WITNEY MUSIC SOCIETY - OCTOBER 2010 CONCERT

Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist

Competition Winner 2008

JAROSLAW NADRZYCKI - violin

TADASHI IMAI - piano

BRAHMS - Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2 in A Major Op. 100

WIENIAWSKI - Legende op. 17

TARTINI - Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor "The Devil's Trill" (ar. F. Kreisler)

KREISLER - Schon Rosmarin, Caprice Viennois & Liebesleid

Jaroslaw Nadrzycki was born in Zagan, Poland, where at the age of 6 he started having regular violin classes. When he was only 12, he made his Moscow debut with The Moscow Conservatoire Orchestra in the Tchaikovsky Great Hall. He also became a winner of all national violin competitions for young violinists in Poland. He graduated with honour from the Academy of Music in Poznan (class of Professor Jadwiga Kaliszewska), the Royal Academy of Music (Professor Igor Petrushevsky) and University Mozarteum Salzburg (Professor Igor Ozim).

Jaroslaw has won several prizes at international competitions including the Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition, Vilnius (2001); Max Rostal International Violin Competition, Berlin (2002); Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, Sion, Switzerland (2004); Henri Wieniawski International Violin Competition, Poznan, Poland (2006); Ruggiero Ricci Violin Competition at the University Mozarteum Salzburg (2007) and Benjamin Britten International Violin Competition, London (2008).

Jaroslaw has performed as a soloist with many renowned orchestras: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Philharmonic, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra “Amadeus”, Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra. He has given concerts at such venues as Cadogan Hall in London, Moscow Kremlin, St. Petersburg Conservatoire Hall, Slovak National Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Mirabell Palace in Salzburg.

In September 2008, he was awarded the first Prize at the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition. He has also received many scholarship and awards including the “Mloda Polska” scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland and the “Huebel Stiftung” scholarship from the University Mozarteum Salzburg. He has taken part in various master-classes by Edward Grach, Sergey Kravchenko, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Wanda Wilkomirska, Silvia Marcovici, Marina Jashvili, Nam Yun Kim, Michaela Martin and Boris Kuschni.
Jaroslaw plays the Joseph Guarneri violin (c. 1705) kindly on loan from the Royal Academy of Music.

Tadashi Imai began his piano study at the age of 11 under tutorages of Kazuyo Ueda and Mieko Nakagawa in Japan. At the age of 14, he had already won the Grand Prize, Yamaha Prize and Koichi Nomura (Music Critic) Award at the Kamakura City National Music Competition in Japan. He continued his studies at the Toho Gakuen College of Music with Hiroshi Tajika and Hidemitsu Hayashi and chamber music with Shuku Iwasaki. During his study at the Toho Gakuen, he performed at the national major music schools top student concert and he won the Piano Teachers Association(MTNA) Audition and won Second Prize at the Twelfth Takahiro Sonoda Award International Piano Competition. He has also been invited and performed at the First Okinawa International Music Festival. Afterwards he was granted a scholarship to study at the Texas Christian University with Tamas Ungar. During his study in the USA, he won Second Prize at the Martin Memorial International Competition, Second Prize at the Steinway Society International Competition of Dallas, Second Prize at the Springfield Symphony Audition for young musicians, MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) Audition and First Prize at the Grand Prix International Chopin Competition. Later, he was granted a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London where he studied with Christopher Elton and chamber music with Clifford Benson and Michael Dussek. During his study in the UK, he performed at the Tunnel Trust Music Course twice and the Halifax Chamber Music Festival for Young Musicians and the Messiaen Festival (Broadcasted by the BBC Radio 3 "In Tune").

He has performed many concerti including Stravinsky's Piano Concerto (with the Royal Academy Orchestra), Tchaikovsky's Concerto No.1 (with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra), Chopin's Concerto No.1 (with the Osaka Symphoniker) Rachmaninoff's Concerto No.3 (with the Feuerwerk Symphoniker, Tokyo) etc.

Since he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music (where he was awarded the Academy's Postgraduate Diploma, DipRAM and the Vice-Principal's special award), he has been a Junior Fellow of the Academy for four years (an Associate Fellowship at the Academy 2005-06, the Hodgeson Fellowship 2006-2007, the Shinn Fellowship for 2007-2008 and the Foudation Fellowship for 2008-2009.) In 2008, he was appointed Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. (ARAM)

Since 2005, he has been working with the class of violinist and the Academy professor Gyorgy Pauk. He was the official accompanist of the Menuhin International Violin Competition in 2008, an official accompanist of the London Masterclasses, the Lake District Summer Music (England) and the Bartok Festival (Szombathely, Hungary). He has also performed with great musicians including the Academy professors Maurice Hasson and Lydia Mordkovich (Violinists) . He was an official accompanist at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition this year. He will be again an official accompanist of the London masterclasses, Bartok Festival and Lake District Summer Music this summer.

Tadashi's performing style has no limits, he enjoys working with not only singers and orchestral musicians. He also enjoys working with poets, dancers and painters. His forthcoming concert engagements in include solo recital and chamber music concerts in Japan, England, France, Ireland, Spain, Holland, Poland and Germany.

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