Music on Thursdays
Sara Cubarsi, violin
Seungwon Lee, piano courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music |
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society |
Programme
Béla Bartók (1881-1945) Sonata for Violin and Piano No 1 in C sharp minor Op 21, Sz 75, BB 84 (1921) Allegro appassionato Adagio Allegro molto Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Rondo Capriccioso in A minor Op 28 (1863) |
Sara Cubarsi, violin, with piano accompanist, Seungwon Lee
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Sara Cubarsi
The Catalan violinist Sara Cubarsi has recently won the Spanish "El Primer Palau 2013" competition and the Prize of the radio channel Catalunya Música.
Future engagements include the Spanish première of Philip Glass's Violin Concerto no.2 with the National Chamber Orchestra of Andorra in El Petit Palau and the world première of Pulsar Phigurae by Raffaele Grimaldi (winner of the Mompou Prize) with pianist Seungwon Lee.
Based in London, Sara has just graduated as a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music on the Master of Music in Research and Performance course under Tomotada Soh, with a grant from the Catalan government (OSIC). She was an undergraduate at the Academy under Remus Azoitei and graduated with the Beare Bow Prize 2013 for the highest ranking final recital. She previously studied at the Purcell School of Music under the "Music and Dance Excellence" scholarship from the UK goverment with Carmel Kaine.
Sara has given recitals at venues such as the El Palau de la Música Catalana and the Ateneu in Barcelona, the Middle Temple Hall and the Purcell Room in London, the Georges Enescu Museum in Bucharest, and has also participated in various concert cycles including Eaton Square Concert Series, Canterbury Festival and "Cicle de Joves Intèrprets". She has also been a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and has toured with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Academy 2013 and Orquestra de Cadaqués among others.
Sara plays on a violin by David Bagué and a bow by Derek Wilson.
Future engagements include the Spanish première of Philip Glass's Violin Concerto no.2 with the National Chamber Orchestra of Andorra in El Petit Palau and the world première of Pulsar Phigurae by Raffaele Grimaldi (winner of the Mompou Prize) with pianist Seungwon Lee.
Based in London, Sara has just graduated as a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music on the Master of Music in Research and Performance course under Tomotada Soh, with a grant from the Catalan government (OSIC). She was an undergraduate at the Academy under Remus Azoitei and graduated with the Beare Bow Prize 2013 for the highest ranking final recital. She previously studied at the Purcell School of Music under the "Music and Dance Excellence" scholarship from the UK goverment with Carmel Kaine.
Sara has given recitals at venues such as the El Palau de la Música Catalana and the Ateneu in Barcelona, the Middle Temple Hall and the Purcell Room in London, the Georges Enescu Museum in Bucharest, and has also participated in various concert cycles including Eaton Square Concert Series, Canterbury Festival and "Cicle de Joves Intèrprets". She has also been a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and has toured with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Academy 2013 and Orquestra de Cadaqués among others.
Sara plays on a violin by David Bagué and a bow by Derek Wilson.
Seungwon Lee
Seungwon Lee is currently studying piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music, with Andrew West and James Baillieu. She finished the MA Piano Accompaniment programme this summer and has begun the Professional Diploma course at the Academy from 2014. She has performed in UK venues including St-Martin-in-the-Fields and St Mary Abbots, as well as in Germany, Spain and South Korea as an accompanist.
During her studies in the UK, Seungwon was awarded the Scott Huxley Prize at the Royal Academy of Music and second prize with Kate Bateman, whom she has an established duo in 2013, in the International “Friedrich Kuhlau” Flute and Piano duo competition in Uelzen, Germany. She has also enjoyed a collaboration with tenor John Porter, accompanying his final round at the Richard Lewis Award Competition. Recently, she has given a duo recital with violinist Sara Cubarsi at the History Museum of the City of Barcelona.
Before coming to the Royal Academy of Music Seungwon worked as official accompanist of the Samsung Medical Centre Choir and the Konkuk Young Musicians Academy, supported by the city of Seoul.
Seungwon Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, and started taking piano lessons at the age of 4. When she was 6 years old, she won the third prize in the Choonchoo Music Magazine company competition. Seungwon entered the prep school of the Korea National University of Arts (KNUA) and gave her debut concert at the Seoul Art Centre. She has won numerous prizes, including the first prize in the Hankook Daily News competition, and the Bechstein-Samick Piano competition. Seungwon then attended Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School, and in 2006, upon entering Konkuk University on scholarship, she chose to study music education.
During her studies in the UK, Seungwon was awarded the Scott Huxley Prize at the Royal Academy of Music and second prize with Kate Bateman, whom she has an established duo in 2013, in the International “Friedrich Kuhlau” Flute and Piano duo competition in Uelzen, Germany. She has also enjoyed a collaboration with tenor John Porter, accompanying his final round at the Richard Lewis Award Competition. Recently, she has given a duo recital with violinist Sara Cubarsi at the History Museum of the City of Barcelona.
Before coming to the Royal Academy of Music Seungwon worked as official accompanist of the Samsung Medical Centre Choir and the Konkuk Young Musicians Academy, supported by the city of Seoul.
Seungwon Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, and started taking piano lessons at the age of 4. When she was 6 years old, she won the third prize in the Choonchoo Music Magazine company competition. Seungwon entered the prep school of the Korea National University of Arts (KNUA) and gave her debut concert at the Seoul Art Centre. She has won numerous prizes, including the first prize in the Hankook Daily News competition, and the Bechstein-Samick Piano competition. Seungwon then attended Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School, and in 2006, upon entering Konkuk University on scholarship, she chose to study music education.
Inspired by today's concert, artist Diana King showed us ten sketches she had worked on during the concert. Peter Horsfield was also inspired by the performance and sent in this submission:
Blistering Bartok
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Frantic and frenetically glides her bow upon the strings:
high-pitched squeals and sharp glissandi, jagged intervals she sings. Jarring discords wrench the gut, in virtuoso sliding scales, broken bowstring like a disembodied whiplash cracks a trail. Piano keys crash louder, faster, dissipating far and wide energy's percussive spread; unstoppable the music's tide. Briefly in Adagio, the sounds are softer, slow, sustained, wailing in appassionato, like her hair, on edge, and splayed. In amongst atonal crunching, C sharp minor plays a hand: tragic mood and dark foreboding grip me with an iron band. Out of comfort zone I'm catapulted with a force so strong – as the pace accelerates, exhilarates, I'm drawn along irresistibly: our artist, too, is influenced by this, sketches at a speed unparalleled; ten pictures capture bliss. Peter Horsfield 13/11/2014 |
Inspired by the lunchtime concert performed at Leatherhead Methodist Church on 13th November2014 by Sara Cubarsi, violin, and Seungwon Lee, piano.
This concert provided a strange, jangled resonance with my turbulent state of mind, elicited by the present state of chaos at home, in the midst of building work – from which I was grateful to make a temporary escape.
This concert provided a strange, jangled resonance with my turbulent state of mind, elicited by the present state of chaos at home, in the midst of building work – from which I was grateful to make a temporary escape.
Concert at Home
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Eric Wong is the violinist and Elizabeth DeMio the pianist is this performance of
Bartók's Sonata for Violin and Piano No 1 in C sharp minor:
Bartók's Sonata for Violin and Piano No 1 in C sharp minor:
The performance of Saint-Saëns' Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso is Janine Jansen, playing with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam:
