Mandolino Napoletano
Wednesday,14 Feb 19:00
a Romantic programme of famous Neapolitan Café Music
Alon Sariel (mandolin)
Sergio Zampolli (accordion)
Ronald Davey (cello)
Laetitia Orlandi (piano)
Alon Sariel - אלון שריאל is a world famous classical Israeli mandolin player. He was discovered by Willem Vogel and invited to South Africa to conduct and perform as soloist with the Gauteng Philharmonic Orchestra - GPO for the past two years.
Mandolino Napoletana is a charming and hugely accessible concert where Sariel is joined by a Salon Ensemble comprising piano, cello and accordion. The music comprises a delectable selection of songs arranged for the mandolin and ensemble, including Catari, Torna Surriento, Parlami d’amore, Vieni sul mar, Santa Lucia, O sole mio and even some popular operatic melodies by Verdi, Donizetti and Rossini.
This programme was conceptualized by Willem Vogel of SALON MUSIC, who also made the musical arrangements. After staging hugely succesful Salon concerts in SA for 24 years, Willem was also responsible for 34 recordings of typical Salon Music.
Alon Sariel’s airfare was sponsored courtesy of
Tararam - Israeli Embassy south in South Africa.
Ticket prices
Wednesday,14 Feb 19:00
Blok A (Adult) - R250 Blok B (Adult) - R200
Blok A (Children) - R235 Blok B (Children)- R180
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Brooklyn Theatre (012 460 6033)
Greenlyn Village Centre
h/v Thomas Edison en 13de Straat
Menlo Park, Gauteng, South Africa
ALON SARIEL - BIOGRAPHY
As a mandolinist and lutenist, as well as a conductor, Alon Sariel is at home in the fields of both early and new music, having premiered dozens of works dedicated to him. He appeared at festivals such as the Salzburger Biennale for New Music and the Early Music Festival in Utrecht, and has performed in halls such as the Berliner Philharmonie and La Scala in Milan.�
Musical roads have taken Alon Sariel to many different genres from folk to avantgarde, leading him to collaborations with a bright spectrum of first-class artists such as soprano Dame Emma Kirkby, trumpeter and intuitive-music artist Markus Stockhausen, violinist Jean-Christophe Spinosi, accordionist and banjo player Stian Carstensen and clarinetist David Krakauer.�
A winner of numerous international competitions, prizes and awards, Alon Sariel has also been actively engaged in several socio-political projects including Live Music Now (Yehudi Menuhin), Rhapsody in School (Lars Vogt) and the West Eastern Divan (Daniel Barenboim). �
As a soloist and member of different ensembles, Alon Sariel toured throughout Europe, the USA and Mexico, South Africa, and the Middle- and Far-East. He has given master classes at universities such as Trinity College of Music (London), Lilla Akademien (Stockholm) and the conservatories of Kazan (Russia) ZUŠ Nová Paka (Czech Republic) and Celaya (Mexico). Alon Sariel's playing was transmitted via radio stations worldwide, including Arte, BBC4, Bayerischer Rundfunk, WDR3, P2 Klassiskt, Kol HaMusika, WQXR and WNYC among others.�
Currently residing in Hanover, where he is musical director of the international Baroque orchestra Concerto-Foscari and founding member of PRISMA, with whom he was awarded the first prize at the International Biber Competition in Austria 2015. Recent engagements as soloist/conductor include ensembles as Munich Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Radio Symphony, Sofia Philharmonic, Tel Aviv Soloists, Camerata Tinta Barroca (Cape Town) and the Barokksolistene (Norway). �
Among diverse recording productions with different ensembles, Alon Sariel is signed on several world premiere recordings such as the trios for plucked instruments by Paul Ben-Haim (for Albany Records) and by Yehezkel Braun (for IMI), as well as for "Nedudim" for mandolin and string orchestra by Gilad Hochman (with the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin for Neue Meister). His recording “Paisiello in Vienna” marking 200th year for the composers' passing was released by Brilliant Classics to a wide critical acclaim. Alon Sariel's last recording „Telemandolin“ (Berlin Classics) was already described by the press as „a recording of epic proportions“.
