piano festival thursday 30th june and friday 1st july 2016

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Welcome to the Academy’s Summer Piano Festival, featuring a remarkable range of events celebrating the outstanding creativity amongst our pianists and curated by Professor Joanna MacGregor OBE, the Academy’s Head of Piano.

Dip in and out of as many free events as you like.

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Piano Festival Thursday 30th June and Friday 1st July 2016

30 THURSDAY 10.00–10.55AM FREE

Orlando Trio Museum Piano Gallery

Pianist Francesca Orlando introduces Hummel’s Adagio, Variations and Rondo in A, op.78, and trios by Martinuo, Gaubert and Piazzolla, with Laura Davies flute and Leah Leong cello.

30 THURSDAY 11.05–11.50AM FREE

Argenta TrioDavid Josefowitz Recital Hall

Nicolas Dupont violin, Yoon-Kyung Cho cello and Małgorzata Garstka piano. Haydn Piano Trio in G, Hob.XV:25, ‘Gypsy Rondo’ Chopin Piano Trio in G minor, op.8

30 THURSDAY 12.00 NOON–1.10PM FREE

Film: Alfred Brendel — Man and MaskDavid Josefowitz Recital Hall

Mark Kidel’s intimate portrait of Brendel practising and preparing for his 70th birthday concerts. With family, friends and other celebrated performers, this is a superb and humorous insight into the great pianist.

30 THURSDAY 12.00 NOON–1.00PM FREE

Piano, Multimedia, Film: ExcursionsYork Gate 250, 251 and 252

Take a trip down to the seaside and step into Jacques Tati’s witty world as Lena Napradean plays Britten’s Holiday Diary, op.5, and selections from Satie’s Sports et divertissements. Bernat Català Rams explores his roots in Rome — the city of dreams — in live improvisations: La grande bellezza.

JUNE 30 THURSDAY 1.05–2.00PM FREE

Medtner and Stravinsky IHenry Wood Room

Aleksandra Myslek curates three rich programmes involving the Russian masters Medtner and Stravinsky. Here she directs a vocal programme also featuring Shostakovich, with pianists Andrei Iliushkin and Amiran Zenaishvili and singers Lotte Betts-Dean, Alys Roberts and Michael Mofidian.

30 THURSDAY 2.30–5.30PM FREE

Piano Rolls IDavid Josefowitz Recital Hall

A rolling programme of chamber and solo works:

2.30pm: Music from Hungary: curator and pianist Alexandra Balog with Kendzsi Tanaka piano. Bartók Improvisations, op.20; Sonata Kurtág Selections from Játékok; Marosszék Dances Brahms Hungarian Dances for four hands

3.30pm: Kyeong-Jin Lee cello, Joanna Krauze piano. Beethoven Cello Sonata no.5 in D, op.102 Poulenc Sonata for cello and piano

4.30pm: Medtner and Stravinsky II: Eleanor Corr violin, Aleksandra Myslek piano. Medtner Violin Sonata no.3; Stravinsky Divertimento


Piano, Multimedia, Film: Susurrus SoundscapesYork Gate 250, 251 and 252 and Museum Piano Gallery

Head into the forest. You’ll become aware of the world around, attuned to every slight breeze, leaf and petal.

Christina McMaster plays Debussy selected Preludes; Hao Zi Yoh plays Ravel Gaspard de la nuit; Twelve pianists perform Richard Bullen Susurrus; Nathan Ben-Yehuda improvises to an original film; Man Minnie Ho plays John Corigliano Fantasia on an Ostinato


Piano, Multimedia, Film: In the MistsYork Gate 250, 251 and 252 and Museum Piano Gallery

Pre-concert installation: Swedish Study. Landscapes with original music by Bernat Català Rams. Ravel Gaspard de la nuit, new arrangement by Hao Zi Yoh piano and Daniel Gonzalez Estevez percussion; Janácv ek In the Mists with multi-layer projections of Norwegian landscapes and sounds, performed by Thormod Rønning Kvam. Photography by James Larter.


Pe–teris Vasks 70th Birthday CelebrationDavid Josefowitz Recital Hall

6.00pm: Professor Raymond Holden interviews the celebrated Latvian composer Pe–teris Vasks.

6.30pm: Concert curated by Margarita Balanas. Kristine Balanas and Roberts Balanas violin, Amy Yule flute, Oscar Holch viola, Margarita Balanas cello, Cristian Sandrin piano. Pe–teris Vasks White Scenery; Little Summer Music; Green Scenery; Plainscapes; The Fruit of Silence

30 THURSDAY 7.30PM–8.30PM FREE

Polish Music Exposed: Through the GenerationsDuke’s Hall

Pianist Anna Szalucka curates and introduces two concerts of scintillating and powerful Polish music. With Patrycja Mynarska and Roma Tic violin, Victoria Bernath viola, Joanna Gutowska cello. Paweł Mykietyn Four Preludes for piano Grazyna Bacewicz Piano Quintet no.1; Piano Sonata no.2

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01 FRIDAY 10.00–11.00AM FREE

Russian Gems Museum Piano Galley

Amiran Zenaishvili introduces and performs music by the neo-Romantic Russian master Georgy Sviridov — Partita in F minor and Time Forward (orchestral suite arranged for four hands) — as well as a selection from Rachmaninov’s Études-tableaux, op.39. With pianist Sean Morgan-Rooney.

01 FRIDAY 11.30AM–12.30PM FREE

Ligeti: The Complete Keyboard Music IDavid Josefowitz Recital Hall

Hear Ligeti’s complete piano and harpsichord music — fizzing, funny and highly virtuosic — over three concerts performed by Thomas Ang, Nathan Ben-Yehuda, Joseph Havlat, Renata Konyicska, Sean Morgan-Rooney, Lena Napradean and Kei Takumi. Musica ricercata; Three Bagatelles; Sonatina for four hands; Hungarian Rock; Études Book I.

01 FRIDAY 1.05–2.00PM FREE

Jacob Barnes Prize Winner’s ConcertHenry Wood Room

A mixed programme from Charlotte Schoeters soprano and Johan Barnoin piano, ranging from Haydn and the Ophelia Lieder by Strauss to their own music, inflected by jazz and pop.

JULY01 FRIDAY 2.15–3.15PM FREE

Piano, Multimedia, Film: Fireside FanciesYork Gate 250, 251 and 252 and Museum Piano Gallery

2.15pm: Listen to tales of old American domestic life, mythology and politics, with the poetry of Mina Loy and Longfellow — known as the ‘Fireside poets’. Music by Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Amy Beach, Ives and Cowell, performed by pianist Christina McMaster and actor Nick Hafezi.

2.45pm: Belle Chen in an exploration of symbolist and surrealist ideas across three rooms, with contemporary dancer Anastasia Kostner and film-maker Maarten van der Glas. Music by Scriabin, Satie, Weill and Ligeti.


Piano Rolls IIDavid Josefowitz Recital Hall

A rolling programme of chamber and solo works:

2.00pm: Júlia Pusker violin and Renata Konyicska piano. Bartók Rhapsody no.1; Beethoven Kreutzer Sonata in A, op.47

3.00pm: Ligeti: The Complete Keyboard Music II Four early piano pieces; Basso continuo; Invention; Induló, Polifón etüd, and Allegro for four hands; Études Book II; Continuum; Passacaglia ungherese.

4.00pm: Polish Music Exposed: In the Circle of Miniatures Roma Tic violin, Joanna Gutowska cello, Anna Szalucka piano. Szymanowski Mazurkas, op.50, nos.1–6; Lutosławski Subito; Grave; Hanna Kulenty A Cradle Song; Górecki Six Bagatelles

5.00pm: Nadège Rochat cello, Tobias Haunhorst piano. Beethoven Variations, op.66; Franck Sonata in A


Piano, Multimedia, Film: Meditative MusicYork Gate 250, 251 and 252

Pianist Soo Young Park, visuals by Chanhee Choi.


Ligeti: The Complete Keyboard Music IIIDuke’s Hall

Due capricci; Chromatische phantasie; Three Wedding Dances for four hands; L’arrache-coeur; Études Book III; Three Pieces for Two Pianos.


Piano, Multimedia, Film: Sinister ResonanceYork Gate Room 251 and Museum Piano Gallery

The piano is transformed into an instrument of the uncanny, eerie and ghostly. Man Minnie Ho performs Cowell’s The Banshee and Sinister Resonance and Crumb’s Makrokosmos Volume 1, and Christina McMaster plays Theatre of Resonance. Pre-concert film installation: Richard Bullen’s Scenes from a Deserted Jazz Club and House of Asteria.


Medtner and Stravinsky IIIDuke’s Hall

Eleanor Corr violin, Benjamin Aldren clarinet, Aleksandra Myslek, Ariel Lanyi and Yuanfan Yang piano. Stravinsky L’histoire du soldat; Concerto for Two Pianos Medtner Piano Quintet in C

All Piano Festival events are free, no tickets required

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piano festival thursday 30th june and friday 1st july 2016

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