PrintKrzysztof Śmietana and Caroline Palmer
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama series of performances by senior professors
5 March 2012, 7.30pm
Guildhall Music Hall
Silk Street, Barbican
London EC2Y 8DT
Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions)
Box office: 020 7638 8891
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Performers:
Krzysztof Smietana, violin
Caroline Palmer, piano
Programme includes Beethoven and Busoni violin sonatas
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama series of performances by senior professors continues, giving public, staff and students the opportunity to see some of the country’s finest musicians perform in the intimate setting of the School’s Music Hall. This year, the series has expanded to include outstanding students performing alongside their professors.
Krzysztof Śmietana was born in Poland and studied at the Cracow Academy with Z. Szlezer and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Yfrah Neaman. He won most of the national awards in Poland and has been prize-winner in several major international violin competitions. He has made many recital and concerto appearances in Britain and abroad including at the BBC Proms, and has performed both Szymanowski’s violin concertos with the BBC SO. He has recorded the Panufnik violin concerto with London Musici and the Stravinsky violin concerto with the Philarmonia, as well as Fauré and Brahms sonatas with Caroline Palmer, and piano trios of Panufnik, Twardowski and Malawski. He has been guest leader of orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and London Sinfonietta, and is a member of the London Mozart Trio.
He has given master classes throughout Britain as well as USA, Poland and Germany. A teacher at the Purcell School, he has taught in the senior and junior departments of the Guildhall School since 1982.
Caroline Palmer studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Edith Vogel and later continued her studies with Peter Wallfisch and Hans Keller. She was a finalist in the Busoni competition and has played in the USA and in much of Europe. Well-known as both a solo pianist and chamber musician, she has recorded for British, Swiss, French, German and Italian radio stations and has made televised appearances in Italy and Bulgaria. Caroline’s recordings include the cello sonatas of Saint-Saens, Faure and Busoni and the Brahms violin sonatas with Krzysztof Smietana. She has made numerous recordings as soloist and chamber musician for the BBC.
Caroline has been a piano professor at the Guildhall since 1990, where she coaches chamber repertoire as well as teaching individual students.