built a formidable international reputation during a long exploration of the precursors of the modern piano. Since returning to the modern piano in 1996, Melvyn has performed in most major festivals and concert halls throughout the world including many leading concert halls and with orchestras such as, amongst others, the London Philharmonic, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin's in the Fields, Salzburg's Camerata and Mozarteum Orchestras, New World and Melbourne Symphonies and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Chamber music and Lieder hold an important place in Melvyn's repertoire. His chamber music and Lieder collaborations are numerous and include Steven Isserlis, Anne-Sophie von Otter and the Škampa Quartet. Melvyn have recently released two CDs with, among others, Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 12 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 2

Programme:
Mahler: Selection from Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Liszt/Schubert Transcriptions: piano solo by Melvyn Tan
Schumann: Liederkreis, Op.39
Dvorak: Gypsy Songs, Op. 55
Ravel: Don Quichotte a Dulcinee
Montsalvatge: Cinco Canciones Negras

Admission:
R120 (adults)
R80 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk, Izami Florist) and at the doors.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 - 401 2504)
 

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