RECITAL NO. 9

DANIEL ROWLAND – violin
PIETER JACOBS – piano

Saturday, 23 October, at 20:00

"The emotions, smouldering passions, the melancholy ... Rowland transported us with daring and severity into the composer's soul." – Paul Boekkooi, Pretoria News 9-'07

"Glorious playing ... ravishing in its finesse." – Tim Ashley, The Guardian, UK

   

Daniel Rowland was born in London in 1972 and grew up in The Netherlands, studying with Davina van Wely and Viktor Liberman in Amsterdam and with Igor Oistrakh in Brussels, as well as working intensively with Herman Krebbers, Ruggiero Ricci and Ivry Gitlis. Having won various national and international prizes, such as the Brahms Prize of the Brahms Society in BadenBaden and the prestigious Oskar Back competition at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, he made his concerto debut at the Concertgebouw in 1992 performing the Tchaikovsky concerto. This launched a busy international career as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, director and teacher. In 2009 his recording of the Vivaldi/Piazzolla 8 Seasons was released to critical acclaim ("to understand the meaning of fabulous, listen to these Piazzolla Seasons" – Die Burger). This recording, with the Stellenbosch University Camerata, went on to win the Best Popular Classical Album in the prestigious South African Music Awards 2010. He will be accompanied by Pieter Jacobs, a graduate of the University of Pretoria, who then furthered his studies at Yale in the United States, where he pursued his performing career with considerable success as a soloist and chamber musician in Boston, Cambridge and New Haven before returning to South Africa to perform and teach at the University of Pretoria.

PROGRAMME

SCHUMANN	Sonata in A minor Op 105
CLARA SCHUMANN	3 Romances
BARTOK	Sonata for solo violin, dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin (1947)
BEETHOVEN	Sonata in A major Op. 47 ("Kreutzer")

Booking opens on 5 July.

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