Summer Piano Festival 26th–28th June 2014

Summer Piano Festival 26th–28th June 2014

Summer Piano Festival
26th–28th June 2014
www.ram.ac.uk/pianofest
Joanna MacGregor
Stephen Kovacevich
David Thompson / EMI Classics
Christina McMaster
John Cage
Yuko Sano
Florian Mitrea
Welcome to the Academy’s new Festival, celebrating the
creative range of repertoire played by our pianists and
curated by Joanna MacGregor OBE, the Academy’s Head
of Piano. Dip in and out of as many free events as you like.
Summer Piano Festival 2014
All events except 28th June are free — no tickets required
Thursday 26th June 10.30–11.30am
Thursday 26th June 3.00–4.00pm
Friday 27th June 12.00 noon–1.15pm
Museum Piano Gallery
Henry Wood Room
Costanza Principe introduces and performs
Schubert’s Sonata in E flat D568 on the Piano
Gallery’s fortepiano and Beethoven‘s Waldstein
Sonata op.53 on the Broadwood piano.
Charlotte Schoeters soprano
Nicholas Beever baritone
Johan Barnoin and Frederick Brown piano
Good Morning:
Early Keyboards
Thursday 26th June 1.05pm
Childhood, Fire Sermon,
Trout
Museum Piano Gallery
Duke’s Hall
Martyna Kazmierczak introduces and performs
music by JC Bach, CPE Bach and Clementi on
square pianos, Leopold Koželuch on the fortepiano
and William Byrd on the virginals.
Georg Michael Grau, Man Minnie Ho and
Yuko Sano piano
Members of Vuillaume Quartet
with Andrew Vickers double bass
Thursday 26th June 12.00 noon–2.30pm
Lera Auerbach Images from Childhood
Einojuhani Rautavaara Sonata no.2, ‘The Fire Sermon’
Schubert Piano Quintet, D.667, ‘Trout’
ViSuaLiSe!
Viennese Masters
Thursday 26th June 4.30–6.00pm
ViSuaLiSe!
Museum Piano Gallery
Museum Piano Gallery
A video and piano installation curated by Belle Chen.
A video and piano installation curated by Belle Chen.
4.30pm Live collaboration between Academy pianists
and visual artists: music by Ravel and Carl Vine.
5.00pm Multimedia installation.
12.00 noon Multimedia installation
1.00pm Live collaboration between Marios
Panteliadis and Félix Ardanaz with visual artists,
in music by Ravel and Carl Vine.
Thursday 26th June 2.30–6.00pm
Thursday 26th June 12.00 noon–7.15pm
A rolling programme of music:
Inside Out Pianists
Concert Room
Metronomes, toy pianos and surprises all day,
curated by Christina McMaster.
12.00noon–1.00pm Inside Out Pianists
Music for piano, toy piano, metronome, synthesiser
and more by Stephen Montague, Cowell,
Harrison Birtwistle, Ligeti, Erik Griswold, Satie,
Philip Glass and Cage. Performed by Chiao Yu Wu,
Christina McMaster, Jessica Tan, Kendszi Tanaka,
Aretas Boyutrius, Kei Takumi, Fuyue Lan,
Karolina Kubalek and Carmen Ching.
2.00–3.15pm Imagine Peace
Film by Yoko Ono/Cage; music by Cage, Thomas Adès,
Ligeti, Maurice Ohana, Takemitsu, Messiaen and
Benjamin Yusupov. Performed by Alexandra Myslek,
Fuyue Lan, Mengyuan Xun, Kei Takumi, Karolina
Kubalek, Anna Dmytrenko and Chendi Zhang (violin).
4.00–5.00pm After Ives
Introduced by composer Stephen Montague.
Performed by Lena Napradean, Man Minnie Ho,
Christina McMaster, the Halcyon Quartet and
André Filipe Soares Camacho (percussion)
6.00pm Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Cage’s iconic work, introduced by Joanna MacGregor
and performed by Yuko Sano, Thomas Ang, Belle
Chen, Christina McMaster and Susana Gomez.
Piano Rolls
Duke’s Hall
2.30pm Americana: Two Pianos
Joseph Havlat and Thomas Ang piano:
Bernstein West Side Story Dances
John Adams Hallelujah Junction
3.30pm Melusine Piano Trio: Bella Tang piano,
Laura Rickard violin and Carolyn Ronning cello:
Beethoven Piano Trio in G, op.1 no.2
4.00pm Daniel Lebhardt piano and Mark Lee violin
Franck Violin Sonata
4.30pm Cristian Sandrin piano/director,
Stella Quartet with Ben Daniel-Greep double bass:
Mozart Piano Concerto in E flat, K449
5.15pm Invocations, Improvisations
Naji Hakim Variations sur ‘Auprès de ma blonde’
Jehan Alain Ecce Ancilla Domini
Liszt Fantasie über Themen aus den Opern von
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Hochzeit des Figaro
und Don Giovanni, S. 697 – completed, edited and
performed by Chiyan Wong
Friday 27th June 10.00am–12.30pm
Masterclass with
Stephen Kovacevich
Duke’s Hall
Alexandra Vaduva and Florian Mitrea piano
Tom Lee and Paul Stoneman percussion
Bartók Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Acclaimed international soloist Stephen Kovacevich
makes a welcome return to the Academy to work
with piano and percussion students on Bartók’s
magnificent Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.
Friday 27th June 11.00am–5.00pm
ViSuaLiSe!
Museum Piano Gallery
Academy pianists and art students continue their
cross-platform collaborative work — including a
discussion at 1.00pm with Belle Chen, artists and
musicians.
War Song: Lieder 1910–20
Head of Piano Accompaniment Michael Dussek
introduces songs by Ravel, Debussy, Gurney and
Ireland, and Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad.
Friday 27th June 12.00 noon–6.30pm
Theatres of Resonance
Concert Room
A day of live piano music and visuals curated by
Christina McMaster and Belle Chen.
12.00noon–1.00pm A Theatre of Resonance
Piano works, some with video or tape, by Satie,
Arvo Pärt, Freya Waley-Cohen, Hye Kyung Lee,
Bofan Ma, Nico Muhly and Richard Bullen.
Performed by Daniela Rodo, Yulia Mamet’eva,
Karolina Kubalek, John Bogdan, Man Minnie Ho,
Christina McMaster and Zhenwei Shi (viola).
3.30–4.30pm Viaggio Italiano
Umberto Jacopo Laureti performs piano music
inspired by Italy – from Frescobaldi and Liszt to
Nino Rota – with imagery.
5.00–6.30pm David Gray improvises to the silent film
spectacular Nosferatu. Introduced by Neil Brand.
Friday 27th June 2.00–3.00pm
Jacob Barnes Prize
Winners’ Concert
Duke’s Hall
Jørgensen Trio:
Olga Jørgensen piano
Antonia Kesel violin
Cecilia Bignall cello
Piazzolla Seasons in Buenos Aires: Spring, Summer
Ravel Piano Trio
Piazzolla Seasons in Buenos Aires: Autumn, Winter
Summer Piano Festival 2014
Friday 27th June 3.30–4.30pm
Saturday 28th June 7.30pm
Henry Wood Room
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
Tickets £9.50, £12.50, £14.50 and £19.50 from
Kings Place Box Office: www.kingsplace.co.uk,
telephone 020 7520 1490
Academy at Kings Place
A symposium on the role of young pianists today,
with Head of Piano Joanna MacGregor and Nicki
Wenham, artistic manager, founder and director of
Young People in the Arts.
Friday 27th June 7.00–8.00pm
Strange Meeting:
Echoes and Responses
from the Western Front
Duke’s Hall
Students from Drama Centre London
Patrick Rafter violin
Emily Mitchell trumpet
Susana Gómez Vázquez, Aretas Botyrius, Joseph
Havlat and Thomas Ang piano
Belle Chen
Music, songs, poetry and prose from both sides of
No Man’s Land, directed by Richard Williams. This
event complements the Museum’s exhibition, War
Music: Notes from the First World War.
Simon Wright conductor
Dame Harriet Walter narrator
Alexandra Vaduva and Florian Mitrea piano
Tom Lee and Paul Stoneman percussion
Bartók Seven Pieces from Mikrokosmos
Bartók Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Stravinsky L’histoire du soldat
As two of the most prominent and influential
composers of the twentieth century, Bartók and
Stravinsky took music in new directions. The works
performed this evening are linked by rhythm, wit
and folk tales, and written by composers living
through revolutionary political and economic crises
in their homelands.
Bartók’s innovative Seven Pieces from Mikrokosmos
precedes his magnificent Sonata for Two Pianos
and Percussion, written just before his tragic exile
from Hungary. Stravinsky’s dark Faustian drama,
The Soldier’s Tale, tells of a deserting soldier and the
Devil who eventually possesses his soul, exhibiting
themes of abstinence, loss, crushing desperation,
regret and resolve. It will feature esteemed British
actress Dame Harriet Walter as narrator.
Royal Academy of Music Museum
Until 21st March 2015
Dame Harriet Walter
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