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About the Performers:
Walter Mony, violin/viola
John Wilcox, violin
Michal George, guitar
Tomoko Long, piano
WALTER MONY was bom in Winnipeg, Canada, and began violin with George Bornoff and John Waterhouse. As a scholarship student at the Royal College in London he studied under Albert Sammons, Henry Holst, and Max Rostal, soon becoming Assistant Principal of the London Symphony and a member of the Royal Philharmonic under Sir Thomas Beecham.
Touring with the Nederburg Trio, with which he recorded extensively on major labels, he moved to South Africa, becoming Chair of Music at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is beloved as a concert soloist, having performed the South African premieres of the concertos of Stravinsky, Walton, Suk, Shostakovich, and Bartók, as well as world premieres of South African composers Graham Newcater and Carl van Wyk. He is equally versatile on violin and viola.
Mony is active worldwide as conductor of professional and youth
orchestras, string clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer. Many of his students hold prominent international playing and teaching positions. In recent years he has been involved in outreach programs for the disadvantaged children of the South African townships.
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