Dina Duisen and Martin Bartlett (piano duo)
Friday 13 November 2020 at 7.30pm
Mozart: Sonata for four hands in D major, K.381/123a
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite, Op.46, no.1
Debussy: The Petite Suite, L.65
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (selection), arr. by S.Rachmaninov
Dina Duisen, who was born into a family of musicians, studied first in Kazakhstan then the USA before gaining her MA in Performance with distinction at the Royal Academy of Music. She has won major prizes at many piano competitions and has given concerts and participated in music festivals in Europe, the USA and Asia.
Along with her brother Ordabek, Dina has been playing chamber music as part of the Duisen Duo in the UK, Italy, USA and at The Presidential Centre of Culture in Kazakhstan. She has been the resident class pianist at the IMS Prussia Cove and Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, currently working at the Royal College of Music. In 2017 Dina joined Sinfonia Cymru for Twisted Rhythms: Mark-Anthony Turnage Birthday Concert at the Vibrate Festival. Dina was invited to make her debut at George Enescu Festival in Bucharest with the Mercury Quartet. In October, 2018 she made her debut at Cadogan Hall in a dramatised concert 'Byron: Angel & Outcast' with actors Simon Russell Beale and Rob Heaps, the same concert was given in Astana, Kazakhstan.
www.dinaduisen.com
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite, Op.46, no.1
Debussy: The Petite Suite, L.65
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (selection), arr. by S.Rachmaninov
Dina Duisen, who was born into a family of musicians, studied first in Kazakhstan then the USA before gaining her MA in Performance with distinction at the Royal Academy of Music. She has won major prizes at many piano competitions and has given concerts and participated in music festivals in Europe, the USA and Asia.
Along with her brother Ordabek, Dina has been playing chamber music as part of the Duisen Duo in the UK, Italy, USA and at The Presidential Centre of Culture in Kazakhstan. She has been the resident class pianist at the IMS Prussia Cove and Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, currently working at the Royal College of Music. In 2017 Dina joined Sinfonia Cymru for Twisted Rhythms: Mark-Anthony Turnage Birthday Concert at the Vibrate Festival. Dina was invited to make her debut at George Enescu Festival in Bucharest with the Mercury Quartet. In October, 2018 she made her debut at Cadogan Hall in a dramatised concert 'Byron: Angel & Outcast' with actors Simon Russell Beale and Rob Heaps, the same concert was given in Astana, Kazakhstan.
www.dinaduisen.com
Martin James Bartlett’s early public success was as the winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2014. This led to engagements with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as recitals across the country.
He made his BBC Proms debut in 2015 performing Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and later with the Ulster Orchestra at the BBC Proms “Last Night” celebrations, broadcast live from Belfast on BBC Four. The following year, he performed at the Queen's 90th Birthday thanksgiving service, which was broadcast live on BBC One from St. Paul's Cathedral.
In 2017, whilst still an undergraduate at the Royal College of Music, Martin was a quarter finalist in The Van Cliburn Competition, held in Fort Worth, Texas, attracting a considerable following both live in the hall and online on Medici TV. He then studied for his master’s degree at the Royal College as a Foundation Scholar.
In recent years, Martin made his debut with the BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Philharmonia and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in ‘Classic FM Live’ at The Royal Albert Hall playing Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 and competed in the Bad Kissingen Klavier Olympiad, winning both second prize and the audience prize. He was subsequently invited to step in to play the prize-winners concert in the Kissinger Sommer, performing Bach Keyboard Concerto No.1 and the Concerto for 2 pianos with Cyprien Katsaris. He also played recitals at the Klavier Festival Ruhr and the Riga Jurmala Festival, The Biarritz Festival, and returned to play at the BBC Proms.
He has been invited to the Rising Star series by the Basel Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft, and to the Verbier Festival for a solo recital and a duo recital with Timothy Choi.
www.martinjamesbartlett.com
He made his BBC Proms debut in 2015 performing Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and later with the Ulster Orchestra at the BBC Proms “Last Night” celebrations, broadcast live from Belfast on BBC Four. The following year, he performed at the Queen's 90th Birthday thanksgiving service, which was broadcast live on BBC One from St. Paul's Cathedral.
In 2017, whilst still an undergraduate at the Royal College of Music, Martin was a quarter finalist in The Van Cliburn Competition, held in Fort Worth, Texas, attracting a considerable following both live in the hall and online on Medici TV. He then studied for his master’s degree at the Royal College as a Foundation Scholar.
In recent years, Martin made his debut with the BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Philharmonia and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in ‘Classic FM Live’ at The Royal Albert Hall playing Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 and competed in the Bad Kissingen Klavier Olympiad, winning both second prize and the audience prize. He was subsequently invited to step in to play the prize-winners concert in the Kissinger Sommer, performing Bach Keyboard Concerto No.1 and the Concerto for 2 pianos with Cyprien Katsaris. He also played recitals at the Klavier Festival Ruhr and the Riga Jurmala Festival, The Biarritz Festival, and returned to play at the BBC Proms.
He has been invited to the Rising Star series by the Basel Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft, and to the Verbier Festival for a solo recital and a duo recital with Timothy Choi.
www.martinjamesbartlett.com