French soiree at St Pauls
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Kaikoura
St Paul's on the Hill Church will be hosting a concert on Sunday February 21 combining the talents of Petya Mihneva and Simone Roggen to bring a French soiree to town.
With music by Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Faure and Cesar Frank, the evening promises to be a celebration of impressionistic music.
Over the past three years, Petya and Simone have collaborated together on numerous occasions all around Switzerland and New Zealand, creating a strong and vivacious rapport on stage. Together they have performed many master works of the classical repertoire to critical acclaim.
Petya Mihneva, from Bulgaria, graduated from the Music School Hristina Morfova and in 2001 won the special prize at the international competition The Music and the Earth.
She studied at the National Music Academy in Sofia until 2004, and three years later completed the Konzertdiplom at the Hochschule der Kunste Bern, Switzerland in the class of Prof Rada Petkova. In that time she has given numerous concerts as a soloist and chamber musician around Europe.
She has just completed with excellence the Chambermusic Diploma at the Music Conservatory Zurich, and is in high demand as a pianist, chamber musician and accompanist around Switzerland.
New Zealander Simone Roggen has just completed studying with Giuliano Carmignola in his Soloist Class at Lucerne's Conservatory of Music.
Through chamber music and orchestras the violin has taken her to places such as Austria, Australia, China, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Singapore, and around New Zealand.
Winner of the New Zealand National Chamber music Competition in 1997 and 1998, she was the first ever New Zealander to be accepted into the Thy Chamber Music Course in Denmark.
As a soloist she has performed with the Auckland Philharmonic, Christchurch Symphony, Auckland Youth Orchestra in New Zealand, the Biel Symphony and Lucerne Symphony Orchestras in Switzerland.
In 2004 she completed her studies with Mary O'Brien at the University of Auckland with a Masters of Music. This year she completed the Soloist Diploma by performing as a soloist with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets $15 adult $5 student. Door sales only.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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