Lunchtime Classical Recital | Brundibar festival fundraiser

Friday 7th November 2025 | 1:10pm

Alexandra Raikhlina, violin and Yoshie Kawamura, piano

This concert will be a fundraiser for the Brundibár Arts Festival

Brundibar Arts Festival is the only festival in the UK dedicated to music and arts created by artists who were victims of the Holocaust.

Since its creation this unique festival has been exploring composers ranging from those who tragically perished in camps to those who survived or were exile. Discovering and popularising musical gems by these forgotten artists. For more information: https://www.brundibarartsfestival.com/

The festival is now reaching a milestone of 10 years since its creation and we have the wonderful opportunity to recap some of our most precious discoveries for our audiences.

We warmly invite you to join us for this special concert.

Programme:W.A.Mozart: E minor sonata K.304Rosy Wertheim: Sonata in A flat MajorJosima Feldschuh: piano pieces (piano solo)E. W.Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing Suite (selected mvts)Henriette Bosmans: AriettaRobert Kahn: Suite in D minor Op.69 (selected mvts)T.Takemitsu: Distance de Fee

Alexandra Raikhlina

Alexandra Raikhlina is a Moscow born young and exciting violinist with a passion for chamber music.

After moving to Belgium in 1990 she was Laureate of the “Charles de Beriot” competition in Belgium before being awarded a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Later she received a full scholarship to complete her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Latest chamber music projects have included regular collaborations with leading UK musicians such as: Alexander Sitkovetslky, Boris Brovtsyn, Jack Liebeck, Natalie Clein, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Thomas Carroll, Katya Apekisheva and Philip Dukes.

Alexandra was recently chosen as inspirational woman by the “JesmondLocal” for International Women’s Day.

Alexandra is Founder and Artistic Director of Brundibár Arts Festival based in Newcastle/Gateshead.

Click HERE to read Alexandra's full biography

For more information: www.brundibarartsfestival.com

Yoshie Kawamura

Yoshie was born in Nagoya Japan and has been a resident in the UK since she was 11. She has given many performances worldwide where her main appearances were; in Germany 200th year of celebration for Chopin at Freiburg Musikhochschule, Switzerland Chamber Music Concert at Luzern Marianischer Saal, Berlin Chamber Music Festival Lunchtime Concert Series at Berliner Philharmoniker, and Netherlands International Stichting Apeldoon Festival. She was also invited to join the Berlin Philharmonic Quartet in performing Schumann’s Piano Quintet on their tour of Japan; subsequently she received an invitation from the Poznan Philharmonia to perform as a soloist in Chopin’s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise in a series of concerts in Poland.

She received her Master of Music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and later went to Germany to further her studies with Prof. Mishory at Musikhochschule Freiburg. In 2013 she came back to the UK to receive her second master in Cultural Management at the Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.

A LIVE Lit & Phil Event | FREE

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