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Brian Chapman and Friends: Three Russian Piano Trios

Ballarat Mechanics Institute

117-119 Sturt Street,
Ballarat Central VIC 3350

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  • Sun 5 Oct

3pm–5pm

$20 - $40

Adult/Senior $40, Concession $35, Student $20

Pianist Brian Chapman will be joined by violinist Susan Pierotti and cellist Rosanne Hunt, performing in the Hummfray room.

English-born pianist Brian Chapman studied in Brisbane with Nora Baird from 1952, and in Melbourne from 1954 with Lindsay Biggins, J.A. Steele and Roy Shepherd. Brian has performed widely in Melbourne, interstate and overseas, including the United States, Mexico, Germany and China.

Susan Pierotti began learning the violin at the age of six with Stella Nemet and continued her studies with her daughter Mary Nemet at the Victorian College of the Arts and in London where she played with the London Sinfonietta and the London Mozart Players. Since then, Susan has enjoyed a career spanning symphony, opera and ballet orchestras, chamber music, recitals, theatre, film, live broadcasts, television, teaching, reviewing and adjudicating.

Rosanne Hunt organises and plays with the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra, has recently performed Bach's Fifth Cello Suite at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and has upcoming concerts with Forest Collective and the Inventi Ensemble. She is a teacher of cello and chamber music at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and also has many private students of all ages and stages.

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