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Sydney Soloists In Concert

The Sydney Soloists are amongst some of the finest musicians in the country as principal players of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Sydney Soloists – Proposed Concert on Sunday February 22 2015
The Sydney Soloists,, comprises some of the finest musicians in the country. The group, drawn from principal players of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, has performed at the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Festival, the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival, and Government House, as well as recently touring to China. The group has recorded for ABC Classics and has played in numerous live broadcasts for ABC Classic FM.

The Sydney Soloists performs masterpieces from the chamber music literature from the 18th century to present day. The group regularly commissions new works. This ensemble is available in various configurations and sub-sets. Its repertoire is similarly adaptable and can range from Bruch, Mozart and Beethoven trios to Brahms and Mozart clarinet quintets, to the Beethoven septet and Schubert octets

Program

1st Half Mozart Clarinet Quintet & one Australian work

2nd Brahms Clarinet Quintet

Sydney Soloists Players

Violin 1 – Andrew Haveron ( SSO Concert master)

Violin 2 – Kirsty Hilton ( Principal 2nd Violin SSO)Viola – Roger Benedict – (Principal Viola SSO )Cello – Umbertio Clenrici – (Principal Cello SSO)Clarinet – Frank Celata – (Associate Clarinet SSO)

Biographies

Andrew Haveron

Born in London in 1975, Haveron is considered one of the UK’s most sought after violinists.

He studied at the Purcell School and the Royal College of Music and was the highest British prize-winner at the prestigious ‘Paganini’ competition for the last fifty years and also took prizes at the Queen Elisabeth and Indianapolis competitions.

As a soloist, Haveron has appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis, the BBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor Jiří Bělohlávek, The Hallé, plus City of Birmingham Symphony.

As first violinist of the Brodsky Quartet (1999 – 2007), Haveron collaborated with artists such as Anne-Sofie von Otter and Alexander Baillie through to their iconic ‘cross-genre’ work with Elvis Costello, Björk, Paul McCartney and Sting. Haveron recorded more than 15 albums with the quartet, many of which received industry awards such as “Diapason d’or” and “Choc du Monde”.

As an orchestral leader, Haveron has received frequent invitations to work with major symphony orchestras around the world, including leading the ‘World Orchestra for Peace’ at the request of Valery Gergiev.

In 2004 Andrew received an honorary Doctorate from the University of Kent for his services to music.

Andrew plays on a violin made in 1709, by Carlo Tononi.

Kirsty Hilton

Kirsty Hilton was born in Sydney in 1976. She began playing violin at the age of five as a Suzuki method student before beginning lessons with Alice Waten at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, aged seven. She attended the Sydney Conservatorium High School where she was awarded numerous prizes, before completing her undergraduate studies with Alice Waten at the Australian Institute of Music.

During this time she worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and was Concertmaster of the Australian Youth Orchestra. In 1998 she was a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under David Takeno.

From 1999 to 2001 Kirsty Hilton was a member of the prestigious Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, where she performed under such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Mariss Jansons, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink and Lorin Maazel. She was then contracted by the Berlin Philharmonic for a year, before being appointed Assistant Principal Second Violin in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich, under the direction of Mariss Jansons. She still performs regularly with these orchestras as well as with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg.

Roger Benedict

Roger Benedict has worked as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, teacher and conductor. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (where he was later a professor), and the International Musicians’ Seminar, Prussia Cove. In 1991 he was appointed Principal Viola of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and in 2002 Principal Viola of the Sydney Symphony. He is also Artistic Director of the orchestra’s Fellowship program, and has performed as guest principal with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

As a soloist he has appeared with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Ulster Orchestra, and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Japan. He has performed Strauss’s Don Quixote many times, and with the Sydney Symphony he has performed Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante, Berlioz’s Harold in Italy, Ford’s Unquiet Grave and Vaughan Williams’ Flos Campi.

Other solo highlights include performances with cellists Lynn Harrell and Steven Isserlis, and concerts for the opening of the Melbourne Recital Centre in 2009. He has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, as well as all the major festivals and concert series in the UK. His chamber music partners have included Lorin Maazel, Simon Rattle, Louis Lortie and Leif Ove Andsnes, and he has performed as a guest artist with the Tinalley String Quartet and Sydney Soloists.

Roger Benedict plays a Carlo Antonio Testore viola made in Milan in 1753.

Umberto Clerici

Umberto Clerici was born in Turin in 1981 and he began the study of cello when he was five at the Suzuki School of Turin, then he continued his studies at the Turin’s Conservatory with Antonio Mosca.

He attended the courses of Mario Brunello at the “Romano Romanini Foundation” in Brescia, and of David Gèringas in Fiesole. In 2007 he took the Soloist Diploma at the Augsburg and Nurnberg University (Germany) with Julius Berger.

Already Prize winner in many international competition (including the Janigro Competiton in Zagreb and the Rostropovich Competition in Paris), in particular he is Laureate at the famous Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2011 (the only Italian cellist together with Mario Brunello that received a Prize in 50 years).

In April of 1999 he made his debut as soloist playing Haydn’s D Major cello concerto in Japan. Afterwards he performed with many orchestras including the San Petersburg Philarmonic Academic Orchestra, State Symphony orchestra of Russia in Moscow, Philarmonia Wien, “I Pomeriggi Musicali” in Milan, Orchestra of Rome, Brighton Philarmonic, Zagreb Soloist, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, “Haydn” Orchester of Trento and Bozen, Symphony Orchestras of Istanbul and Ankara and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra collaborating with conductors like Alexander Dmitriev, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph Poppen , Lu Jia, Dimitri Sitkovetzki, Barry Wordsworth, Ola Rudner and Lukas-Peter Graf .

He had been for 4 years the soloist in residence of Turin Philharmonic.

He recorded a CD of the Saint-Saens cello concerto n°1 for RS label and in 2006 a new cd has been released together with “Amadeus”, the most important italian magazine for classical music, with all the compositions for cello and orchestra by Tchaikovsky and the First concerto by Shostakovich.

He performed in some of the most important concert halls such as the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Big Hall of the Musik Verein in Wien and the “Auditorium Parco della Musica” in Rome. In 2003 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival.

Recently he made his debut with Valery Gergiev with the Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations.

He is Principal Cellist at the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House and he was Principal Cello the Teatro Regio in Turin for 4 years.

He is Cello Professor at the Sydney University and in the summer at the Salzburg Mozarteum University.

He gave masterclasses at the CIM, Cleveland Institute of Music (U.s.a.), Augsburg Hochschule (Germany), Moscow Conservatory and Istanbul Conservatory.

Beginning in his early youth, he has partipated in several chamber music groups with a number of famous musicians including Luis Lortie, Itamar Golan, Pavel Vernikov, Enrico Pace, Anthony Pay, Sergej Krilov, Massimo Quarta, Marco Rizzi, Mario Brunello, Enrico Dindo and composers like Sofia Gubaidulina and Viktor Suslin.

Since April of 2001 he plays with the “Trio di Torino”.

He plays a cello made in Milan (1758) by Carlo Antonio Testore.

Francesco Celata

Francesco (Frank) Celata graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1987, having studied with Phillip Miechel and Pamela Bloom. He then studied in Amsterdam with Piet Honingh (Concertgebouw Orchestra) and Siena with Giuseppe Garbarino. In 1991 he returned to Australia, where he was appointed Principal Clarinet with the then Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra.

He joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1993 as Associate Principal Clarinet and has appeared as soloist on several occasions, including performances of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, Krommer’s Double Clarinet Concerto with Principal Clarinet Lawrence Dobell, and a concerto written for him by Gordon Kerry.

He has also appeared as soloist with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia, and on a number of occasions between 2003 and 2009 he appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra as guest Principal Clarinet, performing on international tours and recordings. In 2011 he played Principal Clarinet in the inaugural performances of the Australian World Orchestra, comprising 110 of Australia’s leading musicians drawn from 47 orchestras around the world.

Frank Celata is a founding member of one of Sydney’s leading chamber ensembles, the Sydney Soloists, and is a member of the New Sydney Wind Quintet.

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Cost

Cost: $35 adult, $20 concession Children under 16 FREE

Location

Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale

Visiting

Bar and cafe on site with seating provided.

Dates & Times
22/02/2015 - 22/02/2015 Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale
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Bundanon acknowledges the people of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups as the traditional owners of the land within our boundaries, and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country.

In Dharawal the word Bundanon means deep valley.

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