Ticketed event: $30 General / $25 Senior
PROGRAM
Mozart Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major, KV. 526
Haydn Sonata for Piano in B Minor, Hob. XVI:32
Beethoven Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin, No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30, No. 2
Emily Dupere, Australian violinist, has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout Europe, the USA, and Australia. She has collaborated with artists such as Malcolm Bilson, Bart van Oort, Petra Somlai, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Shunske Sato, Jaap ter Linden, Sigiswald Kuijken, Maasaki Suzuki, Jos van Immerseel, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Emily studied under Paul Wright at the University of Western Australia, graduating with first class honors, and was awarded the Lady Callaway Medal for the most outstanding graduate. She completed her studies in baroque violin at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Ryo Terakado, Kati Debretzeni, and Walter Reiter.
In Australia, Emily performed with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, as an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and with the award-winning Sartory String quartet. In Europe she performed with many groups including the Wallfisch Band (UK), Les Passions de l’âme (Switzerland), Les Inventions (France), Haagsche Hofmuziek (NL), Collegium Musicum Den Haag (NL), The English Baroque Soloists (UK), Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (UK), Bach Collegium Japan, and Anima Eterna Brugge (Belgium). Emily’s particular interests include the sacred music of Bach and classical and romantic chamber music performed on period instruments.
Anton Nel, winner of the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, continues to tour internationally as recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. Highlights in the US include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Seattle, and Detroit Symphonies as well as recitals coast to coast. Overseas he undertakes regular tours to South Africa and has appeared at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and major venues in China and Korea. Much sought after as a chamber musician, he regularly appears with some of the world’s finest instrumentalists at festivals on four continents.
Mr. Nel holds the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, is currently also a Visiting Professor at the Manhattan School of Music, and annually presents masterclasses at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto. During the summertime, he participates on artist-faculties at the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Orford Music Academy in Quebec, and at the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival. Mr. Nel also frequently performs as harpsichordist and fortepianist. His recordings include four solo CDs, several chamber music recordings, and works for piano and orchestra by Franck, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and Edward Burlingame Hill.
The Johannesburg-born Mr. Nel is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, where he studied with Adolph Hallis, and the University of Cincinnati, where he worked with Bela Siki and Frank Weinstock. His website is antonnel.com.