Summer 2015 Piano Festival Welcome to the Academy’s 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.

25 THURSDAY

10.00–11.00AM Museum Piano Gallery

Good Morning: Early KeyboardsMartyna Kazmierczak piano

CPE Bach Fantasie in F sharp minorMozart Fantasia in C minor, K.475Haydn Fantasia in C, ‘Capriccio’ Clementi Capriccio, op.47 no.1

Introduction and performances of fantasies on the 1805 Broadwood, and Clementi on the c.1842 Pleyel square piano.

11.05–11.40AM Duke’s Hall

Mozart’s K.488Cristian Sandrin pianoStella Quartet with Ben Daniel-Greep double bass

Cristian Sandrin directs his own transcription of Mozart’s sunniest piano concerto, in A K.488.

12.00 NOON–12.55PM Duke’s Hall

London Piano SchoolHamish Milne, David Gray and XinRu Chen piano

Hamish Milne, professor of piano, performs and curates pieces created by London pianists connected to the Academy. Programme to include music by Clementi and Sterndale Bennett, as well as Moscheles’s Hommage à Händel for two pianos.

1.05–1.50PM David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Janácvek, Dvorvák and SmetanaJâms Coleman and Julia Mamet’eva piano Nika Goricv soprano William Blake tenor

Smetana Evening Songs and Dvorvák Gypsy Songs, prefaced by excerpts from Janácv ek’s On an Overgrown Path.

2.00–4.00PM Duke’s Hall

Dohnányi WorkshopFree tickets: telephone the Academy’s Box Office, 020 7873 7300

Academy Chamber EnsembleChristoph von Dohnányi conductorFlorian Mitrea piano

Janácv ek Capriccio for piano left-hand and chamber ensemble

As part of the Christoph von Dohnányi @85 celebrations, the renowned maestro leads a workshop.

2.00–5.00PM Museum Piano Gallery

Hammer ActionVasileios Alevizos, Aretas Botyrius, Nicholas Bonadies, Susana Gómez Vásquez, Tobias Haunhorst, Tze-Tien Huang, Yehuda Inbar, Martyna Kazmierczak, Karolina Kubalek, Miki Mizusawa, Daniela Rodó Aranda and Gen Tomuro piano

Composer and installation artist Julian Day introduces and leads a brand-new project for early keyboards; details at www.ram.ac.uk/pianofest

2.30–6.00PM Concert Room

Piano, Multimedia, FilmDaniel Espie, Renata Konyicska, Georg Michael Grau, Juan Antonio Caro Caro, Hao Zi Yoh, Nathan Ben-Yehuda and Lena Napradean piano

Belle Chen and Christina McMaster curate and present Academy pianists working with film, painting, sound and water.

3.00–6.00PM David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Piano RollsA rolling programme of chamber and solo works:

3.00pm: Berio and BrahmsYehuda Inbar performs Berio’s Wasserklavier, Erdenklavier, Luftklavier and FeuerklavierBo Lyu performs Brahms’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op.24

4.00pm: Lutosławski and Schubert Bella Tang (piano) and Zhenwei Shi (viola) play Schubert’s ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata, D.821Greta Åstedt (piano) and Irma Vastakaite (violin) play Schubert’s Sonata in A, D.574, and Lutosławski’s Subito

5.00pm: Gubaidulina and RachmaninovCheng Chen plays Sofia Gubaidulina’s ChaconneJoanna Krauze (piano) and Kyeong Jin Lee (cello) play Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata in G minor, op.19.

JUNE 26 FRIDAY

10.30–11.30AM Museum Piano Gallery

Good Morning: Early KeyboardsCostanza Principe introduces and performs Beethoven’s Variations on a Russian Dance in A on the 1805 Broadwood, and Schumann’s Sonata no.1 in F sharp minor, op.11, and Toccata in C, op.7, on the Érard of 1840.

11.40AM–12.30PM David Josefowitz Recital Hall

The Power of Piano and PercussionJessica Tan (piano) and Lok Kwan Rachel Lee (percussion) introduce and play a range of epic works including Toshi Ichiyanagi’s Paganini Personal, John McLeod’s Song of Dionysus and Thom Hasenpflug’s South of Jupiter.

1.05–2.00PM Duke’s Hall

Jacob Barnes Prize Winners’ ConcertAlexandra Vaduva and Anna Szalucka piano

Rachmaninov Suite no.1, op.5, Fantaisie-tableauxBartók Seven Pieces from MikrokosmosRavel Rapsodie espagnole

2.00–4.45PM David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Piano RollsRolling programme of solos and duos:2.00pm: Perfect Miniatures Kei Takumi performs a programme of short masterpieces by Grieg, Ligeti, Liszt and Scriabin

3.00pm: Ginastera, Jazz and Stravinsky Kendzsi Tanaka performs Ginastera’s Sonata no.1Ashley Keith Henry pays homage to Herbie Hancock and Thelonious MonkWill Barry plays standards and English folk themesJiarui Li and Mengyuan Xun perform Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

2.30–3.30PM Duke’s Hall

Happy Birthday BoulezJoseph Havlat and Thomas Ang piano

Boulez Structures, Books 1 and 2; Une page d’éphéméride; Incises; Notations

A virtuosic piano celebration for Pierre Boulez’s ninetieth birthday.

3.30PM Museum Piano Gallery

Early KeyboardsLouise Cournarie introduces and performs Handel’s Suite in F minor on an English harpsichord, and Schubert’s Moments Musicaux on a Viennese piano of c.1815.

3.30–5.00PM Concert Room

Piano, Multimedia, FilmDavid Gray, Vasileios Alevizos, Andrei Iliushkin, Christina McMaster and Belle Chen piano

Belle Chen and Christina McMaster curate and perform alongside Academy pianists working with multimedia and film.

4.45–5.45PM Duke’s Hall

Trio AmericanaJørgensen Trio

Piano trios by Bernstein, Copland and Ives.

6.30–7.30PM David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Satie Day/NightStudents from Drama Centre LondonJoseph Havlat, Nathan Ben-Yehuda and Francesca Orlando pianoPaul Stoneman and Oliver Pooley percussion

A celebration of the eccentric genius Erik Satie, with excerpts from Adrian Mitchell’s play Satie Day/Night. Including Gymnopédies, Sports et divertissements, and a screening, with live music, of Satie’s seminal (and very funny) collaboration with surrealist René Clair, Entr’acte.

JUNE

All Piano Festival events are free. Tickets are not required, except for Thursday’s Dohnányi workshop.

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