Chamber Music Concert

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Pianist Kevin Kenner will perform at Gualala Arts on Sunday,  October 8, 2023 at 4 pm. Tickets will be available at Gualala Arts, Dolphin Gallery,and EventBrite.com.

Recognized as one of the top Chopin interpreters of our time, Kevin Kenner won the top prize in the 1990 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, as well as top prizes in the Tchaikovsky Competition and the Terrance Judd Competition, and others. Born in California, Kenner was introduced early to the classical music traditions of Poland and studied as a teenager with Poland’s eminent professor Ludwik Stefański in Cracow. When he returned to the U.S. he continued his studies with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and worked with Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Center. Following a concert tour with conductor Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who frequently performed and recorded with Artur Rubinstein, described his collaborations with Kenner to be the most sensitive and beautiful he remembered. He has performed and recorded with violinist Kyung-Wha Chung and concertized with the Tokyo, Escher, Belcea, Mosaiques, Apollon Musagete, Endellion and Vogler Quartets. In addition, he has frequently been invited to appear at the Verbier Festival and Warsaw’s “Chopin and His Europe” Festival. A distinguished recording artist, Kenner’s interpretations of works by Paderewski and Chopin were each picked as recordings of the month by Grammophone magazine. Other recordings were heralded by Diapason, Fanfare and Polish National Radio. After teaching for more than a decade as professor at London’s Royal College of Music, Kenner accepted a post at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he continues to prepare many young talented pianists for international performance careers. He has served as juror at the Busoni Competition in Bolzano and at the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw and others.

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Performance Schedule

Nocturne in B major, op. 32, no. 1. . Fryderyk Chopin

(1810-1849)

Mazurkas, op. 41

No. 1 in A minor

No. 2 in B major

No. 3 in A-flat major

No. 4 in C-sharp minor

Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp major

Preludes, op. 28

No. 13 in F-sharp major

No. 14 in E-flat minor

No. 15 in D-flat major

No. 16 in B-flat minor

Waltzes, op. 64

No. 3 in A-flat major

No. 2 in C-sharp minor

No. 1 in D-flat major

INTERMISSION

Années de pèlerinage (Première année: Suisse). . Franz Liszt

(1811-1886)

1. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
2. Au lac de Wallenstadt
3. Pastorale 
4. Au bord d’une source
5. Orage
6. Vallée d’Obermann
7. Eglogue
8. Le mal du pays (1^st version “Album d’un voyageur”)
9. Les cloches de Genève (1^st version “Album d’un voyageur”)

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