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Performers
Performers at the 2012 Paxos International Music Festival include:
Yolanda Bruno (violin)
Yolanda Bruno was born in Canada and began playing the violin at the age of five. Twice winner of the Canadian Music Competition, she has been a finalist at the Stulberg International String Competition and was winner of the McGill Concerto Competition in 2011. Yolanda has won numerous awards and scholarships and has played with Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Thirteen Strings Chamber Ensemble and McGill Symphony Orchestra.
Bruno has worked with members of the Alban Berg Quartet and Guaneri String Quartet and has performed with Antonio Lysy, Chris Constanza (St. Lawrence String Quartet), Philip Dukes (Nash Ensemble), and Menahem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio). She has performed in festivals across Canada and in Holland, Italy, France, Germany and the UK.
As a recipient of the Lloyd Carr-Harris Scholarship, Yolanda studied with Jonathan Crow at McGill University in Montreal. Yolanda is currently supported by the Sylva Gelber Foundation while pursuing studies with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Pau Codina (cello)
Pau Codina was born in 1988 in Barcelona, and began studying the cello at the age of five with Eulalia Subirà. Other teachers to date have included Ivan Chiffoleau, Daniel Grosgurin, Peter Thiemann and Louise Hopkins. Pau is presently studying in Belgium at the Queen Elizabeth College of Music with Professor Gary Hoffman, having graduated from the Yehudi Menuhin School in 2006, and from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with first class honours in 2010.
Over the course of his career so far he has taken part in several international music festivals such as the Manchester Cello and Chamber Music Festival and the Kronberg Cello Festival. He has also performed extensively throughout Spain, England and Germany, in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room, the Pau Casals Auditorium, and the
Palau de la Musica Catalana Concert Hall in Barcelona. He has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras such as the Barcelona Sinfonietta, the Empordà Chamber Orchestra, the Andorra Chamber Orchestra, the
Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest.
Away from the concert platform, Pau has won several competitions and awards. He won the MBF’s Guilhermina Suggia Award in both 2004 & 2007, the Geoffrey Shaw Scholarship, the Martin Musical Scholarship, the Kronberg Cello Festival
Schlosskonzert prize, and both third prize and the critic’s prize in the
Primer Palau Competition in Barcelona.
Lara Dodds-Eden (piano)
On completion of her undergraduate studies in Australia Lara was offered a full scholarship for postgraduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, studying with Caroline Palmer. During her time in London she has appeared in recital with singers and instrumentalists at venues including Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room, the Royal Opera House Crush Room, St. John Smith Square, the Barbican, St James’ Piccadilly and LSO St Lukes. She has performed in masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Bengt Forsberg, Sir Thomas Allen, Tabea Zimmerman, Helmut Deutsch, Iain Burnside, Bernard Greenhouse and the Kungsbacka Trio.
In February 2011, Lara performed at the Royal Festival Hall with violist Rosalind Ventris and they have since performed at a number of music societies around Britain on the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme. In 2012-2013, Rosalind and Lara will appear at the Wigmore Hall courtesy of the Kirckman Concert Society; they will attend masterclasses at IMS Prussia Cove with Steven Isserlis, David Waterman and Rita Wagner, and at Aldeburgh with Menahem Pressler; they will perform across Europe in the Holland Music Sessions New Artists on Tour Series, and will perform widely across Britain through the Live Music Now and Countess of Munster Recital Schemes. (See her own website,
www.laradoddseden.com.)
Mae Heydorn (mezzo-alto)
Mae Heydorn was chosen for the Making Music - Philip and Dorothy Green Award for young concert artists and won first prize in the British Schubert Society’s Song competition.
She has given recitals in the Barbican Hall, St Martin in the Fields, in the Oxford Lieder Festival and for the Music in Oxford series. With British Youth Opera she covered the role of Bianca in Britten’s
The Rape of Lucretia.
Mae has been a soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall and sung the solo part of Britten’s
Phaedra with the Southbank Sinfonia. Future engagements include the role of ‘The Woodpecker’ in
The Cunning Little Vixen at Glyndebourne as well as the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus 2012 and performances of Elgar’s
The Kingdom, Mozart’s
Coronation Mass, Dvorak’s
Stabat Mater, Handel’s
Messiah and lied recitals in Oxford and Greece. In the autumn Mae is engaged at Wexford Opera. (See her own website,
www.maeheydorn.com.)
Rosalind Ventris (viola)
Described as a ‘remarkable talent’ for her performance of Mozart’s
Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Tasmin Little, twenty-three year old British violist Rosalind Ventris is quickly emerging as one of the most promising young artists of her generation. Aged 17, she was the youngest competitor at the 2006 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and Workshop, where she received the Gwynne Edwards Memorial Prize for the most promising British entrant, and the EUCO prize. She made her London concerto debut the following year, performing Hindemith’s Viola Concerto
Der Schwanendreher.
Rosalind is currently based in London, giving concerts throughout the UK, and abroad. Forthcoming engagements include performances at the Wigmore Hall London, the Slovak Philharmonic Bratislava,
Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and the Salzburg Festival. (See her own website,
www.rosalindventris.com.)
Katie Zagórski (flute)
Katie Zagórski graduated with first class honours from the ANU School of Music before taking up a scholarship position at the Australian National Academy of Music. She has been a finalist in the New Zealand Flute Competition, the ABC Young Performer of the Year Award, a winner of the Victorian Flute Guild Competition and a winner of the Australian International Flute Competition.
In addition to an active chamber music and solo career, Katie has played principal flute with the Australian Youth Orchestra and frequently plays with the Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras. She has performed concerti with Orchestra Victoria and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, has been an artist in residence at The Banff Centre, Canada, and competed in the Carl Nielsen International Flute Competition, Denmark, 2010. In 2011, Katie was a Sydney Symphony Fellow and in 2012 has been on contract with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra as Associate Principal Flute.