92Y DECEMBER CONCERTS
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 8 PM
92Y – Kaufmann Concert Hall
Art of the Guitar
Ana Vidovic, guitar
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 8:30 PM
92Y – Buttenwieser Hall
Sir András Schiff Selects: Young Pianists
Mishka Rushdie Momen, piano (92Y debut)
Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 8 PM
92Y – Kaufmann Concert Hall
Masters of the Keyboard
Julia Hsu (92Y debut) & Peter Serkin, piano four-hands
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 1, 2016
ART OF THE GUITAR:
Croatian Guitar Virtuosa Ana Vidovic Returns to 92Y
Critically-acclaimed guitarist Ana Vidovic returns to 92Y with an engaging program spanning genres and centuries. A first-prize winner of the Albert Augustine International Competition (England), the Fernando Sor competition (Italy) and the Francisco Tarrega competition (Spain), Ms. Vidovic’s recital includes music ranging from 18th-century Germany to 19th-century Italy, plus one of the Beatles’ most enduring songs arranged by Toru Takemitsu.
Ms. Vidovic’s international performance career has brought her to New York, London, Paris, Vienna, Salzburg, Rome, Budapest, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Oslo, Copenhagen, Toronto, Baltimore, San Francisco, Houston, Austin, Dallas, St. Louis and beyond. As The Washington Post observed, “Vidovic’s playing is nuanced and intensely personal, both deeply felt and deeply thought.”
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 8 PM
92Y – Kaufmann Concert Hall
Art of the Guitar
Ana Vidovic, guitar
BACH: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (trans. by Valter Despalj)
GIULIANI: Grande Ouverture, Op. 61
SCARLATTI: Sonata in A major, K. 322
SCARLATTI: Sonata in E major, K. 380
TARREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra
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BARRIOS MANGORÉ: La Catedral
BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios
LENNON/McCARTNEY (arr. TAKEMITSU): Yesterday
PAGANINI: Grande Sonata in A major, Op. 35
Pre-concert talk at 7pm with Benjamin Verdery, Art of the Guitar artistic director and chair of the Guitar Department of the Yale School of Music.
Tickets: $25, 40, 45, 55
Artist Website: Ana Vidovic
Sir András Schiff Selects: Young Pianists
Mishka Rushdie Momen Gives 92Y Debut
With the 2016/17 season marking its third installation, Sir András Schiff Selects: Young Pianists reflects both 92Y’s and Sir András’s dedication to championing the next generation of international performers by inviting promising young pianists, who have already garnered critical acclaim overseas, to make their 92Y debuts in programs of their choosing. This season, Sir András has selected three pianists to perform in this intimate series in 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall.
London-born pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen opens the series on December 7 with a varied program of music by Mozart, Janáček, Schumann and Beethoven. A prizewinner at international piano competitions in Cologne, Dublin and Dudley (UK), among others, Ms. Momen’s program explores various forms within piano repertoire – sonatas from the 19th and 20th centuries, a Mozartean fantasy and Schumann’s last great work for the piano. Sir András remarked, “She played Mozart’s A-minor sonata most beautifully, which is very rare indeed. She is a very original, intelligent and sensitive musician.”
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 8:30 PM
92Y – Buttenwieser Hall
Sir András Schiff Selects: Young Pianists
Mishka Rushdie Momen, piano (92Y debut)
MOZART: Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
JANÁČEK: Sonata 1.X.1905
SCHUMANN: Waldszenen, Op. 82
BEETHOVEN: Sonata in A major, Op. 101
Tickets: $25 (general admission)
Artist Website: Mishka Rushdie Momen
MASTERS OF THE KEYBOARD:
Julia Hsu and Peter Serkin Perform Piano Four-Hands Recital
Taiwanese pianist Julia Hsu makes her 92Y debut in a piano four-hands recital with the inimitable Peter Serkin. Their program, which features the NY premiere of Serkin’s arrangement for four hands of Brahms’ Eleven Chorale-Preludes, Op. 122, also includes masterworks from the Classical and Romantic repertoire by Beethoven and Schubert, as well as Brahms’s Five Hungarian Dances.
In 2014, Ms. Hsu formed a piano duo partnership with the renowned American pianist Peter Serkin. They have performed four-hand and two-piano repertoire extensively in major music festivals, such as Ravinia Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Chamber Music Northwest and Rockport Music Festival in the U.S., Ruhr Piano Festival in Germany and Oxford Piano Festival in England.
“The interpretation [of Schumann’s Six Etudes in Canon Form, Op. 56] had a rare elasticity to it, even rarer that two people achieved it. They played with a single intent, seeming to even breathe together.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune
Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 8 PM
92Y – Kaufmann Concert Hall
Masters of the Keyboard
Julia Hsu (92Y debut) & Peter Serkin, piano four-hands
BEETHOVEN: Adelaide, Op. 46 (arr. Czerny)
BEETHOVEN: Fugue in D major, Op. 137
BRAHMS: Eleven Chorale-Preludes, Op. 122 (arr. P. Serkin)
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SCHUBERT: Allegro in A minor, “Lebensstürme”, D. 947
SCHUBERT: Rondo in A major, D. 951
BRAHMS: Five Hungarian Dances
No.8 in A minor
No.9 in E minor
No.11 in D minor
No.12 in D minor
No.18 in D major
Tickets: $25, 40, 50, 55
Artist Websites: Julia Hsu, Peter Serkin
Tickets are available at www.92Y.org/Concerts or 212-415-5500.
Ticket prices subject to change.
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