Music at 10 - Ben Adler (violin) and Alisa Yuko Bernhard (piano)

A prodigiously talented young Sydney violinist in a superb programme of works for violin and piano.

(On the day Alisa Yuko Bernhard took the piano part as Jenean Carrigan was unable to attend.)

The programme will be:

Francaix – Sonata Violin and Piano

Bach – Chaconne from d min Unaccompanied Violin Partita

Schubert – “Duo” Sonata for violin and piano

Ben Adler, Biography
Ben Adler, 21, is a prize winner as a young solo violinist, and also the lead first violin in the Hillel Quartet, which last month won Sydney University’s Westheimer Fellowship. Ben started learning violin and piano at the age of five. Ben attended Newington College for his secondary education on a full music scholarship, and finished with a perfect score in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. He has since been selected for the Kennedy Center / National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute in Washington, DC, and has toured northern NSW as member of a piano trio with David Miller. In 2013, Ben won the prize for Best Performance of an Australian Piece in the Kendall National Violin Competition, and was appointed as leader of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Chamber Orchestra. He was also a semi-finalist in last year’s Gisborne International Music Competition. Ben is now in his fourth year of a B.Mus Performance degree, studying with Alice Waten. Ben is a keen chamber musician, and is a founding member of the Hillel String Quartet, which is the Australian Youth Orchestra Quartet for 2014. Ben has also represented the University of Sydney Union in intervarsity debating, and has been published in the Sydney Undergraduate Journal for Musicology.

Dr. Jeanell Carrigan, Biography

Jeanell is currently Senior Lecturer in Ensemble Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. She has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist in Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and throughout Australia, and has recorded for the Bavarian Radio Corporation, the ABC and for regional stations in Australia on many occasions. As a member of the Novalis Quartet, Trio Novalis and Richter/Carrigan Duo she performs regularly for Musica Viva and other concert organisations.
She completed a Doctor of Creative Arts, from the University of Wollongong, in the area of Australian post-1970 solo piano repertoire and in February 20134released her sixteenth solo compact disc of Australian piano music. In 2002 she received the national award of most outstanding contribution to the advancement of Australian music by an individual.