tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2019-11-01T10:25:13+08:00 Peatix Music Salon Emmanuel tag:peatix.com,2018:event-397077 2018-06-29T19:30:00SGT 2018-06-29T19:30:00SGT

Four friends, each a virtuoso, decide to come together to honour Johannes Brahms for his 185th Anniversary, through this chamber music concert.EDMUND HUANG started learning the piano at the age of 5 and the violin at age 7. He switched to viola prior his National Service, under the tutelage of Jiri Heger. Soon after, he got into the class of Professor Matthias Maurer (Solo Viola Royal Concertgebouw, Professor of KunstUniversität Graz and Conservatory of Dramatic Arts Vienna). He also received frequent chamber music lessons from Stephan Gorner from the Carmina Quartet and pianist Dr.Stefan Zikoudis. He has participated in music festivals such as Summa Cum Laude International Youth Festival and Bled Music Festival. He received masterclass from Thomas Riebl, Vacalv Hudecek and Volker Hartung. He has served as principal viola during his university years in KunstUniversität Graz Orchestra and Vienna Young Artist Orchestra. He once had the chance to play under the baton of great maestro Aldo Ceccato and also alongside with legendary Jazz trumpeter Randy Brecker. He is currently freelancing with the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra. With his experiences in orchestra playing, he performed in places such as Wiener Musikverein, Graz Musikverein, Koln Philharmonie, Esplanade Concert Hall and Victoria Concert Hall. Recently he was invited to give violin/viola Masterclass in Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Edmund plays on a 1790 Franconis Pire Pillement violin, and modern Italian viola kindly loan from the Bernini Collection in Italy.LESLIE TAN, cellist of the internationally renowned T’ang Quartet has performed, both as a soloist and a chamber musician, to critical acclaim in major venues and festivals around the world. Some of these festivals include the Tanglewood and Aspen Festivals in the USA; the Melbourne and Port Fairy Festivals in Australia; the New Zealand Festival; the Hong Kong Arts Festival; and the Prague-Vienna-Budapest Sommerakademie and Aarhuus Festivals in Europe. He has also been broadcasted by the BBC in London.In 1980, after only 4 years of cello studies, Leslie was awarded a scholarship to further his studies in London where he graduated from both the Trinity College of Music and the Royal College of Music. Leslie went on to the Tchaikovsky-Moscow State Conservatory as a graduate-assistant of Natalia Shahkovskaya. In the USA, he was a pupil of Paul Katz and Norman Fischer.Leslie was a cellist in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for 13 years. In a career that has spanned over 20 years, from orchestral to chamber and solo performances, he is very much sought after as a pedagogue as well as a performer. Leslie has ventured into other disciplines, collaborating with artists in dance, theatre and popular music. He also teaches at School of the Arts (SOTA) and conducts music workshops & talks to actively bring chamber music to a wider audience.Leslie is now on the faculty of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore and was with the Boston University Tanglewood Institute from 2001 to 2005. OLEKSANDR KORNIEV is currently a teaching assistant at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore where he studies with Prof. Qian Zhou. He was recently awarded 3rd prize at the Singapore International Violin Competition 2018. In 2017, he won major prizes at Zhuhai Mozart International Violin and Piano Competition and Chengdu Invitational Violin Competition. In 2016, Oleksandr won the Grand Prix of Astana International Violin Competition in Kazakhstan and 1st prize at Futian International Violin Competition in China. He was the was the sem-finalist of Singapore International Violin Competition in 2015. He won 4th prize in Lysenko International Competition in Ukraine in 2012.  He has attended master classes with Leonidas Kavakos, Zakhar Bron, Valeriy Sokolov, Boris Kushnir, Ivry Gitlis, Shmuel Ashkenazi, Vadim Repin, Haim Taub and Paul Rochek. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed in Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Japan, Israel, USA, Kazakhstan, China and Singapore. Born in Ukraine, Oleksandr started learning the violin when he was 5. In 2001, he was admitted to the Kharkiv Specialized Middle Music school where he studied with Prof. Vladimir Svitchkarenko. In 2011, he was admitted to the Kiev National Music Academy where he studied with Prof. Olga Ryvnyak.YULIANA RUMIANTSEVA is a concert pianist, piano teacher, accompanist and chamber musician. Yuliana was born in Kharkiv (Ukraine), and started learning piano at age of 4. In 2000, she was admitted to Kharkiv Secondary Specialised Music School for gifted children in the class of Prof Svetlana Zakharova. From 2011, she enrolled in National Music Academy of Ukraine in the class of Professor Yuri Kot and completed her Master Degree in 2016.She has won major prizes in a number of international competitions, such as "Ústí nad Labem" 2003 (1st prize), "The Chords of Khortitsa"(2nd prize), "21st Century Art" (2nd prize) and many others. Yuliana regularly performs in Ukraine and abroad, as a chamber musician and an accompanist. In 2013, she premiered the works of Ukrainian composer Pavel Kolpakov and for 3 years, was a member of the Musical Society for Young Musicians and Composers "Sonor Continuos". Since 2016, Yuliana has been living in Singapore where she continues performing and teaching.

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