Lermontov Quartet Plays Mozart

Featuring two of the finest Mozart String Quartets

 

played by 

 

The Lermontov Quartet

Jonathon Glonek, violin
Lecturer in Violin Studies, Chulalongkorn University

Inga Causa, violin
Principal Second Violinist of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra

Colin Wrubleski, viola
Principal Viola of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra
 Marcin Szawelski, cello

cellist, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra

Sunday 23rd March at 5pm

Program

Quartet No. 3 In G Major K 156

Quartet No. 4 In C Major K 157

Quartet No. 14 In G Major K 387

Quartet No. 23 In F Major K 590

The Quartet in G Major, K387 is the first of six quartets dedicated to Haydn. Mozart wrote this quartet when he was 26 years old and had just arrived in Vienna. It is one of the works which inspired Haydn's famous remark, "Before God and as an honest man, I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name."

This quartet has been called 'amazing' by Juilliard professor, Misha Amory and has often been cited as the precursor of the Jupiter Symphony.

The Lermontov Quartet is playing this quartet at my request. It must be good!

Mozart's last Quartet, no. 23, K590, was the last of three quartets commissioned by the King of Prussia, described as "the culmination of his skill in the idiom". It was written in 1790, a year before Mozart's death and is among his finest works.

JONATHON GLONEK

First touring internationally at the age of 12, Jonathon studied with Alita Larsens, Alexander Treger and Tibor Varga He has since developed as a solo performing artist and has presented many challenging and serious programs to audiences throughout Europe, The United States, Southeast Asia and in Australia. A dedicated scholar and academic, he authored his first book Scales for the Violinist at the age of 26 and is also Lecturer in Violin Studies at the historic Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok; one of the oldest universities in SE Asia. Mr Glonek performed Brahms, Tchaikowsky, Mendelssohn and Bach Concertos in Thailand and abroad along with the complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Paganini.

INGA CAUSA

Inga Causa commenced her musical education in Latvia at age six later studying at the Riga Special Music School; Emils Darzins Institute. For 11 years Inga studied legendary violin pedagogues , Professor Izrail Abramiss and later with Professor Juris Shvolkovskis. Graduating with Merit in 1990 she received a Master Degree in Violin Performance, Pedagogy and Chamber Music. Since the age of 18 Inga has worked professionally with the Latvian National Opera orchestra, the Latvian National Symphonic orchestra, “Rigas Kamermuziki” and “ Rigas Philharmonic”. A chamber music enthusiast, she has also served as first violin of the string quartet “Difference”. Arriving in Thailand in 2003 she established as successful class of violin and ensemble students. In 2005 she was appointed as principal second violinist of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.

COLIN WRUBLESKI

Canadian-born violist and violinist Colin R. Wrubleski is in his second season as principal viola of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra. Concurrently he is a violin and viola instructor for Mahidol University's Music Campus for the General Public (MCGP), Siam Paragon branch. In Thailand he has also worked as a string instrument instructor for Sararas Ektra School, Bangkok. Prior to moving to Thailand, he spent many years as an ESL instructor in Korea, where he also played in a variety of amateur, semi-professional, and collegiate ensembles, as well as in the Seoul-based Majestic String Quartet. In his native Canada, he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in performance (violin) from the University of Regina and a Licentiate in Music (viola) from the Glenn Gould Professional School at the Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto. His primary teachers included Dr. Howard Leyton-Brown, Rennie Regehr, Martin Beaver [Tokyo String Quartet], and Andrew Dawes [ex-Orford String Quartet).

MARCIN SZAWELSKI

Marcin Tomasz Szawelski, a native of Gdansk, Poland, started his musical education at age of 7 with Andrzej Filar. He graduated with Master of Arts diploma from Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk, Poland (2005), where he studied cello performance, chamber music and music pedagogy. Currently Marcin T. Szawelski is a cello and chamber music instructor at the College of Music, Mahidol University in Thailand. He is a member of Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) and Mahidol University Baroque Orchestra. With those ensembles he gave more than 200 concerts in recent years.

Tickets: 1,200 baht. Tickets limited to 30 per event. Don't delay: All previous events at Eelswamp have sold out within a few days of announcement.

Reservation: Email asiachart@hotmail.com or call 038 069681 office hours. Due to limited number of places payment must be received before the day. If you are unable to attend we will make our best effort to sell your place but cannot offer a refund.

Directions to Eelswamp: can be found at the bottom of the page of this blog entry: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-music-room-at-eelswamp.html

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Mozart Wind and Strings

Three of Mozart's most famous works for wind and strings

Mozart Oboe Quartet in F major

Mozart Flute Quartet D in major

Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major

 

Friday, 28th March, 6pm 

  Damrih Banawitayakit, Oboe

Principal Oboist, Bangkok Symphony Orchestra

Worapon Kanweerayothin, Flute

Principal Flute, Bangkok Symphony Orchestra

Yos Vaneesorn, Clarinet

Lecturer, Faculty of Music, Silapakorn University 

and Doctorate from University of Missouri, USA

Supported by string quartet -

Maxine Kuo, Violin - Visiting artist from The Louisville Orchestra, USA

Athiya Voravijitrapun, Violin - prize winner in the First Princess Galayani Vadhana International Ensemble Competition for Strings.

Tasana Nagavajara, Viola - former concertmaster BSO and soloist in last October's Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Tasana performed both Mozart piano quartets at Eelswamp last year and appeared with Leo Phillips Quartet playing Mozart and Haydn in Bangkok, last month.

Kittikhun Sodprasert, Cello One of the most renown and established local cellists, he appeared with the SSMS orchestra last October playing Mozart and Vivaldi as well as playing Mozart Piano Quartets last year at Eelswamp with Tasana.


Tickets: 1,200 baht. Tickets limited to 30 per event. Don't delay: All previous events at Eelswamp have sold out within a few days of announcement.

Reservation: Email asiachart@hotmail.com or call 038 069681 office hours. Due to limited number of places payment must be received before the day. If you are unable to attend we will make our best effort to sell your place but cannot offer a refund. 

Directions to Eelswamp: can be found at the bottom of this page of this blog entry: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-music-room-at-eelswamp.html

Two Croatian Musicians

 

Ivan Novinc, violin 

and
Srđan Čaldarović, piano

 "...consummate artistry in coupling an introspective approach with refined sensitivity for phrasing.." - Washington Post

 

Sunday, 23rd February, 5pm

Two Croatian musicians will perform a recital of solo piano music, featuring the Heroic Polonaise of Chopin and, in the second half, a violin and piano duo, featuring the Brahms Violin Sonata no. 3 in D minor, one of the most exciting works in the chamber music repertoire.

They will also be playing some short works by three Croatian composers. I am only familiar with Boris Papandopulo whom I know to be a very fine composer.

Program

Solo piano
Franz Liszt: Invocation
Johannes Brahms: Klavierstücke op. 118 Nos 1, 2 and 3
Bruno Bjelinski: Toccata
Boris Papandopulo: Scherzo fantastico
Frederic Chopin: Polonaise in A flat major, op. 53
 
Violin and Piano
Ivo Josipović: Mournful song for violin and piano
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for piano and violin op. 108, in d minor
Bela Bartok: Romanian Dances

Ivan Novinc, violin, graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb in 2000. He has played as a soloist and as the first violin of the Porin string quartet. He has also performed in chamber ensembles all over Europe, Turkey, Sweden, Russia, Mexico, Japan, Canada and Argentina, performing with distinguished musicians such as Stephen Kovacevich.

Srdjan Caldarovic, piano, studied at the Music Academy, University of Zagreb graduating in 1995. He did post graduate studies at Indiana University in Bloomington with Prof. Leonard Hokanson (1996), and later at the Trinity College of Music with Prof. Philip Fowke (2000). He obtained a masters degree in piano performance at the University of Miami School of Music. For several of his performances, Caldarovic has won outstanding awards (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, Liszt: Sonata in B minor). For his Washington debut music critic Cecilia Porter wrote, “Caldarovic's playing reveals consummate artistry in coupling an introspective approach with refined sensitivity for phrasing...”

Tickets: 1,000 baht baht per person. Children six years and above will be admitted provided they can sit still.

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

Location: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-music-room-at-eelswamp.html

One of Russia's Finest Young Pianists

 

 Andrey Gugnin

Only in Pattaya

“Gugnin exemplified pianism at its highest level, with his staggering technical prowess and musical sensitivity” – San Francisco Classical Voice

“Underlying his brilliant interpretive quality was a technical precision that was breathtaking”– Bermuda Royal Gazette

“...when the performance was delivered with such conviction and astounding virtuosity it was nothing short of sensational” – Bangkok Post


Two Contrasting Programs at Eelswamp

1. Sunday 2nd March at 5pm and, by popular demand, Tuesday 4th March, 6pm
Beethoven: Four Famous Sonatas: Moonlight, Pathetique, Appassionata and Waldstein 

2. Wednesday 5th March at 6pm
Russian Program: Rachmaninov Preludes op. 32; Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition and Prokofiev Toccata from the Seventh Sonata.

Andrey Gugnin is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He won second prize in the Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna in June last year. He is one of the finest young pianists in Russia. He performs piano duets regularly with Vadym Kholodenko, winner of 2013 Van Cliburn Competition. He has performed in fifteen countries around the world, including as a soloist with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra.

We are very fortunate to have this talented pianist visit us in Pattaya.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear one of Russia's finest young pianists in two separate programs at Eelswamp.

Tickets: 1,200 baht for one recital, 2,000 baht for both. Tickets limited to 30 per event. Don't delay: All previous events at Eelswamp have sold out within a few days of announcement.

Reservation: Email asiachart@hotmail.com or call 038 069681 office hours. Due to limited number of places payment must be received before the day. If you are unable to attend we will make our best effort to sell your place but cannot offer a refund. Location: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-music-room-at-eelswamp.html 

Directions to Eelswamp: can be found at the bottom of this page of this blog entry: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-music-room-at-eelswamp.html 

Youtube playlist comprising the performance at Siam Bayshore, both performances at Eelswamp and two interviews.

Krechkovsky-Loucks Duo at Eelswamp

Violin and Piano Recital

Saturday 18th January, 2014, 5pm

 

  - Sold out -

Kevin Loucks, piano

 graduate of the Juilliard School

 

Iryna Krechkovsky, violin

winner of the 2012 Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank Competition, at which she was awarded the privilege of borrowing the Baumgartner Stradivarius (1689) for three years

Bach: Sonata for Violin and Keyboard in F minor, BWV 1018

Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor

Gershwin/Heifetz: Selections from Porgy and Bess for Violin and Piano

Saint-Saens: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75

Kevin Loucks, piano, is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. He has performed at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. He was a top prize winner at the Schlern International Competition in Italy, the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in Boston, and the 2012 American Prize in Piano Performance, and was featured as guest artist at the Laguna Beach Chamber Music Festival in California, the Daejeon Chamber Music Festival in South Korea, the Moulin d’Andé in France, and the Montreal Chamber Music Festival in Canada.

Iryna Krechkovsky, violin, was born in the Ukraine and graduated from the Cleveland School of Music. She was a top prize winner at the Sorantin International Competition, the Canadian Music Competition, the Kocian International Violin Competition in Czech Republic, and most recently, winner of the 2012 Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank Competition, at which she was awarded the privilege of borrowing the Baumgartner Stradivarius (1689) for three years.

Tickets: 1,200 baht, limited to 25 places only.  If you are interested don't delay. All previous events have sold out within a few days of announcement.

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

Location: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-music-room-at-eelswamp.html