Violist Ashan Pillai and pianist Juan Carlos Cornelles will perform, Saturday 15 of October at the Municipal Auditorium, within the XXXV cycle of autumn concerts. They will do it with the program “In rememberence”, which aims to honor two great composers who died recently, el català Jordi Cervelló i l’espanyol Anton García Abril.
In this way we will be able to hear a first part made up of Hispanic works, with the Sonata no.3 in G major by Felipe de los Ríos, continuing with the Three Thoughts by Jordi Cervelló, he Fun i Piece for viola and piano by Anton Garcia Abril and closing with l’Scene Andalouse by Joaquin Turina.
The second part will be made up of universal works of great charisma such as Sonata Op. 120 no.2 from Brahms ol’Adagio i allegro Robert Schumann.
The second part will be made up of universal works of great charisma such as Sonata Op. 120 no.2 from Brahms ol’Adagio i allegro Robert Schumann.
Violist Ashan Pillai completed his musical studies at the Merchant Taylors School in London, and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the Banff Center for Arts of Ontario and the Juilliard School of New York.
He has performed as a soloist under the direction of Christian Zacharias, Eiji Oue, Andrew Parrott, Christopher Hogwood… ha cabbage·worked with artists like Lynn Harrell and Zacharias, and in chamber ensembles such as the Kreutzer and Brodsky quartets.
Has been viola co-soloist of the English Chamber Orchestra, viola soloist of the Barcelona and National Symphony Orchestra of Catalonia, viola of the quintet de corda Pinchas Zukerman and the Zukerman Chamber Players. He is a viola teacher at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (SMOOTH), from the Superior Conservatory of Music of the Liceu de Barcelona and the Alfonso X el Sabio University, a Madrid, among others. He is also well known in Cervera for also being a professor of the International Music Course at the Emili Pujol Chair.
For his part, Juan Carlos Cornelles performs an intense activity as a chamber music concertist which has led him to perform with outstanding instrumentalists and singers in concert halls in Spain, el Regne Unit, United States, Austria, Italy, Netherlands Portugal, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Bulgaria and Slovenia, in stages as prominent as the Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, St. John Smith Square o St. Martin in the Fields de Londres.
Information and image provided by Santi River (Friends of Music Association).