Melbourne Chamber Music Society: Zlatomir Fung, Cello and Dina Vainshtein, Piano Concert

Zlatomir Fung, Cello

The first American in four decades and youngest musician ever to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division, Zlatomir Fung is poised to become one of the preeminent cellists of our time. Astounding audiences with his boundless virtuosity and exquisite sensitivity, the 22-year-old has already proven himself to be a star among the next generation of world-class musicians. A recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship 2022 and a 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Fung’s impeccable technique demonstrates a mastery of the canon and an exceptional insight into the depths of contemporary repertoire.

Dina Vainshtein, piano

Pianist Dina Vainshtein collaborates with some of the most promising musicians of our time. Now based in Boston, she is the daughter of two pianists and studied with Boris Berlin and Arthur Aksenov at the prestigious Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. At the 1998 International Tchaikovsky Competition, she received the Special Prize for Best Collaborative Pianist. Her performance credits include Alice Tully and Weill Recital Hall in New York City, The Caramoor Festival, Music at Menlo, the Ravinia Festival, the Music Academy of the West, and tours of Japan, China, Europe, and Russia. In recent concerts she has performed with violinists Miriam Fried, Yura Lee, Chad Hoopes, Caroline Goulding, cellists Natasha Brofsky and Amit Peled, as well as the Borromeo String Quartet.

Program:

Ives: Selections from “114 Songs”, arranged for cello and piano
Dvorak: Rondo for Cello and Piano, Op. 94
Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Major, Op. 69
Intermission
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: “Lamentations”, Suite for solo cello
Brahms: Sonata for Piano and Cello in F Major, Op.99