(Avigail Bushakevitz)Friends of Music will host a violin and piano recital on June 12 featuring highly acclaimed – brother and sister, violinist Avigail Bushakevitz and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz.
The programme includes works by Bartok, Strauss, Schubert, Lutoslawski and Wieniawski.
“I have known Avigail since 2004 when she performed for the young Artists for KZNPO,” says Friends of Music director, Dr Vera Dubin. “I got goose pimples when I heard her perform and immediately felt that this girl should be supported. I learnt that she came from a very poor family living in Oudtshoorn and could not afford lessons in Cape Town by the South African most notable violin teacher Professor Jack de Wet.”
Dr Dubin started to raise funds for Avigail to the tune of R140,000.00 and sent her R6,000 every month to go to Cape Town twice a week. She has followed her career ever since.
Avigail has won numerous prizes in South Africa, and was the winner of the first prize in the UNISA National Strings Competition in 2009. She is now in her third year at the Juilliard School of Music. In 2011 the New York Times referred to her Chamber group saying that they brought "Admirable textural transparency to the score". She was awarded a scholarship to study at the The Heifetz International Music Institute in New Hampshire this summer.
Ammiel Bushakevitz has given performances as a soloist and chamber musician in centres like London, Vienna, Rome, Berlin, Zurich, Bonn, Turin, Hamburg, Milan and Bayreuth. In 2008 he won the Unisa Music Scholarship Competition for performers, and other competitions include first prize for Musicon National Piano Competition, the Philip Moore National Music Competition and the Lionel Bowman Beethoven Competition.
Ammiel's bursaries and awards include the Heidelberger-Fruhling Stipendium, the HMT Freundeskreis-Stipendium, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Scholarship, Bill Venter/FAK Bursary, Pretorium Trust Postgraduate Bursary, FAK Senior Music Award, Samro Undergraduate Bursary, Isaac Greenberg Scholarship for Jewish Students, Du Toit/Van Tonder Award, Gladwell Scholarship, Gideon Roos/Esther Mentz Award, UP General Study Scholarship and Brenda Rein Scholarship.
The Prelude Performer for the evening will be Brett Alborough (clarinet) who will perform Fantasy Pieces by Robert Schumann accompanied by Jacques Heyns.
The recital will take place on June 12 at 19h45 at the Durban Jewish Centre, 44 Old Fort Road (K.E. Masinga Road). Booking is at Computicket. There is safe parking. More information on http://www.friendsofmusic.co.za
Friends of Music acknowledges the support of the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund.
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