Any performances coming up in the summer?

[fnork]

Hi everyone, it's been a while since I was here...what are everyones plans for the summer - do you have any concert performances coming up?
I have a few...There's a piano festival in south of Sweden in the end of June which my teacher arranges and he invited me and another of his students to come and play - he also managed to get Vladimir Ovchinnikov there, and a few of his students. There will be some masterclass with Ovchinnikov and we will all perform during the four-day festival.

I will play (or, TRY to play - the entire program is still very new...) Brahms Handel variations, Beethovens pastoral sonata, Nielsens Chaconne, two Lutoslawski-etudes plus the contemporary swedish composer Anders Nilsson's "Five orchestral pieces for piano".

Immidiately after that festival I will play Medtners piano quintet at a chamber music festival. After that...some vacation, perhaps Just some small gigs in churches here and there, but nothing big. What are everyone else doing, performance-wise, during the summer?

[mike_lang]

I have two recitals, one collaborative and one solo (my senior recital at IU). 

The first one will be with a violinist, including the first (lamentably, no one seems to play the second) Fauré sonata and a Paganini concerto in D Major.  I'm really looking forward to it, as it will be the first time I've played the Fauré since a recital toward the beginning of April and I have some fresh ideas.

My solo recital will be toward the end of the summer, with a theme of "overplayed pieces:" Bach's WTC BK II C major, Haydn's Eb Major Sonata Hob XVI:52, Chopin's G minor Ballade, Liszt's Transcendental Étude no. 10 in F minor, Rachmaninoff's Étude-tableau op. 39 no. 1 in C minor, and Scriabin's étude op. 65 no. 3... And now, off I go to to the woodshed!

[fnork]

sounds like fun, good luck with all of that! I'm more into doing underplayed pieces at the moment, heh, but I'm noticing that I'm lacking quite a lot of the overplayed things in my repertoire....maybe because so many other pianists can play it better 

[slobone]

sounds like fun, good luck with all of that! I'm more into doing underplayed pieces at the moment, heh, but I'm noticing that I'm lacking quite a lot of the overplayed things in my repertoire....maybe because so many other pianists can play it better 

Very sensible choice. And there's a lot of great stuff out there that you never hear. Maybe we should have a thread about it?

[quantum]

My solo recital will be toward the end of the summer, with a theme of "overplayed pieces:" Bach's WTC BK II C major, Haydn's Eb Major Sonata Hob XVI:52, Chopin's G minor Ballade, Liszt's Transcendental Étude no. 10 in F minor, Rachmaninoff's Étude-tableau op. 39 no. 1 in C minor, and Scriabin's étude op. 65 no. 3... And now, off I go to to the woodshed!

Great idea, and one I would support. 

There are too many adjudicators out there who pass off performances of well known pieces just because they have heard them nth amount of times.  There really is no excuse for such stagnant mentality from an academic representative who is supposed to be commenting on objective observances. 

[slobone]

Well, in the case of competitions and exams I can understand it. It's hard to judge a performance of a work you've never heard before. Still, I do notice that at the level of the Cliburn for instance, contestants are often quite daring in their repertoire choices.

[ramseytheii]

My solo recital will be toward the end of the summer, with a theme of "overplayed pieces:" Bach's WTC BK II C major, Haydn's Eb Major Sonata Hob XVI:52, Chopin's G minor Ballade, Liszt's Transcendental Étude no. 10 in F minor, Rachmaninoff's Étude-tableau op. 39 no. 1 in C minor, and Scriabin's étude op. 65 no. 3... And now, off I go to to the woodshed!

Thank the Heavenly Father!  The only thing worse than a recital of underplayed pieces, is the pianist blathering on about how, "These pieces are so underplayed!"  My take on it is, if you play something unusual, shut the hell up about it and let it speak for itself!  That's like having a freakish friend, and saying, "Wow, nobody wants to be friends with this person except me!  Isn't that so great?"

Walter Ramsey