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Home > About Us > News & Events > 2009/09/29 - Aizhana Nurkenova LCCS Concert 08.10.09

Aizhana Nurkenova LCCS Concert 08.10.09

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Please join us for our the continuation of our seventh series of Lunchtime Music at our Wardour Street store on Thursday September 24th at 1pm where we feature Aizhana Nurkenova, currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music.

 
Providing a wonderful opportunity for highly gifted young artists to perform at an excellent venue on superb instruments, Chappell of Bond Street and Yamaha offer our customers a unique insight into the extraordinary wealth of talent being nurtured in our conservatoires.
 
 
Programme:
 
J.S.Bach: English Suite No.4 in F (BWV809)
 
Liszt:Two pieces from Années de Pèlerinage Book I: Chapelle de Guillaume Tell, Le Mal du Pays
 
Rachmaninov: Sonata No.2 in Bb minor Op.36 (Revised Version, 1931)       
 
 
The Artist:
 
Aizhana Nurkenova - was born in 1984 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.   Her mother discovered her composing at the piano when she was only eight years old, and as a result she began her piano studies in the Kulyash Baiseitova special school for gifted children. Subsequently, Aizhana won first prize in the Zhubanov National Festival and gave her first solo recital aged twelve. The same year she performed Mendelssohn’s Concerto in G minor with the National Chamber Orchestra and while still at school Chopin’s Second Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra.
 
After graduating with distinction Aizhana received a scholarship from the Trio di Trieste School of Music (Italy) and also from the United World College of the Adriatic, where she continued her studies with Maureen Jones and Dario De Rosa and the Trio di Parma. Simultaneously Aizhana studied in the Kazakh State Conservatory with its rector Zhaniya Aubakirova.

Aizhana is a prize winner of a number of international piano competitions and has performed widely in Italy both as a soloist and in chamber music. Under guidance of Trio di Trieste she recorded two CDs of chamber music, featuring the Dvorak's "Dumky" trio, the Shostakovich trio in C major and also the first performance of her own composition for violin and piano.

Since 2005, having won a Presidential stipend from the Kazakh government, Aizhana has been studying piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London and, in addition to her lessons with Hamish Milne, has participated in master-classes with Konstantin Lifshitz, Vladimir Krainev, Lilia Zilberstein and Boris Berman amongst others. Aizhana has been awarded a number of prizes including the Harriet Cohen and Harold Samuel Prize from the The Worshipful Company of Musicians, the Musicians Benevolent Fund award and Vivian Languish prize.
 
Her recent performances include the Ernest Chausson Piano, Violin and String quartet concerto in D major at the Duke's Hall, and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini with Kazakh State Symphony orchestra in the Opera House of Astana (Kazakhstan).
 
This June Aizhana has completed her undergraduate degree at the Royal Academy of Music with the top mark for her Final Piano recital and Diploma with Distinction. Subsequently Aizhana has been awarded Leslie England Prize, as well as Mrs Doris Ethel Blake prize for the most outstanding result.

 
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This performance is free of charge and will take place in the Recital Room of Yamaha Artist Services Europe (London), situated within the historic Piano Hall at Chappell of Bond Street’s West End store.  The recital will commence at 1pm. Seating is limited so please call in advance to reserve your place by calling 020 7432 4422 or email pianos@chappellofbondstreet.co.uk