Summer Music Concert 5
Alexander Chaushian cello & Yevgeny Sudbin piano
Saturday 12 July 7.30pm

Programme including
Bach  Suite No1 for solo cello
Franck  Sonata for cello and piano in A major
Schumann  Adagio and Allegro in A flat Op 70
Shostakovich  Sonata for cello and piano in D minor Op 40


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Quotes

“It is difficult to imagine finer performances than these. Alexander Chaushian and Yevgeny Sudbin make a finely matched duo. I found myself engrossed throughout. Chaushian plays magnificently, and his commitment to, and projection of, the Solo Cello Sonata is surely no less impressive than that of its dedicatee and first performer, Mtsislav  Rostropvich.” Robert Matthew Walker, Musical Opinion

“A highly accomplished performer, proficient at everything… poignant yet also noble in tone, given nobility by Mr Chaushian’s firmly sustained phrasing. He can be dexterous and he can be insistent and he can be both at once.” New York Times

Biography

Alexander Chaushian

Alexander Chaushian started to play the cello at the age of seven, studying with his grandfather Alexander Chaushian Sr and Zare Sarkisian. From 1992 to 1995, he studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Melissa Phelps and from 1995 to 1999 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as a student of Oleg Kogan. In 2003 he pursued advanced studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with the late Boris Pergamenschikow and later with David Geringas, graduating with distinction in 2005.

Alexander Chaushian won First Prize in the 1990 Premio Mozart Competition in Verona, Italy and in 1992, First Prize in the International Music Competition in Holland. He received the Guilhermina Suggia Gift in London - a grant awarded to outstanding string players - on three occasions. In 1997, he was awarded the Orchestra of New England Soloist Prize, as well as the first Summis Auspiciis Prize of Young Concert Artists in New York. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Anna Instone Memorial Award sponsored by Capital Radio, in 2001 the joint recipient of the Pierre Fournier Award and in 2002 was awarded third prize in the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Alexander Chaushian won the 3rd prize and the special prize given by the Munich Chamber Orchestra at the Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD in Germany in September 2005.

As a soloist with orchestra, Alexander Chaushian has performed in many countries worldwide, including appearances with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and at the Bruchnerhaus in Linz, as well as with the London Mozart Players and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Royal National Orchestra of Belgium, Les Solistes Européens de Luxembourg in a gala concert conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, the Boston Pops Orchestra at Boston Symphony Hall, and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. 

Alexander has given recitals at the Harrogate Festival in England, the Kuhmo International Festival in Finland, La Jolla Festival in the USA, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and in Montpellier as recipient of the Beracasa Foundation Prize of the Radio-France and in Montpellier Festival. From 2002 until the present he has acted as the artistic director of the Orpheus & Bacchus Festival in Bordeaux, France and of the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival in Cyprus.

Alexander Chaushian has collaborated with many distinguished musicians such as Levon Chilingirian, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Ani and Ida Kavafian, David Geringas and Phillippe Cassard. He has also performed together with Yuri Bashmet and Gidon Kremer at the Kronberg Chamber Music Festival. Alexander’s regular chamber music partners include Ashley Wass and Yevgeny Sudbin.

Alexander’s recent projects include numerous concerts and recordings. He has performed highly acclaimed concerts at  Wigmore Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Royal Festival Hall as soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Barbican with The Academy of St Martin’s in the Field and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sala Verdi,Milan with the Padova Chamber Orchestra, as well making his highly successful debut at the Suntory Hall, Japan.

In 2006, Alexander Chaushian recorded Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata for  Performance Channel television, and made a recording of the Wim Zwaag’s Cello Concerto with the Núrnberger Symphoniker.

Alexander's solo debut recording for the BIS label of Weinberg’s Sonatas in which he is partnered by Yevgeny Sudbin has recently been released to great critical acclaim.

For Yevgeny Sudbin's biography please click here

After concert supper 5

After concert supper bookings for this concert is now closed.

MAIN: Breast of chicken with a rich tomato, tarragon and baby mushroom sauce, served with rice and mixed seasonal salad. 

VEGETARIAN: Mediterranean vegetable bread and butter pudding with red pepper coulis, served with rice and mixed seasonal salad.

DESSERT: Classic lemon tart with vanilla sauce. Coffee/tea

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Margaret, Bury St Edmunds
The Shostakovich was brilliant, particularly the second movement.

Tolhurst, Edwardstone
Concert was superb

Ruth & Michael, Ealing, London
The schumann was exquisite, a ravishing quality with technical brilliance. Overall just stunning!

James, London
Uplifting and inspiring. Both artists were passionate.