Sunday March 14, 2010 at 4 p.m.
Program:
Beethoven: Piano Sonate nr. 6 in F Major. op.10 nr.2
Schubert: Piano sonate nr. 19 in c minor D958
Chopin: Nocturne in c minor Op.48 no.1
Chopin: Ballade nr. 4, op. 52
Adès: Darknesse Visible
Ravel: La Valse
The final concert of the 2009-10 Candlelight Concert series features the brilliant young pianist, Inon Barnatan in a program of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Ravel and the contemporary composer Thomas Adès. Mr. Barnatan has graciously stepped in for Joyce Yang, who is unable to perform for us this season. Mr. Barnatan, one of the undisputed new stars of the music world, is renowned for his communicative and high-minded performances. In April 2009, he was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, one of the most prestigious prizes in classical music.
Mr. Barnatan has developed and curated a project of Schubert’s late solo piano and chamber music works that has been performed to great acclaim at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, at the Festival dé Mexico, and at the Library of Congress. He also champions new music, and has performed works by George Crumb, Kaija Saariaho, Judith Weir, Avner Dorman, Thomas Adès, and others. He comes to us having just completed a concert tour of Europe.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Inon Barnatan started playing the piano at the age of four. He made his orchestral debut at eleven, and studied with Professor Victor Derevianko. In 1997, he moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Maria Curcio (a student of the legendary Arthur Schnabel) and Christopher Elton. He also has coached extensively with Leon Fleischer. Since 2006, Mr. Barnatan has resided in New York.
Mr. Barnatan has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Delft and Verbier Festivals, at the Royal Festival, Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Halls in London, at the Musikverein in Vienna and the Salle Gaveau in Paris. He made his American concerto debut in 2007, with the Houston Symphony. Among his numerous appearances with other major symphony orchestras are engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, the Shangahai Symphony Orchestra, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Barnatan’s debut CD of Schubert piano works was released on Bridge Records. Gramophone praised its “sensitivity, poise, and focus,” and called him “a born Schubertian.”
The March 14th concert will take place at the Wilton Congregational Church, just north of Wilton center on Route 33. Tickets will be available at the door one-half hour before the concert and are $25 ($10 for students). For more information on this concert or on subscriptions to the Candlelight series, or to request a brochure, phone 203-762-3401 or 203-762-5019. Candlelight Concerts benefits the Wilton Library. Individual and corporate contributions are gratefully accepted.