clemens leske :: international concert pianist
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Born in 1970 in Adelaide, Clemens Leske made his debut at age fifteen with conductor Nicholas Braithwaite and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, he later won the ABC's prestigious Young Performer of the Year award. He has since been concerto solist with all of Australia's main symphony orchestras - the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Western Australian, Tasmanian, and Queensland Symphony Orchestras.
Clemens was awarded his B.Mus. (Distinction) at the Juilliard School of Music in New York; he performed there in the Lincoln Center and other venues, and was a soloist in the Focus and Bang-on-a-Can festivals.
While in London he studied with Alfred Brendel and Joseph Zeiger, was a winner of the Royal Overseas Music Competition, the Hattori Award, and toured Spain as concerto soloist with the Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra. For the King of Thailand's birthday concert, he was soloist with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra.
In Australia Clemens has given solo recitals for the Australian Society for Keyboard Music, the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Monash University, the Barossa Music Festival, Ripponlea House, the Elder Conservatorium, ABC radio broadcasts, and Adelaide Festival Theatre.
Chamber Music experience includes performances with violinists Christopher Kimber and Donald Hazelwood, cellist Nathan Waks, the Australian String Quartet and Jane Peters, the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra, and many violinists and other instrumentalists in his position as Lecturer in Ensemble Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium.
He received high praise from Yehudi Menuhin for his performance in Menuhin's Master Class in Sydney. Recent engagements include performances of the Rachmaninov Paganini Variations, Grieg and Tchaikovski piano concertos with the Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney Symphonies and a performance with London Philharmonic Orchestra.
". . exceptionally fine playing, full of power matched with a delicate, lyrical touch" - The Australian
"such was his magnetism, the whole house held its collective breath" - Adelaide Advertiser
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