Sunday 13 October 3.00 pm
Leyth Elmani (violin)
Yuri Zhislin (viola)
James Dew (cello)
Marco Procacci (piano)*
Max Maisky (piano)**
Beethoven: Violin sonata in C minor Op 30 no 2 (27')*
Allegro / Adagio / Scherzo / Finale
Brahms: Piano quartet in G minor Op 25 (40')**
Allegro / Intermezzo / Andante / Rondo
Leyth Elmani is a 21-year-old Palestinian-Lebanese violinist. He started playing the violin when he was 4 years old in Riyadh until he migrated to Dubai, where he continued his musical studies. He studied with Syrian pedagogue Riad Kudsi, and later studied with Finnish violinist Eva Gräsbeck. During his time in Dubai, he has been won multiple competitions within and outside the gulf region, including the GCC music competition, where he was awarded the first prize for 8 consecutive years and being awarded the life-time award for strings in the 2020 Young Musicians of the Gulf held in Bahrain. He has also been awarded the first prize in the Gyumri competition in Armenia at the age of 14, and the third prize award in the Vaclav Houdecek competition in Prague.Leyth is currently a fourth-year undergraduate student at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Yuri Zhislin and he plays on a 1784 Gaspare Lorenzini allievo Guadagnini kindly loaned to him from Florian Leonhard.
Yuri Zhislin enjoys an active and illustrious career as soloist and chamber musician. In 1991, Yuri entered the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with his father and later Dr Andrievsky, winning the title of the BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year in 1993. He made his recital debut at the New York Carnegie Weill Hall in 2014 and appeared at the major concert venues throughout Europe, the USA, South America, Australia and Japan. His discography includes a recital CD released in 2005 on the SOMM label, a violin/viola Duos CD for the Naxos label in 2009, and a string trio CD for the Nymbus Alliance label with Dmitry Sitkovetsky on violin and Luigi Piovano on cello. A keen chamber musician, Yuri has worked with such artists as Maria-Joao Pires, Maxim Vengerov, Barry Douglas and Natalie Clein among many others.. Yuri is a professor of violin and viola at the Royal College of Music in London and is in high demand as a visiting professor at the European Summer Academies.
James Dew is a 22-year-old cellist from Bognor Regis and a fourth-year undergraduate student at the Royal College of Music, studying with Raphael Wallfisch as an RCM Scholar. He was born in 2002 in Italy, and started to play the cello at the age of 7, attending the RCM Junior department and studying with James Halsey. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain from 2019 to 2021 and played in the BBC Proms in 2019 and 2021. He was awarded first prize in the UNESCO International Music Competition citta' di Palmanova in May 2023. He has plays a 1783 William Forster cello kindly loaned by James Halsey.
Coming from a family of amateur musicians, Marco Procacci was thrown early on into to the world of classical music. It was at the age of 6, that he started his journey in music with Professor A. Luvai, the director of the Kenyan Conservatoire. Over the years, he had the opportunity to work with numerous professors that have significantly contributed to his growth as a musician. From 2015 to 2018, he attended lessons with Aquiles Delle Vigne at the ‘Accademia Internazionale Piano Aquiles Delle Vigne' in Coimbra, Portugal. He also attended lessons with professors such as Nina Tichman, Nikita Fitenko, Manuel Araujo, Giuliano Mazzoccante and Carlo Palese. Between 2018 and 2022 he completed an undergraduate degree graduating with highest marks and honours under the guidance of Prof. Alessandra Torchiani at the Conservatory of Rome. Currently, he is studying at the Royal College of Music in London with Prof. Mengyang Pan.
Maximilian Maisky, born in 2004, is a Belgian-Italian pianist. He started playing piano at the age of 4 with Lyl Tiempo, and for several years he was a student of Hagit Hassid-Kerbel. At the age of 13 he became one of the first students of the newly opened Musica Mundi School in Waterloo, Belgium, where he continued to study with Hagit Hassid-Kerbel and took regular masterclasses with Jacques Rouvier. He regularly performs with his father, Mischa Maisky, and his older sister, Lily Maisky. He has performed in concert halls such as Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Philharmonie of Berlin and Bozar in Brussels. In the summer of 2024 he made his debut in the Verbier Festival performing chamber music with his older siblings Lily and Sascha Miasky. As of September 2023, he is an undergraduate RCM Scholar at the Royal College of Music under Dmitri Alexeev and Vitaly Pisarenko
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