Jamal Aliyev, born in Azerbaijan in 1993, is a rising star who has already won First Prize in four international competitions. At the Royal College of Music where he studies he also won both the Concerto Prize and the Cello Prize in two successive years, 2014 and 2015. He plays for us dramatic and lyrical works by Beethoven and Schumann alongside virtuoso fireworks by Paganini and an all-time favourite by Massenet.
Maria Tarasiewicz studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels before coming to London last year. She is in demand as a chamber musician, teacher and accompanist, and has appeared at Musica Mundi, Belgium, the Stavanger Youth Chamber Festival, Norway, and the Jersey International Festival.
The programme comprises:
BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata in A, Op 69
SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke
PAGANINI: Fantasy on a Theme of Rossini
MASSENET: ‘Meditation’ from ‘Thais’
Admission by programme £6, on sale at the door.
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