KENDAL ON HUDSON PRESENTS
Alice Burla & Pierre Delignies
IN CONCERT
Friday, February 10, 2017 - 7:30 PM
PROGRAM
J. S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp minor, BWV 883 Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 879 Alice Burla
J. Haydn Symphony No. 96 in D Major Hob. I:96 (Arrangement for 4 hands by Hugo Ulrich) Alice Burla and Pierre Delignies
F. Chopin Nocturne Op. 15 No. 1 in F Major Preludes Op. 28 No. 23 and 24 Ballade No. 2 Op. 38 Pierre Delignies
J. Brahms Hungarian Dances No. 3 in F Major, No. 11 in D Minor, No. 12 in D Minor, and No. 16 in F Minor Alice Burla and Pierre Delignies
F. Liszt/Bendel/Delignies Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Alice Burla and Pierre Delignies
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ALICE BURLA
Twenty-year-old Alice Burla, called an "extraordinary talent" by the New York Times, is quickly becoming internationally recognized as a serious musician and very talented pianist.
Born in Toronto into a family of musicians, Alice began studying piano at the age of 4, made her orchestral debut at 5, and played her first solo recital at 6. She was one of the youngest students ever accepted to The Juilliard School, where she studied with Oxana Yablonskaya. She has been awarded the 2013 American Prize, 1st prize at the Canadian National Music Competition, 8th New York Music Competition, and was a Finalist at the 13th Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition in Japan.
She has participated in major international festivals such as the Verbier Festival Academy, International Summer Academy Mozarteum (Salzburg), Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander, Tel Hai International Piano Master Classes (Israel), Paderewski Piano Academy (Poland), Hamamatsu International Piano Academy, and International Piano Master Classes in Berlin, and has worked with renowned musicians such as Dmitri Alexeev, Gabor Tákacs -Nagy, Piotr Paleczny, Andrzej Jasinski, Claudio Martínez Mehner, Sergei Babayan, Ferenc Rados, Joaquin Soriano, Klaus Hellwig, Sequeira Costa, Tatiana Zelikman, and Emanuel Krasovsky. She has been featured on American PBS telecasts of "Live from Carnegie Hall" and on WQXR as part of the "From the Top" national radio broadcast, as well as being broadcasted live on National Spanish Radio.
Since the age of 10, Alice has successfully concertized internationally in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Ukraine, Japan, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Ms. Burla has performed in famous venues such as Carnegie Hall, Salle Cortot (Paris), Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), Palacio de Festivales de Santander, World Economic Forum (Geneva), Wiener Saal at the Mozarteum (Salzburg), Steinway Hall, Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York City), ACT City Concert Hall in Hamamatsu (Japan), Glenn Gould Studio at CBC Radio (Toronto) and many others. She has performed 15 piano concertos with several orchestras, including the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, New York Sinfonietta, Chamber Orchestra Amadeus (Mexico), Donetsk Philharmonic Orchestra (Ukraine), Torun Symphony Orchestra (Poland).
In 2010, she appeared as a piano prodigy in the 20th Century Fox major film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, directed by Oliver Stone. Since Spring of 2014, she has been actively collaborating with international humanitarian aid agency Medair to help raise funds for Syrian refugees in need by performing concerts in Geneva, Lausanne, Aubonne, and Pully, Switzerland, as well as in the LA region in California.
As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with Maxim Vengerov and Eduard Brunner, performed contemporary music as part of the Sinfonietta of the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia, double piano works with Oxana Yablonskaya, as well as being part of various trios and quartets. She has received instruction from musicians such as Frans Helmerson, Marta Gulyas, Luis Fernando Pérez, and Jennifer Combs. From 2013-2016, she studied with professor Dmitri Bashkirov at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. She is currently studying with Prof. Claudio Martínez Mehner at the Musik Akademie Basel in Basel, Switzerland.
PIERRE DELIGNIES
Pierre Delignies is, without a doubt, a rising musical talent that, little by little, is consolidating as a reference in his incipient new generation in Spain.
From a sincere, temperamental and implicated-with-essence style, this pianist is building what public and many artists already demand: music that goes to its roots, without banal ornaments, and an honest and close artist with his audience.
“Depth as opposed to sensationalism. This is the statement of the Cantabrian young pianist, understood by him as a service for the society (…). Claims the main prominence of the composer, the true genius and artist, against excessive egos.”
Educated according to the Russian tradition, Delignies has been a pupil of Galina Egiazovora in the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid, and also of Marta Zabaleta and Miguel Borges. Currently he is studying a Master’s program with Naum Grubert in the Amsterdam Conservatory, and Piano Duo performance in Basel, Switzerland.
He has also received advice from great pianists such as Dmitri Bashkirov, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Eldar Nebolsin, Luca Chiantore, Josep Colom, Pavel Gililov, Dmitri Alexeev, Ralph Gothoni, Robert Levin and Ricardo Descalzo, among others.
Delignies’ performances have been bringing him big success in Spanish cities including Santander, Oviedo, Lugo, Bilbao, Pamplona, Vitoria, San Sebastian, Alicante, Leon, Segovia, El Escorial and Madrid, where he has taken part in festivals such as: International Festival of Santander, “Musika- Musica” Festival in Bilbao and “Quincena Musical” Festival in San Sebastian.
He has performed in France, Italy, Portugal, and The Netherlands. Some of his performances have been aired on Spanish National Radio and on the portal classicalplanet.com.
He has collaborated with orchestras such as: Youth Orchestra of Cantabria, Youth Orchestra of Spain, and the Symphonic Orchestra of Euskadi, performing with conductors such as Paul Murphy, Jaime Martin and Jun Markl.
Delignies has been given scholarships by important foundations: Botin Foundation, Albeniz Foundation, Promete Foundation, Musical Youth of Madrid and the Jacques Vonk Fund.