Violin recital to showcase Romantic Era music

Violin recital to showcase Romantic Era music

Tantri Yuliandini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A violin recital by young Japanese violinist Mayu Kodera will be
organized by the Jakarta Conservatory of Music together with the
Japan Embassy in Jakarta and the Japan Foundation in conjunction
with the ASEAN-Japan Exchange Year 2003.

Kodera's performance will be accompanied by pianist Miwako
Fukushi, and together, they will present five musical pieces from
the Romantic Era.

A student of the famous Toho Gakuen School of Musicin Kodera
first studied the violin at three years of age under Yutaka
Murakami, then with Ikuyo Nakamura and Hiroaki Ozeki at the
Kunitachi School of Music. At Toho Gakuen, Kodera studied under
NHK Symphony Orchestra's concert master, Tsugio Tokunaga.

Miwako Fukushi first studied the piano at aged four with the
U.K.'s Ronald Cavaye and Hungary's Varelia Szervansky, then later
at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary with Nador Gyorgy
for the piano and Harvath Aniko for the harpsichord.

For the performance on Sept. 4, the two will begin with Edward
Elgar's Salut d'Amour (Op. 12), followed with a piece from Polish
composer Henryk Wieniawski called Scherzo-Tarantelle (Op. 16),
violin virtuoso Eugene Ysaye's Sonate pour Violon Seul in D-minor
"Ballade" (Op. 27 No. 3), Sergei Rachmaninov's Elegie for Solo
Piano in E-flat minor (Op. 3 No. 1), and ending with Wieniawski's
Second Violin Concerto in D-minor (Op. 22 No. 2).

Originally titled Liebegruss (Love's Greeting), Salut d'Amour
is a charming piece created in the summer of 1888 in light of
Elgar's love for his wife Caroline Alice Roberts.

Some may easily dismiss Salut d'Amour as an insignificant
salon music, yet its charm and quality made the piece an
immediate favorite, surpassing Elgar's later companion piece,
Liebesahnung (Love's Word) which was renamed Mot d'Amour (Op.
13).

Polish composer Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880) was considered
an artist of great individuality, intensity of expression, and
original technique, which can be sampled in his fast moving
Scherzo-Tarantelle (Op. 16). His Second Violin Concerto in D-
minor (Op. 22 No. 2) is a small masterpiece that has become a
standard in the violin repertoire.

Besides the performance, Ikuyo Nakamura -- professor at the
Kunitachi School of Music in Tokyo -- will hold a special
workshop for Indonesia's gifted violinists at the Jakarta
Conservatory of Music on Sept. 6, 2003, at 9:30 a.m.

I-BOX:

Mayu Kodera and Miwako Fukushi will perform at the Auditorium of
Erasmus Huis at Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3, Kuningan, South
Jakarta, on Sept. 4, 2003, at 7:30 p.m. For more information on
the recital and Ikuyo Nakamura's master class please call Jakarta
Conservatory of Music at 021-769 0470, or email:
jcom@centrin.net.id