Dénia InternationalPianoFestival

Orchestral works on piano for four hands! Enjoy a very attractive programme played by Maurizio Matarrese and Carla Aventaggiato.
The programme aims to highlight the importance which transcription has had and still has in the dissemination of a whole musical repertoire otherwise intended for large instrumental ensembles, or for certain categories of instruments. The programme illustrates that transcribed work offers the performer the opportunity to experiment on his own instrument with the multiple technical and expressive possibilities that were originally conceived for different instruments. The transcriptions that are played in this program are significant works of both orchestral and instrumental repertoire but in the transcription for piano four hands they do not lose their charm and the instrumental character.

E. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite n. 1
-Morning Mood
-The Death of Åse
-Anitra's Dance
-In the Hall of the Mountain King

M. Ravel: La Valse

F. Liszt: Les Preludes
F. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody n.2

International Prodigies on the stage of the Dénia Piano Festival!
Stunning performances of young pianists, young geniuses who are already winners of international piano competitions. With the collaboration of the young dancer Miriam Székely.
Definitely not to be missed!

Listen to Shunta Morimoto from Japan, a world famous young pianist who has performed frequently with leading chamber ensembles, musicians and orchestras throughout the world, performing solo repertoire, chamber music and piano concertos. Shunta was the winner of the 2024 Alicante Piano Competition.

In Dénia, he will play an extraordinary program in our Piano Festival.

Program:

J.S. Bach French Suite 6 BWV 817
F. Chopin: Preludes op. 28
F. Liszt : Aprés une lecture du Dante, Fantasia quasi Sonata

Gaia is piano teacher at the Conservatoire de l’Ouest Vaudoisand is a professional concert pianist, president and artistic director of the Association “Les Concerts Vaudois”. She records for the prestigious label Brilliant Classics. Born in Florence in 1988, Gaia started playing as achild and at the age of 18 she completed the first Diploma at “Cherubini” Conservatory. Two years later she got a Master in Musical Perfofmance with the highest score.
She attended the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with Pietro de Maria and the Imola Piano Academy with Vovka Ashkenazy. At the same time she deepens her passion for chamber music playing in various ensembles, from the duet to the chamber orchestra, and attending the courses of Bruno Canino, Piernarciso Masi, Antonello Farulli e Mario Ancillotti. In 2017 she ends her academic career obtaining the Master en Interpretation Musicale – Concert with the professor Jean-François Antonioli.
She is passionately dedicated to the re-discovery of Italian composers. In 2020 she begins the recording of the Giovanni Sgambati Complete Piano Works. In 2020 she recorded the Concerto Gregoriano di P. A. Yon with the organist Tommaso Mazzoletti, in Lausanne Cathedral. In 2003 and 2004, at the age of 14 and 15, she appeared live on Tele 37 and Tele Italia. In 2006 she played on Sky TV and in 2009 on Radio Vaticana. In 2017 and 2018, Gaia had the opportunity of playing several times live on radio.
Aware of the importance of the exchange of experience with other musicians, Gaia participates at many competitions winning the first prize in 14 of them. Thanks to that, she has the opportunity to attend the Sommerakademie at Mozarteum of Salzburg. Since 2015 she has organized musical events and managed the press office of Florence University Choir up to 2017. In this year, she was named artistic director of Festival Santa Croce, which has three editions in front of more than 600 people.
Since 2019, she is president and artistic director of the association Les Concerts Vaudois, which organizes classical music concerts in Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland (www.lesconcertsvaudois.com). Gaia has taught since the age of 19, a passion which brings her to obtain the Master in Musical Pedagogy in 2015. Since 2021 she has been piano professor at the Conservatoire de l’Ouest Vaudois.

J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F minor from Well Temperated Clavier Book II
F. Chopin: Etude op. 10 n. 8
C. Debussy: Etude "Pour le degrés chromatiques"
L. Van Beethoven: Sonate op. 110
F. Chopin: Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante op. 22
C. Debussy: Estampes

A concert where great international artists, stars of the actual musical life meet on stage.
Listen to the extraordinary Jennifer Choi from the USA who will perform on the original Stradivarius Firebird violin! And Simon Haje, the German pianist, winner of numerous international piano competitions, already performing all over Europe. Our Artistic Director István I. Székely will be playing Bach as well. All the Artists will be accompanied by the Franz Liszt Center Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Milan Radisic from Serbia.

An unforgettable closing concert of the 2024 Dénia International Piano Festival, a unique opportunity to enjoy!

J. S. Bach: Piano concerto d minor
Soloist: István I. Székely, Hungary

F. Liszt: Piano concerto “Malediction”
Soloist: Simon Haje, Germany

S. Barber: Adagio for Strings

A. Vivaldi: Four Seasons-Winter
P. de Sarasate: Introduction and Tarantella
Soloist: Jennifer Choi, Violin-USA

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