LEEDS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES 2024/25

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata, D 850
Arnold Schoenberg - Suite for Piano
Arnold Schoenberg - Six Little Piano Pieces
Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata, D 960

A HundRED Violins Workshop at Leeds Conservertoire:

9.30 - 11am of a new five minute piece by James Gerard for violinists of all ages and abilities.

Followed by three Flashmob performances in Trinity Leeds shopping centre 12 - 1 pm.

David Greed - violin, Director

Tom Greed - violin

*Madeleine Mitchell - violin

Anthony Kraus - conductor

Sir Kamalbir Singh - violin

Sir Vijay Venkat - violin

Madeleine Mitchell - violin

Gordon MacKay - violin

Nigel Clayton - piano

Programme:

Brahms - Violin Sonata no.2 in A (Allegro Amabile)

Judith Weir - Atlantic Drift Violin Duos

Béla Bartók - Duos for Two Violins

James B. Wilson - My Love is Sleeping (world premiere, supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation)

Antal Zalai – violin

Adam Heron – piano

A unique musical partnership between a classical violin virtuoso of Roma (gypsy) background, and a brilliantly talented and thoughtful pianist of Nigerian-Filipino descent, sharing their friendship and heritage through music.

Programme:

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges - Unpublished Violin Sonatas (selection)

Pablo de Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen

A range of In Harmony Opera North, Young Musicians Studio, and Youth Orchestra students perform works for young violinists in ‘Celebration of the Violin’ presented by Madeleine Mitchell, with slides of great violin paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Dufy, Chagall and others alongside the performances.

Also featuring 21-year-old Royal College of Music violinist Shing Hong Chow performing Virtuosic pieces*

Programme:

Peter Maxwell Davies - Sanday Tunes

Malcolm Singer - Suite from the Shtetl

Akiko Ono - violin

Alison Rhind - piano

Strauss's virtuosic and romantic early work of 1887 is paired with Erich Korngold's incidental music for Shakespeare's comedy, premiered in 1920 in Vienna.

Programme:

Erich Korngold - Much Ado About Nothing op. 11

Richard Strauss - Violin Sonata op. 18

CAERUS Quartet:

Jonian Ilias Kadesha - violin

Pablo Hernán Benedi - violin/viola

Lily Francis - viola/violin

Vashti Hunter - cello

London to Paris - A Journey of Contrasts

The CAERUS Quaret presents highly contrasting music from France and England. The programme focuses on Benjamin Britten's epic second string quartet whihc is paired with Henry Purcell's Fantasias whose influence can be heard in the Britten.

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