YOUTH MUSICIAN PERFORMANCE AND DEVELOPMENT DAY
Are you practising your art as a musician and want to take it to the next level in sharing with an audience? Want to learn from top-level musicians about how to prepare for your best performance? Read on!
2:00 PM: SHOWCASE CONCERT
A concert to showcase young musicians on any acoustic instrument or voice, from trumpet to violin, piano to saxophone, clarinet to voice, trombone to cello and everything in between. Places are limited!
3:30 PM: PERFORMANCE SEMINAR
Following the student concert, performers will meet with our amazing mentors (read about them below) to workshop strategies to prepare for their next performance to make it even more fabulous.
4:30 PM: WORKSHOP MASTERCLASS
But wait, there’s more! For students of piano or clarinet, there is also the opportunity to participate in a master-class, receiving feedback and helpful tips on a particular piece.
To participate in the showcase concert or workshop masterclass, please complete this form and email to Dominique Baker, by 2nd May.
All participant and observer/audience tickets must be purchased here via the TMTA website. TMTA members observe for free.
Alexey will then perform a recital at 6pm.
Book for the recital separately HERE.
What a fabulous end to the day!
SHING LEUNG
Shing Leung was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He started to be a Trainee Examiner with the Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) Tasmania in 2023. Shing is currently teaching at Scotch Oakburn College and the conductor of SOC Wind Band.
Before he moved to Tasmania, in 2018, Shing made significant contributions to the music scene in Hong Kong. He served as the conductor of the Chung Chi Wind Orchestra at CUHK from 2009, Additionally, his role as a core member of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble cemented his reputation as a prominent figure in contemporary music. For the decade he worked with HKNME, during which time he worked closely with both Hong Kong and international composers, touring to the UK, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Iceland, Australia and premiering over 100 pieces of new compositions.
ALEXEY YEMTSOV
Alexey Yemtsov is one of the finest pianists of his generation in Australia, playing with powerful virtuosity, technical precision, and tender lyricism. He has performed in London, Tel Aviv andJerusalem and toured extensively throughout China, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Australasia and the United States, including a performance for former US President, Bill Clinton.
Born in Ukraine, Alexey commenced piano at age of six and gave his first concerto performance at ten. Winning First Prize and the President’s Special Prize in the Horowitz International Piano Competition just two years later, he went on to win First Prize in the International Prokofiev Competition, and was recorded live for the release of the “Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century” Collection (Polygram Classics). He was a Major Prize Winner of the Pozzoli and UNISA International Piano Competitions in 2004 and 2008 respectively.
Within Australia, Alexey’s debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1 under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy was received with wide critical acclaim and standing ovations: “scintillating precision and dexterity…The long-breathed passages of lush lyricism were shaped with tender care” (The Australian). Immediately re-invited for the following season, Alexey has since appeared with the Melbourne, Queensland, West Australian and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Oleg Caetani, Sir Mark Elder, Lawrence Foster, Marko Letonja, Vladimir Verbitsky and Simone Young. He toured China as soloist with the Australian Youth Orchestra in 2010.
Other international soloist engagements have included concerts with Kiev Camerata and the National Ukrainian Orchestra (Ukraine), I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano (Italy), and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (New Zealand).
After taking a short break due to Covid-19 pandemic, Alexey returned to the stage with a spectacular line up of concerts in 2022: all three War Sonatas by Sergei Prokofiev, performed on three consecutive nights, and a Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. “Alexey Yemtsov … brought tears to my eyes. George Gershwin would have been so very proud. I seriously doubt that a single person left the concert hall without their soul on fire” – were the words of Lisa Gershwin, a grand-niece of the composer himself, which she sent to the local newspaper after attending the concert. All concerts were sold out and received a standing ovation. Alexey has also performed a number of local recitals around Tasmania, including a world-premiere of a resident composer’s work. world-premiere of a resident composer’s work.
