About this Event
Friday 22nd May | 1pm
Alessandra Amorino (flute) and Yoshie Kawamura (piano)
Alessandra Amorino
Image | Alessandra Amorino | Image provided by promoter
Alessandra Amorino earned an MMus in Flute from the Conservatory of Cagliari (Italy) and a BA in Chamber Music from the Conservatory of Rome (Italy). She was awarded the Berio Prize at the “Severino Gazzelloni Fellowship Competition” 2002, for the best performance of Berio’s “Sequenza I”.
As an expert in contemporary music, she performs as soloist and plays flute(s) in two renowned Italian chamber ensembles: Imago Sonora and Piccola Accademia degli Specchi (PadS) participating in major music festivals across Europe (Rome, Perugia, Trieste in Italy; Kassel in Germany; Middelburg in Zeeland; Klagenfurt in Austria, Goriška Brda in Slovenia), giving several world and Italian premieres of dedicated scores. With PAdS ensemble she recorded four albums (Minimamachta, Centaur Record, USA, 2009; House of Mirrors, Zefir Records, The Netherlands, 2011 and Collision Point, Belarca Records, USA, 2019) She has an international standing and a distinctive track record which includes extensive experience working in orchestras and chamber ensembles (from duo to sextet), with a repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary music.
Yoshie Kawamura
Image | Yoshie Kawamura, pianist | Image provided by promoter
Yoshie was born in Nagoya Japan and has been a resident in the UK since she was 11. She has given many performances worldwide where her main appearances were; in Germany 200th year of celebration for Chopin at Freiburg Musikhochschule, Switzerland Chamber Music Concert at Luzern Marianischer Saal, Berlin Chamber Music Festival Lunchtime Concert Series at Berliner Philharmoniker, and Netherlands International Stichting Apeldoon Festival. She was also invited to join the Berlin Philharmonic Quartet in performing Schumann’s Piano Quintet on their tour of Japan; subsequently she received an invitation from the Poznan Philharmonia to perform as a soloist in Chopin’s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise in a series of concerts in Poland.
She received her Master of Music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and later went to Germany to further her studies with Prof. Mishory at Musikhochschule Freiburg. In 2013 she came back to the UK to receive her second master in Cultural Management at the Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
A LIVE Lit & Phil Event | FREE
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
