Post date: Sep 09, 2014 1:11:58 AM
Dear Friends,
We hope that you had a wonderful summer!
It was certainly a very special summer for the group of Cecilian Music Club teacher- members and their students, who joined the Golden Key Music Festival in Vienna this August. Congratulations to Sophia Agranovich, Lubov Berenson-Alvei, Bing-Bing Chang, Lisa Frost-Goodall, Marina Strakovsky, and of course George Borisov, the President of the Golden Key Music Festival and a long time member of the Cecilian Music Club. All together, 27 people - teachers, students, families - represented the Cecilian Music Club in Vienna this year. Along with musicians from Australia, Canada, China, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and the United States, our teachers and students performed at the beautiful Ehrbar Saal, Mozart Haus, and Kaiser Saal; participated in Master Classes with such notable musicians as Professor Stephan Moller; attended world famous museums, visited Salzburg and Eisenstadt, and simply breathed the inspirational air of Vienna!
At the glorious Ehrbar Hall of the Prayner Conservatory of Music, Sophia Agranovich performed a solo-recital featuring Schubert's 'Wanderer' Fantasie and all 4 Ballades by F. Chopin. The Gala-Concert was crowned by performances of guests-artists, including Lisa Frost-Goodall (mezzo-soprano) and Marina Strakovsky (piano), who presented vocal selections by Schubert and Faure. George Borisov presented a musical exposition "Mozart in Context", and finally, Lubov Berenson's composition for duo-piano Passage to the Golden Key, dedicated to the GK Music Festival, was played by the participants of the Monster Concert in the Kaiser Saal.
Congratulations again to all the participants! Bravo! and Encore!!