San Francisco International Piano Festival Presented by NEW PIANO COLLECTIVE August 20-30, 2020 San Francisco International Piano Festival At a Glance... A Call to Reflection Concert Confidential In Collaboration with Lieder Alive! A Festival Original Thursday, August 20 Wednesday, August 26, 2020 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. — 8:30 p.m. Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano Jeffrey LeDeur, piano Jeffrey LaDeur, piano [PAGE 11] [PAGE 5] ————— ————— Frederic Rzewski: Songs Of Insurrection Music Of The Future: 2019 Retrospective Performance In Conversation With Albert Kim Thusday, August 27 2020 Livestream Interview 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. & Retrospective Performance Bobby Mitchell, piano The Future of Classical Music is in Their Hands [PAGE 12] Friday, August 21, 2020 ————— 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. Albert Kim, piano Beethoven 250 - Live! very August since 2017, the San Francisco International Piano Festival has welcomed Fervida Trio Livestream Concert audiences throughout the Bay Area to come together in a spirit of joy and celebration of [PAGE 6] E A Celebration of Beethoven’s Chamber Music music at the piano. The Festival runs the last two weeks in August, a summer swan song after ————— Friday, August 28, 2020 8:00 p.m. — 10:90 p.m. travels and family visits, but before back-to-school rhythms return. Just as the days lengthen Mysteria Eunseo Oh, violin in sunlight, our concerts extend into the evenings, and our spirits expand with the richness Broadcast Premiere Stephen Harrison, cello of music, community, and shared experience. Saturday, August 22, 2020 Gwendolyn Mok, piano 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. Allegra Chapman, piano This year, there are no travels, no gatherings, and almost no live music. So many of the things Kayleen Sánchez, soprano & Paul Sánchez, piano Sarah Yuan, piano that remind us of our purpose feel distant. And yet, we show up for ourselves and each other. Eka Gogichashvili, violin [PAGE 14] We make music in our homes. We develop the next recording projects and plan the concerts [PAGE 7] ————— that have been rescheduled. We listen. Without the healing power of music during this time, ————— Dialogue Interrupted life would be unimaginably more difficult. Ode to Joy Created/Curated For 2020 Festival 2019 Retrospective Performance Saturday, August 29, 2020 That is why the San Francisco International Piano Festival is presenting its 4th annual season Friday, August 23, 2020 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. FREE to the public in a variety of virtual formats, combining commissioned programs with 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. Nicholas Phillips, piano retrospective highlights in the tradition of eclectic and compelling programming that has Bobby Mitchell, piano Owen Zhou, piano become our signature. 2020 will be a different kind of celebration: a more sober, reflective Heidi Moss Erickson, soprano [PAGE 15] Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano acknowledgment of this confusing and painful moment in our world, and of the essential ————— Michael Jankosky, tenor and sustaining life force that music is for us at this time. Kirk Eichelberger, bass Reflection In Nature [PAGE 8] Livestream Concert I invite you to visit our website and social media pages often, to engage with the ————— Sunday, August 30 2020 performances that our artists will share, and to return to yourself through the healing power 2:00 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. of music. From our whole selves, we can serve the great need before us. Night Music Jeffrey LaDeur, piano New Performance from Eunmi Ko Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano Sincerely, Monday, August 24, 2020 Jesse Barrett, oboe 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. Jonathan Szin, clarinet Eunmi Ko, piano Kristopher King, bassoon [PAGE 9] Stephanie Stroud, french horn [PAGE 16] ————— ————— Nicholas Phillips Presents #45 Miniatures Project: A Musical Protest Created/Curated for the 2020 Festival Tuesday, August 25, 2020 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. Jeffrey LaDeur Nicholas Phillips, piano Founder and Artistic Director [PAGE 10] San Francisco International Piano Festival ————— New Piano Collective 2 3 San Francisco International Piano Festival A Call to Reflection In Collaboration with Lieder Alive! This concert is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by InterMusic SF, and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and San Francisco Grants for the Arts.* Thursday, August 20 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. It was with a Schubertiade that the piano festival opened its inaugural season in 2017, and we return to Schubert for reflection and healing in the midst of a turbulent world. 2020 Mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich and pianist Jeffrey LaDeur will share a selection of Schubert’s most beautiful lieder, exploring themes of hope, love, loss, and the ephemeral nature of time. Robert Schumann wrote that Schubert’s Sonata in G Major was his “most perfect in form and conception”, and this performance will intersperse its four SanFrancisco expansive movements throughout the evening. International Piano Sonata in G Major D.894 I. Molto moderato e cantabile Sei mir Gegrüßt D.741 (Friedrich Rückert) PianoFestival Frühlingsglaube D.686 (Ludwig Uhland) Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in G Major D.894 Programs II. Andante Der Lindenbaum from Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Müller) Nacht und Träume D.827 (Matthäus Collin) Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in G Major D.894 III. Menuetto: Allegro moderato IV. Allegretto Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano Jeffrey LaDeur, piano *Livestream link: https://youtu.be/hxI1OKfLy3g 4 5 San Francisco International Piano Festival San Francisco International Piano Festival Music Of The Future: In Conversation With Albert Kim Mysteria Livestream Interview & Retrospective Performance Broadcast Premiere The Future of Classical Music is in Their Hands Saturday, August 22, 2020 Friday, August 21, 2020 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. Join us for a livestream interview and discussion with Festival favorite Albert Kim and The Festival is pleased to share this special concert by candlelight featuring soprano Kayleen artistic director Jeffrey LaDeur. In addition to his remarkable gifts as a concert pianist, Sánchez, pianist Paul Sánchez and violinist Eka Gogichashvili. Presented in partnership Albert is a passionate educator and thinker who is sensitive to the constantly shifting with Old First Concerts during the 2019 Festival, David M. Gordon’s evocative and dramatic landscape of performance, scholarship, and classical music at large. Discussion topics work comes to life through the artists’ mastery of a complex instrumentation involving will include exploration of tradition and innovation, the formats through which we share three pianos, singing glasses, autoharp, finger symbols, harmonica, and more. Don’t miss and receive music, illusions of the classical music industry, and the extraordinary young this unique performance that fuses vocal and instrumental music in a magical way. musicians that are leading the way forward. The evening will include performances from Mr. Kim, the Fervida Trio’s appearance at the 2019 Festival, and more. https://youtu.be/0D2ue5y7DRA Une Barque sur l’océan Fader, stilla våra andar for soprano and piano (2002) Maurice Ravel https://youtu.be/iv7mKbacvIc Albert Kim, piano Consolation New for one pianist playing two Discussion Part I microtonally-tuned pianos (2018) Trio No.1 (Life Cycle) https://youtu.be/ECwKWDzSqBQ?list=PLycU6upYk9k1T2aPGzUXwdRFz_29iljCT Pierre Jalbert Mysteria Incarnationis for soprano, violin, and prepared piano (2015) Discussion Part II https://youtu.be/ruv26b--wn8t Trio Op.1 No.1 (Finale) Shbih hakimo Man hi tamrah Ludwig von Beethoven Manu yab lo (Lullaby 1) Fervida Trio Manu mtse dnimar Sean Mori, violin Lo aten ber (Lullaby 2) Angeline Kiang, cello Brikh hu dlo sokh destayakh Karina Tseng, piano FarSong Duo — Kayleen Sánchez, soprano & Paul Sánchez, piano Special guest — Eka Gogichashvili, violin 6 7 San Francisco International Piano Festival San Francisco International Piano Festival Ode to Joy Night Music 2019 Retrospective Performance New Performance from Eunmi Ko Friday, August 23, 2020 Monday, August 24, 2020 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. We revisit this exciting and joyful performance given by Bobby Mitchell during Pianist Eunmi Ko has captivated festival audiences with her insightful performances the 2019 Festival at the San Francisco Conservatory of music: Beethoven’s Ninth of new and old music, and tonight’s program features Night Music by Chopin, John Symphony in a dazzling arrangement for solo piano by Liszt. The iconic Ode to Joy Liberatore, David Liptak, and Tyler Kline. Eunmi has introduced many of these pieces finale features special guest soloists Heidi Moss Erickson, Kindra Scharich, Michael and composers to San Francisco audiences since her Festival debut in 2017. Jankosky, and Kirk Eichelberger. Almost forty years after my encounter with Crumb’s music, I found myself writing Constellations, an extended collection of pieces for piano. I had been planning to write such a piece for a few years, and the opportunity to write it for pianist Zuzanna Szewczyk Kwon brought the task to hand. I had decided to write a collection of longer, rather than shorter, pieces, thinking abut the way Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana is structured. Schumann’s piano writing often features an interlocking counterpoint within the texture of an embellished figuration, where inner voices reveal primary melodic ideas. This device appears in various ways in Constellations, and clearly so in “Cassiopeia.” When viewing constellations in the night sky, it is often much easier to identify them by finding the “asterisms” that are part of the totality of the star group. For example, The Big Dipper, an asterism, is much easier to spot than Ursa Major, the larger constellation that contains it. In “Cassiopeia,” structural pitches are embedded inside elaborations and are sometimes revealed, a pleasant analog to the idea of the asterism.