CHOPIN AT 200 AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE Join the celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of Chopin with the following concerts:
Monday 23 november 2009
louis lortie
tuesday 19 january 2010
cédric tiberghien Forum Participants Since winning the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Peter Donohoe has developed a distinguished career worldwide. He regularly appears with major orchestras in the UK and across Europe and has made many award-winning recordings. Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger is Emeritus Professor of the University of Geneva and author of the celebrated Chopin Pianist and Teacher as Seen by his Pupils. In 2001 he received the Chopin Prize from the International Chopin Foundation in Warsaw. Kenneth Hamilton has performed worldwide on modern and historical instruments. His recent monograph After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance was chosen as a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph. Kevin Kenner teaches at the Royal College of Music. Along with other major awards, in 1990 he won the top prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition. He has performed all over the world and has made numerous recordings. Ronan O’Hora is Head of Keyboard Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. He has had extensive international experience as a performer and has recorded more than 30 CDs, including works by Chopin.
Monday 22 February 2010 John Rink is Professor of Musical Performance Studies at the University of Cambridge. Author of a Cambridge Music Handbook on Chopin’s concertos, he is one of three Series Editors – along with Jim Samson and Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger – of The Complete Chopin: A New Critical Edition, published by Peters Edition. Jim Samson is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London and has published extensively on the music of Chopin and other topics. In 1989 he was awarded the Order of Merit from the Polish Ministry of Culture. Tom Service writes about music for The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to BBC Music Magazine, Opera and Tempo. He began broadcasting on BBC Radio 3 in 2001, and has presented Music Matters since the autumn of 2003. David Winston (Period Piano Company) is an internationally renowned maker and restorer of keyboard instruments. He has restored antique pianos of historical importance, including the instrument made for Beethoven in 1817, Chopin’s 1846 Pleyel and pianos associated with Mendelssohn and Liszt.
Krystian Zimerman
Convened by John Rink and featuring a panel of distinguished performers and Chopin experts
Chopin Birthday Concert 1
Saturday 27 February 2010
Chopin Masterclass Peter Donohoe Monday 1 March 2010
Maurizio Pollini
Chopin Birthday Concert 2 Thursday 25 March 2010
Yevgeny SudBin
Wednesday 14 April 2010
Nikolai Demidenko Thursday 29 April 2010
Pascal Rogé
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www.southbankcentre.co.uk The Chopin Forum is part of the International Piano Series 2009/10 and is presented by HarrisonParrott in association with Southbank Centre.
The
Chopin Forum Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Saturday 6 February 2010 10am to 5pm Tickets £15
the chopin forum The second Chopin Forum celebrates the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth by bringing together internationally distinguished pianists, scholars, teachers and editors, along with a leading piano maker and restorer. The first half focuses on Chopin as a young pianist, the performance insights within his manuscripts and the first editions of his music, and the instruments that he played to such unique effect. Hearing select passages on a grand piano from the 1840s introduces us to a sound-world close to Chopin’s own. The second half turns to the interpretations that followed in the hands of later pianists and editors, culminating in a panel discussion on teaching Chopin. As a coda to the Forum, outstanding young pianist Alex Kobrin performs a recital featuring some of Chopin’s greatest but also most enigmatic works.
programme 10.00 Welcome and Introduction Tom Service 10.05 Chopin’s First Concert in Paris: 25 February 1832 Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger 10.45 Playing (with) the Chopin Sources John Rink Coffee Break 11.40 Roundtable 1 Playing Chopin on the Pianos of his Time Lunch Break 13.40 Confronting Chopin: Arrangements and Derangements by Pianists of the Past Kenneth Hamilton 14.20 Which Chopin? Jim Samson Tea Break 15.15 Roundtable 2 Teaching Chopin 16.25 Forum Round-up Tom Service 16.30 Coda: Recital by Alex Kobrin Scherzo in C-sharp minor Op.39 Three Nocturnes Op.15 Scherzo in E major Op.54 Polonaise-Fantasy Op.61
Cover image: Fryderyk Chopin playing — watercolour with pencil by Teofil Kwiatkowski, c. 1847 (courtesy of Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw)
Chopin’s First Concert in Paris: 25 February 1832 – Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger How did a young, unknown composer-pianist succeed in organising a concert in the Pleyel salons in February 1832, thereby introducing his playing to the Parisian musical world? What works did he perform and with which instrumental forces? Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger unveils new historical evidence which casts light on this pivotal event. Playing (with) the Chopin Sources – John Rink What do the manuscripts and first editions of Chopin’s music reveal about his unique playing style and the distinctive sounds that he drew from the piano? John Rink examines notational idiosyncrasies in the Chopin sources and suggests how pianists might make sense of them today. Roundtable 1: Playing Chopin on the Pianos of his Time Featuring Peter Donohoe, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Kenneth Hamilton, Kevin Kenner, Ronan O’Hora, John Rink and David Winston. Chaired by Tom Service.
Confronting Chopin: Arrangements and Derangements by Pianists of the Past – Kenneth Hamilton How was Chopin’s music played in the century after his death, before the trend for ‘historically informed performance’ tightened its grip? Pianists from Franz Liszt onwards adapted his works with varying degrees of tact or tastelessness to increase its public impact. Kenneth Hamilton assesses the effects they had on generations of musicians and music lovers. Which Chopin? – Jim Samson There have been numerous collected editions of Chopin’s music since his death and few of them agree on anything. Why is this? The answer lies partly in the complexity of the source pool and partly in changing approaches to the task of the editor. Jim Samson considers different editorial philosophies which have informed Chopin editing to the present day. Roundtable 2: Teaching Chopin Featuring Peter Donohoe, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Kevin Kenner, Ronan O’Hora, John Rink. Chaired by Tom Service.