Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Programme
Haley Myles:
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Danzas Argentinas Op 2 (1937) 1 Danza del viejo boyero Dance of the old herdsman 2 Danza de la moza donosa Dance of the beautiful maiden 3 Danza del gaucho matrero Dance of the arrogant cowboy Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849) Nocturne in Db major Op 27 No 2 (1835) Nocturne in C minor Op 48 No 1 (1841) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) from Années de Pèlerinage, Première Année: Suisse S160 6 Vallée d'Obermann (1848-1855) Frédéric Chopin Étude in A minor op 25 no 11, Winter Wind (1837) Elia Stavrou: Frédéric Chopin Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 (1835) George Gershwin (1898-1937) Three Preludes (1926) I Allegro ben ritmato e deciso II Andante con moto III Agitato programme sequence may change |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Haley Miles
Haley Myles frequently performs as a collaborative pianist, accompanying singers and other instrumentalists. Haley has performed as a soloist in the United States, Germany, Austria, Portugal, and Italy. She has participated in several international music festivals and holds certificates from the prestigious Mozarteum in Austria, the Imola Piano Academy in Italy, and the Freiburg International Piano Academy in Germany, among others.
Haley actively participates in master classes where she has received guidance from distinguished artists including Olli Mustonen, Enrico Pace, Boris Petrushansky, and Paul Badura-Skoda.
Haley received her Bachelor in Piano Performance with first-class honours at the University of Arkansas in 2016, studying privately with Jura Margulis; she was a recipient of the Stella Boyle Smith scholarship. She is currently studying on the MMus Performance course at the London College of Music, University of West London.
Haley actively participates in master classes where she has received guidance from distinguished artists including Olli Mustonen, Enrico Pace, Boris Petrushansky, and Paul Badura-Skoda.
Haley received her Bachelor in Piano Performance with first-class honours at the University of Arkansas in 2016, studying privately with Jura Margulis; she was a recipient of the Stella Boyle Smith scholarship. She is currently studying on the MMus Performance course at the London College of Music, University of West London.
Elia Stavrou
Elia Stavrou is a London-based pianist who is currently studying at London College of Music with Jeremy Davis. Elia has a particular passion for Romantic and Twentieth century music and enjoys performing this repertoire in concerts. Recent highlights include performances of Liszt at the Henry Wood Hall in London and a programme of Fauré, Chopin and Gershwin at All Saint’s Church, Kingston.
With a Youtube channel and an online following, Elia Stavrou has enjoyed recording pieces by Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, to name but a few.
In addition to recording and performing, Elia writes regularly about music and his latest blog, ‘Is “Classical” Music for Everyone?’, inspired by his individual attitude and approach to music, highlights and challenges the stigmas surrounding Classical music and can be read through his website: www.eliastavrou.com
With a Youtube channel and an online following, Elia Stavrou has enjoyed recording pieces by Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, to name but a few.
In addition to recording and performing, Elia writes regularly about music and his latest blog, ‘Is “Classical” Music for Everyone?’, inspired by his individual attitude and approach to music, highlights and challenges the stigmas surrounding Classical music and can be read through his website: www.eliastavrou.com
Concert at Home
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Haley Myles opens her section of the concert with Ginastera's Danzas Argentinas. Our recording comes from a 2012 concert at the Wigmore Hall, London, where the pianist was Buenos Aires born Horacio Lavandera.
For the first of two Chopin Nocturnes in today's concert we turn to the young Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, 1st prize-winner at the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2010, for which she performed the
Nocturne in Db major, Op 27 No 2:
Nocturne in Db major, Op 27 No 2:
Next, in the 1st stage of the Chopin Competition of 2015, we hear Juilliard School student Tiffany Poon with the
Nocturne in C minor, Op 48 No 1:
Nocturne in C minor, Op 48 No 1:
For a work that evokes the Swiss Obermann Valley, here is Swiss pianist Luisa Splett, with Liszt's
Vallée d'Obermann:
Vallée d'Obermann:
For our final work we return to the 2015 Chopin Piano Competition. Our pianist this time is the then 16-year-old Canadian (although Chinese-born) Tony Yike Yang. Tony was initially taught by his mother. He was named CBC Music's Classical Young Artist of 2016. Here he plays Haley's closing work, Chopin's Étude in A minor Op 25 No 11:
Elia Stavrou's section of the concert opens with Chopin's beautiful Ballade No 1 in G minor.
The pianist here is Krystian Zimerman:
The pianist here is Krystian Zimerman:
Elia planned to play for us Fauré's Barcarolle No 10 in A minor but it would have made the live concert over-run.
You can still choose to listen to pianist Pierre Morabia, in a 2013 concert at the Conservatoire de Nantes, on the French Atlantic coast:
You can still choose to listen to pianist Pierre Morabia, in a 2013 concert at the Conservatoire de Nantes, on the French Atlantic coast:
Elia's concert closes with Gershwin's Three Preludes.
Here's a choice for you. Krystian Zimmerman is again the performer,
but on the left you can follow the piano score with him, or, on the right just relax and listen:
Here's a choice for you. Krystian Zimmerman is again the performer,
but on the left you can follow the piano score with him, or, on the right just relax and listen:
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