Friends of Music will present a programme by
Duo Appassionato of solo and duo virtuoso works on May 14, 2019.
The Duo Appassionato was formed by Violeta
Osorhean and Andrew Warburton in October 2017, with the express purpose of
exploring and performing the great duo repertoire for violin and piano.
The programme will includes works by Johan
Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven and Camille Saint-Saens.
Violeta Osorhean was born in Romania and
started playing the violin at the age of six. She studied violin at the
Romanian Music Academy. After graduating in 1994 she joined the National
Romanian Opera Orchestra and toured widely with them. She then moved to the
Transylvania Philharmonic Orchestra where in 2000 she had a tour consisting of
22 concerts in Europe with the famous rock band Deep Purple. In 2005, she
relocated to Durban, South Africa, to take up a position with the KZN Philharmonic
Orchestra. Since September 2017, she has been the Concert Master for the Orchestra.
(Andrew Warburton)
Andrew Warburton is acknowledged as one of
the finest solo pianists and accompanists in South Africa. He has performed
concertos with all the country's orchestras
and has partnered many eminent soloists, from South Africa and abroad, in recital. He served
as Musical Director/Repetiteur/Chorus Master for over 100 productions of opera,
musicals and ballet presented by the Playhouse Company in Durban and the State
Theatre in Pretoria. He is currently Lecturer in Piano and the Director of the
Opera School and Choral Academy, and head of Western Classical Performance
Studies at the UKZN School of Music. He graduated with a PhD in piano
performance in April this year.
(Nilashri
Naidoo & Sonali Naidoo)
The Prelude Performers for the evening will
be Sonali Naidoo (violin) and Nilashri Naidoo (flute).
Sonali (13) and Nilashri (11) are sisters
with a love for music that began at a young age. Both are pupils at Durban
Girls’ College. Nilashri studies violin with Violeta Osorhean and Sonali
studies flute with Lisa Thom. They are both piano students of Julie Macilwaine.
Both girls are members of their school orchestra, choir and Marimba band.
They will perform Gavotte by François Joseph Gossec for flute and violin; Menuett by Luigi Boccherini for flute and violin and The Entertainer by Scott Joplin for violin and piano.
The concert will take place at 19h30 on May
14, 2019, at the Durban Jewish Centre, 44 KE Masinga (Old Fort) Road, Durban. Tickets
R120 (R100 FOM members) available at the door.
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