classical music, chamber music, liverpool, merseyside, concerts
Monday 20 April 2009
at 7.30pmRowena Calvert ~ cello
and Alison Rhind ~ piano
J.S. Bach: Sonata for Cello & Keyboard in D, BWV1028
Beethoven: Sonata for Cello & Piano in A, Op.12 No.2
Schumann: Adagio & Allegro, Op.70
Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in d minor, Op.40
Rowena studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Leonid Gorokhov where she performed in the Kronberg Cello Festival and the UNESCO celebrations in Paris. She won the Jellineck Award for Young Soloists and had masterclasses with masters such as Rostropovich, Steven Isserlis and Bernard Greenhouse. In this time she performed as a soloist in the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall and performed concertos with seven orchestras throughout the UK including the London Mozart Players. She went on to the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Paul Watkins and was a National String Finalist of BBC Young Musicians 2002. Then after half a year in India, where she performed for the British Council and did her television premier of the Vivaldi Double concerto, she returned to the UK to study with Hannah Roberts at the Royal Northern College of Music. After graduating with a first degree (honours) and receiving 100% in her undergraduate final recital she was awarded the Leonard Rose Award 2006. Since then she has won a further thirteen awards for her solo playing.
Alison Rhind was educated at Chetham’s School of Music, Oxford University and the Guildhall School of Music where she studied with Edith Vogel. From 1993 until 2006 she was the accompanist at the Yehudi Menuhin School where she accompanied masterclasses given by Yehudi Menuhin, Daniil Schafran, Janos Starker, Steven Isserlis, Mstislav Rostropovich and Andras Schiff amongst others.
She is the regular accompanist of Nicola Benedetti with whom she has played for the last nine years.
She regularly appears on radio, television and major venues all over the world.
This concert was made possible with generous support from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust
