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The Amadeus
50 Shirland Rd
Maida Vale
London
W9 2JA
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Oboe Quartet in F major, K.370/368b
Anze Rozman – The Tale of the Forest Nymph
Jani Golob – String Quartet no.3
Robert Schumann – Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op.44
Performers
Lana Kuscer – flute
Diego Caetano – piano
Opifex Quartet
Programme Note
Renowned Slovenian flutist Lana Kuščer, who works in the United States, has performed as a soloist at the most prestigious American halls – New York’s Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and Kennedy Center in Washington. Additionally, she has given solo performances across Europe, the USA, and Asia, including in the British Parliament and Lisbon’s Palácio Foz. At the Sarasota Music Festival, she performed Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto and also appeared at the ARTIS festival, the August Music Festival in London, and the Shanghai Conservatory Jazz Music Season festival. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Opus XXI festival in France and Germany. She is a co-founder of the Live!Again concert series in Dallas and a flute professor at Sam Houston State University in Texas. She is also a member of the Richardson Symphony Orchestra, and previously played in the Munich Jakobsplatz Orchestra and the American Classical Concert Chamber Orchestra. She has collaborated with the London Symphony Orchestra and the English National Opera. She has won awards at the Elise Meyer competition in Germany, the Euritmia competition in Italy, the TEMSIG competition in Slovenia, and the UNT Concerto competition in the USA. In 2019, she also received an award from the American Presser Foundation.
World-renowned Brazilian-American pianist Diego Caetano has performed both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has appeared in Carnegie Hall, Philia Hall in Yokohama, Palácio Foz in Lisbon, Sala Cecília Meireles in Rio de Janeiro, and Royal Albert Hall in London Caetano is the recipient of awards from over fifty national and international competitions. He is also a dedicated educator, frequently teaching masterclasses, speaking at conferences, and judging at various conservatories and universities worldwide. He is a piano professor at Sam Houston State University in Texas, where his students achieve top results in competitions. Recently, he released an album titled ‘French Connection: 20th Century Violin Sonatas’ with violinist Evgeny Zvonnikov for the Italian-Japanese label DaVinci Classics. Caetano is also the co-founder and artistic director of the International Music Festival in Ávila.
The Opifex String Quartet comprises outstanding young musicians and winners of national and international competitions: violinists Nikola Pajanović and Laura de Wolff, violist Rebeka Skok, and cellist Sara Čano. Nikola Pajanović is a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, while the other members study at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. The quartet is coached by Aleksandra Čano Muharemović and Prof. Emile Cantor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. They have performed across Slovenia, including at major venues and festivals such as the Ljubljana Festival, Radovljica Mansion Hall, Portorož Auditorium, Ribnica Festival, and the Slovenian Philharmonic. In March 2023, they won first prize and a special commendation for their interpretation of K. Penderecki’s String Quartet No. 3 at the Slovenian national competition TEMSIG.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in F major, K.370
In Mozart’s (1756-1791) time, the traverse flute underwent some important changes. By the addition of a number of keys and a reconstruction of the body, the head and the keyholes the tone and power of the sound were increased substantially, thus gaining the status of a serious solo instrument. The Quartet in G K.370, though originally an oboe quartet in F, was first published in 1801 by the Bureau de Musique, Leipzig, in the G major arrangement for flute and strings. Transposing an oboe piece up a full tone was then common practice in flute adaptations, but in this instance,we are dealing with a genuine arrangement involving substantial modifications.
Jani Golob (born 18 January 1948) is a Slovenian composer, violinist, arranger and professor. His music opus is often on the thin line of classic, pop and jazz. Golob has composed operas, ballets, orchestral works, chamber and vocal music,[1] as well as numerous Slovenian film scores,[2] and music for television and for advertising purposes. His most important works are probably three operas: Krpan's mare (1992), Medeja (1999) and Love Capital (2010); and others as Four Slovene Folk Songs (1979 and 2005), Concerto for violin and orchestra (1998) and ballet The Baptism at the Savica (1989). He is most recognized by his contribution in Slovenian popular music.
His internationally best-known piece of work is the unofficially named ‘Planica Slow Motion Theme’ (1997), an instrumental piece of music played in slow motion replays annually on worldwide broadcasting of FIS Ski Jumping/Flying World Cup events from Planica, Slovenia. Especially because of this melody Golob became famous worldwide. Each year since 1997 this piece of music is played in Planica slow motion replays live to millions of people worldwide. Other hit songs are ‘Prisluhni školjki/A Song In a Seashell’ (1985), ‘Moja dežela/My Country’ (1986) and ‘Pustite nam ta svet/Leave Us This World (1987), popular especially in Slovenia. In 1971 he also arranged music for the song Sejem želja/Scarborough Fair with Slovenian lyrics of this original English folk ballad. He is the arranger of the most common used orchestrated version of the lovenian national anthem ‘Zdravljica’, used in protocol, sports and other big events.
Golob is one of very few people who has the ability of absolute pitch. That is why when he was younger they used him to write music in notes just by listening and memorizing it.[4]
Slovenian composer Anže Rozman (b. 1989, Kranj-Slovenija) is known for elevating projects across film and television and through his work at Bleeding Fingers Music, has scored a wide range of tentpole projects. Most recently, he co-scored Apple TV+’s Prehistoric Planet alongside Hans Zimmer and Kara Talve.
Narrated by David Attenborough and produced by Jon Favreau in conjunction with BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit, the score to Prehistoric Planet features custom made instruments made from fusing fossils, bones and rocks with modern orchestral instruments (such as the aptly named Raptor Violin, Hadros Cello and Fat Rex), designed to aurally transport the listener 66 million years back in time. The score for Prehistoric Planet received global acclaim, including a win for Best Original Score for a Documentary Series at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMAs) and a nomination for the 2022 Bulldog Television Broadcast Awards. To date, the soundtrack of Prehistoric Planet has claimed over 80 million streams.
In the realm of concert music, Anže is recognized for his orchestral compositions which have been performed by notable orchestras including the London Studio Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra of Zürich, Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Robert Schumann: Piano quintet in E flat major, op.44 The Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44, by Robert Schumann was composed in 1842 and received its first public performance the following year. Noted for its ‘extroverted, exuberant’ character, Schumann’s piano quintet is considered one of his finest compositions and a major work of nineteenth-century chamber music.
Composed for piano and string quartet, the work revolutionized the instrumentation and musical character of the piano quintet and established it as a quintessentially Romantic genre.
Schumann dedicated the piano quintet to his wife Clara. She was due to perform the piano part in the first private performance of the quintet on the 6th December 1842 at the home of Henriette Voigt and her husband Carl. However she fell ill and Felix. Mendelssohn stepped in, sight-reading the 'fiendish' piano part.
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