MUSIC

THE 2012 CHOPIN SYMPOSIUM

It is a privilege to invite you to join The Chopin Symposium, an event that is recognized for its brilliant performances and unique programming. Under the artistic direction of Roberto Poli, for the past four years the symposium had gathered superb performers and illustrious scholars such as Russell Sherman, Jim Samson, Alan Walker, Max Levinson, Elizabeth Keusch, Jeffrey Kallberg, James H. Johnson, Ya-Fei Chuang, and Edward Cohen.
This year’s highlights include concert performances by pianists Sergei Babayan, and Andrew Tyson; master classes and lectures by Babayan, Angel Ramón Rivera, Zofia Chechlinska, Jonathan Bellman, and Bruce Brubaker; and a reenactment of Chopin’s concert at Paris’s Pleyel Salon in 1842 with mezzo-soprano Victoria Avetisyan, cellist Ronald Lowry, and pianist Roberto Poli.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012

7:30 p.m.
Opening concert
Sergei Babayan – Piano Recital

Program
Vladimir Ryabov: Fantasy in C Minor, op. 21 In memory of Maria Yudina
Franz Schubert: Fantasy in F Minor, D. 940 (arranged by Maria Grinberg)
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Études tableaux, Op. 39 (excerpts)
Préludes, Op. 23
Moments musicaux, Op. 16
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SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2012

9:30 a.m.
Introductory remarks

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.
Angel Ramón Rivera - lecture and performance
Chopin’s influence in the music of Claude Debussy

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Zofia Chechlinska
Chopin’s autographs and their importance in modern scholarship and performance

2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Sergei Babayan – Master class

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Round table discussion – Chechlinska, Brubaker, Bellman

7:30 p.m.
Andrew Tyson – Piano Recital

Program
Fryderyk Chopin:
Three Mazurkas, Op. 59
Alexander Scriabin:
Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 23
Henri Dutilleux:
Prelude No. 3 Les jeux des contraires (1988)
Fryderyk Chopin:
Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 28
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SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2012

9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Jonathan Bellman
Chopin and contemporary consumer music

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Ronald Lowry and Roberto Poli
Chopin at the Opera

1:45 – 3:15 p.m.
Bruce Brubaker
Lecture – Topic TBA

4:00 p.m.
Chopin at the Pleyel Salon – a reconstruction of the Parisian concert on February 20, 1842
with mezzo-soprano Victoria Avetisyan, cellist Ronald Lowry, and pianist Roberto Poli

Program
F. Chopin: Andante and Ballade in A-flat Major, Op. 47
J. Dessauer: Felice Donzella
F. Chopin: Suite de Nocturne, Preludes et Etudes
F. Handel: Selected arias
Solo for Violoncello
F. Chopin: Suite de Nocturnes, Preludes, Mazurkas et Impromptus
P. Viardot: Le Chene et le Roseau