Two dates to keep free during April are Tuesday 17^th at lunchtime and Wednesday 18^th in the evening. At One With Music and Inverness Chamber Music are bringing three exciting young international musicians to perform for the citizens of The Highland Capital.

Scots violinist Feargus Hetherington studied at the then Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before moving on to the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio USA. He was selected as a musician of exceptional talent to be mentored and nurtured through the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival Scheme and has since worked with renowned musicians such as Joseph Swenson, James Buswell, Elizabeth Layton, Ilya Kaler, the guitarist David Russell and the Endellion and Cleveland Quartets. Feargus has performed either as soloist or within an ensemble throughout the UK, Europe and the USA. Currently he is the violinist of the Frevo Quartet, and on the music staff at St Andrews University where he is also leader of the University Chamber Orchestra.

For their lunchtime concert at 1.00pm on Tuesday 17^th April, Feargus is bringing with him to Inverness the Belarusian born pianist Olga Gorelik. Now resident in Ohio where she enjoys a full and busy life performing and teaching music, Olga and Feargus first met when they were both studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Since then they have become regular performance partners and come together for an annual concert tour each spring. Their programme for this concert promoted by At One With Music is the Mozart Violin Sonata in C, K303, Ernest Bloch’s Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Chassidic Life, and the Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F major. Tickets for this fifty minute concert are available only at the door on the day from 12.30pm.

On the following day, Wednesday 18^th April, Inverness Chamber Music will be promoting their annual recital by the current winner of the Moray Piano Competition. Last November, the Romanian pianist Peter Ciobanu won the senior section of the competition in Elgin Town Hall for which part of the prize is this engagement for a solo recital in Inverness, following in the footsteps of other young pianists who have gone on to become established names in the music profession. The first part of Peter’s recital will focus on Beethoven’s wonderful Appassionata Sonata and include works by Bach, Liszt, Chopin and Rachmaninov. After that Peter will play music by composers from his Romanian homeland including Paladi, Enesco and Silvestri. Tickets for this evening concert, starting at 8.00pm, and promoted by Inverness Chamber Music, can be bought in advance from Eden Court Box Office (01463 234234 or www.eden-court.co.uk) or at the door on the night from 7.30pm.

Source: James Munro