Experience First-Class Chamber Music in Framlingham

Dorina Markoff grew up in Bulgaria where was accepted as a student at the Music School in Sofia aged five. She began her studies with Irina Dragneva and Russi Dragnev and spent her final four years at the School in the class of Valentin Tchoparinov. She then continued her studies at the National Academy of Music and in her second year accepted a tutti first violin position in the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. Subsequently she gained a place in the Mahler Youth Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado. Her audition resulted in an invitation to join the European Mozart Academy.

Niel du Preez has inspired live and radio/television audiences in the UK, continental Europe, the Far East, Australia, and his native South Africa with his expressive and poetic solo playing, performances with leading orchestras and collaborations with chamber musicians. Since 2020 he is the Artistic Director of the newly established International ArtePiano Festival & Piano Competition with residencies in Italy, the United Kingdom and France. After his years as a music scholar at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth South Africa, he continued his piano studies at the Stellenbosch Conservatoire of Music in South Africa. Niel is regularly invited to give piano master classes across the globe. Previous such engagements took him to China, Colombia, South Africa and Germany.

Sonata for Violin in A major HWV 361                                          Handel

• Andante                                                                                                       
• Allegro
• Adagio
• Allegro

Sonata for Violin in F major Op. 24                                               Beethoven

• Allegro                                                                                                     
• Adagio molto espressivo
• Scherzo: Allegro molto
• Rondo

Rondo in C major for Violin & Orchestra K. 373                       Mozart           

Méditation from Thaïs – for Violin & Piano                                Massenet              

L’ Abeille  Op. 13 no. 9                                                                          Schubert              

Vocalise Op. 34 no. 14                                                                          Rachmaninoff   

Salut d’ Amor Op. 12                                                                             Elgar                      

Scherzo for Violin & Piano in C minor WoO post. 2                 Brahms                   

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