Pianist Camila de Oliveira and violinist Charmian Keay will be perform a delightful concert with a romantic love triangle theme! Camila will be playing her DS 5.5 inch octave keyboard.
This intimate house chamber music concert will have limited seating, with only 25 spaces available. So, be sure to secure your spot early! After the concert, we'll be serving drinks and a scrumptious cheese board for everyone to enjoy.
Tickets can be purchased in advance by emailing aucklandchambermusiccollective@gmail.com. The price is $40 for general admission and $25 for students.
Program:
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
Clara Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22
Nigel Keay: Miniatures for Violin and Piano
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The Brazilian pianist Camila De Oliveira began her musical studies at the age of 6. She completed her bachelor's degree in piano performance after attending the Faculdade de Artes Alcântara Machado, Brazil. In 2019 Camila received her postgraduate diploma in Music with a specialisation in piano performance at the University of Auckland under Dr Rae de Lisle, and in 2021 she completed her master's degree in Piano Performance also at the University of Auckland. Camila is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland.
Camila won many prizes in piano competitions, such as the 20th ArtLivre Piano Competition, 8th Piano Competition Maestro Rodrigo Tavares, 24th "Paulo Giovanini" Piano Competition, 7th National Piano Competition Maestro Spartaco Rossi, 1st Piracicaba International Piano Concerto Competition. In 2020 she not only was the recipient of the Ada Kathleen and Barbara Ellen Watson Scholarship, but she also won the Llewelyn Jones Prize in Music for Piano at the University of Auckland for the second consecutive year.
She has played with many orchestras, such as the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo, Bachiana SESI-SP Foundation Orchestra, São Pedro Theatro Orchestra, and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
For four years, Camila was the principal pianist of the Academic Choir of the OSESP, Symphonic Orchestra of São Paulo State.
Furthermore, she has maintained an intense career as a collaborative pianist and piano teacher.
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Charmian Keay is a New Zealand born violinist from Auckland. Born to musician parents Miranda Adams (Assistant Concertmaster of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra) and Nigel Keay (Paris-based composer), she has freelanced with all of the major orchestras in New Zealand and in 2021 won a permanent violin position in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Taught first mainly by her mother, other teachers included Justine Cormack (NZ Trio Founder), Kevin Lefohn (director of the Queenstown Violin Summer School) and Tessa Petersen (Concertmaster of Dunedin Symphony Orchestra).
Charmian studied a Postgraduate Diploma in violin performance in 2012 as a Trinity Laban Scholar studying with acclaimed soloist Matthew Trusler, at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Prior to this she graduated from the University of Otago with First Class Honours in Performance Violin in 2008, after which she was invited to be 2009 Elman Poole Fellow of the prestigious graduate orchestra, the Southbank Sinfonia, based in Waterloo, London.
European performances included a solo recital in Oxford of Mozart’s Concerto No. 5 in A Major, as well as various chamber music recitals in venues such as the Royal Opera House and Wigmore Hall, and in festivals including the 2010 Paris Oboe Festival, and the Anghiari Festival, Italy.
Since coming back to Auckland she has performed regularly as a soloist with the Blackbird Ensemble, which did a national tour of their ‘Bjork’ show in 2019. She has led Auckland-based chamber music ensembles Moonshine Quartet, Korutet (which toured to Paris in 2014), and is currently leader of Auckland String Group. She is also violinist for the historically-costumed Wellington-based string trio, Quantum Femmes.
Charmian plays on a violin by Dimitri Atanassov, Cremona and bow by Doriane Bodart of Paris.