Enjoy the second in the On the Journey Lent concert series for 2022: Pablo Diemecke, violin, and Die Mahler Ensemble present ‘Light Classics for Violin and Piano’, music by Mozart, Elgar, Kreisler and Monti.
NOTE: This is an in-person concert as well as live streamed.
PABLO ROBERTO DIEMECKE is one of Canada’s finest violinists. He is a former concertmaster of the Victoria symphony. His live recording of the Carlos Chavez Violin Concerto with the National Symphony of Mexico was nominated for a Grammy in 2002 for the “Best Classical Album of the Year”.
Mr. Diemecke has developed an enormous repertoire of important works, featuring not only all of the major concerti and standard works for violin, but also a large number of Latin American concertos by composers such as Manuel Ponce, Carlos Chavez, LaValle, Rodrigo, Bustos and others. Two of these Latin American concertos were premiered by and dedicated to Pablo.
Mr. Diemecke produced a series of concerts featuring all five Mozart violins concertos in 2006. This year he is celebrating 9th anniversary of the “DieMahler Chamber Music Series” in Victoria. He has several recordings as soloist with different orchestras and is producing his own live recordings with his “DieMahler String Quartet”. He has recorded for CBC Radio Canada, Mexico, USA and Latin America.
Mr. Diemecke has been giving chamber music and Master classes in Macao, United States, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. Some of his students have won scholarships in Berkeley University, in Boston. Some of them members of the Xalapa Symphony and one of them assistant concertmaster of the Xalapa Symphony.
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