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The Dominic Seligman Agency presents violinist Emily Sun and pianist Joseph Havlat in recital. This performance forms part of a series of concerts at the atmospheric and intimate 1901 Arts Club situated on London’s South Bank.
The Dominic Seligman Agency has been producing Private House Concerts both in the UK and internationally for over seven years, and is now proud to present public concerts in London for the first time. 
with musicians from the Royal College of Music, London
ProgrammeDebussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune L.86 arr. Heifetz/Sun Sibelius Six Pieces for Violin and Piano Op.79 (selection) Souvenir Danse caractéristique Berceuse Franck Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano I. Allegretto ben moderato II. Allegro III. Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia IV. Allegretto poco mosso |
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Emily Sun |
Emily's website
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‘Possessed of a superb talent’ (The Australian), with ‘a searing and poetic tone’ (The Guardian), violinist Emily Sun’s powerful sound and compelling, captivating interpretations have won her international renown. Her genuine connection with audiences and engaging presence have thrilled her growing audiences, as she performs as a concerto soloist with leading orchestras, as a chamber musician and recitalist in major concert halls around the globe.
Emily is the 2023 Artist-in-Association with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, with several concerto appearances during the season including the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Violin Concerto. She returns for concertos with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Jaime Martin and Mark Wigglesworth. Her recent debut with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko was highly acclaimed.
Emily’s recent solo album, Nocturnes, was released on ABC Classics/Universal to critical acclaim; it stayed at No.1 in the ARIA Classical Charts for four weeks and was shortlisted for ‘Best Classical Album 2021’ in the ARIA Awards. She features on a Rubicon Classics disc on the works of Robert Kahn which received a 5-star review from BBC Music Magazine, as well as a upcoming concerto release with the London Mozart Players.
As a concerto soloist, Emily has appeared with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Royal Wallonie and Orchestre de Chambre Namur in Europe; Arlington and Arizona Symphonies in the USA; and Shanghai Youth Orchestra and Qingdao Symphony Orchestra in China.
Since her Wigmore Hall recital debut, Emily has performed at the Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Tchaikovsky Great Hall Moscow, Auditorium du Louvre Paris, and Flagey Brussels. Emily was invited to perform at Buckingham Palace alongside Maxim Vengerov in Bach’s Double Violin Concerto at the Royal Gala in the presence of HRH King Charles III, and at the Royal Palace of Brussels in the presence of the King and Queen of Belgium.
Awards and prizes have included the Tagore Gold Medal from the Royal College of Music, the 2018 ABC Young Performers Award (Australia), the 2016 Royal Overseas League Music Competition (UK), and the Brahms (Austria), Yampolsky (Russia) and Lipizer (Italy) international violin competitions. She was a Young Concert Artist for the Tillett Trust, The Worshipful Company of Musicians and City Music Foundation.
Emily studied with Dr Robin Wilson (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), Itzhak Rashkovsky (Royal College of Music, London), Augustin Dumay (Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, Belgium) and received further mentoring from Pinchas Zukerman, Maxim Vengerov and Ivry Gitlis. Emily is a Violin Professor at the Royal College of Music, and has been a jury member of several international violin competitions.
Emily plays a fine 1760 Nicolò Gagliano violin, kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society.
Emily is the 2023 Artist-in-Association with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, with several concerto appearances during the season including the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Violin Concerto. She returns for concertos with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Jaime Martin and Mark Wigglesworth. Her recent debut with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko was highly acclaimed.
Emily’s recent solo album, Nocturnes, was released on ABC Classics/Universal to critical acclaim; it stayed at No.1 in the ARIA Classical Charts for four weeks and was shortlisted for ‘Best Classical Album 2021’ in the ARIA Awards. She features on a Rubicon Classics disc on the works of Robert Kahn which received a 5-star review from BBC Music Magazine, as well as a upcoming concerto release with the London Mozart Players.
As a concerto soloist, Emily has appeared with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Royal Wallonie and Orchestre de Chambre Namur in Europe; Arlington and Arizona Symphonies in the USA; and Shanghai Youth Orchestra and Qingdao Symphony Orchestra in China.
Since her Wigmore Hall recital debut, Emily has performed at the Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Tchaikovsky Great Hall Moscow, Auditorium du Louvre Paris, and Flagey Brussels. Emily was invited to perform at Buckingham Palace alongside Maxim Vengerov in Bach’s Double Violin Concerto at the Royal Gala in the presence of HRH King Charles III, and at the Royal Palace of Brussels in the presence of the King and Queen of Belgium.
Awards and prizes have included the Tagore Gold Medal from the Royal College of Music, the 2018 ABC Young Performers Award (Australia), the 2016 Royal Overseas League Music Competition (UK), and the Brahms (Austria), Yampolsky (Russia) and Lipizer (Italy) international violin competitions. She was a Young Concert Artist for the Tillett Trust, The Worshipful Company of Musicians and City Music Foundation.
Emily studied with Dr Robin Wilson (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), Itzhak Rashkovsky (Royal College of Music, London), Augustin Dumay (Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, Belgium) and received further mentoring from Pinchas Zukerman, Maxim Vengerov and Ivry Gitlis. Emily is a Violin Professor at the Royal College of Music, and has been a jury member of several international violin competitions.
Emily plays a fine 1760 Nicolò Gagliano violin, kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society.
Joseph Havlat |
Joseph's website
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Joseph Havlat was born in Hobart, Australia, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Prof. Joanna MacGregor from 2012-18, where he received his BMus and MMus with distinction, including awards for exceptional merit in studentship and the highest recital mark for a postgraduate pianist.
Joseph has performed in major concert venues around the UK and in Europe, America, Japan and Australia as a soloist and as part of chamber groups. In 2019 he was made a Young Artist at St. John’s Smith Square, a Kirckman Young Artist and also was awarded the first prize in the keyboard section of the Royal Overseas League Music Competition. He is also a Young Artist of the Oxford Lieder Festival alongside fellow Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean, with whom he works regularly in both standard and contemporary Classical spheres. He frequently works as a chamber musician, having performed with musicians such as James Ehnes, Jack Liebeck, William Bennett and Steven Isserlis, and is also a member of the LSO percussion ensemble with whom he has released a CD on the LSO Live label, including the premiere recording of John Adams’ two-piano work ‘Roll Over Beethoven’. Passionate about modern and contemporary music, he is a founding member and original artistic director of contemporary music collective Ensemble x.y.. During his time studying he gave performances of concertos by Ligeti, Messiaen, Stravinsky and others, which has since led him to collaborate with such composers as Thomas Adès, Michael Finnissy, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Gerald Barry, Thomas Larcher and Hans Abrahamsen. He is also an avid composer, having written for the aforementioned ensembles, and views his compositional work as intrinsic to his musical development and interests. In 2021 he played Adès’ ‘In Seven Days’ with the LSO under the baton of the composer, and appeared with the BBC Philharmonic giving the premiere of Robert Laidlow’s piano concerto ‘Warp’, broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Most recently, he has recorded Steve Law’s Piano Concerto with the RSNO for release by Parma Recordings. Current post-Covid projects include the performance and subsequent recording of all of Finnissy's piano concertos with conductor Jack Sheen, a short album of piano music by William Marsey, and the writing of a song cycle on texts of Australian poet Gwen Harwood. |