Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts continues its annual event series, Cornish Presents, with two upcoming music performances from the Piano and Chamber Music Series.
Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa: Cosmophony
Saturday, February 6, 8 pm
Icicle Creek Piano Trio
Saturday, February 27, 8 pm
Tickets: $18 advance, $20 general at the door, $10 students, seniors & alumni
Available online: http://www.cornish.edu/events
Information: 206.726.5011
Cornish College of the Arts
PONCHO Concert Hall
Kerry Hall
710 East Roy Street
More About Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa: Cosmophony
Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa: Cosmophony
Saturday, February 6, 8 pm
Additional information: http://www.cornish.edu/music_series_09/
Pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa presents a recital of new works for solo piano by nine contemporary Canadian composers including Denis Gougeon, Jordan Nobles, Jocelyn Morlock, Alexander Pechenyuk, Jennifer Butler, Rodney Sharman, Marci Rabe, Jeffrey Ryan, and Cornish faculty member Emily Doolittle.
Cosmophony is a solo piano performance inspired by our solar system. The concert includes nine solo piano pieces by Canada’s most prominent composers and brightest rising stars plus George Crumb’s remarkable work Makrokosmos II: 12 Fantasy Pieces After the Zodiac.
Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa master class– Friday, February 5, 12 pm
PONCHO Concert Hall / Free and open to the public
Complete program:
Piano-Soleil (1992) – Denis Gougeon
Mercurio dal ciel in terra (2008) – Rodney Sharman
Venus (2008) – Marci Rabe
Earth, Clouds from North (2008) – Alexander Pechenyuk
Phobos and Deimos, Circling (2008) – Jocelyn Morlock
Fragments (2000-2004) – Jordan Nobles
Zappafrank
Italocalvino
Asimov
Mandelbrot
Agamemnon
Jupiter (2008) – Christopher Kovarik
Saturn: study in white (2008) – Jeffrey Ryan
Uranus (2008) – Stefan Udell
Neptune (2008) – Jennifer Butler
Gliese 581c (2008) – Emily Doolittle
(Intermission)
Makrokosmos II: 12 Fantasy Pieces After the Zodiac – George Crumb
Morning Music (Genesis II) – Cancer
The Mystic Chord – Sagittarius
Rain-Death Variations – Pisces
Twin Suns (Doppelgänger aus der Ewigkeit) – Gemini
Ghost-Nocturne: for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II) – Virgo
Gargoyles – Taurus
Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica) – Scorpio
A Prophecy of Nostradamus – Aries
Cosmic Wind – Libra
Voices from “Corona Borealis” – Aquarius
Litany of the Galactic Bells – Leo
Agnus Dei – Capricorn
More About Icicle Creek Piano Trio
Icicle Creek Piano Trio
Saturday, February 27, 8 pm
Additional information: http://www.cornish.edu/music_series_09/
The Icicle Creek Piano Trio featuring Oksana Ezhokina, piano, Sally Singer, cello, and Jennifer Caine, violin, perform works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Turina.
Hailed by Gramophone magazine for its “warmly considered playing” and “meticulous articulation and blend,” The Icicle Creek Piano Trio is the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Icicle Creek Music Center, in Leavenworth, Washington. The members of the Icicle Creek Piano Trio originated from the U.S., U.K., and Russia. Together and as individuals, they have performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, the Phillips Collection, and the Royal Albert Hall, and have toured Austria, Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. On the West Coast, they have performed at Pacific Lutheran University, the University of Puget Sound, the Seattle Sherman Clay Recital Hall, the Governor’s Mansion in Olympia, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, the University of Santa Barbara, Cornish College of the Arts, and Davies Hall in San Francisco.
Complete program:
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)
Circulo for Piano Trio, Op. 91
Amanecer
Mediodia
Crepusculo
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio in Eb Major, Op. 70, No. 2
Poco sostenuto-Allegro non troppo
Allegretto
Allegretto ma non troppo
Finale: Allegro
– Intermission –
Dmitri Shostakovich (1907-1975)
Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Andante
Allegro con brio
Largo
Allegretto
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