Master Class with Paul Lewis Sunday 3 December 3pm, Salon Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre This master class is supported by Arnold and Mary Bram & Lyndsey and Peter Hawkins

GUEST ARTIST Paul Lewis piano

Isaac Chok piano (1811 - 1886) Transcendental Etude, S.139 No.6 Vision

Ann Nguyen piano (1770 - 1827) Piano Sonata No.18, Op.31, No.3 I Allegro

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS Isaac Chok is currently a student at Monash University studying a Bachelor of Music and Science. He has been a finalist at various competitions, and enjoys exploring a diverse range of piano repertoire from classical to jazz and pop. Isaac is a student under the tutelage of Tamara Smolyar and has participated in master classes from Geoffrey Saba, Louisa Breen and Dobbs Franks. Isaac is an accomplished piano teacher, working with 30 students each week from a range of age groups and music backgrounds.

With the recital-standard background of FTCL and LMusA, Ann Nguyen was admitted to The University of Melbourne's Bachelor of Music program and has been awarded four prestigious scholarships for excellence throughout her studies. Ann graduated from the Bachelor degree with First-Class Honours and then completed her Honours degree in 2016. Ann is currently studying her Masters of Music (Music Performance) through higher research with Professor Ian Holtham at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne.

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS LEADERSHIP CIRCLE & ENSEMBLE GIOVANE This Paul Lewis Master Class has been made possible through the generous support of Arnold and Mary Bram and Lyndsey and Peter Hawkins. We thank them most sincerely for their gifts.

Support for master classes is made by many different donors in a number of ways. Established in 2016, Ensemble Giovane provides friends and donors the opportunity to give collectively in support of master classes each year, and enjoy Great Performers series events together. The Master Class Leadership Circle was initiated to encourage individuals with a passion for this particular form of artist development to join with like-minded supporters to expand the program. Master classes are also supported by donors who give to the Elisabeth Murdoch Creative Development Fund that supports all the Centre’s programs that nuture young artists.

With the help of all our generous master class supporters, the Centre has provided five master classes with Great Performers in 2017. About Paul Lewis

Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide, and consolidated his reputation as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the central European classical repertoire. His numerous awards have included the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year, two Edison awards, three Gramophone awards, the Diapason D'or de l'Annee, the Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and the South Bank Show Classical Music award. He holds honorary degrees from Liverpool, Edge Hill and Southampton Universities, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours.

He appears regularly as soloist with the world's great orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony, NHK Symphony, New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw, Cleveland, Tonhalle Zurich, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Philharmonia and Mahler Chamber Orchestras.

Highlights from the 2016/17 season included Beethoven concerto cycles with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra, appearances with the Orchestre de Paris and Daniel Harding, the Philharmonia with Andris Nelsons, the Chicago Symphony with Manfred Honeck, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Bernard Haitink. The 2017/18 season sees the start of a two year recital series, exploring connections between the sonatas of Haydn, the late piano works of Brahms and Beethoven's bagatelles and Diabelli Variations, as well as appearances with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Orchestra Mozart di Bologna, Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and Montreal Symphony Orchestras.

Paul Lewis’s recital career takes him to venues such as London's Royal Festival Hall, Alice Tully and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Berlin Philharmonie and Konzerthaus. He is also a frequent guest at the some of the world's most prestigious festivals, including Tanglewood, Ravinia, Schubertiade, Edinburgh, Salzburg, Lucerne and the BBC Proms where in 2010 he became the first person to play a complete Beethoven piano concerto cycle in a single season.

His multi-award winning discography for Harmonia Mundi includes the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, concertos, and the Diabelli Variations, Liszt’s B minor sonata and other late works, all of Schubert’s major piano works from the last six years of his life including the three song cycles with tenor Mark Padmore, solo works by Schumann and Mussorgsky, and the Brahms D minor piano concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding. Future recording plans include a multi-CD series of Haydn sonatas, Beethoven's bagatelles, and works by Bach.

Paul Lewis studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before going on to study privately with . He is co-Artistic Director of Midsummer Music, an annual chamber music festival held in Buckinghamshire, U.K., and the Leeds International Piano Competition.

Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this event is being presented.

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