Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/Oct/2018
Genre - Violin and piano recitals
Anete Graudina, violin
Niklas Oldemeier, piano
In a programme of Bach: Violin concerto on E major; Mozart: Violin sonata B flat major; Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending; Saint-Saëns: Romance; Dance Macabre and Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro
Anete Graudina studied the violin in Riga and Moscow. She was a violinist with the Orchestra of the Latvian Opera and Ballet. She moved to London in 1995 where she teaches the violin. In 2004 Anete received a Postgraduate Diploma in performance from the London College of Music & Media. She has performed widely as a recitalist and soloist in the UK at venues such as the Holywell Concert Room Oxford, St James Piccadilly, Burgh House Hampstead, at the Edinburgh Festival, and also abroad in Latvia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Sicily and Cyprus.
In 2006, she started giving a series of concerts each year at St Anne’s Church Kew to raise funds for their new piano. She is also organising an annual May concert in the church with an orchestra and invited soloists. Anete is a founding member of Tangissimo, an ensemble dedicated to celebrate Piazzola’s tango music. Together with Aya Kawabata (piano) she has recorded a CD named “Romantic Bartok”. She plays a nineteenth-century French violin.
Born in Leeds in 1993, Niklas Oldemeier has in recent years been attracting increasing attention from the press and public as an emerging young talent. He started to play the piano at the age of five, and at eleven was accepted to study at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. On graduating in 2011, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music and completed the BMus and MA programmes under the tutelage of Sulamita Aronovsky. Niklas’ concert repertoire embraces a wide range of genres, from Baroque to Contemporary. He is particularly interested in contemporary composers and has performed works by Graham Fitkin and Luke Bedford, and premiered compositions by Jules Matton and James Moriarty.
An active performer in diverse capacities, Niklas was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Bach Prize, and also won a place on the Emerging Artists Programme at the London Sinfonietta Academy, led by the conductor Pierre Andre Valade. This offered him the opportunity to perform with the world’s leading contemporary music ensemble, and concluded with the ‘Musicians of Tomorrow’ concert at the Platform Theatre.
His performing activities have taken him to several countries throughout Europe, including Germany, Italy, Greece and Romania. Winner of the Deena Shypitka Music Award, Niklas also regularly appears with orchestra and in recitals throughout the UK and in London. Notable highlights have included solo concerts at St James’ Piccadilly and Regent Hall, as well as Mozart and Beethoven concertos in Wakefield and Chester respectively, earning high critical praise from Radio 3’s Rob Cowan. Most recently, his rendition of Brahms’ Handel Variations along with Carmina Burana at the Royal Hall in Harrogate was received with high acclaim. He also performed as a featured Young Artist at the newly-built Stoller Hall in Manchester for Chetham’s International Summer School and Piano Festival. Niklas represents the highest echelon of young British pianists, and his performances inspire an enthusiastic response.
