Rising star Mandhira De Saram will perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 at the Symphony Orchestra’s Young Soloists concert on July 30 at the Ladies’ College hall.
Mandhira completed her primary education in Colombo, and left Sri Lanka to take up a music scholarship at the North London Collegiate School.
A versatile musician showing early talent, she was also a Leverhulme Scholar at the Junior Royal Academy of Music where she performed both as a violinist and pianist.
She graduated with first class honours from the University of Oxford, where she was the leader of several orchestras and chamber groups including Ensemble Isis which specializes in contemporary music.
Now working as a freelance violinist, she appears frequently as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral violinist around the UK and abroad. Her varied repertoire consists of standard classical works as well as new and experimental works. Mandhira is the founding member of the recently formed Ligeti Quartet (www.ligetiquartet.com), a string quartet devoted to promoting 20th and 21st century music.
As soloist with the SOSL, Mandhira will perform the last of Mozart’s five violin concertos, the “Turkish.” Described as his greatest concerto for violin, this work is nicknamed for its alla turca sections in the last movement. Though Mozart showed great talent on the violin, he could never be persuaded to pursue it, and sadly, never wrote another solo concerto for the instrument.
Conducted by Eshantha Peiris, the programme on July 30 begins with Beethoven’s dramatic Coriolan Overture, and ends with one of Haydn’s most popular symphonies--the 94th, also known as the “Surprise” symphony.
The SOSL rarely presents a programme consisting only of works from the classical period, and the concert will also have some of the best known works of three great composers, whose contribution to classical music can truly be said to have shaped its course.
The concert is sponsored by HSBC. Tickets and box plan are available at Titus Stores, Liberty Plaza. |
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