Sunday 8 July 2018, 10am – 6pm
City Lit, 1—10 Keeley St, London, WC2B 4BA
Tippett Day: a celebration of the life and work of Sir Michael Tippett on the 20th anniversary of his death, focusing on the composer’s piano music and his intense relationship to the music of Beethoven.
The morning session will consist of talks and a round table discussion on Tippett, his piano music, and his relationship to Beethoven.
Confirmed speakers include Meirion Bowen (Tippett’s partner and most closely bound up with the 3rd and 4th Sonatas), Oliver Soden (currently writing the first full length biography of Tippett for publication in 2019), Dr Christopher Mark, prominent English music researcher, William Mival, Head of Composition at RCM and frequent broadcaster, as well as Andrew Ball, distinguished pianist and teacher, and former Head of Keyboard Studies at the RCM, who will give the afternoon masterclass.
The masterclass, from 2 pm, will feature three of the four pianists who are playing in the BPSE Tippett Festival at St. James’s Piccadilly in August: Yuki Negishi, Julian Trevelyan and Thomas Ang and a voice and piano team performing ‘The Heart’s Assurance‘.
Tickets for full day of events: £40, £20 BPSE/EPTA/ISM, £10 Students
Cash on the door OR email
secretary@bpse.org
BPSE Lunchtime Recital series
Monday 9 July 2018, 1.10pm
Eugene Alcalay, piano
Beethoven Sonata No.29, in Bb, Op.106, Hammerklavier
St James’s Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London (W1J 9LL)
Friday 20 July 2018, 1pm
Grigoris Ioannou, piano
Einojuhani Rautavaara Narcissus (2001)
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23, in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”
Liszt from Two Legends, No.2: “St Francis of Paola walking on the waves“, S.175
Liszt Sonata après une lecture du Dante, S.161
Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London (W1C 2DJ)
Friday 27 July 2018, 1pm
Ben Smith, piano
Brian Ferneyhough Lemma-Icon-Epigram (1981)
Beethoven Sonata No.21, in C, Op.53, Waldstein
Cassandra Miller Philip the wanderer (2012)
Helmut Lachenmann Marche Fatale (2018)
Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London (W1C 2DJ)
BPSE Tippett/Beethoven Series Concert 1
Wednesday 1 August 2018, 1.10pm
Yuki Negishi, piano
Beethoven Sonata No.17, in D minor, Op.31 No.2, “Tempest”
Tippett Sonata No.2 (1962)
Chopin Ballad No.3, in Ab, Op.47
Kapustin Prelude Op.53 No.5
Kapustin Concert Etude Op.40 No.1, Prelude
St James’s Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London (W1J 9LL)
Friday 3 August 2018, 1pm
Amarins Wierdsma, violin
Edward Liddall, piano
Beethoven Sonata No.6, in A, Op.30 No.1
Prokofiev 5 Melodies, Op.35
John Cage Nocturne
Bartok Rhapsody No.1, Sz.87
Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London (W1C 2DJ)
BPSE Tippett/Beethoven Series Concert 2
Wednesday 8 August 2018, 1.10pm
Julian Trevelyn, piano
William Byrd Ut re mi fa sol la, from My Ladye Nevells Booke
Beethoven Sonata No.31, in Ab, Op.110
Tippett Sonata No.1 (1936–8)
St James’s Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London (W1J 9LL)
Friday 10 August 2018, 1pm
Sasha Grynyuk, piano
Mompou Canciones y Danzas Nos.1 and 6
Beethoven Bagatelles Op.33
Beethoven Sonata No.31, in A flat, Op.110
Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London (W1C 2DJ)
BPSE Tippett/Beethoven Series Concert 3
Wednesday 15 August 2018, 1.10pm
Lee Jae Phang, piano
Beethoven Sonata No.10, in G, Op.14 No.2
Debussy Hommage à Rameau, from Images Book 1
Debussy Les collines d’Anacapri, from Préludes Book 1
Tippett Sonata No.3 (1972–3)
St James’s Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London (W1J 9LL)
BPSE Tippett/Beethoven Series Concert 4
Wednesday 22 August 2018, 1.10pm
Thomas Ang, piano
Beethoven/Liszt Adelaide
Beethoven/Tausig Cavatina from String Quartet Op.130
Tippett Sonata No.4 (1983–4)
St James’s Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London (W1J 9LL)
BPSE Lunchtime Recital series
Wednesday 3 October 2018, 1.10pm
Bela Hartmann, piano
Mozart Rondo in A minor, K.511
Widmann Idyll und Abschied (2009)
Beethoven Eroica Variations, Op.35
St James’s Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London (W1J 9LL)
BPSE Competition-winners’ Recital series
Tuesday 30 October 2018, 1pm
Tolga Atalay Ün, piano (BPSE 2017 Senior Intercollegiate Piano Competition Prizewinner)
Beethoven Sonata No.31, in A flat, Op.110
Brahms Sonata No.1, in C, Op.1
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London (WC2N 4JJ)
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