SOSL Masterworks concert next week
The Masterworks Concert of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka on
Saturday 3rd May will be presented in association with the Royal
Norwegian Embassy and will feature works by Boccherini, Mozart,
Mendelssohn, Verdi and Grieg. The soloists will be Tamara Holsinger,
cello, who is a member of SOSL and Camilla Jonstang, soprano, visiting
from Norway. The concert at Ladies' College Hall (7 pm) will be
conducted by Ajit Abeysekera.
The soloist in Boccherini's elegant and expressive Cello Concerto in
B flat major, Tamara Holsinger has previously performed cello concertos
by Vivaldi, Saint-Saens and Elgar with the Symphony. She holds a
Bachelor's degree in Music from Mt. Holyoke College, USA.
The principal orchestral work will be Mendelssohn's beautifully
evocative and high spirited Symphony No.4, the 'Italian'. Mostly written
in Rome in 1830-31, when Mendelssohn was in his early twenties, it is a
'paean of praise' to the light, colour and animation of the Italian
countryside.
Camilla Jonstang, soprano, who is a graduate of the Norwegian Academy
of Music, Oslo, has performed widely in Norway and Russia and at
numerous international music festivals and church concerts.
Her repertoire spans from the lyrical Handel and Mozart to the more
dramatic Richard Strauss and Rachmaninov, in orchestral works, oratorio,
songs and opera. She will perform Mozart's 'Exsultate, jubilate', 'Solveig's
Song' by Grieg from his Peer Gynt suites, and Verdi's aria 'D'amour
sull'ali rosee' from his opera Il Trovatore. |
