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Program:

OPUS 1

SCHUMANN: Abegg-Variationen BERG: Sonate für Klavier EISLER: Sonate für Klavier SCHOENBERG: Zwei Gesänge 1. Dank 2. Abschied (with baritone Marcel Sokalski)

Intermission

SZYMANOWSKI: from the Préludes, Saturday, Nos. 2, 4, 5, 7 March 28, 2020 BRAHMS: Sonate für Klavier 7:30 p.m.

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Tickets at the door: $20; Seniors and students with I.D.: $15 Advance tickets available on Eventbee.com. Free admission for LA members. The Leschetizky Association is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Philip Mayers is an Australian musician of remarkable versatility, enjoying an enviable reputation as a sought-after chamber music partner, accompanist, vocal coach, conductor, and pianist, the latter especially in the field of new music, where he has been involved in the premières of more than one hundred new works. His concert performances have taken him to leading festivals such as Montreux, Aldeburgh, Berlin Festspiele, La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée (Nantes), Wratislavia Cantans (Poland), Schleswig-Holstein, New York’s White Light Festival, and even to the April Spring Festival in Pyongyang, North Korea. He graduated with distinction from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, having studied piano with Max Olding. After winning the piano prize of the ABC’s televised Young Performer of the Year competition and with the aid of an Australia Council grant, he left Australia for studies with Phillip Moll in Berlin, concentrating on Lied and chamber music, and later with Zelma Bodzin in New York. Now resident in Berlin, Philip performs regularly throughout Europe, Asia, and North and South America, particularly as an associate artist with soloists such as Christiane Oelze, Albrecht Mayer, Jane Manning, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Anna Prohaska, Sarah Willis, Lisa Gasteen, Wallis Giunta, Florian Donderer, and other respected singers and chamber music partners from orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, New York Philharmonic and Sydney Symphony. An increasing focus is on choral music, with numerous concerts and prize-winning CD recordings to his credit, most notably with RIAS-Kammerchor, Cappella Amsterdam, Coro de la Casa Musica Porto, and the Rundfunkchor Berlin. The latter’s project “human requiem,” a staged version of the Brahms Requiem for chorus and piano four-hands (with which he has been involved since its inception) has been presented at festivals in New York, Hong Kong, Adelaide, Brussels, Granada, and elsewhere around the world. Philip has been Musical Director with, among others, the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, Schwetzinger Festspiele, and the Berliner Kammeroper (including conducting the world première of Lera Auerbach’s a cappella opera “The Blind”). The last also was responsible for the première of his chamber opera “Triest”, launching a composing career which most recently has resulted in projects as diverse as music for the silent film “La passion de Jeanne d’arc” (with soloists from the RIAS-Kammerchor and the Sheridan Ensemble) and a musical for children (a commission by the Stadttheater Klagenfurt). His work as a composer, arranger, and performer of popular music and cabaret is most in evidence in his long partnership with the English cabaret singer Mary Carewe, with whom he has appeared at notable venues such as London’s Purcell Room, the Chatelet Theatre in Paris, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Riga Opera House, and the Butxaca Festival in Barcelona, and tours of Great Britain, Australia, and South America. Together they have recorded three CDs, the latest of which, “A Crush on You,” features Gershwin songs in Philip’s arrangements for voice and string orchestra. He is also in demand as a vocal coach, having prepared singers for engagements at Bayreuth, Covent Garden, Liceu Barcelona, Opera Australia, the three Berlin opera companies, as well as leading houses in Germany, Austria, and France. Most recently, his continued association over the years as a guest coach with the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School in Brisbane has resulted in his stage debut as the Haushofmeister, a speaking role, in the School’s production (conducted by Simone Young) of Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.”