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A Summer Celebration
ME126
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| 11 |
| JUL |
A top prize winner at the Menuhin Competition Oslo 2010 and an outstanding finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2010 competition. Violinist Callum Smart joins pianist Gordon Back to perform exquisite music for a summer afternoon in Ivy House.
Programme to include:
Mozart Adagio in E Major KV261
Grieg Sonata in G Major Opus 13
Lento doloroso - Allegro vivace
Allegretto tranquillo
Allegro animato
- INTERVAL -
Kreisler 2 short pieces
Ole Bull Cantabile doloroso and Rondo giocoso
Saeterjentens Sendag
Ravel Tzigane
Callum Smart, aged 14, played exceptionally well at the Menuhin Competition in Oslo in April to take 5th place in the Junior category in what professionals call one of the most important violin competitions in the world.
Callum was the only young person from the UK competing in this category. In addition to coming 5th place, he won an additional prize and was chosen as the performer of Ole Bull’s works on a UK tour in July 2010, which includes a performance at the Cheltenham Festival, accompanied by Gordon Back. The tour will be organised in association with the Norwegian Embassy.
Gordon Back's distinguished career as a pianist has taken him to many continents of the world. His international reputation was established in 1978 when he played with Dong-Suk Kang in Alice Tully Hall, New York, to great critical acclaim. Since then he has travelled extensively throughout Europe, Russia, U.S.A., Japan, Korea and of course, Great Britain, performing and recording with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein, Itzak Perlman, Maxim Vengerov, Aaron Rosand, Josef Suk, Yo Yo Ma, Ko Iwasaki and the Cleveland Quartet.
Gordon Back was born in Wales and studied piano and viola at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He was awarded the Lady Grace James Scholarship, which enabled him to take up his post-graduate studies in Italy, studying with Guido Agosti and Sergio Lorenzi. On returning to England he was one of the youngest ever appointed professors to join the faculty of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 1974. He received the honour of being made a Fellow of the Guildhall School in 1984.
Programme to include:
Mozart Adagio in E Major KV261
Grieg Sonata in G Major Opus 13
Lento doloroso - Allegro vivace
Allegretto tranquillo
Allegro animato
- INTERVAL -
Kreisler 2 short pieces
Ole Bull Cantabile doloroso and Rondo giocoso
Saeterjentens Sendag
Ravel Tzigane
Callum Smart, aged 14, played exceptionally well at the Menuhin Competition in Oslo in April to take 5th place in the Junior category in what professionals call one of the most important violin competitions in the world.
Callum was the only young person from the UK competing in this category. In addition to coming 5th place, he won an additional prize and was chosen as the performer of Ole Bull’s works on a UK tour in July 2010, which includes a performance at the Cheltenham Festival, accompanied by Gordon Back. The tour will be organised in association with the Norwegian Embassy.
Gordon Back's distinguished career as a pianist has taken him to many continents of the world. His international reputation was established in 1978 when he played with Dong-Suk Kang in Alice Tully Hall, New York, to great critical acclaim. Since then he has travelled extensively throughout Europe, Russia, U.S.A., Japan, Korea and of course, Great Britain, performing and recording with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein, Itzak Perlman, Maxim Vengerov, Aaron Rosand, Josef Suk, Yo Yo Ma, Ko Iwasaki and the Cleveland Quartet.
Gordon Back was born in Wales and studied piano and viola at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He was awarded the Lady Grace James Scholarship, which enabled him to take up his post-graduate studies in Italy, studying with Guido Agosti and Sergio Lorenzi. On returning to England he was one of the youngest ever appointed professors to join the faculty of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 1974. He received the honour of being made a Fellow of the Guildhall School in 1984.