Ouland Royale will be hosting a Violin and Piano Concert featuring Lieva Starker (Violin) and Anneke Lamont (Piano) on 25 July 2015.
Bac(h) from Birmingham
Violin and piano concert by Lieva Starker and Anneke Lamont
Ouland Royale, Plettenberg Bay
25 July, Pre-concert tea: 15:30-17:00 | Concert starts @ 17:30
Tickets: R200 (includes tea and cake) available from Market Square Information Centre: Barnie Barnard 044533 3219 plettinfo@telkomsa.net
Anneke Lamont, one of South Africa’s foremost concert pianists and Lieva Starker, promising violinist originally from Cape Town, will join forces in a concert made possible by Concerts SA at the Ouland Royale, Plettenberg Bay on 25 July.
The violin and piano concert will reflect Starker’s recent studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire in the United Kingdom but will also be true to her roots with the inclusion of works from South African composers.
Starker will present works by Bach, Beethoven and Saint-Saëns, as well as South African composers Clare Loveday, Hendrik Hofmeyr and Péter Louis van Dijk.
Half of the proceeds from the concert will be donated to the PlettAid Foundation/Hospice Plett. A selection of tea and cakes (included in the ticket price) will be served from 16:00 and the concert starts at 17:30. This will give Knysna residents time to travel both ways in daylight. The organisers are most grateful to Wilja Reitz for providing the venue free of charge to support their cause. Cash bar available.
Starker has won various prizes at some of South Africa’s most prestigious competitions and currently studies violin performance with the renowned Jan Repko and Jiafeng Chen at Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK. She has performed as soloist with the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. Starker has also enjoyed concerts in the United Kingdom that included a performance in one of Birmingham Conservatoire’s flagship concert series – the Beethoven Marathon.
Lamont requires little introduction in South Africa and is easily one of the country’s foremost pianists. After completing her studies in Hanover, Germany, Lamont returned to South Africa as a collaborator with some of the country’s greatest soloists, producing many recordings under the Salon Music label. She has also served as an official accompanist for various national competitions and also serves as a juror at both national and international competitions. Lamont regularly performs at festivals in Grahamstown, Franschhoek and Potchefstroom and has conducted two national tours with acclaimed cellists, Alexander Ivashkin and Gary Hoffman.
The concert in Plettenberg Bay is the first in a tour that will also travel to Knysna and then go north to Gauteng, where the duo will also perform in Johannesburg and Pretoria on 1 and 2 August.
For more info contact:
Barnie Barnard at Market Square Info Centre on 044533 3219 | plettinfo@telkomsa.net
Lady Conyngham on 044 5335178 | aconyngham@telkomsa.net
Biographies
Lieva Starker (Violin)
Starker was a violin student of Jack de Wet from 2006 to 2012 and in 2013 enrolled at Stellenbosch University to become a student of Suzanne Martens. She was a finalist in the 2007 Sanlam National Music Competition for Primary School Learners and won the prize for best performance of a piece by a South African composer at the competition. She came second in the Cape Town Pieter Kooij Music Competition for High School learners in 2008 and 2010, and won the same competition in 2011. She was also a soloist in the Hugo Lambrechts Concerto Festival in 2006, and in the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra’s National Youth Concerto Festival in 2010.
Starker was a member of the MIAGI Youth Orchestra from 2009 to 2011 and 2013. At the beginning of 2011 she was selected to join the Unisa Music Foundation’s Gifted Young Musicians Development Programme. At the 2011 Artscape National Youth Music Competition she was the runner-up in the strings category, and was a finalist and winner of the strings category and the Pieter Schoeman award for best violinist at said competition in 2012.
In August 2013, she participated in the Summer 2013 New Virtuosi International Violin Matercourse in Duino, Italy, where she received lessons from an international faculty. She also served on the Shadow Jury at the Artscape National Youth Music Competition in October 2013. In the same month, she was the only string player in the final and overall runner-up at the Unisa South African Music Scholarship Competition after completing her Unisa Grade 8 with distinction.
In 2014, she was offered a scholarship at Birmingham Conservatoire in the United Kingdom where she now studies towards a BMus (hons) degree with the worldrenowned Jiafeng Chen and Jan Repko. Since commencing her studies there, she has performed as part of the Birmingham Conservatoire Student Orchestra and has taken part in many concerts, which include her UK debut performance with pianist Yen-Ting Wang in the Birmingham Conservatoire Beethoven Marathon. Her performance in this duo led her and Wang to be invited to take part in the Piano Society of Europe’s Beethoven Competition. She has also undertaken successful chamber music concerts and received masterclasses from Pieter Schoeman, Nathaniel Vallois, and the creators of the Beethoven Plus Project, Krysia Osotowicz and Daniel Tong.
Anneke Lamont
Anneke Lamont already played 12 Preludes and Fugues from the ’48’ by J.S.Bach when she was 12 years old as a student of Josias van der Merwe. She received a PhD in 2006 from the University of the Free State with Albie van Schalkwyk and Stephanus Muller as promoters. As winner of the Unisa Overseas Scholarship as well as a SAMRO bursary in 1986, she furthered her studies in Germany with Arie Vardi in Hannover.
Anneke was involved with the performing of modern South African compositions through a project ‘Obelisk’. She participated in the project ‘Zeno’ with William Kentridge and Kevin Volans. Since 2000 she has performed regularly at national music festivals in Grahamstown, Franschhoek and Potchefstroom. She was the accompanist for cellists Alexander Ivashkin and Gary Hoffman on their concert tours of South Africa in 2005 and 2008 respectively.
Anneke has been an official accompanist for the Unisa International singing and string competitions since 1990. She is an examiner for the Unisa Music Examinations and was on the screening panel for the 2008 International Piano competitions. She is a jury member for the ATKV ‘Musiq’ competitions and was actively involved in the creation of ‘Musiqanto’ for singers. She was also on the panel for the Artscape competition between 2011 and 2013.
In collaboration with Salon Music, Anneke has recorded numerous CDs and was the music producer for Charl du Plessis’s ‘Piano Man’ in 2009. She participated in master classes with Angela Hewitt on the interpretation of Bach’s keyboard works in 2009. She has partnered with Handri Loots, Anzel Gerber, Nicholas Nicolaidis as well as Christopher Duigan in their Crowson Duo over many years. Anneke is a member of Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. She is currently associated with the Music Department at the University of Pretoria as piano accompanist and coach. She is enrolled for a post-doctoral studies at the University of Radboud in Nijmegen, Holland.
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