Brilliant International Musicians Series: Johanna Röhrig (violin) and Aleksandra Myslek (piano)

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, “Spring Sonata”

Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)

Sonata for Violin and Piano

Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

Fratres

César Franck (1822–1890)

Violin Sonata in A major

Johanna Röhrig (violin)

Johanna was born in Hamburg in 1993, and began taking violin lessons at the age of six, supported by the Hans Kauffmann Foundation and the Feldmann Kulturell Foundation.

As a winner of the Ethel Kennedy Jacobs Award, she completed her Master’s Degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and is now completing her Artist Diploma at the HfMT Hamburg while performing internationally as a recitalist and soloist. She is currently the proud recipient of a number of scholarships.

Highlights of the past years include her debut at the MUK Luebeck with the Orchester des Wandels, as well as engagements with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of St John’s in England. Chamber music is a great passion of hers: highlights include the 40th Petworth Festival, the Hamburger Kultursommer in Hamburg, and the AURORA Chamber Music Festival in Sweden, along with other recitals in Germany, England and Austria. Johanna has been invited to play as concertmaster with several orchestras, including the Hamburger Camerata and Rungholt Ensemble among others.

Aleksandra Myslek (piano)

Aleksandra is a Polish collaborative pianist and répétiteur. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School where she studied opera. She is a prize winner of both solo and chamber music contests such as the III International Chopin Competition in Budapest, Wilfrid Parry Brahms Prize, Brenda Webb Accompanist Prize, and many others. She has performed in Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, Austria, Italy, Hungary and around the U.K.

Aleksandra is a staff pianist at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire and Guildhall School as well as being a frequent guest at the Royal Academy of Music, where she works as an accompanist and a piano and ensemble tutor for the Widening Participation Department. Her passion for making music available for all resulted in many years of cooperation with Live Music Now, an organisation bringing concerts and workshops to venues and audiences that would normally not have access to it. She is a Britten Pears Young Artist 2023-24. 2024 is the year of her Carnegie Hall debut as a participant of the Renée Fleming Song Studio.

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