Music at  ST MARY'S   Perivale


Wednesday September 14th 7.30 pm

Ariana Kashefi (cello) Marisa Gupta (piano)

Schumann: Fantasiestucke Op 73

Poulenc: Cello sonata

Paganini : 'Moses' variations

Maria Wloszczowska (violin) Sophia Rahman (piano)

Beethoven: Violin sonata in G Op 96

Ravel: Violin sonata no 2 in G

Admission free with retiring collection. No tickets issued beforehand

British cellist Ariana Kashefi (1991) is in high demand as a chamber musician and soloist performing in such venues as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Purcell Room and more. She studied at the junior department of the Royal Academy of music where she won all available prizes and at the Royal College of Music, as a scholar, studying with Melissa Phelps. She won the cello prize in her first year at the RCM and was named an ‘RCM rising star'. Ariana is a Park Lane Group Young Artist for 2015, as well as being the winner of the 2013 Making Music ‘Awards for Young Concert Artists' (AYCA) and a finalist in the 2015 Royal Overseas League. She is currently studying for her masters in Berlin. She recently appeared on BBC radio 3 ‘In Tune' . She is grateful for the help and support of the Emanuel Hurwitz chamber music trust, Henry Wood Award and the Tillett Trust.

Born of Thai and Indian parentage, pianist Marisa Gupta studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Geneva Conservatoire. She won numerous awards, including top prizes at the International Concours Maria Canals in Barcelona and the Gian Battista Viotti International Piano Competition, a Solti Foundation Award, a Fulbright scholarship, and first prizes at the Corpus Christi Young Artists Competition (USA), Kingsville International Music Competition (USA) and Haverhill Sinfonia Soloists' Competition (UK). Recent highlights include a performance of Bartok's Sonata for two pianos and percussion with Stephen Kovacevich, Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in Munich, as well as chamber music performances in Spain, France, and Norway. She has given the British and French premieres of several works by the Catalonian composer Frederico Mompou. She has worked closely with important artists including Christoph Eschenbach, Leon Fleischer, Menahem Pressler, Richard Goode, Joan Havill and Anne Queffelec.

Violinist Maria Wloszczowska won first Prize in the Michail Elsky International Violin Competition, Minsk, and won of five special awards at the XIV International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. She has collaborated with Maxim Vengerov, Robert Levin, Philippe Graffin, Alasdair Beatson, Nobuko Imai, James Baillieu, Roger Chase and Sam Haywood amongst others, and has performed with most of Poland's symphonic and chamber orchestras and in many of Europe's concert halls, supported by Poland's Minister of Culture and National Heritage. She was selected as the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Emily Anderson Prize, performing at the Wigmore Hall for the final of Young Classical Artist Trust (YCAT). She is supported by the Hattori Foundation and became an RPS Young Artist in 2014. She studied in Warsaw, Brussels and at the Royal Academy of Music under Maxim Vengerov. Her debut recording of Mozart's complete Church Sonatas for two violins and organ with Maxim Vengerov was recently featured on BBC Radio 3's ‘In Tune'.

Sophia Rahman studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Peter Norris, with additional guidance from Vlado Perlemuter and Louis Kentner. She took a first-class honours degree in English from King's College, London and completed her piano studies at the Royal Academy of Music. She was the winner of the Royal Overseas League's Accompanist Award and the Liza Fuchsova Memorial Prize for a chamber music pianist in consecutive years. She has recorded concertos with the Scottish Ensemble, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and twenty-five chamber discs. She has acted as a class pianist for IMS/Prussia Cove for Steven Isserlis. Since 1994 she has acted as official accompanist for the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, as well as several other prestigious competitions. She gives regular masterclasses and collaborates with many distinguished musicians.

 

 

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