Leigh Harrold to Play Final Concert with Kegelstatt Ensemble 23/10

By: Oct. 18, 2016
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Leigh Harrold Bows out of Kegelstatt Ensemble with Final Performance, in New Sounds for a New World.

Performing with Leigh will be Jenny Khafagi, violin, Anna Webb, viola, Kim Worley, cello, and Stephanie Wake-Dyster, clarinet.

The Kegelstatt Ensemble's concert on 23 October at Pilgrim Church, Flinders Street, Adelaide is the ensemble's final concert for 2016, and also the final performance of Leigh Harrold as a founding member of the Ensemble.

New Sounds for a New World will be a poignant farewell to one of the stalwarts of Kegelstatt Ensemble who together with Anna Webb, viola and Stephanie Wake-Dyster, clarinet, founded the extremely popular and successful Ensemble in Adelaide 10 years ago.

Leigh, who in 2008 was the Advertiser newspaper's Musician of the year, has a reputation as a musician of rare talent and intelligence and is one of Australia's busiest and most sought after pianists.

Leaving Kegelstatt Ensemble, Leigh leaves what he describes as a "crazy life" of commuting between Melbourne and Adelaide and co-management of this successful ensemble for, what he hopes, will be a less frantic pace, allowing him to return to more solo work among other things.

The long-time partnership closes with the original trio performing Martin Bresnick's *** (Three Stars) - bringing together the three stars of Kegelstatt in an appropriate end to a very successful decade of presenting fine music.

Kegelstatt Ensemble, however, will be going strong into 2017 and beyond, with a concert already confirmed at the Melbourne Recital Centre next July alongside its Adelaide seasons. In Leigh's words: "we've crafted an identity for the ensemble which is now greater than any single member. It was always our intention that the music was more important than the players, in any case. The ensemble will continue without me and this, I think, is one of its finest achievements."

The program for New Sounds for a New World also includes:

IVES: Largo for clarinet, violin and piano
COPLAND: Sonata for violin and piano
MUCZYNSKI: Fantasy Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
COPLAND: Piano Quartet

New Sounds for a New World
Kegelstatt Ensemble
4.30pm, Sunday 23 October 2016, Pilgrim Church, Flinders Street, Adelaide.
Tickets: trybooking.com/201674 or at the door



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