Musical Lesson Autumn leaves

Les feuilles mortes

Agnes Bajic (piano) was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, as a member of the Hungarian minority. She completed her piano studies with Arbo Valdma and Rita Kinka at the Music Academy in Novi Sad with a diploma in concert performance and pedagogy.
Her concert activity takes place as a soloist and chamber musician in various formations.
Agnes Bajic is a long-standing musical partner of the renowned Hungarian flutist Bela Drahos, with whom she has performed numerous concerts of chamber music works for flute and piano.
Agnes is currently a répétiteur at the University of Music in Pecs, where she is also writing her doctoral thesis on Franz Liszt.

Billy Darmawan (oboe) , born in 1993 in Malang, Indonesia, received his first piano lessons at the age of 7 at the local music school. During his school years, he started playing the flute and clarinet. In 2011, after graduating from high school, he received a scholarship from Amadeus Music School, Jakarta, Indonesia, where he started playing oboe with Benjamin Fischer (Germany). 2011 – 2017 he was 1st oboe with the Amadeus Symphony Orchestra, Jakarta.

In 2018 he started his bachelor studies in concert performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (class of Prof. Adi Traar) and graduated in February 2023 with unanimous distinction. As an oboist he took part in some orchestra projects in Graz and besides that he occasionally does piano accompaniment for choir, singers, etc.

Henrik Sande (piano), born 24/12 1968 in Bærum near Trondheim/N. He studied composition in Hamburg and Graz and lives and works as a composer and teacher in Graz.

Among others, compositions by Benjamin Godard – Scènes Ecossaises, Op. 138: No. 1, Légende pastorale, Claude Debussy – Reverie, Henrik Sande, Alfian Emir Adytia – 5 Miniatures for Oboe and Piano, Frigyes Hidas: Oboe Concerto – 1st Allegro, Ástor Piazzolla – Café 1930 are on the programme.