David Pereira Cello Series

Bundanon Trust presents the second of three concerts for 2011 curated by cellist David Pereira.

SUNDAY 31 JULY 2011

Renowned Australian cellist David Pereira presents the second concert of his 2011 Cello Series at Riversdale. Chris Latham (Artistic Director of the Canberra International Music Festival) joins David to speak between musical items on the subject of national identity and homesickness as they relate to the composers Liszt, Chopin and Dvorak. Chris, as lovely violinist, will join Tamara Cislowska and myself for the final item - the very popular and beautiful 'Dumky' Trio of Dvorak.

Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale

Gates open 1pm, concert starts 2pm

TICKETS Adult $35 Concession $30 Students $15

Pre-bookings: 0404 499 348 or www.davidpereira.com.au

Tickets also available at the door

PROGRAM

Chopin - Piano & Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
Liszt - Elegie and Lugubre Gondola
Interval 
Chopin - Larghetto from the F Minor Concerto (transcribed Cislowska)
Rautavaara - Duo for Violin and Cello (Finnish Embassy only)
Dvorak - 'Dumky' Piano Trio

 

THE ARTISTS

Tamara Anna Cislowska
Tamara Anna Cislowska is one of the best known and awarded Australian pianists of her generation. She has performed as a soloist across five continents. She is renowned for her wide-ranging repertoire and exciting performances. In addition to spanning 300 years of music from Scarlatti to Sculthorpe, Tamara thrills audiences with her own transcriptions and arrangements of popular melodies.
She began her career at an early age studying with her mother Neta Maughan. She gave her first public performance at the age of two playing Bartok. Ms Cislowska began studies at the Sydney Conservatorium aged six, and two years later gave her first performance with an orchestra. She was the youngest pianist ever to win Australia’s most prestigious classical music award, the ABC Young Performers’ Award.

David Pereira
During the last forty years David has established himself as an outstandingly versatile cellist with appointments to top professional positions. He was for eleven years cellist of the Australia Ensemble (resident at the UNSW), for seven years Principal Cellist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and for three years Principal Cello with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
From 1990 to 2008 David Pereira was Senior Lecturer in Cello at the ANU School of Music. Now he is on the same school’s part-time staff and continues to be in demand as a performer. 
David and his wife Gillian curate their own concert series – The David Pereira Cello Series. It is a cello-focused chamber music series of concerts that presents regularly at the Wesley Music Centre and Finnish Embassy in Canberra, at the Crisp Galleries at Bowning, the Cootamundra Arts Centre, the Bungendore Woodworks Gallery, and at the Boyd Education Centre (near Nowra) for The Bundanon Trust.
In 2010 David received the CityNews Artist of the Year Award, having been selected by The Canberra Critics’ Circle – “for making his mark on music in Canberra and the immediate region with his cello-focused David Pereira Cello Series, which demonstrated his ability to interpret different compositional styles; and for his encouragement of young associate artists which stamps him as an outstanding figure in the Canberra arts scene.

Chris Latham
Christopher Latham has had a multi-faceted musical career. He has worked as a violinist, editor and publisher, concert programmer and festival director. As a violinist he has premiered over 30 new Australian works by Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brett Dean, Nigel Westlake, Graeme Koehne and others, and has played over 40 Australian premieres of works by Arvo Part, James MacMillan, Alfred Schnittke, Morton Feldman, John Tavener, Toru Takemitsu, Michael Torke, Somei Satoh, George Antheil, Paul Schonfeld, Pavel Haas, Nikolai Medtner, and many others.
As a child he went to school on a singing scholarship and was the treble soloist at St John‘s Cathedral in Brisbane for many years. After his voice broke he concentrated on his violin studies, living in the US for ten years where he was active as a chamber musician, gaining his Masters of Chamber Music from the San Francisco Conservatorium of Music, winning a student “Grammy” as well as academic awards for excellence. In 1992 he returned home to join the Australian Chamber Orchestra and toured Australia and the world full time for 7 years. During that time he played in all of the major concert halls, including half a dozen concerts in both Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall. He was a finalist in the 1996 ABC Young Performers Competition and subsequently formed the eclectic collective, who were ensemble in residence at the Sydney Town Hall in 1996 and 1997 and for the Sydney Opera House Studio in 1998, in order to champion neglected composers and repertoire.
In late 1998, he took over the publishing operations at Boosey and Hawkes Australia, where he was responsible for all their Australian composers as well as being the local representative for about 70% of the world’s published composers.
During this time he worked extensively as a music editor for his Australian composers, and also programmed concert series for the 2001 Vale of Glamorgan Festival (UK) and the Adelaide Festival chamber music series (2002). He was the Australian Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (Townsville) in 2005 and 2006, the Artistic Director of the 2006 and 2008 Four Winds Festivals (Bermagui) and the 2007 and 2008 Viva la Gong Festivals (Wollongong).
He is currently the music director for the Gallipoli Symphony, a ten year, tri-nation commissioning project, which will premiere as part of the 100th Anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in 2015 and is also the Artistic Director of the Canberra International Music Festival (2008 - 2011).

 

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