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Talented Shefali to the rescue

Oboist Shefali Pryor.
THE Canberra Symphony Orchestra is appealing to our more cultivated tastes in its second Llewellyn Series concert for 2012, with “an evening of refined elegance”.

With the considerable appeal of visiting British conductor Andrew Mogrelia, who will be staying on for the International Music Festival, they’ve put together an optimistic mix of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” overture, Ruritanian dances for orchestra, Beethoven’s optimistic Symphony No 1 and the four-movement Oboe Concerto in D major by Richard Strauss.

The CSO describes the Strauss as “an intimate, gorgeously lyrical work that makes great virtuosic demands on the soloist”, so it’s lucky it has engaged a brilliant young artist in oboist Shefali Pryor.

The winner in 2006 of the Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award, Pryor is now associate principal oboe with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and a staff member at the Sydney Conservatorium.

A youthful member of the Australian Youth Orchestra, she went on to study at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. She has toured as guest principal with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and performed with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonic, WA and Tasmanian Symphony orchestras.

Llewellyn Hall, 7.30pm, May 9 and 10. Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm. Bookings to 1300 795012 or www.ticketek.com.au

 

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