Roy Howat Recital
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Roy Howat Recital Sunday 1st December 2024
Bringing to the Shed a rare combination of accomplishments as recitalist and globally-respected academic, Roy Howat takes us on a fascinating illustrated musical journey through the piano works of some of the best-loved composers of the 19th and 20th centuries”, including Chopin, Chabrier, Debussy, Fauré, Ravel and Bartok.
Programme
Fryderyk Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat, op. 55 no. 2
Béla Bartók: Four dances in Bulgarian rhythm (from Mikrokosmos, Book 6)
Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne no. 6, op. 63
Emmanuel Chabrier: Idylle, Improvisation, Scherzo-valse (from Pièces pittoresques)
Claude Debussy: 4 Preludes from Book 2:
Bruyères, La puerta del vino, La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune, Feux d’artifice
Robert Schumann: Vogel als Prophet (from Waldszensen)
Maurice Ravel: Oiseaux tristes (from Miroirs)
Chopin: Etudes in F minor (op. 25 no. 2), E & A-flat (op. 10 nos. 3 & 10); Waltz in A-flat, op. 42
Advance tickets are: Adult £24 and under 25 years £15. On the door on the night they will cost £28 and £18 respectively
About:
After taking a Double First degree in Music at King’s College, Cambridge, Roy made a specialised study of French repertoire in Paris, at the same time he undertook a doctorate on the music of Debussy, which formed the basis of his ground-breaking book Debussy in proportion (Cambridge UP, 1983). During those years he also played violin in various London chamber orchestras, and became one of the founding editors of the Paris-based Œuvres complètes de Claude Debussy, for which he edited most of Debussy’s solo piano music and a substantial element of his chamber music
Roy can be heard as pianist on numerous CDs of piano and chamber music and songs, and has performed with an array of distinguished colleagues: in the 1980s he toured Bartók’s Sonata for two pianos and percussion with Erzsébet Tusa, the former duo partner of Ditta Pásztory-Bartók, and more recently his performances with the Panocha Quartet of Prague have brought the house down in numerous countries and venues including the Wigmore Hall.
Roy is presently Keyboard Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music and Senior Professorial Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide, and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge.
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