Date: Saturday 9 December 2006

Time: 8pm

Venue: New Spiro Ark Tzavta Centre

  25-26 Enford St, London, W1

Price: £10 / £5 (full time students)

Peter Limonov Denitsa Laffchieva Sagi Hartov

piano (Russia) clarinet (Bulgaria) cello (Israel)

Programme

Glinka. Trio Pathetique for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in D minor

Brahms. Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, op 114 in A minor

Beethoven. Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano

Biographies:

PETER LIMONOV was born in Moscow in 1984. At the age of 7 he began studying piano at the Central Music School of Moscow. In April 1998 Peter won 1st Prize at the Nikolai Rubinstein Piano Competition, Paris. In 2000 he began to give concerts sponsored by the Vladimir Spivakov International Foundation throughout Russia, Hungary and Croatia.

In 2003 Peter gained an ABRSM International full scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music. He was commended in the Lillian Davies Prize for his performance of Beethoven’s Sonata Op.10 No.3 in D.

Rising clarinet star DENITSA LAFFCHIEVA, born in 1980 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is today one of the finest young performers of the instrument. She studied at some of the best music institutions in Europe - the State Academy of Music, Sofia; the University of Music, Vienna; and the Royal Academy of Music, London. Denitsa Laffchieva has developed her own distinctive sound and style, mixing the best of the Eastern and Western musical cultures.

Laffchieva started her solo career at the age of 14, playing with numerous orchestras and conductors throughout Europe and winning many prestigious awards such as the Bulgarian National Radio Prize - Musician of the Year, the famous scholarship of the Herbert von Karajan Centrum, Vienna and many first prizes from national and international competitions.

Denitsa Laffchieva recorded her first CD of Mozart’s clarinet concerto at the age of 18 for MusicMinusOne, New York. This was followed by two other chamber music CDs. Her latest recording for BMG-Ricordi, made in 2004, is also of Mozart’s clarinet concerto. In January 2007 Denitsa will make her debut recital at the prestigious Wigmore Hall with the outstanding pianist Viktoria Postnikova.

Israeli-born cellist SAGI HARTOV came to the UK in September 2000 to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Mats Lidstrom. He graduated in 2002 with a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction and was also awarded an LRAM teaching qualification.

Sagi commenced his cello studies at the age of ten at the Rubin Conservatorium in Haifa. At the age of fifteen he performed with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and in 1996 was elected to the ‘Outstanding Musician’ programme as a member of the Israeli Forces String Quartet. From 1995 to 1999 he studied with the distinguished professor Uzi Wiezel, first at the Tel Aviv University and then at the Sydney Conservatorium.

He has won several major awards from the Royal Academy of Music, Ferdinand Beck Fund, American-Israel Foundation, Muriel Taylor National Competition for Cello and many others and while at the Academy, represented the String Department in the final of the prestigious RAM Club Prize, where he achieved a distinction and opened the new David Josefowitz Recital Hall. He was also a finalist of the Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris in 2001.

Past performances include concerts at Wigmore Hall; a solo recital with Benjamin Frith; Regent Hall Festival with Alberto Portugheis; Broomhill Festival; Gent Festival (Belgium) and the opening of a new recital hall in the Israeli Museum (Jerusalem).

The opening of The Tent of Peace in front of HRH the Prince of Wales was particularly memorable as was a recital at St. James’ Church in London’s Piccadilly for the Beethoven’s Society of Europe.

He has recorded for BBC radio 4, BBC Channel 1 and performed at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square; Steinway Hall; London’s City Hall; the Pump Room in Bath and many other venues in the UK, Israel, Belgium, Germany and Australia. He has also participated in master-classes with Aldo Parisot, Janos Starker, Zara Nelsova, Robert Cohen and Colin Carr. His outstanding talent has been rewarded by lifetime loans of both a Macatel 1849 cello from a benefactor, as well as a Sylvester et Macotel, (Paris 1912), by a group of donors and he currently also plays a Guarneri 1720 - also given on loan from an anonymous donor. Forthcoming performances include recitals in Israel, France, Belgium, Ireland and Britain.

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