On Friday 1st November at 8pm Teatru Manoel presents an amazing piano recital featuring one piano with four hands. The piano is a Steinway and the pianists are Anne Borg and Ivette Kiefer.
Born in Malta, Anne Borg studied piano with Amy Parnis England and Dela Hare. In 1967 she won the Malta Song Festival Piano Competition that carried with it a year’s scholarship at the Music Academy in Saarbrücken. Subsequent scholarships enabled her to extend her stay in Germany. She has taught piano at the Saarbrücken Academy of Music since 1978 and was appointed Professor in 1988. Anne has given numerous recitals on radio and television and also performed in Germany, Malta, Russia, France, England, Egypt and India. She is a regular judge at the Bach International Piano Competition in Würzburg.
Ivette Kiefer attended the Music Academy in Saarbrücken. As Master class accompanist for singing, cello and flute, as a teacher for accompanists of cello classes at the Saarbrücken Music Academy, as well as herself accompanying many choirs, she has acquired an extensive repertoire of chamber music and choir works. Yvette Kiefer teaches piano at the Music School in Saarbrücken and the Saarbrücken Music Academy. She is a regular judge at music competitions in Luxemburg, where she is also a much sought after examiner and for many years she has been president of the music competition “Jugend musiziert” in Saarbrücken.
The recital includes Mozart, Bizet, Schubert and Dvořák.
There is a 50% discount for students, under 25s and kartanzjan holders on selected seats and primary school children go free. There is also a pre-concert talk at 7.15pm for ticket holders.
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