Kalle Peura and Natalia Jaworek
violin and piano
perform
Martinu violin sonata.

Natalia Jaworek - a 24-year-old Polish violinist. Natalia has studied in Oskar Kolberg complex of music School in Radom, Academy of Art in Szczecin and recently graduated from Royal Irish Academy of Music with the Bachelor’s degree. Currently she is doing postgraduate course at the same school. She performed in numerous concerts in Poland, Germany, Sweden and Ireland. She is a keen chamber musician, performing in various groups around the Europe. In 2020 her Early Music Ensemble „Basso Continuo” recorded a CD. Natalia is also a laureate of a few violin competitions held in Ukraine, Italy, Poland and Russia.

Kalle Peura - After being introduced to the piano by his father, Kalle Peura started taking piano lessons at the age of 13. Initial interest in Blues and Jazz was quickly replaced with a passion for classical music, after being introduced to the music of Chopin. His first teacher, a former concert pianist from Georgia, started preparing him for formal studies, which he began at the Helsinki Conservatory of Music. From there the journey continued via the Academy of Music and Opera at MDH in Västerås, Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, finally ending in post grad studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where Peura has been an active member of the student faculty since September of 2021.

In his recitals, Peura is known to combine the most known cornerstones of Classical repertoire with lesser known composers, whose music often has a strong relation to dance, Jazz and the Blues. In the same recital you might hear the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin paired with Afro-Cuban dances by Lecuona, folk-dance inspired sonatas of Schulhoff and Blues pieces by Martinu.

He is also an active chamber music performer and during his pianistic career he has taken part in over 30 different ensembles, ranging from piano sextets to Lied-duos. In August 2022 he will launch his new trio in Finland, Trio PAUHA, with a tour of eight concerts.

Peura has competition success under his belt as well. He has been a finalist at the Helsinki Lied competition in 2015 and the Maura Dowdall competition in Dublin in 2022. At the international chamber music competition of the Ceren Necipoglu Festival in Istanbul in 2020, he and his trio were awarded the first prize of the competition, in addition to being lauded as the best pianist taking part in it.

Peura has had the opportunity to study with highly accomplished pianists in four different countries. His Master’s studies were performed in the piano class of the esteemed professor Stanislav Pochekin, and his post grad studies are taking place in Dublin with the guidance of the international concert pianist Lance Coburn. In addition Peura has taken part in many master classes, getting personal tutoring from the likes of Barry Douglas, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Nino Gvetadze, Alexei Ljubimov, Liisa Pohjola, Erik T. Tawaststjerna, Juhani Lagerspetz and Ivo Kahánek.

He had is soloist debut with the NSO last year. This year, he will perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue at the National Opera House in Wexford