| Israeli-born Sharona Joshua studied the
piano with Professor Alexander Volkov and was awarded numerous scholarships
during her studies at the Rubin Academy leading to a BMus degree in
performance in 1995. In 1993-4 she studied fortepiano in London with
the late Christopher Kite after being awarded a further scholarship
to spend a year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She took
part in masterclasses at the Jerusalem Music Centre with fortepianists
Zvi Meniker and Malcolm Bilson and returned to England in 1996 to
study early keyboards with David Roblou and Richard Egarr. She also
took tuition with fortepiano specialist Sally Sargent in Vienna.
Sharona is now based permanently in London where she appears regularly
as a soloist, chamber musician and continuo player on concert platform
and radio and gives several performances each season at the South
Bank Centre and the Wigmore Hall. She has performed as soloist at
major festivals all over the UK as well as abroad. Sharona has also
given numerous masterclasses in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
She is the featured soloist on a LINN CD of Italian popular music
of the early Renaissance and has also taken part in a Decca recording
of medieval songs. Sharona has recorded her first solo CD which
will shortly be released, a survey of 16th and early 17th-century
Italian harpsichord music played on her 1531 Trasuntino harpsichord.
Currently in production is a further recording of solo fortepiano
music by CPE Bach.
Programme
Chopin - Etude in C minor
Mendelssohn – Rondo Capriccioso
Chopin – Nocturne in C sharp minor
Field – Nocturne no.5 in B flat
Chopin – Etude in G flat
Schumann - Fantasie in C op.17
INTERVAL
Chopin – Scherzo in B flat minor
Chopin – Etude in E
Mendelssohn – Lieder in A (from Songs Without Words)
Field – Nocturne no.14 in C
Chopin – Nocturne in E flat
Chopin was renowned for his love of Pleyel pianos, which were considered
the Rolls Royce of his era; superior in tone qualities and lightness
of touch. Joshua is one of the few artists in the world today who
specialises in traditional performance practice of Romantic repertoire
on original instruments. Her profound knowledge of recordings of
the late 19th Century, coupled with the use of her own original
1853 Pleyel instrument promises an unforgettable and deeply affecting
musical deliverance of these masterworks.
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