The Endler Concert Series presents the Brandenburg String Trio on Sunday 23 April at 16h30 in the Endler Hall, Stellenbosch.

Founded in 2014, the Brandenburg String Trio comprises South African violinist Avigail Bushakevitz, German violist Ernst-Martin Schmidt and Spanish cellist Andrea Casarrubios.

No stranger to South African audiences, violinist Avigail Bushakevitz has performed as soloist with all the major orchestras in the country and has won multiple national and international competitions including first prizes at the UNISA National Strings Competition and the UNO Competition (Jerusalem). In 2016 Avigail was named South African Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year.

Violist Ernst-Martin was born in East Berlin where he first studied violin at the C.P.E. Bach specialist music school. He completed his bachelors and master’s degrees at the Musik Hochschule Hanns Eisler (Berlin). During the final two years of studies he commenced two years’ playing in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2005 he joined the violas of the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin.

Cellist Andrea studied at the Peabody Institute (Baltimore) and at the University of Southern California. After completing her master’s, she went on to work with Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall (New York). She has won many awards and is a first prize winner of the American Fine Arts Festival International Concerto Competition 2012 and the SOR Solo String Concerto Competition 2009.

The programme includes works by Purcell, Schubert, Françaix, Klein and Mozart.

Be sure not to miss this feast of young talent and outstanding music.