Friends of St Leonard’s Church, Hythe, Kent
Saturday 11 September
7.30pm
Mikhail Lezdkan (cello) Angela Zanders (piano)
Music by Haydn, Mendelssohn.
They will be performing Haydn Divertimento for Cello and Piano, Britten Cello Suite No 3 Op 87, Debussy Sonata for Cello and Piano, Mendelssohn Rondo Capriccioso Op 14 and Shostakovich Sonata for Cello and Piano Op 40.
Where Can I Buy Tickets?
Tickets at £7 on sale at Brandon’s Music Shop, 55 High Street, Hythe, tel 01303 263108, or can be obtained at the door. (Admission free to those under 18 in full-time education.)
About the Performers
Mikhail Lezdkan
was born in the Ukraine and studied at the Leningrad Conservatoire where he graduated with honours in 1975. While still a student Mikhail won prizes at the Prague Spring and the Belgrade International Cello Competitions and after graduation worked in the celebrated chamber ensemble ‘Soloists of St Petersburg’. Mikhail has given numerous solo recitals and has performed as soloist with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the St Petersburg Hermitage Orchestra. After moving to France he led the cello section of the Lyon Opera Orchestra, also becoming artistic director of the Lille String Sextet. Mikhail has given many recitals and chamber music concerts in France, and with violinist Vanessa Mae toured Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Europe in 1995 and 1996. He also gave the first European performance of the Cello Concerto by the Israeli composer, Gil Shohat.
Angela Zanders
was born in London and studied at the Purcell School, Trinity College of Music and Goldsmiths College in London, and at the Academy of Music in Vienna. At Trinity College, where she studied with Joseph Weingarten, Angela won several competitions and awards. She later studied chamber music with Murray Perahia, William Pleeth and Raphael Wallfisch. Angela has given recitals all over the UK and in Germany, Spain, the Canary Islands and Austria, both as soloist and accompanist and as pianist in the Solarek Piano Trio, which she formed in 1992. She has a special interest in promoting the accessibility of classical music through talks and lecture recitals, and has many years’ experience lecturing in Music Appreciation, both for Birkbeck College, University of London, and for the WEA in Hampshire. Angela has worked with Mikhail since 2006.
