Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 22nd May 2025
12.30 lunchtime
Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church KT22 8AY
Parking: Swan Centre multi storey KT22 7RH
Radu Kis
violin
awaiting info
piano
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for Piano & Violin No 21 in e minor, K304/300c (1778)
I Allegro
II Tempo di Menuetto
Sonata for Piano & Violin No 18 in G major, K301/293a (1778)
I Allegro con spirito
II Allegro
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for Piano & Violin No 21 in e minor, K304/300c (1778)
I Allegro
II Tempo di Menuetto
Sonata for Piano & Violin No 18 in G major, K301/293a (1778)
I Allegro con spirito
II Allegro
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
Radu Kis
Radu Kis is a young Romanian violinist who is proud to hand out, at only 22, a business card representing the foundation of a successful career. He is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music in the violin group of the prestigious professor Remus Azoitei.
Coming from a musical family, Radu started his studies early in Cluj-Napoca, Romania with Bălaș Felicia. But the one who left the deepest mark on him was Sorin Gherbanoshi. The complex education he has received from a very young age, thanks to his father who was a concertmaster at the Romanian National Opera of Cluj-Napoca, and his mother who is a violinist at the same institution, made it possible for the 9-year-old Radu to make his debut as a soloist of the“Transylvania” Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj.
Soon, his own musical achievements started to show, studying at Sigismund Toduta National Music High School. From 2009 to 2015, Radu Kis was continuously awarded for his Excellent Results by the Romanian Ministry of Education.
During his pre-university studies, he achieved orchestral experience with the Transylvanian Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca, with the Youth Orchestra of Romania, and the Paul Constantinescu Philharmonic Orchestra of Ploiesti.
The highest point of Radu’s competition activity was achieved in Hungary at the television broadcast competition“Virtuózok”, which brought into his record of achievements the first prize and the characterisation: “A man, a violin. These two coordinates are just enough to create a universe. And when the man is Radu Kis a universe is born where fascinating sonorities are found, coming off sound corridors and densities meant to subdue the public.”
Since 2018, Radu Kis has been attending university studies at London's Royal Academyof Music, where he has studied with major names such as Jack Liebeck, David Rowland, Felix Andrievsky, Maciej Rakowski, and Itzhak Rashkovsky.
Radu Kis's passion and studies of the violin and music will continue, the next achievement his graduation from the RAM, in 2023.
Also, under the professor’s guidance, Radu Kis is preparing intensely in order to participate in the famous "George Enescu” international competition that will take place in May 2022 in Bucharest, Romania.
Coming from a musical family, Radu started his studies early in Cluj-Napoca, Romania with Bălaș Felicia. But the one who left the deepest mark on him was Sorin Gherbanoshi. The complex education he has received from a very young age, thanks to his father who was a concertmaster at the Romanian National Opera of Cluj-Napoca, and his mother who is a violinist at the same institution, made it possible for the 9-year-old Radu to make his debut as a soloist of the“Transylvania” Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj.
Soon, his own musical achievements started to show, studying at Sigismund Toduta National Music High School. From 2009 to 2015, Radu Kis was continuously awarded for his Excellent Results by the Romanian Ministry of Education.
During his pre-university studies, he achieved orchestral experience with the Transylvanian Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca, with the Youth Orchestra of Romania, and the Paul Constantinescu Philharmonic Orchestra of Ploiesti.
The highest point of Radu’s competition activity was achieved in Hungary at the television broadcast competition“Virtuózok”, which brought into his record of achievements the first prize and the characterisation: “A man, a violin. These two coordinates are just enough to create a universe. And when the man is Radu Kis a universe is born where fascinating sonorities are found, coming off sound corridors and densities meant to subdue the public.”
Since 2018, Radu Kis has been attending university studies at London's Royal Academyof Music, where he has studied with major names such as Jack Liebeck, David Rowland, Felix Andrievsky, Maciej Rakowski, and Itzhak Rashkovsky.
Radu Kis's passion and studies of the violin and music will continue, the next achievement his graduation from the RAM, in 2023.
Also, under the professor’s guidance, Radu Kis is preparing intensely in order to participate in the famous "George Enescu” international competition that will take place in May 2022 in Bucharest, Romania.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for Piano & Violin No 21 in e minor, K304/300c (1778)
I Allegro • II Tempo di Menuetto [15:10]
We present an historic recording made by the old USSR State TV & Radio in 1983.
Let's listen to Oleg Kagan, violin, with Sviatoslav Richter, piano:
Sonata for Piano & Violin No 21 in e minor, K304/300c (1778)
I Allegro • II Tempo di Menuetto [15:10]
We present an historic recording made by the old USSR State TV & Radio in 1983.
Let's listen to Oleg Kagan, violin, with Sviatoslav Richter, piano:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for Piano & Violin No 18 in G major, K301/293a (1778)
I Allegro con spirito • II Allegro [11:40]
Here is a recording by the Korean violinist Ji Won Song, and Soyou Hong, piano. This is her 2017 prizewinner's concert as she had won that year's Isangyun Competition. The concert took place in the Kumho Art Hall's as part of their Beautiful Thursday Concerts Series:
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15 May 2025 - Ellen Baumring-Gledhill, cello, Dafydd Chapman. piano, both from the Royal Academy of Music - click here
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29 May 2025 - Lin Xu-Zhang, piano, from the Royal Academy of Music - click here
