Tue 3 Oct 2017, 2pmUkaria Cultural Centre

Pinchas

Michael IeracePiano

Michael Ierace has been described as a ‘talent to watch’ and his playing as ‘revelatory’. Born and raised in Adelaide, he completed his university education through to Honours level studying with Stefan Ammer and Lucinda Collins. Michael has had much success in local and national Australian competitions including winning the David Galliver Award, the Geoff rey Parsons Award, the MBS Young Performers Award and was a major prize winner in the Australian National Piano Award.

In 2009, he made his professional debut with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in the presence of the Premier of South Australia and the Polish Ambassador.

In 2007, he received the prestigious Elder Overseas Scholarship from the University of Adelaide. This enabled him to move to London and study at the Royal College of Music (RCM) with Professor Andrew Ball. He was selected as an RCM Rising Star and was awarded the Hopkinson Silver medal in the RCM’s Chappell Competition. From 2010-12, he was on the staff as a Junior Fellow in Piano Accompaniment.

In the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition, he won the Keyboard Final and the Accompanist Prize – the only pianist in the competition’s distinguished history to have received both awards. In the International Haverhill Sinfonia Soloists Competition, he took second place plus many specialist awards. Michael has performed extensively throughout London and the UK and twice at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Much sought after as an associate artist for national and international guests, Michael is currently a staff pianist at the Elder Conservatorium.

Yebin YooViolin

17-year-old Melbourne violinist Yebin Yoo is a full music scholar at Firbank Grammar and extends her music studies at the Australian National Academy of Music, where she studies under Dr Robin Wilson. She has previously studied with John Curro AM MBE.

Yebin was the winner of the 2016 Gisborne International Music Competition at the youngest age in the competition history, also receiving the Pultron Composites Award for the Best Performance of a New Zealand work. She also won the 3MBS ‘The Talent’ competition, which followed with a recital debut at the Hawthorn Arts Centre, and the Preston Youth Concerto Competition, also receiving the Conductor’s Choice, Audience Choice awards and a special invitation to perform the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the orchestra the following year. She has appeared as a concert soloist with the Preston Symphony, Queensland Youth Symphony and Melbourne Youth Orchestra. In previous years, Yebin was the recipient of the Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Award, John Chandler Memorial Award, Melbourne Youth Music Excellence Award for Virtuosity.

Yebin was recently chosen by audition to study with Professor Miriam Fried at the Kronberg Academy Masterclasses in Germany. She has been invited to perform for various events and festivals, including a live broadcast recital for 3MBS FM on International Women’s Day, Melbourne Festival, Lucas Parklands Festival, 3MBS Mozart Marathon, Australian Chamber Orchestra Academy and also was the inaugural ‘Young Performer of the Year’ for the ‘Music in the Round’ concert series.

P i n c h a s Z u k e r m a n M a s t e r c l a s s

A D E L A I D E S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Pinchas ZukermanPinchas Zukerman is equally renowned as a violinist, violist, conductor, pedagogue and chamber musician. His 2016-2017 season, his eighth as Principal Guest Conductor of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and his fi rst as Artist-in-Association with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, includes over 100 concerts worldwide. In January 2017, he serves as Artistic Director of the New Jersey Symphony’s Winter Festival. Guest conducting and soloist engagements include the Cleveland Orchestra and Boston, Pittsburgh and Montreal Symphonies, plus overseas appearances with the Berlin and Israel Philharmonics, Camerata Salzburg, Korean Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Miyazaki Festival Orchestra.

Pinchas Zukerman is devoted to the next generation of musicians, and has introduced innovative teaching programs in London and Israel. He chairs the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music, where he has pioneered the use of distance-learning technology in the arts. As Music Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (1999-2015), he established the NAC Institute for Orchestra Studies and the Summer Music Institute encompassing the Young Artists, Conductors and Composers Programs.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1948, Pinchas Zukerman arrived in America in 1962 where he studied at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian. His discography contains over 100 titles, and has earned him two Grammy awards and 21 nominations. His complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Philips were released in July 2016, in a 22-disc set spanning Baroque, Classical and Romantic concertos and chamber music. Other recent releases include Brahms’s Double Concerto with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Amanda Forsyth, recorded live at Ottawa’s Southam Hall.

This masterclass runs for approximately three hours and includes a 20-minute interval.

Wienawski Légende, Op.17 Samuel Blanchard-Jackson, violin

Jeno Hubay Carmen: Fantasie brillante Grace Wu, violin

Rebecca Clarke

Viola Sonata Aiden Sullivan, viola

Brahms Violin Concerto: III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace—Poco più presto

Yebin Yoo, violin

Ukaria Cultural CentreTue 3 Oct 20172pm

Pinchas Zukerman Masterclass

Grace WuViolin

Grace has been playing violin since age six, and is currently studying with Head of Strings at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Dr Robin Wilson.

In 2016, she performed with the ANAM Orchestra and was a member of the Australian Chamber Music Orchestra’s Academy program on full scholarship.

Earlier this year, at age 13, she won the Melbourne Recital Centre Bach Competition and was a semi-fi nalist in the HKIVS/Shlomo Mintz International Violin Competition.

Aiden SullivanViola

Aiden is currently in his third year studying a Bachelor of Music at Adelaide University. He has been playing viola for the past 13 years and after studying with Keith Crellin for the past seven years, has recently begun tutorage with Stephen King. Aiden has been a member of the Adelaide Youth Orchestra (2010 - 2015), AdYO String Quartet (2013 - 2015) and the Elder Conservatorium Symphony and Chamber Orchestras (2015 – present). Over the past four years Aiden has participated in many Australian Youth Orchestra programs including Young Symphonists, where he held a Principal position (2013), National Music Camp, where he held an Associate Principal position (2013, 2015 and 2017) and the Advanced Chamber Music program as part of the 2015 National Music Camp. In 2016, Aiden spent a month touring China with the Australian International Opera Company, performed as a casual player with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and won equal fi rst place in the Recitals Australia Lunch Time Series fi nals. This year Aiden will be performing in both the February and July seasons of the Australian Youth Orchestra, with concerts in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne under the baton of Andrew Gourlay and Nigel Westlake. More recently he has performed in the Adelaide Art Orchestra in collaboration with the State Opera as well as in the Unley Symphony Orchestra as a soloist.

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Samuel Blanchard-JacksonViolin

Sam is a 19-year-old violinist currently studying under the guidance of Elizabeth Layton at the Elder Conservatorium. Having been raised by a piano teacher, music was something he was born into. From the age of 4 he had begun lessons in both violin and piano showing signs of talent to which his mother primarily helped him pursue for the majority of his life. This passion that was shared between him and his mother eventually helped him land a full scholarship to attend Concordia College to further pursue his musical talents.

Sam showed great promise winning the AMEB violin prizes for grades 5, 7 and 8 and many Eisteddfod prizes. His most recent exam was his AMusA which he achieved in 2015. Throughout his years of playing the violin, Sam has been an avid member of the Adelaide Youth Orchestra programs as well as participating in the Australian Youth Orchestra programs for a number of years. This love of orchestral music has also helped shape his interest in violin. Sam’s hopes and dreams for the future include studying abroad to expand his skillset and travel the world sharing his passion for music.

Samuel Blanchard-Jackson ViolinGrace Wu ViolinAiden Sullivan ViolaYebin Yoo Violin Michael Ierace Piano