Russian cellist Alexander Ramm performs at Unisa

The young Russian cellist Alexander Ramm will perform at Unisa on Saturday 19 May at 18:00 in the Enoch Sontonga Hall in Sunnyside, accompanied by South African pianist Tinus Botha.

Local audiences first heard the cellist when he competed in the Unisa International String Competition in 2010, where he won fourth prize.

Ramm was born in Vladivostok in 1988 and has performed in public since the age of nine.

He studied at the Moscow State Chopin College of Musical Performance with Maria Zhuravleva, and is currently a student at the Moscow Conservatory with famous professor Natalia Shakhovskaya, where he has played on several occasions in the Conservatory’s Great, Small, and Rachmaninoff Halls.

Alexander has paricipated in the Courchevel Festival Academy as well as the Holland Music Sessions with the famous cellists Maria Kliegel and Reinhard Latzko, after which he won the “new master on tour” position with several concerts during the 2011-2012 season, including a debut in the famous Concertgebouw in October 2011.

The programme for the concert on the Unisa Sunnyside campus includes the cello version of the famous Sonata in A major by César Franck, the final movement from the Solo Cello Sonata by Zoltan Kodály, South African composer Paul Hanmer’s Elegy: 24 Maraisburg (which has been heard in this hall before) and the Sonata for Cello and Piano by Sergei Rachmaninov.

Tickets for this event are sold only at the door at R80 for adults and R60 for students and pensioners.

For further information contact: Alet Joubert; Unisa Music Foundation;Tel: 012 429 3336/3311 and Cell: 084 763 4079. www.unisa.ac.za/musicfoundation.

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Russian cellist Alexander Ramm performs at Unisa