All UK Music Conservatoires and Colleges are invited to nominate a pianist to represent them in the Senior Competition. Each competitor performs a complete Beethoven piano sonata of their choice in addition to compulsory Bagatelle in B flat, Op.119 No.11.

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Atsuko Kawakami, piano

Galuppi Sonata No.5, in C major
Beethoven Sonata No.17, in D minor, Op.31 no.2, ‘Tempest‘
Chopin Ballade No.4, in F minor, Op.52

Gwendolyn Mok, piano

Beethoven Sonata No.2, in A, Op.2 No.2
Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses, Op.54
Allan Crossman Beethoven 250
Czerny Fantasy on Beethoven Motives

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

Bela Hartmann, piano

Mozart Rondo in A minor, K.511
Widmann Idyll und Abyss (2009)
Beethoven Eroica Variations, Op.35

Thomas Ang, piano

Beethoven/Liszt Adelaide
Beethoven/Tausig Cavatina from String Quartet Op.130
Tippett Sonata No.4 (1983–4)

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)

Sasha Grynyuk, piano

Mompou Canciones y Danzas Nos.1 and 6
Beethoven Bagatelles Op.33
Beethoven Sonata No.31, in A flat, Op.110

Julian Trevelyn, piano

William Byrd Sellinger’s Round
Beethoven Sonata No.31, in Ab, Op.110
Tippett Sonata No.1 (1936–8)

Amarins Wierdsma, violin
Joon Yoon, piano

Beethoven Sonata No.8, in G, Op.30 No.3
Schubert Fantasia in C, D.934

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

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)

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

Eugene Alcalay, piano

Beethoven Sonata No.29, in Bb, Op.106, Hammerklavier

Programme

10am – 1pm Talks and Panel Discussion

10am Welcome – Julian Jacobson, Chairman BPSE

10.05am Oliver Soden: Tippett – The Piano Sonatas in Context

10.45am Christopher Mark: Tippett against Beethoven

11.30am Break

11.40am Andrew Ball and Meirion Bowen in Conversation with Julian Jacobson: Reflections on Tippett’s Piano Music

12.00pm Panel: Tippett, his piano music, and his relationship to Beethoven
Andrew Ball, Meirion Bowen, Julian Jacobson, Christopher Mark, William Mival, Oliver Soden

1pm Lunch

1.45pm – 5.15pm Piano Masterclass
Professor Andrew Ball, former Head of Keyboard Studies at the RCM. Participants
include Ruth Hopkins (soprano) and Duncan Appleby (piano) performing ‘The Heart’s Assurance‘ and three of the four pianists who are playing in the BPSE concert series at St. James’s Piccadilly in August: Yuki Negishi, Julian Trevelyan and Thomas Ang.

1.45pm Piano Masterclass, Part 1

3.15pm Coffee/Tea Break

3.45pm Piano Masterclass, Part 2

5.15pm Closing thoughts, Julian Jacobson

Tickets for full day of events: £15, £10 BPSE/EPTA/ISM, £5 Students

Adam Heron (BPSE 2017 Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition First Prizewinner)

Bach English Suite No.3 in G minor, BWV 808
Chopin Barcarolle Op.60
Scriabin Sonata No.2

Tolga Atalay Ün (BPSE 2017 Senior Intercollegiate Piano Competition First Prizewinner)

Debussy Images Book 1 (Complete)
Berg Piano Sonata Op.1
Beethoven Piano Sonata No.31, in Ab, Op.110

Interval

Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op.117
Brahms Piano Sonata No.1, in C, Op.1

Yuexuan Song, piano (BPSE 2017 Senior Intercollegiate Piano Competition Third Prizewinner)

Bach/Petri Sheep May Safely Graze
Beethoven Eroica Variations, Op.35
Chopin Nocturne in C# minor, Op.27 No.1
Liszt Spanish Rhapsody, S.254

Tolga Atalay Ün (BPSE 2017 Senior Intercollegiate Piano Competition First Prizewinner)

Brahms Piano Sonata No.1, in C, Op.1
Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op.117

Konstantinos Destounis, piano

Chopin Scherzo No.2, in Bb minor, Op.31
Theodore Antoniou Prelude and Toccata
John PsathasJettatura
Beethoven Sonata No.23, in F minor, Op.57, Appassionata

All UK Music Conservatoires and Specialist Music Schools are invited to nominate a pianist to represent them in the Junior Competition.

Each competitor performs a complete Beethoven piano sonata of their choice in addition to compulsory Bagatelle in C minor, Op.119 No.5.