Keyboard
Friday 30 April, 1.00pm in Academy Concert Hall
Friday Lunchtime Concert Series
As part of PLUG
Fidelio Trio
Monday 7 June, 1.00pm in Guinness Room
Music on
Monday
Wednesday 9 to Sunday 13 June
The Academy’s Piano Festival seizes
the opportunity to celebrate two of the
most important composers of music
for piano celebrating bicentennials this
year: Chopin and Schumann.
The programme features exciting
guests, including International Fellow
Steven Osborne, Martino Tirimo,
an astounding line up of chamber
musicians, plus the remarkable talents
of our own staff and students.
We wish to thank Duet and the Dunard
Fund for their generous support of the
Academy Piano Fund.
Prelude to the Piano Festival
Monday 7 June / 1pm /
Guinness Room / £5 (£3)
Enjoy this prelude with a recital of songs
by Chopin and Schumann - two of the
great Romantic composers, both being
celebrated this year, the bicentennial
of their births. Featuring students from
Keyboard and Collaborative Piano and
Vocal Performance Departments, the
programme will also include Liszt’s solo
piano transcriptions of songs by both
composers.
Chamber Recital
Wednesday 9 June / 7.30pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £9 (£6)
Daniel Rowland Violin
Priya Mitchell Violin
Scott Dickinson Viola
Pierre Doumenge Violoncello
John Thwaites Piano
Schumann Piano Quintet in E Flat
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor
An all-star ensemble of chamber
musicians from across Europe,
including Daniel Rowland, familiar to
Academy audiences as the charismatic
leader of the Brodsky Quartet, begin
the Piano Festival with a programme
featuring Schumann’s quintet for string
quartet and piano (the first essay in the
genre) along with probably the finest
British example by Edward Elgar.
Martino Tirimo - Chopin
Thursday 10 June / 7.30pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £9 (£6)
Chopin Polonaise in G minor
Variations in E on a German
national air (Der Schweizerbub)
Three Mazurkas
Valse melancolique in
F sharp minor
Allegro de Concert
24 Preludes
Martino Tirimo will perform an all
Chopin recital, featuring a number of
very early works, and concluding with
one of the major works of the repertoire,
the 24 Preludes.
Steven Osborne
Friday 11 June / 1pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £9 (£6)
Ravel Miroirs
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
In between international recitals in
Copenhagen, Helsinki and at the
Wigmore Hall, world renowned pianist
Steven Osborne performs his first
RSAMD recital since being appointed the
Academy’s International Fellow in Piano.
Masterclass with Martino Tirimo
Friday 11 June / 2.30pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £3 (£2)
Martino Tirimo gives a class to
RSAMD guests from specialist music
schools around the UK, including
the Purcell School, Chetham’s, St
Mary’s in Edinburgh and the RSAMD
Junior Academy.
Improv and Dance
Friday 11 June / 7:30 pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £5 (£3)
Triologue
Les Sylphides (To music by Chopin)
Schumann Carnaval
The first half of this concert features
Triologue, three amazing pianists
improvising on three pianos: the
Estonian Anto Pett, International Fellow
Steven Osborne and Head of Keyboard
and Collaborative Piano Aaron Shorr.
The second half will be a chance to
witness the first collaboration between
the Academy’s new School of Dance
and the School of Music, and the first
public performance by our Modern Ballet
students. This part of the programme
will feature
Les Sylphides, in three
movements set to the music of Chopin,
followed by dance set to Schumann’s
cycle
Carnaval with each movement
played by a different keyboard student.
Specialist Music Schools Recital
Saturday 12 June / 12:30 pm /
Guinness Room / £5 (£3)
A recital featuring gifted students
from specialist music schools around
the country.
Homage à Chopin
Saturday 12 June / 7.30pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £5 (£3)
A concert featuring compositions
dedicated to and inspired by Chopin,
finishing with a piano quintet version
of the composer’s E minor Piano
Concerto performed by three students
from the piano department, Sylvia Jen,
Marko Ernek and Pearl-Lynne Chen.
Other composers featured with their
homages include Villa Lobos and the
world premiere of a song cycle by
Marek Pasieczny.
Closing Concert - Multiple Pianos
and Piano Teams
Sunday 13 June / 11.30am /
Academy Concert Hall / £5 (£3)
A celebratory concert for multiple
pianos featuring Academy staff and
students. To conclude the Piano
Festival and commemorate Chopin
at 200, this Sunday morning concert
will feature a world premiere specially
commissioned for the 2010 Academy
Piano Festival by Marek Pasieczny for
Two Pianos -
8 hands, based on Polish
Themes. Additional multiple piano
works include
Valse-Paraphase after
Chopin by Edouard Schutt,
Carmen
Variations for Two Pianos -
8 hands by
Wilberg and the Smetana
Sonata for
Two Pianos, 8 hands.
Wednesday 9 to Sunday 13 June
The Academy’s Piano Festival seizes
the opportunity to celebrate two of the
most important composers of music
for piano celebrating bicentennials this
year: Chopin and Schumann.
The programme features exciting
guests, including International Fellow
Steven Osborne, Martino Tirimo,
an astounding line up of chamber
musicians, plus the remarkable talents
of our own staff and students.
We wish to thank Duet and the Dunard
Fund for their generous support of the
Academy Piano Fund.
Prelude to the Piano Festival
Monday 7 June / 1pm /
Guinness Room / £5 (£3)
Enjoy this prelude with a recital of songs
by Chopin and Schumann - two of the
great Romantic composers, both being
celebrated this year, the bicentennial
of their births. Featuring students from
Keyboard and Collaborative Piano and
Vocal Performance Departments, the
programme will also include Liszt’s solo
piano transcriptions of songs by both
composers.
Chamber Recital
Wednesday 9 June / 7.30pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £9 (£6)
Daniel Rowland Violin
Priya Mitchell Violin
Scott Dickinson Viola
Pierre Doumenge Violoncello
John Thwaites Piano
Schumann Piano Quintet in E Flat
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor
An all-star ensemble of chamber
musicians from across Europe,
including Daniel Rowland, familiar to
Academy audiences as the charismatic
leader of the Brodsky Quartet, begin
the Piano Festival with a programme
featuring Schumann’s quintet for string
quartet and piano (the first essay in the
genre) along with probably the finest
British example by Edward Elgar.
Martino Tirimo - Chopin
Thursday 10 June / 7.30pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £9 (£6)
Chopin Polonaise in G minor
Variations in E on a German
national air (Der Schweizerbub)
Three Mazurkas
Valse melancolique in
F sharp minor
Allegro de Concert
24 Preludes
Martino Tirimo will perform an all
Chopin recital, featuring a number of
very early works, and concluding with
one of the major works of the repertoire,
the 24 Preludes.
Steven Osborne
Friday 11 June / 1pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £9 (£6)
Ravel Miroirs
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
In between international recitals in
Copenhagen, Helsinki and at the
Wigmore Hall, world renowned pianist
Steven Osborne performs his first
RSAMD recital since being appointed the
Academy’s International Fellow in Piano.
Masterclass with Martino Tirimo
Friday 11 June / 2.30pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £3 (£2)
Martino Tirimo gives a class to
RSAMD guests from specialist music
schools around the UK, including
the Purcell School, Chetham’s, St
Mary’s in Edinburgh and the RSAMD
Junior Academy.
Improv and Dance
Friday 11 June / 7:30 pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £5 (£3)
Triologue
Les Sylphides (To music by Chopin)
Schumann Carnaval
The first half of this concert features
Triologue, three amazing pianists
improvising on three pianos: the
Estonian Anto Pett, International Fellow
Steven Osborne and Head of Keyboard
and Collaborative Piano Aaron Shorr.
The second half will be a chance to
witness the first collaboration between
the Academy’s new School of Dance
and the School of Music, and the first
public performance by our Modern Ballet
students. This part of the programme
will feature
Les Sylphides, in three
movements set to the music of Chopin,
followed by dance set to Schumann’s
cycle
Carnaval with each movement
played by a different keyboard student.
Specialist Music Schools Recital
Saturday 12 June / 12:30 pm /
Guinness Room / £5 (£3)
A recital featuring gifted students
from specialist music schools around
the country.
Homage à Chopin
Saturday 12 June / 7.30pm /
Academy Concert Hall / £5 (£3)
A concert featuring compositions
dedicated to and inspired by Chopin,
finishing with a piano quintet version
of the composer’s E minor Piano
Concerto performed by three students
from the piano department, Sylvia Jen,
Marko Ernek and Pearl-Lynne Chen.
Other composers featured with their
homages include Villa Lobos and the
world premiere of a song cycle by
Marek Pasieczny.
Closing Concert - Multiple Pianos
and Piano Teams
Sunday 13 June / 11.30am /
Academy Concert Hall / £5 (£3)
A celebratory concert for multiple
pianos featuring Academy staff and
students. To conclude the Piano
Festival and commemorate Chopin
at 200, this Sunday morning concert
will feature a world premiere specially
commissioned for the 2010 Academy
Piano Festival by Marek Pasieczny for
Two Pianos -
8 hands, based on Polish
Themes. Additional multiple piano
works include
Valse-Paraphase after
Chopin by Edouard Schutt,
Carmen
Variations for Two Pianos -
8 hands by
Wilberg and the Smetana
Sonata for
Two Pianos, 8 hands.
Monday 21 June, 1.00pm in Guinness Room
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