Welcome back; it’s already time to start looking at the new season’s concerts. In case you’ve missed them, these are the dates and artists lined up for you, and again this year they’re all on Sundays: 3.30pm in the Courtenay Centre, with all tickets booked in advance please; i.e no walk-ins
- September 27th: Robert Cohen & Dina Duisen, Cello & Piano
- October 25th: Daniele Rinaldo, Piano
- November 22nd: Ensemble Mirage, Clarinet & String Quartet
- January 24th: Buck Brass, Brass Quartet
- February 28th: Tim Horton, Piano
- March 21st: Barbican Quartet, Strings
- April 25th: Carmen Co, Vocals, Flute & Guitar
Once again we welcome back Kazakh-British pianist Dina Duisen, this time to open our 80th season with cellist Robert Cohen on 27th September.
Robert made his concerto debut at the age of twelve at the Royal Festival Hall, London, and during forty years of his distinguished international career, has been hailed as one of the foremost cellists of our time. He studied with William Pleeth, followed by Jacqueline du Pré, André Navarra and Mistislav Rostropovich. Robert Cohen has also won the Suggia Prize, Young Concert Artists (New York), Piatigorsky and Unesco International competitions, and the English Speaking Union Scholarship to Tanglewood (USA). As you may imagine, he has performed in all the major concert halls around the world, with international orchestras and conductors. Robert is in great demand as a teacher and has given masterclasses at Conservatoires throughout the world. His passionate views on the art of learning, performing and communicating music have been widely published. From 2000-2012 he was Professor of Advanced Solo Studies at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, and in 2010 became Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The Cohen Music Lectures were launched at the Royal Academy of Music in 2014, and each year he teaches at summer courses in Europe and North America, where he also presents his lecture series. Read more about Robert Cohen here: Robert Cohen
Dina was born into a family of musicians in Almaty, Kazakhstan and at the age of five, started studying piano at Kulyash Bayseitova State Special School for Gifted Children, together with her two brothers Ordabek and Ilyas, who are both violinists. By the age of thirteen she had made her debut with the Symphony Orchestra. Dina continued her studies at the Kazakh National Academy of Music before being awarded a full scholarship on the Artist Diploma programme at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, from which she graduated in 2008 before studying for the new Master of Arts Degree in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, under the tutelage of Christopher Elton, Hamish Milne and Kathryn Stott, graduating with distinction in 2011. She has been the resident class pianist at IMS Prussia Cove, Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, New Virtuosi International Masterclasses, Jiafeng Chen International International Music Summer Course, and is currently working at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, while also running her annual mini-festival of chamber music ‘Dina & Friends’. More about Dina Duisen here: HOME | Dina Duisen
Robert and Dina’s programme for us will include
Beethoven : Sonata No 3 in A major, Op 69
Fauré : Après un Rêve, Papillon, and Elegie
Brahms: Cello Sonata No 2 in F major, Op 99
This promises to be an exciting afternoon brought to us by two world-class players who make it all look so effortless! Book your tickets at Robert Cohen and Dina Duisen – Song and Sonata for Cello and Piano – nadsa concerts, or read on to see how you can save by becoming a nadsa member.
Today’s concert is kindly sponsored by Don and Betty Frampton, to whom we are most grateful.
Did you know that nadsa members enjoy a special discount on their tickets? Non-members will pay £175 to go to all seven concerts this season, but as a member you’ll only pay £110 for a season ticket – a saving that’s well worth the £20 membership subscription. Even if there’s one that you can’t make, you’ll still save! Plus of course you’ll be helping to bring players of such stature here to Newton Abbot. Sign up here…Season Subscription – nadsa concerts
What else is happening in the South Devon music world?
On Friday 18th September Exeter Cathedral are hosting London Concertante’s ‘A Night at the Opera’, with soloists to give a programme of popular show-stoppers – A Night at the Opera | Exeter Cathedral
Tuesday 22nd at the University Great Hall sees the return of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with their ‘Symphonic Horizons’ concert; Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky & Brahms – Symphonic Horizons | Great Hall, Exeter | 22 September
Then preparing for their November concert, Exeter Philharmonic Choir are holding a choral workshop on 3rd October where you can come and sing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana – Exeter Philharmonic Choir Home
That’s it for now; happy listening,
John R
