2014 / 2015 SEASON PERFECTLY PIANO PERFECTLY PORTLAND A fine piano is more than an instrument. PORTLAND PIANO INTERNATIONAL Bringing piano to Portland for 37 years. It’s a way of Life. T he music you make is From CAROL EDELMAN, BOARD CHAIR an integral part of you. To be your best, play the best! At Portland Piano Company, I’d like to take a moment to thank you for what we you’ll find our selection and accomplished together this past season. service are nothing short of Because of you, subscriptions increased 42% and your world class. donations and sponsorships grew as well. Thank you, passionate piano listeners, for this remarkable success. THE Through Arnaldo’s visionary leadership, we are all now NORTHWEST’S part of the family that is Portland Piano International. Your enthusiastic involvement holds center stage in our REMIER P mission. Thank you for being our partner in presenting PIANO STORE this exciting piano music.

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“This season we will travel from SCARLATTI to CHICK COREA, BACH to NICO MUHLY, and COUPERIN to CHARLES IVES.”

From ARNALDO COHEN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

My first season as artistic director of Portland Piano International sped by, yet to Charles Ives. At the end of our musical expedition, we will have traveled I experienced countless moments of transcendental artistic expression. It will through the music of 34 composers, covering 14 countries, including the remain a very important year in my life. new world of Australia and America.

Whether you were with us for one recital – or all nine – thank you for your In order to maximize your enjoyment and experience, we challenged our part in creating those indelible memories! As we present the 2014 / 2015 artists to perform two recitals with two completely different programs each season, I hope you are just as eager as I am to continue the emotional night. I recommend that you subscribe to the full season of 11 recitals. journey we have begun together with Portland Piano International. If you I will be here for all of them and it would be my pleasure to have your are not yet part of the subscriber family, we open our doors even wider this company for every note! year – adding two more recitals to the series. Artists seek the new, the unexpected, the challenging. As artistic director, There is so much to discover this year. Six of our seven artists are Portland I pledge to offer you that, with every season, every pianist, every recital. debuts. All are playing repertoire that cannot, in any sense, be called routine Let us begin 2014 / 2015. and draws on each artist’s tremendous commitment to searching the piano’s endless depths. In 11 recitals over eight short months, we will take you on a journey from Scarlatti to Chick Corea, Bach to Nico Muhly, and Couperin

2 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Ferruccio Busoni MILY ALEXEYEVICH BALAKIREV BELA BARTOK CESAR FRANCK Frederic Chopin 3 SEP 21, 2014 H PDX DEBUT H H PDX DEBUT H OCT 19, 2014 SUN 4 PM SUN 4 PM LINCOLN HALL TAMARA STEFANOVICH LINCOLN HALL SEP 22, 2014 IGOR KAMENZ OCT 20, 2014 MON 7:30 PM MON 7:30 PM LINCOLN HALL LINCOLN HALL

Nationality Nationality Russian Yugoslavian Born Born Chabarowsk, Belgrade, former Yugoslavia Lives Freiburg, Germany Lives Cologne, Germany Teachers Vitaly Margulis Teachers Sergiu Celibidache Lili Petrovic, Claude Frank, Pierre-Laurent Aimard Age: 46 Age: 41

Claims to Fame Photo © Matt Hennek • Conducting debut in 1975, Claims to Fame at age seven, with Haydn’s Photo © Frank Alexander Rümmele • Age 13, youngest “Surprise” Symphony “Unbelievable beauty… student to enter • First place winner, extraterrestrial musicality.” “A dextrous wizard…an ability to find University of Belgrade eight international – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung identity and meaning in every note.” • 2015, world tour to piano competitions celebrate Boulez’ 90th – The Guardian birthday with mentor Recording Label Pierre-Laurent Aimard Oehms Classics Recording Label Harmonia Mundi SEP 21 PROGRAM SEP 22 PROGRAM OCT 19 PROGRAM OCT 20 PROGRAM

Couperin (from Pièces de Clavecin): Scarlatti: 10 (selected) Sonatas Beethoven: Messiaen: Le Courlis cendré, Île de Feu 1 and 2 Les Barricades mistérieuses (Sixième Ordre) Liszt: Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia Bagatelles, Op. 119 Nos. 3, 6, 7, 10, 11 Liszt: Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen Les Jumelles (Douzième Ordre) quasi Sonata, S. 161 No. 7 Bagatelles, Op. 126 No. 6 Rachmaninov: Étude-tableau, Op. 33 No. 1 in F minor Sœur Monique (Dixhuitième Ordre) Bartók: 14 Bagatelles, Sz. 38 (Op. 6) Ligeti: Étude No. 3 Touches bloquées Schubert (arr. Liszt): Rachmaninov: Étude-tableau, Op. 33 No. 2 in C Major Schumann: Theme and Variations in E-flat Major, Das Wandern, S. 565 No. 1 Ives: Sonata No. 1 WoO 24 (Geistervariationen) Ligeti: Étude No. 7 Galamb borong Der Müller und der Bach, S. 565 No. 2 Rachmaninov: Étude-tableau, Op. 39 No. 1 in C minor Grainger/Strauss: Ramble on Love (from Der Rosenkavalier) Auf dem Wasser zu singen, S. 558 No. 2 Ligeti: Étude No. 15 White on White Erlkönig, S. 558 No. 4 Stravinsky: Trois mouvements de Petrouschka Beyond the Score | OCT 18 Rachmaninov: Étude-tableau, Op. 39 No. 4 in B minor Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte FREE! See page 11 for details. Ligeti: Étude No. 8 Fém Rachmaninov: Étude-tableau, Op. 39 No. 8 in D minor Balakire: Islamey: Oriental Fantasy, Op. 18 Ligeti: Étude No. 2 Cordes à vide Rachmaninov: Étude-tableau, Op. 39 No. 19 in D Major Ligeti: Étude No. 13 L’escalier du diable

4 CHICK COREA Anton Dvorak FRANÇOIS COUPERIN George Crumb ENRIQUE GRANADOS Percy Grainger/ JOSEPH HAYDN Charles Ives GYORGY LIGETI Franz Liszt 5 DEC 14, 2014 H PDX DEBUT H JAN 25, 2015 SUN 4 PM SUN 4 PM LINCOLN HALL SIMONE DINNERSTEIN LINCOLN HALL DENIS KOZHUKHIN DEC 15, 2014 JAN 26, 2015 MON 7:30 PM MON 7:30 PM LINCOLN HALL LINCOLN HALL

Nationality Nationality American Russian

Born Born Brooklyn, NY Nizhni Novogrod, Russia

Lives Lives Brooklyn, NY Berlin

Teachers Teachers Peter Serkin Natalia Fish Solomon Mikowsky Maria Curcio Claudio Martínez Mehner Age: 42 Age: 28 Claims to Fame • 2014, Bach: Inventions Claims to Fame and Sinfonias debuted • 2010, First Prize, at #1, Billboard Photo © Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Queen Elisabeth Music Classical chart Competition, Brussels • Performed first classical Photo © Marco Borggreve • Best student in his year music concert in the “A deeply musical player… at Reina Sofia School of Louisiana state prison can mesmerize audiences” Music; diploma conferred system “…the leader of the pack of Russian – The Washington Post pianists currently under forty.” by the Queen of Spain Recording Label – Classical Source Recording Label Telarc Onyx Sony Masterworks

DEC 14 PROGRAM DEC 15 PROGRAM JAN 25 PROGRAM JAN 26 PROGRAM Poulenc: Suite pour piano Bach: 15 Two-part Inventions (BWV 772-786) Haydn: Sonata in E-flat Major, Hob. XVI:49 Haydn: Sonata in F Major, Hob. XVI:23 Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G Major Crumb: Eine Kleine Mitternacht Musik (for amplified piano) Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6, Op. 82 Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116 Schubert: Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 Muhly: You Can’t Get There From Here Haydn: Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI:24 Prokofiev: Sonata No. 8, Op. 84 Schubert: Impromptus, D. 899 Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7, Op. 83 Beyond the Score | DEC 13 FREE! See page 11 for details.

6 WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI OLIVIER MESSIAEN Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart NICO MUHLY Francis Poulenc Sergei Rachmaninov JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU 7 MAR 8, 2015 H PDX DEBUT H H NORTH AMERICAN DEBUT H MAY 3, 2015 SUN 4 PM SUN 4 PM LINCOLN HALL BENJAMIN GROSVENOR NEWMARK THEATRE ANI & NIA SULKHANISHVILI Nationality MAR 9, 2015 Georgian

MON 7:30 PM Born LINCOLN HALL , Georgia

Lives Nationality Munich British Teachers Born Svetlana Arakelova, Southend-on-Sea, UK Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen, Lives Lali Sanikidze London Age: 27 Teachers Christopher Elton, Leif Ove Claims to Fame Andsnes, Stephen Hough, • 2008, First Prize, San Arnaldo Cohen Marino International Piano Competition Age: 22 • Praised by the press – Claims to Fame not only identical twins, • At 11, his first recital and but identical musicality concerto appearances • In 2012 at 20, the youngest-ever double award winner from Gramophone with Instrumental Award “…skill and talent not heard since Kissin’s Photo © Christoph Schumacher and Young Artist Award teenage Russian debut.” “Absolute equal fervor, the same breath, Recording Label – Gramophone rarely heard in such perfection.” Decca Classical – Münchner Merkur A NOTE from Artistic Director Arnaldo Cohen: MAR 8 PROGRAM MAR 9 PROGRAM MAY 3 PROGRAM I will announce the 2015 / 2016 season Rameau: Gavotte and Variations in A minor Chopin: Ballade, Op. 23 No. 1 in G minor Mozart: Sonata in C Major, K. 521 for 4 hands at this May 3rd recital Bach-Busoni: Chaconne Ballade, Op. 27 No. 3 in A-flat Major Dvorák: Legenden, Op. 59 Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7 for 4 hands and we will celebrate! Mazurka, Op. 63 No. 2 in F minor Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue Mazurka, Op. 30 No. 4 in C-sharp minor Lutoslawski: Paganini Variations for 2 Pianos Your 2014 / 2015 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60 Brahms: Haydn Variations for 2 Pianos subscription puts you Andante Spianato and Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 first in line for the Granados: Valses Poéticos, Op. 10 Mendelssohn: Andante and Allegro Brilliante, Op. 92 for 4 hands 2015 / 2016 season. Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales Scriabin: Valse, Op. 38 Corea: Imaginings No. 3 for 2 Pianos – A.C. Schultz-Evler: Strauss Blue Danube Granados: Valses Poéticos, Op. 10 Ravel: La Valse for 2 Pianos (transcription) Scriabin: Valse, Op. 38 Schultz-Evler: Strauss Blue Danube (transcription)

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IGOR KAMENZ PDX DEBUT SEP 21, 2014 SEP 22, 2014

SUN 4 PM MON 7:30 PM Russian

TAMARA STEFANOVICH PDX DEBUT OCT 19, 2014 OCT 20, 2014 SUN 4 PM MON 7:30 PM Yugoslavian

SIMONE DINNERSTEIN DEC 14, 2014 DEC 15, 2014 PM PM SUN 4 MON 7:30 American

DENIS KOZHUKHIN PDX DEBUT JAN 25, 2015 JAN 26, 2015

SUN 4 PM MON 7:30 PM Russian

BENJAMIN GROSVENOR PDX DEBUT MAR 8, 2015 MAR 9, 2015 SUN 4 PM MON 7:30 PM British

NORTH AMERICAN DEBUT Duo ANI & NIA SULKHANISHVILI MAY 3, 2015 SUN 4 PM Georgian

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