Kettering Concerts

Kettering Concert 2022-04-10

Piano Duo
Luke Frost (Piano), Jennifer Marten-Smith (PIano)

Piano Duo

Programme:

1st Movement from Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, – Waldstein Sonata – Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (Jennifer Marften_smith)
Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 in A major – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) (Luke Frost)
Impromptu No. 2 (Op. posth. 142) D.935 – Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) (Jennifer Marten-Smith)
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, – Pathétique – Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (Jennifer Marten-Smith)
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op 52 – Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) (Luke Frost)

Sunday 10 April 2022, 3pm
Kettering Community Hall
Tickets only available on-line No door sales
$15 + small booking fee
Stay for the post-concert afternoon tea, meet and chat with the musicians.

Luke Frost

Luke Frost is a Tasmanian classical pianist who has performed in concert series in Hobart, Kettering, Swansea, and the Huon Valley. Luke was awarded the Royal Over-Seas League Tasmanian Branch Prize in Classical Piano in 2020, and received the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music Scholarship in 2021. In 2022, Luke performed works for solo piano alongside Jennifer Marten-Smith in a Concert as part of the Kettering Concert Series, and co-organised and performed in a fundraiser concert for Ukraine at the Hedberg in Hobart. In 2021, Luke gave a series of three classical piano recitals at the Salamanca Arts Centre, performing works by Chopin, Brahms, and Bach. In 2020, Luke was invited to record Chopin’s Etude op.10 no.4 at the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Studio, which was featured in their Daily Dose online concert series. The same year, Luke performed works for solo piano and piano four-hands alongside Jennifer Marten-Smith in a pair of concerts. Luke is currently teaching piano in Howden, and is in his final year of a Bachelor of Classical Performance with the University of Tasmania at the Hedberg.

Jennifer Marten-Smith

Jennifer grew up in Tasmania and at age 12 was invited to study with Professor Gediga-Glombitza at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. At age 16 she made her public debut with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Schumann's A minor Piano Concerto, having previously recorded the Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Concerto with the TSO. Two years later she performed the Rubinstein Piano Concerto No 4 with the TSO and, that same year, was the youngest graduate of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, where she was awarded a high distinction as a double major in piano performance and accompaniment. Other concertos in her repertoire include works by Beethoven, Brahms, Dohnányi, Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky, and she has appeared as soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover.
In 1989 she began work as a repetiteur with the State Opera of South Australia and subsequently joined the Victorian State Opera Young Artist Programme. Between 1997 and 2001 she was repetiteur at the Staatsoper Hannover and was a full-time member of the music staff with Opera Australia from 2001 to 2012. She has more than 90 operas in her repertoire. Jennifer, a member of the Kettering Piano Quartet, is now living in Hobart, and is in demand as a soloist, accompanist and vocal coach.

Kevin Kucks – Artist

Kevin Kucks. My aim is to create interesting images of nature and landscapes - animals going about their daily lives - searching for food, avoiding predators, defending territory, courting, attending to their young, and enjoying life. Mountains, streams, rocks and plants – small and large – are often overlooked until held still by a photograph or painting so their details can be appreciated. My years of photography have left me with a large collection of images of Tasmania which I can tap as source material for my paintings.