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Ariana Kashefi & Alison Rhind | Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music 2022/2023

Wed 22 Mar, 1:05pm

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Ariana Kashefi – cello
Alison Rhind – piano

Ludwig van Beethoven Variations on a theme from The Magic Flute Listen
Leoš Janáček Pohádka Listen
César Franck Cello Sonata Listen

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.


British-Persian cellist Ariana Kashefi is in high demand as a chamber musician and soloist performing in such venues as the Wigmore Hall, Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin Philharmonie and more. Ariana has a true love and passion for chamber music and regularly performs with many renowned artists. Upcoming performances include collaborations with pianists Bruno Canino and Maksim Stsura – with whom she was awarded the first prize at the 2019 Luigi Nono chamber music competition in Turin, Italy. Though she regularly performs Classical cello repertoire, Ariana is also very keen to perform and explore modern pieces for the cello and expand the cello repertoire. She recently performed a solo cello recital of 21st century music at the South Bank centre, including the premiere of a new solo cello piece From Night by Deborah Pritchard, which was written and dedicated to her for the occasion. She is a Talent Unlimited Artist and the winner of Making Music’s Awards for Young Musicians (AYCA) as well as being a City Music Foundation Artist. She is also a top prize winner in the International Rubinstein cello Competition held in Berlin, a finalist in the Pierre Fournier Award which took place at the Wigmore Hall in London and a ‘Villa Musica’ scholarship recipient where she was also awarded the loan and use of a fine Gagliano cello.

Ariana received the prestigious Julius Isserlis Scholarship for instrumental studies abroad from the Royal Philharmonic Society which allowed her to study for her masters at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with professor Claudio Bohorquez. In Berlin she was chosen on two separate occasions to perform in the prestigious Excellence Concerts for exceptional students and graduated with the highest possible mark for her final recital. After completing her masters, Ariana was hand picked by Maestro Barenboim to study at the prestigious Barenboim- Said Akademie where she received an artist diploma under the guidance of Frans Helmerson.

She began her studies with Robert Max at the Junior department of the Royal Academy of music where she won all available prizes and later completed her bachelors of music with first class honours at the Royal College of Music with Melissa Phelps as an Amaryllis Scholar. At the College she won the Anna Shuttleworth cello prize in her first year and was named an RCM rising star after performing Prokofiev concertino with the RCM symphony orchestra. Recently she has appeared as a soloist live on BBC radio 3 In Tune performing a selection of works including excerpts from Poulenc’s Cello sonata, Debussy cello sonata and Schumann Fantasiestucke. As an orchestral player, Ariana has worked with the London Symphony and has been invited on several tours with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Ariana frequently performs as a soloist with orchestras across Europe: this season included performances with the Southgate Symphony orchestra, the Janus ensemble, the Narva Symphony orchestra in Narva, Estonia, the Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra and the North London Symphony Orchestra.

Apart from her main teachers, Ariana has also received invaluable guidance over the years in masterclasses at Kronberg Academy, IMS Prussia Cove, and Siena Chigiana academy, from Steven Isserlis, David Geringas, Ralph Kirshbaum and Gary Hoffman.

Alison Rhind is recognised as one of the leading collaborative pianists specialising in the repertoire for piano and strings. Her ability to accompany was recognised and nurtured at an early age whilst still at Chetham’s School of Music and she became increasingly in demand throughout her time at Oxford University where she read Music at Wadham College.

In 1994, she moved to the Yehudi Menuhin School where she worked for twelve years. She toured Israel and Germany with the students and was invited to accompany at the prestigious Kronberg Akademie after her recitals there with the school. During this period, she coached many young instrumentalists with whom she has since forged notable recital partnerships particularly the violinists Alina Ibragimova and Nicola Benedetti with whom she toured the USA and Japan. Other recital partners include Johannes Goritzki, Francois Rabbath, Rinat Ibragimov, Dora Schwarzberg, Leonid Gorokhov and Charlie Siem with whom she has performed in all the major concert halls.

Due to increasing amounts of work outside of her job at the school, Alison left to become a freelance accompanist often working with students at the London colleges. The Royal College of Music recognised her work and in 2009 created a post for her as Coach for the String Department which she combined with freelance recital work. Her work at the college also lead her being invited to Norway, Sweden and Singapore to give recitals and coach students and she has a collaborative relationship with many teachers who send their students to her specifically for duo coaching. She left RCM in 2018 and is now concentrating solely on recital work which will include concerts in Germany and Norway next year.

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