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FUAM 30th Anniversary Concert

Date
Date
Friday 7 February 2020, 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Laura van der Heijden (cello) Katya Apekisheva (piano)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Cello Sonata no 1 in F major, op 5/1
Johann Sebastian Bach - Gamba Sonata no 3, BWV1029
Interval
Claude Debussy - Cello Sonata
Nadia Boulanger - 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano
Francis Poulenc - Cello Sonata

In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Friends of University Art and Music, we are delighted to welcome Laura van der Heijden and Katya Apekisheva to Leeds for this special recital.

Laura van der Heijden has made a name for herself as a very special emerging talent, captivating audiences and critics alike with the sensitivity of her sound and interpretations. At the age of 15, Laura won the BBC Young Musician of the Year and has since performed with such distinguished musicians as Sir Andrew Davis, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Kirill Karabits, Huw Watkins, Krzysztof Chorzelski, and the Brodsky Quartet. In the past few years, Laura has performed with leading orchestras including the Philharmonia, the Hallé Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic and the BBC Scottish Symphony. Laura’s 2018 debut album 1948, featuring Russian music for cello and piano with pianist Petr Limonov, won the 2018 Edison Klassiek Award (broadcast live on Dutch TV), and the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Newcomer Award. Laura graduated from Cambridge University in 2019, and is in the middle of a busy 2019/20 season, which sees her perform with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Aldeburgh, the Tchaikovsky Symphony in Moscow, the Prague Symphony in the UK, the London Philharmonic and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras in the UK, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the US.

Born in Moscow, Katya Apekisheva attended the Gnessin Music School for exceptionally gifted children making her stage debut at the age of 12. She continued her studies in Jerusalem at the Rubin Music Academy and later at the Royal College of Music in London. From these auspicious beginnings she went on to be a prize winner of the Leeds International Piano competition and has gone on to enjoy a career performing with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Symphony, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, working with renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, David Shallon, Jan Latham-Koenig and Alexander Lazarev. As a recording artist, Katya has received widespread critical acclaim for her interpretations from Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice award and International Piano Magazine’s Critics’ choice to Classic FM’s CD of the week as well as a Classical Brit award to name but a few.

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds

Tickets: £23 - advance
£25 - on the door
Free - students and under 16s