S A T U R D A Y 1 5 N O V E M B E R | 7 P M

Ana de la Vega

& Grace Kim

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“Critics are unanimous that she is one of the most outstanding artists of our time”

– BERLINER MORGANPOST

“The new wonder flautist”

– WELT AM SONNTAG

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Hailed as ‘one of the most outstanding artists of our time’ by the Berlin Morning Post, the Australian flautist and Artistic Director of the Snow Concert Hall, closes our season with ‘My Paris’ – a concert whose accompanying album was Amazon Number 1 Best Seller world wide.

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Programme

DEBUSSY Prelude from L’enfant prodigue

DEBUSSY Claire de Lune

CHAMINADE Concertino, op.107

SAINT-SAËNS Romance, op.36

FAURÉ Après un rêve   

FAURÉ Monceau de concours

POULENC Sonate 

– Interval –

MOZART Sonata E Minor K 304 (Paris, 1778)

MASSENET Méditation

RAVEL Pièce en forme de habanera

BIZET Carmen Suite (after Bourne, Horowitz, Hubay, Sarasate, Waxman)

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Ana de la Vega

Ana is the most sought-after flautist of her generation and has appeared as soloist in the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Philharmonie Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall London, and Munich Philharmonie Gasteig, Liszt Academy Budapest, Prinzregententheater Munich to name a few.

Attracting unbridled attention for her ‘crystal-clear’ and ‘velvety tone’ (NDR Kultur), ‘superior, masterful technique’ (Fono Forum), ‘feathery-light playing’ (Der Spiegel), and ‘unobtrusive virtuosity’ (Pizzicato), Ana has been named “The New Wonder-Flautist” by one of Germany’s leading newspapers (Welt am Sonntag), and is the first female flautist in history to perform so extensively worldwide.

Ana’s latest album My Paris which accompanies this enchanting concert, takes us on a seductive journey through the large concert halls and alluring bohemian cafés of Paris’s Belle Epoque, where she awakens the spirit of the greatest writers and composers of the time.

The concert programme is a perfectly woven together journey of the music of the French impressionists and has been performed to huge acclaim in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Bonn, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lviv, Oslo, and Cologne to name a few.

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Grace Kim

Grace Kim is a Winston Churchill Fellow and an acclaimed concert pianist with a multifaceted career as a performer, researcher, educator, and creative director. Recognised early as a child prodigy, she has won numerous prizes in international and national competitions. Grace graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne (Master of Music), and Rotterdam Conservatorium (Cum Laude), and was the inaugural Fellow at the Australian National Academy of Music. She performed across Europe as well as serving as Artistic Director of the Summer Concert Series at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, collaborating with internationally renowned artists.

Now based in Sydney, Grace is the Creative Director of Sensory Concerts®, Australia’s leading initiative for providing equal access to high-quality concerts for neurodiverse audiences. Her research on the calming effects of music for neurodivergent children is published in The Arts in Psychotherapy journal.

In addition to her private teaching and performing, Grace enjoys her multidisciplinary roles at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as an academic, and piano teacher in the Rising Stars Program fostering young talents. Grace is currently undertaking PhD research at The University of Sydney, where she is also a tutor for Psychology of Music, and lectures Psychology of Instruction and Learning. Grace was recently appointed Postgraduate Fellow at the Conservatorium.