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Trio von Radowitz worth a trip north |
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April 26, 2017 |
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The Trio von Radowitz, Amanda Anderson, cello,Florian von Radowitz,
piano, and Sophie Pantzier, violin, based in Hanover, Germany, will tour
British Columba in days ahead, with a 2 p.m.
performance in the Prince Charles Secondary
School Auditorium, S223 18th Avenue, Creston, on
Sunday, April 30.
Tickets are $20 advance at Black Bear Books in
Creston. The program of chamber music will
feature Beethoven's Piano Trio in C Minor, Op.
1, No. 3 and Dvořák,s Piano Trio in E Minor, No.
4, Op. 90, “Dumky.”
"For those of you who love classical music, this
trio is out of this world with professional
players from Europe," said Boundary County music
maven Vicki Blake Thompson. "It will be well
worth the trip to Creston."
Formed in 2015, Trio von Radowitz is comprised
of three passionate and well-established musicians.
Having performed together for over a decade,
pianist Florian von Radowitz and Canadian-born
cellist Amanda Anderson are joined by the
talented violinist, Sophie Pantzier, who was
born into a musical family in Leipzig, Germany.
Pantzier began violin lessons with Andreas
Seidel of the Leipzig String Quartet. She
completed her Bachelor's in Lubeck, Germany,
with Professor Egelhof and her Master's in
Zurich, Switzerland, with Nora Chastain. After
winning competitions, she was awarded a violin
from the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung for four
years during her studies.
Her passion for orchestral music led her to
audition for the esteemed scholarship programs
of the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester Hamburg and
the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She was
successful, and has toured internationally with
both. Pantzier has taken part in masterclasses
with world-renowned violinists Thomas Brandis
and Nora Chastain. In her spare time she enjoys
playing the baroque violin, which she minored in
at university. She holds a permanent position
with the NDR Radiophilharmonie.
Amanda Anderson, who was born in Creston, began
her pursuit of cello performance at the
University of Calgary, studying with Jeehoon Kim
and John Kadz.
Two years later, after attending the masterclass
program at the Centre d'Arts in Orford, Quebec,
with Janos Starker, she decided to embark on a
journey that forever shaped her musical path.
Following her five-year degree with Professor
Peter Hörr at The University of Music and
Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig,
winning a first prize in chamber music and
completing a practicum with The Gewandhaus
Orchestra Leipzig, she furthered her studies in
Weimar with Professor Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt
and attended the elite post-graduate scholarship
program with the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra in Munich.
In 2012, she won a tenured job with the NDR
Radiophilharmonie in Hanover, Germany.
Anderson is an avid chamber musician and has
shared the stage with musicians such as Isabelle
van Keulen, Elisabeth Kufferath, Jonathan Crow,
Olivier Thouin, Charles Foreman and Bence
Boganyi. She has performed at many festivals
including the Rheingau Musik Festival, the
Weidener Max-Reger-Tage, the Boswiler Sommer
Musikfestival, the Banff Centre and the Mountain
View International Festival of Song and Chamber
Music.
She has toured extensively in orchestras
throughout Europe, including with the Bavarian
Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Hamburg
Philharmonic.
Born in Sindelfingen, Germany, in 1978, Florian
von Radowitz began piano lessons in 1984 with
Nora Huzly. He furthered his studies with
Michael Hauber from 1994 to 2000 and with Klaus
Hellwig from 2000 to 2006, and attended
masterclasses with Ilan Gronich, Thomas
Quasthoff, Elza Kolodin and Menahem Pressler.
Having studied at the Mannheim University of
Music and Performing Arts and the Berlin
University of the Arts, where he pursued
performance and pedagogy degrees, he won several
first prizes in the competition “Jugend
musiziert" at the national level, and a second
prize in the competition Giovanni Concertisti in
Rome, Italy.
In 2007, he was presented with a scholarship
from the “Deutscher Musikwettbewerb." He has
done several recordings for prominent radio
stations in Europe and North America and has
also released CDs with Ars Musici (2005) and
Classic Concerts Records (2007). He has been
invited to play with the Berlin Philharmonic,
the Konzerthaus and the Ludwigsburger Festspiele.
He is also a regular guest at festivals
throughout Europe, and he performs frequently
with prizewinners of the ARD Competition and the
German National Competition.
In addition to Creston, the trio will perform at
Cranbrook United Church, 2 12th Avenue South,
Cranbrook, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 1, with
advance tickets available at Hot Shots Cafe, and
at St. Saviour's Pro-Cathedral, 701 Ward Street,
Nelson, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, with
advance tickets available at Otter Books in
Nelson. |
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