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Programme

9.45am

Welcome and Introduction

         

Concert 1, Part 1

 

Talk -  'The Solo Pianist’ given by Steven Osborne 

Steven Osborne - Beethoven - Sonata op.109 in E major
Alexander Kwon - Bach - Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV 895
Michelle Huang - Shostakovich - Lyric Waltz from Dances of the Dolls
Simon Smith - Alkan - Concerto for Solo Piano op.39 Mvt I

10.50am

Concert 1, Part 2

 

Talk -  ‘The Composer Pianist’ given by Simon Smith 

Simon Smith - ‘Avenir’ (I & II) 

Talk – ‘The Pianist as Chamber Musician’ given by Susan Tomes 

Fraser Mason, Marie-Sophie Baumgartner, Finn Mannion - Shostakovich Piano Trio No.1 op.8

Lola Flexen, Rory Kemp, Stephanie Kozlowski & Susanna Davis - Faure - Clair de Lune, Les Berceaux, Mandoline

‘The Collaborative Pianist’
An illustrated recital

Iain Burnside & Roderick Williams

G.Finzi - Childhood among the ferns (from Before & After Summer op.16)
F.Schubert - Der Einsame D.800
F.Schubert - Im Frühling D.882
G.Finzi - Summer Schemes (from Earth, Air & Rain op.15)
G.Finzi - Channel Firing (from Before & After Summer op.16)
F.Schubert - Totengräbers Heimweh D.842   

12.15pm

Concert 2

 

An hour long recital given by

Pascal Rogé

1.15pm

Lunch break

2.00pm

Nigel Murray Masterclass - Pascal Rogé

 

The annual Nigel Murray Masterclass featuring four pupils and led by  Pascal Rogé

Pavlina Gusheva - Debussy - Pour le Piano - Prélude, Sarabande
Lola Flexen - Debussy - Images I - ‘Reflets dans l’eau’
Jack Williamson - Debussy - Suite Bergamasque - Prélude
Salvador Sanchez - Ravel - Concerto in G (acc. Margaret Wakeford)

3.45pm

Concert 3

 

Alan Benzie Trio

4.15pm

Concert 4

 
2 hands @ 1 Piano Winner of ‘Piano Postcard’ Competition
3 hands @ 1 Piano Kurtag/Bach - Sonata No.1 in Eb bwv.525
4 hands @ 1 Piano Kurtag - Jatekok 4 ‘Harangok’
4 hands @ 1 Piano Kurtag/Bach – ‘O Lamm Gottes unschuldig’
6 hands @ 1 Piano Rachmaninov - Valse & Romance
16 hands @ 2 Pianos Lavignac - Galop Marche

Simon Smith, John Cameron, Elena Fischer-Dieskau, Paula Lopez-Atanet, Susanna Davis, Stephanie Kozlowski, Salvador Sanchez, Antonio Carrascal, Leo McDonald

5.00pm

 Finish

 

Instrumental Learning

Choir School

Saturday Music Classes

 

St Mary’s Music School is one of the nine specialist Music and Dance Schools the UK (and the only one in Scotland)  funded by the UK Government and providing the finest training in Britain. It is a co-educational, non-denominational specialist music school, offering a world class standard of music and academic education to musically gifted children aged 9-19 years. It is also the Choir School of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh. It attracts day and boarding pupils from across Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Europe and internationally. 

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