Duo Pressenda - From Darkness to Light (Johanna Roehrig - violin & Aleksandra Myslek - piano)
Royal Academy of Music Lunchtimes
Part of the Petworth Festival 2018
Add to my Calendar 01-08-2018 12:00 01-08-2018 14:00 36 Duo Pressenda - From Darkness to Light (Johanna Roehrig - violin & Aleksandra Myslek - piano) Born in 1993 in Hamburg, Germany, Johanna started learning the violin at the age of six. As a prizewinner of the Ethel Kennedy Jacobs Award she is currently studying for a Master of Music degree at the Royal Academy of Music with Rodney Friend, and receiving further support from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation Hamburg. She performs on a violin by Joannes Francesco Pressenda from 1833, Turin, kindly loaned to her by the Royal Academy of Music. Aleksandra Myslek is a Polish pianist born in Warsaw. She gained her higher education degrees at the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Christopher Elton and later Hamish Milne supported by Royal Academy scholarships. She has also received lessons and inspirational advice from musicians including Leon Fleisher, Ferenc Rados, Michel Beroff and Fou Ts’ong. Janacek Sonata for Violin and Piano in D flat major JW VII/7J. S. Bach Ciaconna from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major Leconfield Hall, Petworth DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Leconfield Hall
Market Square
Petworth
West Sussex
GU28 0AH
England
Programme
Leoš Janáček – Violin and Piano sonata in D flat major, JW VII/7
Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004: Ciaconna
Cesar Franck – Violin Sonata in A major
Performers
Johanna Roehrig – Violin
Aleksandra Myslek – piano
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Programme Note
Born in 1993 in Hamburg, Germany, Johanna started learning the violin at the age of six. As a prizewinner of the Ethel Kennedy Jacobs Award she is currently studying for a Master of Music degree at the Royal Academy of Music with Rodney Friend, and receiving further support from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation Hamburg. She performs on a violin by Joannes Francesco Pressenda from 1833, Turin, kindly loaned to her by the Royal Academy of Music.
Aleksandra Myslek is a Polish pianist born in Warsaw. She gained her higher education degrees at the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Christopher Elton and later Hamish Milne supported by Royal Academy scholarships. She has also received lessons and inspirational advice from musicians including Leon Fleisher, Ferenc Rados, Michel Beroff and Fou Ts’ong.
Janacek Sonata for Violin and Piano in D flat major JW VII/7
J. S. Bach Ciaconna from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major