Program

Performing from Studio Boerne45, Berlin

Bloch: Violin Sonata No.2 'Poème Mystique'

Zara Levina: Violin Sonata No.2

Beethoven: Violin Sonata in G major Op.96

About the Artists

Nurit Stark [violin]

 The Israeli violinist Nurit Stark studied at Juilliard School of Music, Hochschule für Musik Cologne and Universität der Künste Berlin. As a soloist she has appeared with numerous symphony orchestras such as the Munich Radio Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. She was a prizewinner at the Enescu Competition in Bucharest and the Leopold Mozart Competition in Augsburg. Festival appearances include Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Donaueschinger Musiktage and Pacific Music Festival in Japan. She has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozarteum and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. She has also received support from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Music. Nurit Stark plays a violin made in 1710 by Petrus Guarnerius di Mantua.

Cédric Pescia [piano]

Pescia was the brilliant First Prize Winner at the 2002 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition. In 2007, he received the Prix Musique de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la culture. He was a prizewinner at the Bourse de la Fondation Leenaards in Lausanne. He is founding member and artistic director of the Lausanne chamber music series Ensemble enScène. In 2012 he was appointed professor for piano at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève. He has performed at the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Hamburg Laieszhalle, the Mozarteum Salzburg, Carnegie Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Zürich, Vienna Konzerthaus and at festivals such as Prague Spring Festival, Lucerne Festival and Les Muséiques Basel. Orchestral appearances include the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Festival Strings of Luzern, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, the Camerata Bern and the Orchestre National de Lille.

About West Cork Chamber Music Festival

The West Cork Chamber Music Festival takes place annually in Bantry, County Cork. For ten days, from the last Friday in June, a world-class line-up of international ensembles and soloists perform an extensive programme of concerts which run from morning to late night. The two main venues are the intimate library of the historic Bantry House, which overlooks Bantry Bay; and St Brendan’s Church in the centre of Bantry. The Festival also includes a full schedule of performance workshops and masterclasses with resident student ensembles, composition workshops, public talks with artists as well as exhibitions and demonstrations from instrument makers.

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