Sejong Soloists with Gil Shaham & Adele Anthony, violins
$55-$125 (student/senior discounts available at the box office)
- Gil Shaham, violin
- Adele Anthony, violin
Johann Sebastian Bach — Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
David Diamond — Rounds for string orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach — Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
Avner Dorman — Concerto for Two Violins and Strings "Double Concerto"
Virtuoso violinist Gil Shaham joins Adele Anthony and Sejong Soloists in a program featuring two double concertos: Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043, and the world premiere of Avner Dorman's Concerto for Two Violins, inspired by Bach's work. Sejong Soloists also performs Vivaldi's Variations on "La Follia," David Diamond's Rounds, and Bach's "Air on the G String." This program highlights baroque elegance and 21st-century innovation, showcasing the virtuosic talents of the musicians.
About Gil Shaham, violin
About Adele Anthony, violin
Adele Anthony was born in Singapore as the daughter of Alphonse Jivaras Anthony, the founding concertmaster of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She began to play the violin at the age of two and a half when the family settled in Tasmania. She subsequently attended Dernancourt Primary School, South Australia, and studied violin in Adelaide with Lyndall Hendrickson and Beryl Kimber. In her high school years, she attended Pembroke School, Kensington and Saint Ignatius'College Athelstone.
At age 13, in 1984, Anthony was the youngest winner of the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition, (now known as the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards), performing the Violin Concerto by Jean Sibelius with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. She subsequently studied with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York for eight years. In 1996 she was the winner of the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition.
Her recordings include Philip Glass's Violin Concerto No. 1 (1999/2000 on Naxos Records), Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa with Gil Shaham, Neeme Järvi, and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (on Deutsche Grammophon) and Ross Edwards' Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Maninyas / Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D minor with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arvo Volmer (Canary Classics CC09).
She is married to violinist Gil Shaham. They have three children
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