Exotic Journey

Sunday, 8th April, 5pm

Kanae Furomoto, piano

Exotic Journey

A program of music inspired by wanderlust

Godowsky: Gamelan and Chattering Monkeys at the Sacred Lake of Wendit from the Java Suite 

Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy
Barber: Excursions Op.20 .
Albeniz: Asturias and Castilla, from Suite Española No.1 Op.47
Debussy: "La soiree dans Grenade"
Symanowski: L'île des Sirènes, Calypso and Nausicaa from Metopes Op.29
Balakirev: Oriental Fantasy "Islamey"　

Kanae Furomoto is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Lois Phillips and Hamish Milne. Her debut recital in Tokyo in 1995 was highly acclaimed and was subsequently broadcast on the radio station NHK-FM. In 1999 she played at the Purcell Room in London as a chosen soloist for the Park Lane Group Young Artist Concert Series. She has been regularly performing not only in the U.K. and Japan but also in Norway, the U.S.A, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Austria, and China. She is a frequent visitor to Thailand and is brought to us by Mongkol of D and M Studio.

Kanae visited Eelswamp in 2016 with a program of works inspired by Shakespeare which she performed with great panache. Her visit this April is both thematically interesting and well constructed, with a blend of exotic and well-known works. I look forward to welcoming her back.

Reservations: 1,000 baht. 

Email asiachart@hotmail.com or call 038 069681 office hours. Due to limited number of places payment must be received before the day.

Tickets: No tickets will be issued for concerts. Admission to the music room on the day of the concert will be in accordance with the sequence of receipt of payment (ie, who pays first goes in first and can select their desired seat).

Etiquette: No photos allowed during the main performance. But photos may be taken during encore. Please do not upload videos to Youtube.

Children: Children aged six years and older may attend the concert. Smaller children may be left with the nanny on the premises. 

Cancellations and credits: Credit will be allowed for future concerts in the event of cancellation provided that the concert for which the original booking was made breaks even.

Directions to Eelswamp: search for 'Eelswamp' on google maps. Directions can be found at the bottom of this page: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-music-room-at-eelswamp.html

Taxi service to Eelswamp: Grabtaxi Just enter "Eelswamp" in the destination box.

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Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

Friday, 6th April, 7pm

Kristine Balanas, violin 

"Kristine Balanas produced 'eye-popping virtuosity'" - The Times

"Of the violinists, I felt that Kristine Balanas was outstanding and seemed the obvious winner of the entire competition" - The Guardian

and 

Ilan Rechtman, piano

Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 8 Op. 30 no. 3 
Wieniawsky: Polonaise brilliant, Op. 21
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (violin and piano version)

Latvian violinist, Kristīne Balanas is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied under György Pauk. She has appeared as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and The Moscow Soloists under Yuri Bashmet, among others. Kristīne performs on a 1787 Antonio Gragnani violin.

Ilan Rechtman is an Israeli pianist and composer. He has performed in more than fifty countries at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall , the Barbican Center and Wigmore Hall (London) and the Pleyel Hall and the Louvre Museum in Paris. He has appeared with Yo Yo Ma and Gary Hoffman, amongst others and is director of the Tel Aviv Museum chamber music program. This will be Ilan's second visit to Eelswamp.

Reservations: 1,000 baht. 

Email asiachart@hotmail.com or call 038 069681 office hours. Due to limited number of places payment must be received before the day.

Tickets: No tickets will be issued for concerts. Admission to the music room on the day of the concert will be in accordance with the sequence of receipt of payment (ie, who pays first goes in first and can select their desired seat).

Etiquette: No photos allowed during the main performance. But photos may be taken during encore. Please do not upload videos to Youtube.

Children: Children aged six years and older may attend the concert. Smaller children may be left with the nanny on the premises. 

Cancellations and credits: Credit will be allowed for future concerts in the event of cancellation provided that the concert for which the original booking was made breaks even.

Directions to Eelswamp: search for 'Eelswamp' on google maps. Directions can be found at the bottom of this page: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-music-room-at-eelswamp.html

Taxi service to Eelswamp: Grabtaxi Just enter "Eelswamp" in the destination box.

A member of 

Official media partner