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What's Next ---------------  Saturday 25th February     Olivia Sham (Piano)          For their February concert the Roseland Music Society are delighted to welcome the gifted Australian pianist Olivia Sham, making her first visit to the Roseland. A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Olivia is currently a doctoral student at the Royal Academy of Music in Liszt performance practice, supported by an Overseas Research Award. She has won numerous prizes and awards, including keyboard winner of the 2003 Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, and in 2010 received the Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists.   At the Roseland Music Society we’re very fortunate to have a fine Kawai piano, a gift in memory of Desmond Cohen, of one of the society’s founders, and concerts of solo piano music are always extremely popular. Olivia’ programme for her Portscatho concert promises to show the Kawai to its very best advantage. She’ll be opening with Mozart’s delightful B flat piano sonata, followed by pieces by Schumann and Poulenc, and concluding the first half of her concert with Liszt’s splendid Hungarian Rhapsody no 15, the Rakoczy March. The whole of the second half will be given over to Lizst, concluding with Reminiscences de Don Juan, an opera fantasy based on themes from Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Franz Liszt was one of the great pianist of the 19th century, and his piano compositions were designed to display his virtuosic skill to best advantage. Olivia’s concert promises to be a moving and thrilling musical experience in the presence of a hugely talented young artist.   This concert has been made possible through the generous support of Making Music.   Biography Australian pianist Olivia Sham is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Olivia completed a Bachelor of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (The University of Sydney) on a scholarship of Outstanding Academic Achievement/Merit, where she studied with Elizabeth Powell, and graduated with First Class Honours and the University Medal. She was then awarded a full scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music where she completed a Master of Music with Professor Christopher Elton, graduating with distinction. She is now a doctoral student at the Academy in Liszt performance practice, supported by an Overseas Research Award.   Olivia has won numerous prizes and awards, including third prize in the 18th A.M.A. Calabria International Piano Competition (Italy), third prize in the 4th International Concerto Competition (Hastings Music Festival, UK), 2006 John Allison Piano Scholarship, prizes in the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, and keyboard winner of the 2003 Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year. In 2010, she was awarded a Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists.   Olivia has played with various orchestras including the Melbourne Symphony, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra (Australia), Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (USA), Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra (Italy), and Finchley Chamber Orchestra and Guildford Symphony Orchestra (UK). Olivia is also an enthusiastic chamber musician, and has given numerous solo and chamber music recitals. Forthcoming projects include several recitals of Liszt’s piano music around the UK. She has also been exploring nineteenth-century pianos, and has performed Chopin’s E minor Piano Concerto on a Pleyel piano (1842), and works by Liszt on an Erard piano (1840).   Listen to Olivia by clicking here     www.oliviasham.com   ------------------- Saturday 31st March     Hall Ogden Duo   Craig Ogden (Guitar) & Judith Hall (Flute)   www.craigogden.com   www.judithhall.co.uk                       Hall Ogden Duo – Classic FM star returns to Roseland   Returning artists are a regular feature of Roseland Music Society concerts – they love coming back, and we love having them. Our March concert is an outstanding example of this phenomenon, when we welcome Graig Ogden, the internationally renowned Australian guitarist, along with his fellow Australian, flautist, Judith Hall. This will be Judith’s first visit to the Roseland, but it’s the third visit for Craig – he played for the society in November 2007, and for the Roseland Festival in November 2008.   Craig studied guitar from the age of seven and percussion from the age of thirteen. In 2004 he was honoured by the Royal Northern College of Music with a fellowship in recognition of his achievements, the youngest instrumentalist to have received this award from the RNCM. He appears regularly as soloist and chamber musician at the major London venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall and the Barbican, and collaborates regularly with many of the UK’s top artists and ensembles. Graig’s debut solo album for Classic FM, ‘The Guitarist’ went straight of number 1 in the classical charts,and his many film recordings include the British hit ‘Notting Hill’.   Judith was diverted from a non-musical career path by the renowned French flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal – he heard her play, and immediately suggested she become a professional musician. She studied with him briefly in France before moving to London. Her début in the Park Lane Group’s ‘Young Musicians and Twentieth Century Music’ series on the South Bank was very warmly received, and she immediately joined the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as principal flute.   Graig and Judith formed their flute and guitar duo in 2002. As a duo they have toured extensively, both in the UK and internationally. Their Portscatho concert will feature works by a wide and exciting range of composers, including Ravel, Villa-Lobos, Rodrigo and Piazzolla.                 ------------------- We welcome feedback from members and visitors about our concerts. If you would like to tell us what you think about what you have seen and heard at past concerts, or what you would like to see and hear in future please send an e-mail to our webmaster - david.calton@hotmail.co.uk