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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Recital - Yuanfan Yang
DESCRIPTION:The final lunchtime recital on part one. \nWe are thrilled to welcome back Yuanfan Yang on the faculty and to perform a solo recital. \n“…exceptionally fine for a pianist of any age…brilliantly\nexecuted\, beautifully organised\, breathless in its\nexcitement and deeply affecting in its sentiments”. \n— International Piano Magazine \nYuanfan Yang is establishing himself as one of today’s most interesting and distinctive voices\, as an award-winning multi-faceted pianist\, composer\, and improviser. His interpretations of Schumann and Liszt ‘rivalled those of the young Ashkenazy’ (International Piano Magazine)\, and his own compositions have been praised for their ‘soulful poignancy’ in The Observer. \n \n  \nTickets available through the Stoller Hall.  Free to all summer school participants and observers. \n  \n 
URL:https://pianosummerschool.com/event/lunchtime-recital/
LOCATION:Stoller Hall
CATEGORIES:Lunchtime Recital,Recitals,Young Artist
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SUMMARY:Adam Swayne Recital
DESCRIPTION:Adam Swayne has created an acclaimed tribute to honour those who fell or endured the tragedies of 9/11. His program marks the 25th anniversary by offering reflection\, catharsis\, intimacy\, community and hope for audiences in the 2026-27 concert season.\nThroughout the recital\, voices from a diverse range of American communities are heard\, with three focussed on private reflections of 9/11. These include African American composer Karen Walwyn\, gay New York composer David Del Tredici\, and a new work by Kevin Malone: “Sudden Memorials”. This 30-minute composition captures in sound the instant and fleeting memorials that friends and relatives leave at the scene of a tragedy. The work embraces polystylism\, bringing further inclusivity into the narrative\, and asks the pianist to use theatrical gestures and improvisation as part of the performance. Alongside three pioneering works by Henry Cowell\, a very slow piece by Scott Joplin called “Solace” completes the programme by challenging the stereotype projected onto this composer during the twentieth century.\n\nReflections on 9/11 (2008) Karen Walwyn\n3. Anguish\n6. Burial\n\nKaren Walwyn was the first female African American pianist/ composer to receive the Steinway Artist award. Her 2-CD series for Albany Records entitled ‘Dark Fires’ includes premiere recordings of works by American composers of African descent. ‘Reflections on 9/11’ received its premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington\, D.C. and won a Global Award Gold Medal of Excellence.\nWalwyn is also an expert on the music of Florence Price\, having made the first recording of Price’s Piano Concerto with the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble. She is currently Professor of Piano at Berklee College of Music.\nwww.karenwalwyn.com\n\n\nThe Tides of Manaunaun (1917) Henry Cowell (1897 – 1965)\nAeolian Harp (1923)\n\nIn between the three works that respond directly to the 9/11 attacks\, I wanted to programme pieces that draw upon American traditions. For me\, Henry Cowell represents the traditions of innovation\, experimentation and marginalisation. Alongside his work as a composer\, pianist and theorist\, Cowell was John Cage’s teacher. He was also imprisoned for four years in San Quentin State Prison on “morals” charges (Cowell was bisexual).\nThese two works draw upon piano techniques that Cowell could fairly claim to have invented. They also draw upon romantic and folk styles (Manaunaun was the Irish god of the sea).\n\n\nSudden Memorials (2021) Kevin Malone\n\nThe idea to write an eighth work about 9/11 came up during an April 2021 video call with my friend and long-time collaborator\, the pianist Adam Swayne.  I hadn’t composed a piano work about 9/11\, and the 20th anniversary of these tragic events was approaching.  Memorial works were tentatively scheduled for performance\, but the COVID-19 pandemic’s social distancing remit made commemoration difficult.\n\nIn 2006\, I took a photo in Shanksville\, Pennsylvania of a makeshift wire fence near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. On the fence\, visitors had been attaching objects of remembrance\, loss\, honour and thanks since the crash.  The photo captured a sudden\, transient moment of hundreds of items\, some carefully designed and brought to the site\, while others were spontaneously offered when visitors were moved upon seeing it.\n\nSudden Memorials was completed on 31 May\, 2021\, and has a duration of 30 minutes\, with an option for the pianist to improvise while looking at the photo for an additional two minutes. During concert performances\, the pianist is asked to seek invisible memorial objects from within the piano\, the score and the air.  These gestures coincide the start of a subsequent musical “object”\, some of which sound intimate or hesitant\, others being extrovert and jarring.\n\nThe work is in two parts. Part 1 ends with a rowdy\, communal wall (fence) of noise.  Part 2 brings the listener to a mysterious resonance which attempts to remember exactly what was lost\, and yet\, somehow\, end the piece\, but finds it difficult.  The pianist is attempting the unobtainable.\n\nSudden Memorials is dedicated to Adam who gave the premiere at Wigmore Hall\, London on 11 Sept 2021 at 1pm\, the exact hour in Britain 20 years on the from the beginning of 9/11.  The work was released on the Coviello label in September 2021.\n\nKevin Malone is a composer of polystylistic\, cross-genre music for electronics\, solo singers and instrumentalists\, choirs\, orchestras and opera companies.  His work demonstrates acute awareness of social concerns and global events.  He was Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition at the University of Manchester until his retirement in 2024.\nwww.opusmalone.com\n\n\nSolace (1909) Scott Joplin (1868 – 1917)\n\nDrawing on an almost entirely different American tradition\, Scott Joplin’s work is subtitled ‘A Mexican Serenade for piano’\, although it is closer to other musical forms from Latin America – the Cuban habañera in particular\, and also the Argentine tango\, alongside hints of the African American ragtime for which Joplin is best known. However\, this unusually introspective piece provides an insight into Joplin’s wider output\, including his sole surviving opera ‘Treemonisha’.\n\n\nMissing Towers (2004) David Del Tredici\n\nSubtitled ‘Perpetual Canon’\, this work thematises the emptiness created by the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York\, the city in which the composer lives and works. The canon is in two parts (symbolising the two towers). According to Tim Rutherford-Johnson\, who wrote the liner notes for 9/11:20\, the work is “remarkable for its poise and humility in the face of unfathomable tragedy”.\nwww.daviddeltredici.com\n\n\n9/11:20 is the CD of this recital\, released on Coviello Contemporary in 2021. All artist royalties will be donated to the US-UK Fulbright Commission\, whose mission is to advance knowledge\, promote civic engagement and develop compassionate leaders through education exchange between the peoples of the US and the UK.
URL:https://pianosummerschool.com/event/kathryn-stott-and-adam-davies-two-piano-recital/
LOCATION:Stoller Hall
CATEGORIES:Recitals
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SUMMARY:Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen Recital
DESCRIPTION:Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen are passionate advocates for the wide range\nof four hands and two piano repertoire.\nThey began performing together in 2001 since when they have firmly established\nthemselves as one of the leading piano duo partnerships.\nTheir close collaboration stems from a shared teacher\, the inspirational Irina\nZaritskaya\, with whom they both studied at the Royal Colle ge of Music. Their\nfriendship dates from 1987 during a visit of students from the Gnessin School in\nMoscow to the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey.\nCharles & Katya have appeared in concerts together at many of the UK’s major\nfestivals – Cheltenham\, Leicester\, Ryedale\, Music in Country Churches\, Oxford\nChamber Music and Machynlleth. Their BBC Radio3 broadcasts include the\nBrahms Haydn Variations from St George’s Bristol and Fauré for the BBC1 Andrew\nMarr Show.\nInternationally they have performed at the Moscow Conservatoire\, the Elverum\nFestival\, Norway and in Mexico City playing the solo parts in the Mozart and\nPoulenc Double concertos with the UNAM Orchestra conducted by Jan Latham\nKoenig.\nThe duo released a highly acclaimed first recording for Quartz in 2016\, featuring\nStravinsky’s two piano ballets\, the Rite of Spring and Petrushka\, with a dedication\nto the memory of their teacher.\nTogether they are the Artistic Directors and founders of the London Piano Festival\, which is held annually at Kings Place. \nFree to all summer school participants. Tickets will be available through the Stoller Hall Website. 
URL:https://pianosummerschool.com/event/katya-apekisheva-and-charles-owen-recital/
LOCATION:Stoller Hall
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