Dina and Friends - a mini-festival of chamber music - Concert 1
Dina and Friends - a mini-festival of chamber music - Concert 1 at 1901 Arts Club, London
Dina and Friends - a mini-festival of chamber music - Concert 1
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About the show
The much-anticipated fixture in our performance diary - Dina and Friends - returns to 1901 Arts Club for the annual mini-festival of chamber music. This is the first of two concerts in the min-festival.
Curated by acclaimed pianist Dina Duisen, this two-night series brings together an outstanding roster of world-class guest musicians for an intimate evening of collaborative performance. Designed to create a relaxed, salon-style atmosphere, each concert offers a chance to experience chamber music up close, followed by an invitation to meet the artists in the bar after the recital.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for four hands in B flat major, K.358/186c
Johannes Brahms
Sonata for viola and piano in F minor, Op.120, No.1 (1st mvt.)
Claude Debussy
Sonata for violin and piano in G minor, L.140
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46
Martin James Bartlett piano
Alim Beisembayev piano
Jiafeng Chen violin
Dina Duisen piano
Strahinja Mitrović double bass
Hugo Svensson viola
Featuring - Dina Duisen
Pianist Dina Duisen was born into a family of musicians in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She studied there and in the USA before completing a Master of Arts Degree in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, London in 2011. She is a major prize winner at many piano competitions, including the 29th International Piano Competition in Senigallia, Italy, the Shabyt International Competition, the National Competition of Kazakhstan and the International Musician of 21st Century Competition.
Martin James Bartlett
Martin, from Hornchurch, Essex, has been learning the piano since the age of six. He enjoys performing solo recitals and participating in chamber ensembles. He is passionate about researching piano music repertoire and listening to different interpretations.
'One of the greatest up and coming young piano talents in the music world' (Royal College of Music Magazine 2010).
Alim Beisembayev
Alim Beisembayev rose to international prominence after winning First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021 with a performance of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Manze. He was also awarded the medici.tv Audience Prize and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for Contemporary Performance.
In 2023, Alim became one of the highlights of the BBC Proms when, with just two days’ notice, he stepped in to perform Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with Sinfonia of London and John Wilson. The performance was hailed as “the kind I thought we could hear only in our dreams” (iNews, Jessica Duchen) and described by BBC Radio 3’s Georgia Mann as “a star is born.” Later that season he received the prestigious Critics’ Circle Young Artist Award 2024.
Highlights of the 2025–26 season include debuts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Jaime Martin), Philharmonia (Adam Hickox), Ulster Orchestra (Tom Fetherstonhaugh), Gävle Symphony Orchestra (Christian Reif), Belgrade Philharmonic (Julio Garcia Vico) and Macedonian Philharmonic (Emil Tabakov). He also returns to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Kirill Karabits) and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Domingo Hindoyan).