Bora Kim delights on violin, accompanied by her tutor Marina Geringas on piano. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer PAINTINGS AND beautiful orchids set a background against which four talented youngsters delivered an evening of delightful music.
The auditorium at the School of Music at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts, Arthur Wint Drive, St. Andrew, was filled to the brim with the sounds of the piano and strains from the violin.
The occasion was a piano and violin recital featuring three students from the Royal Conservatory, Toronto, Canada with a guest appearance by Jamaica's Jessica Yap. The recital took place on Saturday evening and found the auditorium filled to capacity.
The grand piano, which dominated the stage, was the main instrument of the night and was easily mastered by the pubescent players who teased its ivories. The oldest of the group were pianists Calvin Han and Pearl-Lynne Chen, both 13 years old. Yap and Bora Kim are both 11 years old. Yap plays the violin while Kim proved to be proficient on the piano and the violin.
Decked in a simple silvery grey frock, Kim began the evening with four selections. She easily wowed the audience with compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Joseph Haydn and Franz Lizst.
Kim would return twice more to play compositions on the violin. The first, Fritz Kreisler's Sicilienne and Rigaudon, brought the first half of the show to an end. The composition was originally intended to be a duet with Pearl-Lynne Chen on piano.
However, tutor Marina Geringas substituted for her. Geringas explained that due to the rigour of Chen's previous performance she needed a break. The audience, however, got a chance to hear the two girls play together on Mozart's Concerto Number 3 in G Major.
The second violinist of the night, Yap, also played with Kim, who returned to the piano for this performance. The two opened the second segment of the night with Edmund Severn's Polish Dance.
Calvin Han delivered four pieces. In his first turn at the piano he played Bach's Prelude and Fugue in G Sharp Minor followed by Dimitri Kabalevsky's Recitative and Rondo Opus 84. Han later delivered Mozart's Varioations in F Major on Salve tu, Domine and Brahms' Rhapsody in B Minor Opus 79.
Chen closed the night of performances with four selections. Along with Mozart's Sonata in C Minor, Chen delivered three pieces from Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Saturday's concert was a wonderous glimpse into some of the musicians who will become tomorrow's masters in classical music.
