Kettering Concerts

Kettering Concert 2026-04-19

The Paris Chamber Music Society
Yoram Levy (trumpet), Alexey Yemstov (piano), Chris Nicholas (violin), Margaret Connolly (violin), Damien Holloway (viola), Gwyn Roberts (cello), Adrian Whitehall (bass)

La Trompette

Programme:

Légende in C – George Enescu (1881-1955) (Yoram Levy and Karen Smithies)
Winter, from Symphony no.1, (The River) – Tim Jones (1969-)
String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (L.91) – Claude-Achille Debussy (1862-1918)
Septet in E-flat major, Op. 65, – Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Sunday 19 April 2026, 3pm
Kettering Community Hall
Tickets will be available on-line.
$20 online or $25 cash at the door
Stay for the post-concert afternoon tea, meet and chat with the musicians.

Yoram Levy

Yoram Levy is one of Australia’s leading trumpeters and brass pedagogues. Currently the Head of Brass, and Trumpet studies at the Australian National of Academy of Music where he conducts the brass ensemble and is involved in curating programs. Mr. Levy is featured in numerous ABC Classics recordings as the long-standing Principal Trumpet of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held till 2023. Mr Levy has performed with major orchestras in Australia and New Zealand and is in demand nationally and internationally as a recitalist and clinician. Solo appearances include the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Queensland Symphony, and his CD of 20th-century music for trumpet and organ with Christopher Wrench has won great acclaim. Since his appointment as Senior Lecturer at the Queensland Conservatorium in 1990, Mr. Levy’s dedication to music education has contributed to the development of many exceptional brass instrumentalists and teachers. His teachers and mentors include James Thompson, Vincent Cichowicz and Adolph Herseth. In 1982 Mr. Levy was invited by Maestro Zubin Mehta to join the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s trumpet section. From 1982 to 1990 he worked regularly with many great conductors, participating in numerous recordings, and touring Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. He has maintained his relationship with the IPO over the years having joined the orchestra on their Australian tours and recording with IPO members.

Damien Holloway

Damien studied viola in Hobart with Keith Crellin, Simon Oswell and Jan Sedivka, and in Brisbane with Elizabeth Morgan, at which time he performed Bartók’s viola concerto with the Queensland University Orchestra, played with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, was a founding member of Camerata of St John’s (Brisbane), and at that time he also played with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. He currently plays in numerous community groups, including principal viola with the Hobart Chamber Orchestra, and has recently appeared as soloist in Britten’s “Lachrymae”, Holst’s “Lyric Movement”, and Don Kay’s “Concerto for Viola and Strings”. His passion is chamber music (including Pillinger Quartet, Huon Valley Chamber Music Festival, Classical Salamanca series), and he regularly performs new music (including Ensemble Mania, MONA ‘4pm Project’), and has had several works written for him by Don Kay, Matthew Dewey, Simon Reade, and Berlin-based ex-Tasmanian Simon Barber. Damien plays a viola made for him by luthier Stephan von Baehr (Paris, 2024). Other musical interests include conducting and composing. His compositions have been performed by artists including Michael Lampard (Opera Australia), William Lane (Hong Kong Philharmonic), and prominent Australian pianists Karen Smithies and Gabriella Smart. He was for many years a board member of Musica Viva Tasmania, and by day he is an Associate Professor in Engineering, with concert hall and musical instrument acoustics amongst his research areas.

Gwyn Roberts

Gwyn was for a number of years the Principal Cellist and Associate Conductor with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Prior to this appointment, he studied with cellist Sela Trau and pedagogue Jan Sedivka at the Tasmanian Conservatorium. A Churchill Fellow, Gwyn visited a number of overseas youth orchestras, and also performed as a cellist with various British ensembles. He has performed as Principal Cellist with orchestras in Australia and New Zealand, and also as Associate Principal of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. A member of a number of respected chamber music groups, Gwyn has performed with the Mayne String Trio, the Queensland Piano Trio, Ensemble I, and the contemporary ensemble Perihelion, He was the Musical Director of the Queensland University Symphony Orchestra, and now performs in a variety of solo and chamber music concerts in Australia, and is active as a teacher and adjudicator. He is researching early cello history in Australia, developing his keen interest in photography and sailing, and performing and recording together with his wife, pianist Jenni Flemming. Gwyn and Jenni have a cottage in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, and in 2022 they established the Easter Music Festival in the Huon; the fourth Festival is scheduled for 2026