Recital of French music

Programme:

Claude Debussy

Violin Sonata in G minor: I Allegro vivo, II Intermède: Fantasque et léger, III Finale: Très animé

La chevelure from Chansons de Bilitis (arr. Heifetz)

Beau Soir (arr. Heifetz)

Gabriel Fauré

Berceuse

Après in Rêve

Aubade (arr. Heifetz)

Maurice Ravel

Pièce en forme de Habanera (arr. Th. Doney)

Jules Massenet

Meditation

Mélodie-Élégie Op 10, No 5

Francis Poulenc

Promenade à pied (arr. Heifetz)

Mouvements Perpétuels I & II (arr. Heifetz)

Lili Boulanger

Deux Morceaux pour Violon et Piano: I Nocturne, II Cortège

Viktoria Zora, violin

Elli Tsampa, piano

Viktoria Zora is a violinist, teacher and musicologist. As a dedicated chamber musician Viktoria has performed at numerous venues including the Purcell Room, the Royal Festival Hall (Southbank Centre) and for HRH Princess Anne. She has performed as part of a piano duo, string trio, piano trio and string quartet. As a musicologist Viktoria has published articles in The Strad and the Three Oranges on the violin music of Sergei Prokofiev, and articles and book chapters on Anglo-American publications of Soviet music in the 1940s. She is the editor of Henle’s Urtext edition of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Sonata Opus 94bis. Viktoria has presented numerous academic papers at national and international conferences in the UK (e.g. Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Central Lancashire, Liverpool, Nottingham, Surrey), the USA (Columbia University, City University of New York), Russia (Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, Moscow), Finland (University of Jyväskylä), Norway (Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo), France (Université de Lorraine-Metz) and Greece (University of Athens, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

Viktoria studied musicology at the University of Athens, and as a scholar of Greek's State Scholarships Foundation she obtained Masters in violin performance from the Royal Academy of Music. Her PhD in Music Performance from Goldsmiths College, University of London, investigated Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonatas (Op. 80, 94bis). Viktoria is a qualified teacher (QTS, LRAM) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Elli Tsampa was born in Greece and she has been based in London since 2009. She holds an Master of Arts in Piano Performance and LRAM from the Royal Academy of Music (class of Tatiana Sarkissova and Carole Presland), a Diploma in Piano Performance from the Philippos Nakas Conservatory in Athens (class of Valery Sagaidachny) and a Bachelor's degree in Musicology from the University of Athens. She has received further training and performed in masterclasses of renown pianists, such as Gordon Fergus-Thompson, Hamish Milne, Frank Wibaut, Ian Fountain, Martino Tirimo, Katya Lebedeva and Dimitri Toufexis among others. For her studies she has received scholarships from the 'Maria Kassimati' trust and the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece (I.K.Y).

Elli has performed as a solo pianist and as a member of chamber ensembles and orchestras. She has appeared in concerts in the UK, USA and many European countries, in venues such as the Duke's Hall, St. John's Church and St. Albans Cathedral in London, the Steinway Hall in Washington, D.C, and the 'Fondation La Borie' in Limoges, France. She has performed in music festivals such as 'City lights' and 'Pure Gold' in London, 'Aegean Arts' and 'Musical Odyssey' in Greece and 'Rencontres Musicales' in France. She is particularly interested in the piano music of Chopin and Debussy and her performances have included many lectured-recitals focused on their work.
Passionate about teaching music to students of all ages, Elli is currently a member of the piano department at St. Helen's Independent school in Northwood and the City Lit College in London and she has been invited to give piano masterclasses in Greece, India and the USA.

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