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June 20 @ 9:58 am
Friday, 01 July 2022 | 7.30pm
Following the enthusiastic reception received by the trio of Ilya Kondratiev, Yuri Kalnits and Julia Morneweg in April, they are joined for this concert by horn player Mark Smith and violist Lisa Bucknell.
“A perfect afternoon of music”. “Amazing!” These are just some of the audience reactions to what has rapidly becoming a favourite amongst London’s classical music lovers since the series’ inception in 2016. ChamberMusicBox combines leading international artists with imaginative and daring repertoire choices to present programmes which aim to combine the much-loved with unfamiliar gems, all in a relaxed and inclusive setting.
Yuri Kalnits A recipient of two prestigious Diapason d’Or awards for his recording of Weinberg’s Violin Sonatas, Yuri Kalnits was described by reviewers as ‘an interpreter of the highest order’. He has participated in festivals throughout the world such as Festival Musicales Internationales Guil- Durance (France), Young Artist Peninsula Music Festival (USA), Festival Cziffra (France), Waterford International Music Festival (Ireland), Irina Kandinskaya and Friends (Russia), Pharos Trust Festival (Cyprus), Festival “Musica da camera” (Germany), Festival International Ciudad de Ubeda (Spain), Loch Shiel Spring Festival (Scotland) and has played at many important venues including The Purcell Room, St. John’s Smith Square, Barbican, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Small Hall of Moscow Conservatoire, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and Suntory Hall. Tours have taken him to Russia, Ireland, Germany, Israel, France, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, the USA, Hong Kong and Cyprus. A dedicated chamber musician, Yuri has worked among others with such artists as Ivry Gitlis, Eduard Brunner, Emanuel Abbühl, Roger Chase and Alexander Chaushian. He was a member of the Erato Piano Trio for six years and now co-directs ChamberMusicBox, as well as being in great demand as a guest concertmaster.
Mark Smith trained at the Royal College of Music in London where he was awarded the RCM’s Douglas Moore Horn Prize. Upon graduation, he joined the busy freelance scene in London, working with the various BBC orchestras, Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, working in recording studios and playing for shows in London’s West End. He appeared with Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt and Music Theatre Wales and founded a wind octet (Harmoniemusic of London) which made ground-breaking recordings of the virtuosic Wind Octets by Mozart’s contemporary Joseph Myslivecek, for Virgin Classics. In 1998, Mark joined Esbjerg Ensemble in Denmark where he remained for five years before spending a year with Denmark’s National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen before returning to the freelance scene in the UK in 2004. As a chamber musician, Mark has been a frequent guest for Fine Arts Brass and the Haffner Winds and made the world premiere recording of Joseph Holbrooke’s rediscovered Horn Trio from 1907, for Naxos Records. In 2012 Mark played the Solo Horn part in the World Premiere of Stockhausen’s extraordinary and bizarre opera, Mittwoch aus Licht for Birmingham Opera
Julia Morneweg Born and raised in Cologne, Julia trained at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and at the Royal College of Music, under the tutelage of Raphael Wallfisch, Klaus Heitz and Leonid Gorokhov. She also performed in masterclasses with artists such as Bernard Greenhouse, Alexander Ivashkin, Lluis Claret and Salvatore Accardo. Julia now enjoys a busy career as a soloist and chamber musician that regularly sees her perform at prestigious venues including the London’s Southbank Centre, St David’s Hall Cardiff, St John’s Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Zurich Tonhalle, Martinu Hall Prague, Trieste Opera House, Shanghai’s Daning Theatre and The Pharos Trust (Cyprus). As a chamber musician she has collaborated with distinguished players such as Roger Vignoles, Oleg Poliansky, Roger Chase, Madeleine Mitchell, Joan Enric Lluna, Emanuel Abbühl, Vadim Tsibulevsky and Anna Kandinskaya. After 12 years as cellist of the highly acclaimed Erato Piano Trio, she is now joint Artistic Director of ChamberMusicBox. She has recorded for Toccata Classics and has also been a guest with distinguished UK and European orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the Orchestra of La Scala Milan.
Lisa Bucknell enjoys a varied career as a guest artist with chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the UK and abroad. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with the Sacconi Quartet and Manchester Collective, is the principal solo violist for The Opera Story, and performed in the Alan Bennett play Untold Stories at the National Theatre and on the West End. Lisa has enjoyed trials with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and performs regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Lisa holds both an Artist Diploma and a Master of Performance with Distinction from the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Simon Rowland-Jones. During this time, she was a competitor in the 2016 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, a prizewinner at the North London Festival of Music, and a finalist in the Kenneth Loveland and Brian Boak Outstanding Performer Awards. A firm believer that education is never complete, Lisa has been fortunate to enjoy lessons with many leading violists around the world and has had master classes with luminaries including Thomas Reibl, Nobuko Imai, and Antoine Tamestit.
Ilya Kondratiev is the prize-winner of several renowned international music competitions, including Franz Liszt Budapest, Franz Liszt Weimar, Tbilisi, Brant Birmingham and the Chappell Gold Medal in 2016. Born in Russia, he studied in Samara and at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory before he moved to London in order to further his studies at the Royal College of Music under Vanessa Latarche and Sofia Gulyak, graduating with a Master of Performance and an Artist Diploma. Ilya performs extensively as a soloist and chamber music player at venues such as the Great Hall of Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Gasteig Munich, Weimarhalle, Palacio de Festivales de Santander, the Palace of Arts in Budapest and the Great Hall of the Tbilisi Conservatoire. In 2011 Ilya was invited to work with Elisabeth Leonskaya at the Franz Liszt Piano Academy and with Pavel Gililov at the Eppan Piano Academy. Ilya was invited to the ‘Encuentro’ Festival in Santander and in 2016 appeared as a guest artist in the Gumusluk Festival in Turkey, and the Beethoven Music Festival and Academy in Altaussee in Austria. Since 2019 he is a professor at the Royal College of Music.
PROGRAMME:
Johannes Brahms
Trio for piano, violin and horn in E flat major Op. 40
Piano Quartet no. 1 in g minor Op. 25
ARTISTS:
Yuri Kalnits violin | Mark Smith horn | Lisa Bucknell viola | Julia Morneweg cello | Ilya Kondratiev piano
This concert is generously supported by the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust
