DATE: Sat 12 Oct, 2024
TIMES: Concert 2 – 3pm
TEA & CHAT: 3 – 4pm
TICKETS: $38 / $32
https://tuggeranongarts.com/david-pereira-cello-playing-and-artistry-12-oct/
Details
As part of TAC’s Saturday Salon series, join David Pereira for a unique, interactive examination of the inner and outer games of the cello. Explore technique, philosophy, and personal expression, in music and word, with a cello virtuoso whose deep love of the instrument continues after 60 years!
About the Artist
David Pereira is an unusually gifted and experienced musician who has a passion for cello, composition, improvisation and diverse collaborations. In this 1 hr presentation David exposes, through talk and playing, the exciting and surprising meeting grounds of these creative elements. He shows how much they have in common. The centre piece of the program is his new work – Sacred Bond – music for solo cello that started out as a free improvisation for his recently passed Dad. Then it became a composition for anybody to perform. Then a collaboration when his wonderful pianist colleague Edward Neeman composed a piano part for the piece. This will receive its premier performance. There also will be time for David and Edward to perform some beautiful cello/piano standards.
David Pereira is a highly regarded Australian classical cellist born in 1953. He studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Indiana University, and later went on to play with prestigious orchestras such as the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Pereira has performed all the cello concertos and major concertante pieces from the standard repertoire and has premiered concertos written for him by Australian composers. He has also recorded numerous works for cello, including the complete works of Peter Sculthorpe and Einojuhani Rautavaara and the complete solo cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach. He has won many awards, including twice winning the Sounds Australian Award for the “Best Performance of an Australian Composition.” Pereira has also taught cello at the Canberra School of Music and runs his own cello-focused recital series.
Notes
*The Tuggeranong Arts Centre Theatre is raked steeply. People with mobility issues are advised that the top two and bottom two rows are the most easily accessible. Please advise us if you have mobility issues and we can direct you to your seats.