with the Piano Festival Chamber Ensemble. 26MONDAY 11.00AMâ4.30PM FREE. Beethoven: 32 Sonatas,. 32 Pianists I. VENUE D
Piano Festival Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th June
Welcome to the Academy’s annual Summer Piano Festival, celebrating the creative range of repertoire played by our pianists and curated by Professor Joanna MacGregor, the Academy’s Head of Piano. From Alfred Brendel and our Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists cycle to chamber music, multi-arts collaborations and new music for quartertone upright pianos, dip in and out of as many free events as you like. The Festival ends with a BBC Radio 3 broadcast concert.
www.ram.ac.uk/pianofest All Piano Festival events are free, no tickets required
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26
JUNE
MONDAY 11.00AM–4.30PM FREE
Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists I
27
JUNE
TUESDAY 10.15–11.00AM FREE
Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists II
27 TUESDAY 1.00–6.00PM FREE
Piano, Multimedia, Film VENUE York Gate 250, 251 and 252 and Museum
Piano Gallery 1.00pm: Let’s Dance
VENUE David Josefowitz Recital Hall
VENUE Museum Piano Gallery
Op.2 no.1 in F minor XinRu Chen Op.2 no.2 in A Yuemeng Li Op.2 no.3 in C Ziteng Fan Op.7 in E flat Yehuda Inbar Op.10 no.1 in C minor John Bae Op.10 no.2 in F Bo Lyu Op.10 no.3 in D Seung Bin Lee Op.13 in C minor, ‘Pathétique’ Isata Kanneh-Mason Op.14 no.1 in E Weng Soon Tee Op.14 no.2 in G Jenny Rutherford Op.22 in B flat Alexandra Balog Op.26 in A flat Joseph Havlat
Op.49 no.1 in G minor Emil Duncumb Op.49 no.2 in G Louise Cournarie Op.79 in G Hyun-Jeong Hwang
26 MONDAY 3.00–5.30PM FREE
Piano, Multimedia, Film VENUE York Gate 250, 251 and 252 and Museum
Piano Gallery Pianists from Neil Brand’s Improvising to Film course — Vasileios Alevizos, Greta Åstedt, He Chang, Hok Chun Chung, David Gray, Joseph Havlat, Sabina Im and Niklas Oldemeier — perform live to film excerpts.
26 MONDAY 6.00–7.00PM FREE
Alfred Brendel on Beethoven’s Sonatas VENUE Duke’s Hall
The great pianist talks to Professor Joanna MacGregor about his earliest experiences recording and performing the complete Beethoven sonatas.
Three of Beethoven’s briefest sonatas, played on the 1805 Broadwood grand fortepiano.
27 TUESDAY 11.15AM–3.00PM FREE
Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists III VENUE David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Op.27 no.1 in E flat, ‘Quasi una fantasia’ Ka Man Ching Op.27 no.2 in C sharp minor, ‘Moonlight’ Ariel Lanyi Op.28 in D, ‘Pastoral’ Frederic Bager Op.31 no.1 in G Antoine Préat Op.31 no.3 in E flat, ‘The Hunt’ Vasileios Alevizos Op.106 in B flat, ‘Hammerklavier‘ Anna Szalucka
Shengjun Lin, Ziteng Fan and Kei Takumi collaborate with dancers from London Contemporary Dance School and visual artists from Central Saint Martins in music by Grieg, Bartók and Ligeti. 3.00pm: Let’s Tango Belle Chen presents a radio play celebrating vividly colourful American cultures with flautist Hannah Porter Occeña. Seung Bin Lee teams up with a dancer and interactive visuals in works by Piazzolla and Barber. 5.00pm: Film and Music Vasileios Alevizos performs original compositions with animators from Central Saint Martins.
27 TUESDAY 4.00–5.00PM FREE
Jacob Barnes Prize Winners’ Concert: Quartertonal Piano Project VENUE David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Joseph Havlat and Thomas Ang piano Two upright pianos are tuned a quartertone apart in the middle of the hall in this performance of brand new music, plus works by Ives, John Corigliano and Georg Friedrich Haas.
27 TUESDAY 5.30–6.30PM FREE
Mozart from the Keyboard VENUE Duke’s Hall
Costanza Principe and Cristian Sandrin direct Mozart’s K.415 and K.595 concertos from the keyboard, with the Piano Festival Chamber Ensemble.
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JUNE WEDNESDAY 11.00AM–12.00 NOON
Hummel’s Mozart Transcriptions VENUE Museum Piano Gallery
Pocket Sinfonia: Rosie Bowker flute Eleanor Corr violin George Ross cello Emil Duncumb fortepiano Mozart transc. Hummel Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K.492; Concerto in C minor, K.491; Symphony no.35 in D, K.385, ‘Haffner’
28 WEDNESDAY 12.10–5.30PM FREE
Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists IV VENUE David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Op.31 no.2 in D minor, ‘Tempest’ Cristian Sandrin Op.53 in C, ‘Waldstein’ Bocheng Wang Op.54 in F Greta Åstedt Op.57 in F minor, ‘Appassionata’ Alim Beisembayev Op.81a in E flat, ‘Les adieux’ Yayi Tian Op.78 in F sharp, ‘À Thérèse’ Costanza Principe Op.90 in E minor Charlie Woof-Byrne Op.101 in A Anna Geniushene Op.109 in E Kenny Fu Op.110 in A flat Francesca Orlando Op.111 in C minor Manos Kitsikopoulos
28 WEDNESDAY 1.00–5.00PM FREE
28 WEDNESDAY 1.00–6.00PM FREE
Piano Rolls
Piano, Multimedia, Film
VENUE Henry Wood Room
VENUE York Gate 250, 251 and 252 and Museum
A rolling programme of chamber music: 1.00pm: Piano and Trumpet: New Views Lucy Humphris trumpet Harry Rylance piano Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Balletto Takemitsu Paths
Debussy La cathédrale engloutie
Bruch Canzone, op.55 Janácˇek In the Mists (excerpts) Bartók Suite, op.14
Harry James Concerto for Trumpet
2.00pm: Piano and Flute: New Views Jagoda Krzemin´ska flute Julia Klimek piano Szeligowski Sonatine Weinberg Twelve Miniatures, op.29 Kilor Three Preludes Krzesimir Debski Moment Musical (premiere) 3.00pm: Piano and Viola: Late Brahms Zhenwei Shi viola Ariel Lanyi piano Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor, op.120 no.1 Brahms Viola Sonata in E flat, op.120 no.2 4.00pm: Piano and Wind Quintets Eleanor Sullivan oboe, James Gilbert clarinet, Olivia Palmer-Baker bassoon, Joel Roberts horn and Mihály Berecz piano Beethoven Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, op.16 Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K.452
All Piano Festival events are free, no tickets required www.ram.ac.uk/pianofest
Piano Gallery 1.00pm: Modern Love Ma Regina Montesclaros and Can Li collaborate with visual artists from Central Saint Martins; music by Filipino composers Tupas and Abelardo, as well as Ravel and Fauré. 3.00pm: Film and Music Pianists from Neil Brand’s course perform live to film excerpts. 5.00pm: Night Music Greta Åstedt and Fee Shin-Yi Blumenthaler perform music by Bridge, Bartók and Salvatore Sciarrino, with visual artists from Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.
28 WEDNESDAY 6.00–7.45PM FREE
Final Festival Event VENUE Duke’s Hall
Bukolika Trio: Roma Tic violin Joanna Gutowska cello Anna Szalucka piano Roxanna Panufnik Piano Trio, op.1 Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque in G minor Martin Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes Joseph Havlat and Thomas Ang piano John Adams Hallellujah Junction Grainger Fantasy on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess This concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
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