Young Artist Recital by Claudia Jablonski and Katya Grabova
This day will be held at All Saint’s Church, Putney Common, London, SW15 1HL
Schedule for the morning:
9.00 – 10.15am OCC Ensembles rehearsal – Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto and Auld Lang Syne
10.15 – 10.30am Break
10.30 – 11.05am Suzuki Book 1 “Lucky Dip” – first position and thumb position options – Open to all Suzuki cellists
11.05 – 11.20am Break
11.20am – 12.30pm Recital by Claudia Jablonski and Katya Grabova – Open to all student cellists and families and friends to attend.
Inclusive part of our group programme for all OCC families.
Open Event Day structure and registration
Open event – everyone is welcome to register to attend the concert. All Suzuki cello students are welcome to come to play in the Book 1 “Lucky Dip” Playtogether too before attending the recital.
– Suzuki Book 1 Playtogether and Concert attendance: £15 per child, plus £10 per adult/£5 per subsequent child for concert attendance
– Concert attendance only: £10 (Adult); £5 (Child)
Please email Helen on info@ourcellocommunity.com if you have any queries.
Please complete this Google form to register to attend or book concert tickets. Closing date for applications Thursday 9th June:
https://forms.gle/vbf874hrJDR1TZENA
Concert programme:
J.S. Bach: Selected dances from Suite No. 1 in G Major for solo cello
F. Chopin: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65: 2nd mvt – Scherzo and 3rd mvt – Largo
F. Chopin: Selected etudes from Op. 10 for solo piano
S. Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C, op. 119: 1st mvt – Andante Grave; 2nd mvt – Moderato; 3rd mvt – Allegro ma non troppo
Claudia Jablonski is a cellist born in London in 2001 to a family of pianists. She began piano lessons with her mother at the age of five and started learning the cello aged nine with Helen Neilson.
After three years of rapid progress Claudia toured in Portugal and Sweden as a soloist with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Lisbon in 2014 and later entered the junior division of the Royal Academy of Music in London aged fourteen on a scholarship in 2016, where she studied with Bozidar Vukotic.
In 2018 Claudia gave her first performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto aged sixteen in London and subsequently became a student of the Swedish cellist Mats Lidström.
Claudia has performed at numerous festivals across Europe since a young age, including the Karlskrona International Music Festival, the Gotland Chamber Music Festival and the Verão Clássico Festival. She has received lessons and played in masterclasses with cellists such as Ralph Kirshbaum, Leonid Gorokhov and Frans Helmerson.
In 2020 Claudia began her undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship, where she studies with Christoph Richter.
Claudia plays on a Heberlein – Markneukirchen cello (circa 1890) and with a bow by Tim Baker, generously on loan to her by the Royal Academy of Music.
The first prize winner of the Moscow Mayor Grants Competition in 2019 and a laureate of International TV Competition «Nutcracker» Katya Grabova has been graduated with honours from Gnessin Music School in Moscow, Russia, where she has studied with professors Tatiana Zelickman and Boris Berezovsky.
Ekaterina has been rapturously received as soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Lviv Chamber Orchestra «Academia» including performances under the batons of Fabio Mastrangelo and Igor Pilatyuk.
Recent recital appearances include the Memorial Museum of Alexander Scriabin; the Great hall, the Rachmaninoff hall and the Small hall of Moscow Conservatory; the Tchaikovsky concert hall in Russia; the Shanghai Concert hall and the Wuxi theatre in China; the Lielais Dzintars concert hall in Latvia and many different concerts halls in United States of America, Israel, Austria, Spain, Germany, Poland and Slovakia.
An active pianist and chamber musician, she frequently collaborates in many music festivals like Rheingau Music Festival in Germany, Tel-Hai master classes in Israel, «Bezszady bez granic» in Poland, Bowdoin music festival in United States of America. Ekaterina is a winner of such competition as Neighaus Music Festival in Russia, «Mlody Virtuos» in Poland, «Sforzando» and Rubinstein international music competition in Germany and «Steps to the Mastery» in Russia.
During different festivals and master classes Ekaterina has worked with Michail Voskressensky, Vladimir Tropp, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Vanessa Latarche, Victor Derevianko, Dmitri Bashkirov, Andrzej Jasinski, Soyeon Kate Lee and Ran Dank.
Now Ekaterina is studying in the Royal Academy of Music in London with professor Mei-Ting Sun. This autumn her performance at Lilian Davies Prize in the Academy was highlighted as a highly commended one.