Annual 1843 Pleyel Piano Concert

The Department of Music presents the annual concert featuring the department’s 1843 Pleyel piano.

Donated to the Department by Tom Kenan, the restored Pleyel was purchased directly from the Pleyel piano manufacturing company in Paris. Pleyel’s instruments were favorites of Frédéric Chopin and many of his nineteenth-century contemporaries, and reflect a touch and sound quite different from the modern grand piano.

Curated by students in Professor Solomon’s MUSC 286 Traveling Through the Ivories class, the concert will feature students and faculty in performances of works contemporary to the Pleyel piano’s creation in 1843.

PROGRAM

Frédéric Chopin  Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1
Camilla Fratta, piano

Cécile Chaminade  L’Amour Captif and Villanelle
Julia Holoman, mezzo soprano; Monet Jowers, piano

Claude Debussy  I. En Bateau and IV. Ballet from Petite Suite, L. 65
Camilla Fratta and Benjamin Yang, piano

Chopin  Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1
Kenneth Fischer, piano

José White Lafitte  La Bella Cubana
Frances Norton and Henry Woodburn, violin; Monet Jowers, piano

Debussy  C’est L’extase Langoureuse Claude and Il pleure dans mons coeur
Claire Helms, soprano; Coco Chang, piano

Marie Jaell  VIII. and IX. from Douze valses et finale
Teddy Robie and Mimi Solomon, piano

Fauré  Clair de lune, Op. 46 No. 2
Pauline Viardot  Hai Luli
Jeanne Fischer, soprano; Mimi Solomon, piano

Chopin  Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 65
David Kim, cello; David Niu, piano

View the full program pdf here.

TICKETS

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