Emily Sun @ AUSTA 2025 Golden Jubilee Conference

Masterclass and recital performance, July 13 2025
Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 

11.30 am, Violin Masterclass, Verbrugghen Hall – Emily Sun, Violin Professor, Royal College of Music, London

2.15 pm Recital Emily Sun (violin) & Joseph Havlat (piano)

G. Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
E. W. Korngold: Much ado about nothing – Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 11
K. Szymanowski Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 9

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Emily Sun

“Possessed of a superb talent” (The Australian) with “a searing and poetic tone” (The Guardian), Emily Sun is an international soloist and professor of violin at the Royal College of Music, London. She has recently performed concertos with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and was Artist-in-Association with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Her ARIA-nominated album ‘Nocturnes’ reached No.1 on the Classical charts, and her latest release of Korngold and Kats-Chernin concertos was selected as Limelight ‘Editor’s Choice’. Emily frequently gives masterclasses and is invited on juries of international competitions. She plays a 1753 G.B. Guadagnini ‘The Adelaide’, on generous loan from the UKARIA Cultural Trust.

Joseph Havlat

Joseph Havlat is an Australian pianist and composer from Hobart, who is based in London. He works frequently as a soloist, having given recitals at Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and King’s Place, and also chamber musician, having performed with artists such as James Ehnes and Steven Isserlis. He has released CDs on the LSO Live label (the premiere recording of John Adams’ two-piano work ‘Roll Over Beethoven’), Mé tier (music by Michael Finnissy) and Delphian Records (Schubert violin and piano works) amongst others. Passionate about modern and contemporary music, he has collaborated with such composers as Thomas Adè s, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Gerald Barry and Hans Abrahamsen. As a composer, his music often explores the sounds of the natural world, imbued with the harsher shapes of human modernity. He has written music spanning from solo voice to large ensemble, including for his own Ensemble x.y, of which he was a founding member. Joseph studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Prof. Joanna MacGregor from 2012 -18, where he received his BMus and MMus with distinction, including awards for exceptional merit in studentship and the highest recital mark for a postgraduate pianist.