Born in rural New South Wales, Kate Young began playing violin at the age of four. Despite growing up in Streaky Bay, a small and remote South Australian town 800km west of Adelaide, at the age of 14, she received a scholarship to study at the Sydney Conservatorium High School. Upon completion, she continued her musical studies at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide where she studied under Keith Crellin OAM, graduating with honours in 2008. In the same year, she won first place in the prestigious ABC Young Performers Award. Kate Young rapidly established herself as a virtuosic soloist, and has since performed with the London, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras; Warsaw, Royal and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras,
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Andantino Cantabile
3. Vivace Giocoso Kabelevsky’s compositional career began through the process of writing simple melodies for students coming to him for piano lessons. Similarly, his Violin Concerto (op. 48) is dedicated to the soviet youth, providing advanced students with an elegant piece of repertoire to hone in their skills. As Kabalevsky was a citizen of Russia, he carefully wrote works to adhere to the current Soviet musical and political stance. Normally performed with orchestra, an eight bar introduction leads the soloist into an exciting, fast-moving flurry of notes. The fast pace is maintained throughout the entire first movement, with expressive and crisp rhythmical and melodic devices. Concluding the movement with a decadent series of rapid arpeggios, the second movement transports the listener to an entirely different place.
The Andantino Cantabile movement is possibly the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed for violin. The haunting melody is something of a wonder as it plaintively speaks with such a resonance of understanding. The opening theme changes to a lighter middle section, before drawing the listener through a passage of repeated chromatic runs featuring alternating semiquavers and quintuplets. The original portentous theme returns to finish the
Andantino Cantabile
3. Vivace Giocoso Kabelevsky’s compositional career began through the process of writing simple melodies for students coming to him for piano lessons. Similarly, his Violin Concerto (op. 48) is dedicated to the soviet youth, providing advanced students with an elegant piece of repertoire to hone in their skills. As Kabalevsky was a citizen of Russia, he carefully wrote works to adhere to the current Soviet musical and political stance. Normally performed with orchestra, an eight bar introduction leads the soloist into an exciting, fast-moving flurry of notes. The fast pace is maintained throughout the entire first movement, with expressive and crisp rhythmical and melodic devices. Concluding the movement with a decadent series of rapid arpeggios, the second movement transports the listener to an entirely different place.
The Andantino Cantabile movement is possibly the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed for violin. The haunting melody is something of a wonder as it plaintively speaks with such a resonance of understanding. The opening theme changes to a lighter middle section, before drawing the listener through a passage of repeated chromatic runs featuring alternating semiquavers and quintuplets. The original portentous theme returns to finish the