Spring is in the air - Classical Duo Recital
Schedule
Sat Oct 05 2024 at 08:00 pm
Location
92 Abbott Street, Cairns, QLD, Australia | Cairns, QL
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A very special evening ..... KIRTLEY LEIGH
KATERINA PRING
KIRTLEY LEIGH SOLO VIOLIN
Solo Violinist Kirtley Leigh has a career that has taken her across the globe, as soloist, and in chamber concerts,
recitals, orchestras and pedagogy positions worldwide. Her performances have been celebrated in over 20
countries. A Dual Citizen of Australia and America, and was born and educated in the USA.
Kirtley has been on stage as long as she can remember!
Kirtley has performed for dignitaries, royalty, prime ministers and legendary stars of screen and stage in a multifaceted career.
A student of the legendary virtuoso Josef Gingold, she holds a Bachelor of Music (honours) from Indiana
University. The US honoured her with the prestigious American Federation of Music Prize/Recitalist in New York.
She also studied with Dorothy De Lay and in Masterclasses with Joseph Silverstein, Nathan Milstein, Isaac Stern,
Itzhak Perlman, Henryk Szering, and Stephane Grappelli.
Kirtley won the international position as Associate Leader with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in 1983, launching
her international career. As a chamber musician and recitalist, Kirtley has appeared in the Australian Festival of
no Chamber Music, and festivals including Aspen, Point-Counterpoint, Chautauqua, and Sedona (USA), St.
Endellion, Prussia Cove, and Classics Live (UK), Klassik Aften, Bergen Festspille, and Oslo (Norway), Amsterdam,
Vienna, Pollensa (Spain), and Hong Kong.
In Europe she was Leader in Amsterdam (Kleine Komedie), and in Norway with the Stavanger Symphony
Orchestra, performing as soloist and recording for Norwegian radio.
Kirtley was in leading positions with the UK's finest chamber and symphony orchestras, including the London
Chamber Symphony, Midlands Philharmonic, Academy of London, Oxford and European Union Chamber
Orchestras. Recently she returned to hold masterclasses in Cardiff for BBC Conductor Mark Eager.
European engagements include performing for Queen Sophia of Spain as Leader of the Pollensa Chamber
Orchestra, and for King Olaf of Norway with the Bergen Philharmonic, as well as a world tour with Pavarotti and
the Oporto Orchestra, Portugal, and with Soprano Kiri te Kanawa.
She has given Command Performances for the Prime Ministers of Papua New Guinea and Malaysia’s Tun
Mahathir Mohamad and Madame Siti. She has given World Premier performances in New Zealand of a Violin
Concerto written for her and in Australia of a concerto for didgeridoo and violin with the brilliant William Barton.
Kirtley has collaborated in recital with International artists including pianists Pascal Roge, Melvyn Tan, Clemens
Leske, James Brawn, Jenni Flemming, Ami Hakuno, Benjamin Martin and Elyane Laussade.
She has shared the stage with such diverse artists as Pavarotti, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, Herb
Armstrong, Lorna Luft, David Bowie, Tony Bennett, John Travolta, and INXS.
In Australia Kirtley has continued her career as soloist and chamber musician, performing with orchestras
nationwide and recitals with The Serendipity Trio, Paradise Concerts, and Strings of the North. She was leader of
the Australian Symphony on tour in 2022.
Kirtley recently held the position of Tutor in Violin, Viola and Chamber Music, and Orchestral Conductor with the
prestigious The King’s School, Sydney. She is Artistic Director of Paradise Concerts International Chamber Music
Series and the Australian Strings Academy studio.
Kirtley has just returned from performing a recital tour of Japan with pianist Ami Hakuno. Last summer, She gave
3 solo concerts in Singapore at the invitation of iconic Raffles Hotel. She then joined the prestigious AUSTA
International String Orchestra in their 2023 European tour as associate leader.
KATERINA PRING
Katrina Pring holds a BMus (Hons) and PhD in Composition, an AMusA in Piano Performance, and plays harp as a second instrument. She is a composer and pianist, sound healer and drum circle facilitator. Katrina has been teaching piano for over 20 years. Recently moving to Cairns, she continues to teach piano and composition in creative and innovative ways. Katrina has a strong interest in meditation practices, and the therapeutic effect of music and sound, and continues her studies in this area.
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