Cara Hesse & Laura Pauna

Piano Duo

SOUTH AFRICA

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2006 IBLA Grand Prize Piano Duo Winners Cara Hesse and Laura Pauna have just returned from the IBLA FOUNDATION Winners Presentation Concert Tour.

It included their New York Carnegie Weill Hall Debut in addition to performances at New York University, Radford University and University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

They were received by great critical acclaim.

Please visit the PRESS link in www.ibla.org to access the reviews of their brilliant performances!  

"Beethoven would have been impressed." (Wiesbadener Tagblatt: February 2007)

Beeld calls them: Twin musical personalities of note.(September 2006)

"The virtuosity... was nothing other than formidable." (Die Burger: August 2005)

Laura Pauna and Cara Hesse have been playing together for over 7 years. Cara and Laura are the winners of IBLA Grand Prize 2006, the 3rd prize at the "Valentino Bucchi" two piano competition in Rome (2006), and the Sarah Lahat prize for duo piano (Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes 2005). They are also the winners of the ATKV-Musiq chamber music competition in South Africa from 2001- 2004.

This duo has recently performed in countries like Germany, South Africa, Poland, Italy, Israel and the USA, in such prestigious venues, as the Jerusalem Theater, Carnegie Hall (NY) and the Z.K. Mathews Hall in Pretoria. They have also performed as soloists with all the major orchestras of South Africa from 1993- 2004. They will soon appear again, with The Cape Town Philharmonic, in February 2008.

They are the first piano duo team from South Africa that ever obtained a Bachelor of Music degree and a Performance Licentiate from the University of Cape Town (UCT), and The University of South Africa (UNISA), respectively. Hesse and Pauna have received several awards and prizes from UCT, such as the Leonard Hall memorial prize (2003), the A. Persuer bursary (2003) and the first prize at the Eric Chisholm Centenary competition (2004).

Cara Hesse & Laura Pauna are currently studying in Hanover, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, with Einar Steen-Nokleberg, and piano duo, Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg.

Weltklassik am Klavier!" präsentiert folgende Konzerte von Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna:

Sonntag, den 14.03.2010 um 17:15 Uhr in Gehrden
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Sonntag, den 21.03.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Braunschweig
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Sonntag, den 28.03.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Bremen
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Samstag, den 03.04.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Lahr
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Sonntag, den 04.04.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Offenburg
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Freitag, den 09.04.2010 um 19:00 Uhr in Hildesheim
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Samstag, den 10.04.2010 um 17:15 Uhr in Stadtoldendorf
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Sonntag, den 11.04.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Oeynhausen
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Sonntag, den 18.04.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Remscheid-Lennep
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Samstag, den 24.04.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Rysum
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Sonntag, den 25.04.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Oldenburg
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Samstag, den 16.10.2010 um 16:00 Uhr in Greetsiel
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Sonntag, den 17.10.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Altena
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Freitag, den 31.12.2010 um 17:00 Uhr in Rehburg
"Weltklassik am Klavier – Bolero – Klavierduos der Romantik!"
Cara Hesse und Laura Pauna
Werke von Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel

Marietjie E Hesse
E-mail: hesse@lantic.net
Tel +27 (0) 12 991 1212
Fax: + 27 0866298552
Cell: +27 (0) 83 442 5803