The new Yamaha grand piano at Redlands College will feel the master’s touch when 2008 international piano competition winner Konstantin Shamray plays in concert at the school from 7pm on Tuesday, May 15.
Mr Shamray is known for impeccable technique and a sublime touch. He will be joined by the school’s head of performance music, clarinetist Dr Peter Handsworth to perform Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertante and Brahm’s autumnal sonata in F minor.
Mr Handsworth is a recipient of a QEII silver jubilee trust award and ABC young performers award. He studied with Professor Wolfgang Meyer at Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany and has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musicia, and teacher. Mr Handsworth became senior lecturer in woodwind and subsequently head of the school of music at Monash University, Melbourne.
Russian born Shamray is the first and only competitor to date in the 40 years of the Sydney International Piano Competition to win both first and people’s choice prizes, in addition to six other prizes. He partnered with the Australian String quartet for its 13-concert national aubscription tour of 2009 and recorded CDs for the labels Naxos, ABC Classics and Fonoforum.
He has performed with the Russian National Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Orchestre National de Lyon, Prague Philharmonia, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony among others under the baton of distinguished conductors including Vladimir Spivakov, Dmitry Liss, Tugan Sokhiev, Nicholas Milton and Alexandr Vedernikov.
Mr Handsworth said it was an honour to welcome Konstantin Shamray to Redlands College for this special event and to celebrate the addition of the piano.
“This is a huge opportunity to showcase the fine arts on offer at Wellington Point and for Redlands College to celebrate being a part of that fine arts community,” Mr Handsworth said.
Admission is free but booking is required on trybooking.com/VCGH The concert will be held in M block.
