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Kettering Concerts
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Kettering Concert 2021-05-16
Hartz Trio
Alexandra Békés (Cello), Natalya Bing (Violin), Dianne Legg (Piano)
Piano Trios
Programme:
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Dolcissimo Uscignolo – Paul Stanhope (1969 -)
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Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
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Sunday 16 May 2021, 12 noon
Kettering Community Hall
Tickets only available
on-line No door sales $15 plus small transaction fee
Stay for the post-concert afternoon tea, meet and chat with the musicians.
Alexandra Békés
Alexandra Békés (née Legg) is a professional cellist and teacher currently living in Hobart. She completed her Bachelor of Music with first class honours in 2019, studying with TSO principal cellist Sue-Ellen Paulsen. During her studies she was awarded the D&MV McDonald Scholarship, which allowed her to study with Raphael Wallfisch, Rebecca Gilliver and Alexander Chaushian in London. In 2020 she continued her performance studies with Trish Dean at Griffith University in Queensland.
Alex performs with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and has previously performed with the Australian Youth Orchestra and the Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute. This year Alex will be performing regularly in and around Tasmania, and is privileged to be able to continue working under the guidance of Tasmanian and Australian cello icon, Christian Wojtowicz.
In her spare time Alex thoroughly enjoys hiking around Tasmania, playing squash with her husband Jono and hanging out with her St Bernard dogs.
Natalya Bing
Natalya Bing is a classically-trained violinist based in Hobart. She recently completed her Masters of Music at the University of Tasmania with the research topic "Finding the Lost Art: Methods and use of improvisation on the violin in Western classical music and it's importance for revival in our current musical environment". She has collaborated with many Australian and international musicians and artists in styles ranging from electronic to mathcore and jazz. She performs with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and has also performed with notable artists such as Costume (Dark Mofo 2019), Olafúr Arnalds (Sydney Opera House 2016) and Bruce Springsteen (Brisbane 2014). Her hobbies include bushwalking, surfing, reading and painting. She volunteers weekly for community run charity; Short of A Sheet, supporting people experiencing homelessness in Hobart.
Dianne Legg
Hobart pianist Dianne Legg began music studies in Tamworth playing pipe organ in local church services and violin with the Tamworth Youth Orchestra before completing a Bachelor of Music through the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, studying piano with Graeme Buchanon and Beryl Sedivka.
She is a professional pianist/accompanist working for St. Michael’s Collegiate and throughout the Hobart community, performing with local artists, Chris Kimber, Sue-Ellen Paulsen and David Nuttall and for musical festivals: AISOI, Festival of Voices The Melbourne Opera Co. and Hip Pocket Opera.
She has performed regularly with the Hartz and Argos piano trios in Tasmania, and operates a dynamic piano teaching practice within the Hutchins school, St. Michael’s Collegiate and from her Snug teaching studio.
Formed in 2014, Botaniko, (Esperanto for botanical), is a small group
of dedicated
botanical artists, who, by invitation, collaborate towards yearly
exhibitions depicting plants found in gardens and other venues of historical significance
in Tasmania. Past projects include the gardens of the Port Arthur Historic Site, the 200th anniversary of the Royal
Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, The Tasmanian Herbarium, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), The Windsong
property, and in 2022, the trees of historical significance found in
the garden of Tasmania's Government House. Titled Floral Splendour - Government House Garden. This year, members of Botaniko have been painting plants, shrubs and trees growing in in a number of private gardens of historic Battery Point (Hobart). Some of the resulting works will on display at the concert.
