On Saturday, May 21 at 2.30pm in St Paul’s Anglican Church Narooma, the 20 dancing fingers of Natalia Tkachenko and Elena Nikulina will perform a program of piano duets – a piano concert for four hands, one piano, in the second Montague Visiting Artists Concert for 2016.
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This concert has been chosen to celebrate the re-stringing of the grand piano, made possible with the assistance of a Southern Phone Community Grant from the Eurobodalla Shire Council. It will include music by Mozart, Schubert, Gershwin and Gavrilin.
Elena Nikulina and Natalia Tkachenko met in Canberra in 2007. Their shared love for piano duet performance led them to explore the repertoire. They began to give performances in 2013 and have since performed in numerous venues including the National Library of Canberra and the Wesley Music Centre. This will be their second concert in Narooma.
Elena Nikulina graduated in 1999 from the Donetsk State Conservatoire, Ukraine. She was winner of the Donetsk State Conservatoire Best Accompanist prize and was selected to represent the Ukraine as a member of the piano ensemble at the Pavia Music Competition in Italy. Since moving to Canberra in 2006 Elena has performed as a soloist and accompanist. Elena is a dedicated piano teacher and prepares students for Ukrainian and Australian Music Examination Board examinations up to LMusA.
Natalia Tkachenko graduated with honours from the Moscow State Institute of Music. She was accompanist at the Moscow National Theater Institute from 1992 to 1998. Since her arrival in Canberra in 2003, she has performed as an accompanist, winning the prize for Best Accompanist in the Australian National Eisteddfod in 2006. Her outstanding work as a piano teacher was recognised when AMEB NSW placed her within the top five teachers for 2013 in the category Private Teacher Pianoforte – Preliminary to Sixth Grade.
Tickets will be available at the door $25, or from Mitre 10 Narooma and Nested on Wallaga Bermagui for $23; school students free. Enquiries to 4473 7541 or www.montaguechoristers.org