Crestani Scholarships, a local not-for profit charity working towards making life better for cancer patients, will host Love Duets, a musical afternoon at the Performing Arts Centre, Central Coast Grammar School, at 2pm on Sunday, May 28.
Musical duo Dmitri and Katia Pronin will pay tribute to opera, musical theatre and jazz, taking the audience to a world where music is the universal language.
Based in Sydney, the husband-and-wife duo are well-established international artists with long international performance careers.
Dmitri, an accomplished tenor, has performed extensively as a singer and actor in Australia, Europe and Asia, with many leading roles including in the operas: La Traviata, Tosca and La Boheme.
He has also enjoyed a wide range of roles in theatre, film and television both in Australia and Russia.
He graduated from the Victoria College of the Arts where he worked with David Kram and Vladimir Vais.
Katia gained a diploma of singing from the St Petersburg Conservatorium and a Batchelor of Music in Milan, Italy.
She has featured as the principal soprano in various operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto and Carmen as well as having worked as a pianist with Opera Australia, Melbourne Opera, Citi Opera and the Russian American Festival of Musicals in St Petersburg.
The two will perform Love Duets in a fundraising performance for Crestani Scholarships in support of the Cancer Biomedical Research project scheduled to be launched this year at the Gosford-University of Newcastle Research Institute.
Tickets are available at www.ccgs.nsw.edu.au/loveduets or by calling 0416 241 110.
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Crestani Scholarships