We applaud Honens for its work in discovering and developing the best Complete Artists for the world stage.
THANKS
Honens applauds the corporate, media and arts partners, foundations, public funders, and suppliers who make the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition possible.
Supporting Partners
Artist Development Program
JUDITH KILBOURNE
Principal Partners
Debut Series & Mind Over Music
Awards Venue Partner
Video Design
Laureate Circle, Calgary
Public Relations
Official Streaming Partner
Official Partners
Official Piano
Official Piano Technician
MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
I am thrilled to welcome you to Honens’ tenth Competition and our search for the next “Complete Artist!”
When I was a young pianist, competitions always motivated me to find more within myself. I began with small local competitions and gradually progressed to the international stage. I never thought about besting anyone around me—the variety of artistry and the levels of accomplishment are infinite. Rather, I was inspired to connect with music, through my chosen instrument, in more meaningful ways than I had before.
I have also judged international piano competitions, and it is a humbling experience, requiring a trained ear and an open mind. My first jury experience was in 1992, at the inaugural Honens International Piano Competition, and I knew after meeting Esther Honens that I was fortunate to be at the beginning of something extraordinary.
Music is our universal language. Music transcends spoken language and different cultures. Music has the power to move us, transport us, and excite us. And now we have the privilege to host extraordinary young artists whose talent, dedication, and hard work will be evident through their musical expression.
I am also grateful to our distinguished Jury, collaborating artists, past Laureates, mentor, conductor, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. All are committed to bringing the highest level of music and artistry to you.
Let the music begin, and let’s enjoy every note.
Jon Kimura Parker Artistic Director
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO
Honens Family & Friends:
Finally!
After four long years, the moment we’ve all been waiting for…and to our ten sensational Semifinalists, this moment belongs to you.
Welcome…I wish you all the very best of luck.
When Esther Honens made the decision to establish an international piano competition here in Calgary, she could not have imagined the impact that her generosity would have on the lives and careers of emerging musicians, the international piano world, and her beloved hometown. Thirty years and ten competitions later, we proudly remain true to her vision—to discover and help launch the careers of the world’s most promising emerging pianists.
To the Honens Team, Board of Directors, and Volunteers, my deepest and most profound thanks. An event of this magnitude truly takes a village, and all contributions, big and small, are equally important when it comes to ensuring its overall success. Your commitment and dedication continue to amaze and inspire. To you who support us—individuals, as well as private and public funding agencies—we could not do this without you and are beyond grateful for your partnership.
As many of you know, I will depart my current role shortly after the Competition comes to a close and feel privileged to have had the unparalleled opportunity to be among you. Thank you Honens, thank you Calgary, for six tremendous years.
Neil Edwards President & CEO
MESSAGE FROM THE 2018 HONENS PRIZE LAUREATE
The tenth edition of the Honens International Piano Competition is finally here. What a journey it’s been since the last Competition, for all of us. Arguably, between no two editions of Honens has the world changed as much as it has in the past two.
Four years ago, I had the incredible good fortune of being named Prize Laureate. My international career launched in an ideal fashion, with the comprehensive support of Honens’ unique Artist Development Program. Notwithstanding the flurry of international engagements and acclaim that followed, perhaps the greatest testament to the value of the program has been the continued flourishing of my career through one of the most surreal periods of our lifetimes, the pandemic. At a time when musical life disappeared as we knew it, Honens, through its support of exciting projects such as album recordings, new work commissions, and streamed performances, has been a lifeline to my professional development. I am enormously grateful to the wonderful Honens Team and all those who support this remarkable institution for making this possible.
My trips to Calgary over the past four years have been some of the highlights of my time as Prize Laureate—by now, it feels like home! Engaging with this vibrant community of piano lovers has been such a joy. In turn, representing Honens and Calgary across the world has been a true privilege.
I am excited to pass the mantle on to one of the ten pianists competing in Calgary. We are in for a feast of brilliant piano playing, and I’m looking forward to enjoying it together with this fantastic audience. During the Competition, I’m also thrilled to curate and present the symposium Mind Over Music, exploring a number of themes surrounding competitions in the 21st century. I hope to see you there!
Nicolas Namoradze 2018 Honens Prize Laureate
ME SSAGE F ROM T HE
GOV E RNOR GE NE R A L
I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending and competing in this year ’s Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary, Alberta.
As one of Canada’s most prestigious international piano competitions, this event attracts artists and spectators from a multitude of countries around the world, who speak a multitude of languages. On this occasion, however, we are all united through the universal language of music. We are blessed to see this triennial event return after being delayed by the pandemic, and to witness once again these musicians’ passion, dedication and talent.
Congratulations to the organizers and supporters who have made this event possible, and who continue to build community through the arts.
I wish everyone in attendance a wonderful event, and to the competitors the best of luck
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon Governor General of Canada
MESSAGE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA
I am pleased to convey my warmest greetings to everyone attending the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition, taking place in Calgary.
Since it was first held 30 years ago, the Honens International Piano Competition has become a highlight of Calgary’s arts scene. This prestigious event offers a diverse program featuring some of the world’s best young musicians, in concert and competition. I am certain that audiences will delight in the chance to see ten emerging artists from seven countries vie to be named the 2022 Honens Prize Laureate.
I would like to congratulate the talented musicians who are competing this year. I would also like to commend the organizers, supporters, and volunteers on a job well done. Your enthusiasm and hard work are vital to the success of this outstanding cultural showcase.
Please accept my best wishes for a most enjoyable and memorable experience.
Sincerely,
The Right Honourable Justin P. J. Trudeau PC MP Prime Minister of Canada
MESSAGE FROM THE ALBERTA MINISTER OF CULTURE
On behalf of Alberta’s government, I am pleased to welcome you all to the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition.
I know from experience that some of the best things to collect are mental. When you know poetry so well, what you see walking down the street can recall lines of verse into your mind. Similarly, when you know classical music so well, random sounds that you hear can trigger melody and memory. The mundane is infused with meaning and is a healthy release from our troubles. That is the power of music.
And that’s why the Honens International Piano Competition is so important. This competition brings world-class piano music into our lives. Such music stays with us and lifts us out of the everyday, allowing us to see things in a new way.
Thank you to all the amazing Honens staff and the Board of Directors, for your invaluable work organizing this event. Because of you, Esther Honens’ dream of showcasing Calgary’s community spirit and nurturing artistic talent is a reality.
Best of luck to all the competitors!
The Honourable Ronald Orr Alberta Minister of Culture
MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR OF CALGARY
It is my pleasure to welcome you on behalf of City Council to the Honens International Piano Competition!
For three decades, Honens has provided us with a chance to hear and feel the world around us differently. Calgary is honoured to welcome emerging professional pianists as they compete in one of the most prestigious piano competitions in the world. I commend all those involved in making this event a success and for their dedication to the performance of classical music in our community.
This year’s semifinalists have dedicated countless hours of practice to perfect their craft – an inspiration to musicians everywhere who share their dream. Music has a powerful effect on our brains, and artists, in particular, have the unique ability to soothe, empower, and unite us. I am so glad that we can gather once again to savour the collective audience experience that only live music can provide.
Congratulations and best of luck to the pianists competing to be the 2022 Honens Prize Laureate!
Sincerely,
Jyoti Gondek Mayor, City of Calgary
HONENS THEN & NOW
ESTHER HONENS
Esther Honens loved the piano and the city of Calgary. After working 25 years as an office manager for Henry Birks & Sons and amassing a sizeable fortune through smart investments, she turned her attention to creating a legacy of musical excellence to be enjoyed by generations of Canadians. In 1991, knowing she was nearing the end of her life, Mrs. Honens gave $5 million to endow an international piano competition in Calgary. Her competition would provide a springboard for young musicians and be a source of tremendous civic pride. A Board of Directors was quickly assembled, and an Artistic Director appointed. Their challenge was to organize the inaugural competition while Mrs. Honens, who suffered from Parkinson’s disease, was still alive. Mrs. Honens observed the Competition’s final concerts in November 1992 from a specially-built chamber in the Jack Singer Concert Hall. Five days later, at age 89, she passed away.
LEGACY PARTNERS
Honens Legacy Partners support the realization of Esther Honens’ vision of bringing the finest young pianists in the world to Calgary and taking Canada to the world through the triennial Honens International Piano Competition. The Legacy Partners Endowment Fund allows Honens to provide wide-reaching programming through an annual festival as well as enriching community education and outreach projects. Legacy Partners follow in Esther Honens’ footsteps by contributing to the country’s cultural vibrancy by securing Honens’ future.
Ian and Heather Bourne Percy+ and Lois Cole
John and Sheilagh Langille F. Richard Matthews+ cm qc
+ Deceased
Legacy Partners make donations of $250,000 and more. All gifts received to date have been eligible for matching contributions from the Government of Canada.
Honens endowment funds are maintained and administered by the Calgary Foundation.
GOVERNANCE
OFFICERS
Siân Matthews
Chair
Connie Hunt
Past Chair
Hugh McPhail qc
Secretary
Ian Gray
Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Hinrich Alpers
Cathy Beehan
Heather Edwards
Neil Edwards *
Sharie Hunter
Ken Lima-Coelho
Heather Marreck
Carmen Morin
Jon Kimura Parker oc *
Kimberley Sundell
*Ex officio
VOLUNTEERS
Melanie Aikenhead
Co-Chair
Susan Anderson
Co-Chair
Faye Hleucka
Co-Chair
Honens applauds the hundreds of volunteers who generously share their time and skills. Volunteers are listed on page 108.
STAFF
Neil Edwards President & CEO
Jon Kimura Parker oc Artistic Director
Catherine McClelland Director, Artistic Planning
Mark Mosher Director, Finance & Administration
Jennifer Weihmann Director, Audience & Donor Engagement
Amanda Smith Director, Marketing & Communications
Helen Francis Coordinator, Digital Media & Communications
Lisa Farquharson Coordinator, Digital Media & Volunteers (on maternity leave)
ARTIST REPRESENTATION
Kanzen Arts New York, USA
Earl Blackburn
PUBLIC RELATIONS
8VA Music Consultancy New York, USA
Patricia Price
Matthew Herman
LAUREATES
1992 TO 2018
2018
Nicolas Namoradze Georgia Honens Prize Laureate
2015
Luca Buratto Italy Honens Prize Laureate
2012
Pavel Kolesnikov Russia Honens Prize Laureate
2009
Georgy Tchaidze Russia Honens Prize Laureate
Evgeny Starodubtsev Russia Gilles Vonsattel Switzerland Laureates
2006
Minsoo Sohn South Korea Honens Prize Laureate
Hinrich Alpers Germany Hong Xu China Laureates
2003
Xiang Zou China Honens Prize Laureate
Winston Choi Canada Roberto Plano Italy Laureates
2000
Katherine Chi Canada Honens Prize Laureate
Marko Martin Estonia Alessandra Ammara Italy Laureates
1996
Maxim Philippov Russia Honens Prize Laureate
Albert Tiu Philippines
Eugene Watanabe United States Laureates
1992
Yi Wu Argentina / China Honens Prize Laureate
Krzysztof Jabłoński Poland
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet France
Sergei Babayan Armenia
Dmitry Nesterov Russia Laureates
JURIES
1992 TO 2018
2018
First Jury
Winston Choi
Isolde Legacé
Eduardo Monteiro
Pedja Mužijević
Second Jury
Alessio Bax
Ingrid Fliter
Wu Han
Annette Josef
André Laplante
Asadour Santourian
Minsoo Sohn
2015
First Jury
Inon Barnatan
Stewart Goodyear
Noriko Ogawa
Mary Sigmond
Second Jury
Alessandra Ammara
Janina Fialkowska
Jeremy Geffen
Charles Hamlen
Paul Hughes
Pedja Mužijević
Costa Pilavachi
2012
First Jury
William Aide
Leila Getz
Charles Hamlen
Benedetto Lupo
Second Jury
Adrian Brendel
Michael Haefliger
Julian Kuerti
Aleksandar Madžar
HaeSun Paik
Jon Kimura Parker
Michael Spring
2009
First Jury
Angela Cheng
Katherine Chi
Matthias Kirschnereit
Ronan O’Hora
Second Jury
William Aide
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Iain Burnside
Hung-Kuan Chen
Jane Coop
José Feghali
Aleksandar Madžar
2006
First Jury
Lydia Artymiw
Angela Cheng
Maxim Philippov
Andrew Raeburn
Second Jury
William Aide
Iain Burnside
Pietro De Maria
Noriko Ogawa
James Parker
Ewa Pobłocka
Blanca Uribe
2003
First Jury
William Aide
Iain Burnside
Ick-Choo Moon
Isobel Moore Rolston
Second Jury
Rudolf Jansen
Emanuel Krasovsky
André Laplante
Paul Myers
Ursula Oppens
John P.L. Roberts
Christopher Taylor
2000
First Jury
William Aide
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Margo Garrett
Lee Kum-Sing
Kolja Lessing
Isobel Moore Rolston
Edith Wiens
Second Jury
Paul Badura-Skoda
Angela Cheng
Irena Grafenauer
Emanuel Krasovsky
John P.L. Roberts
Simon Streatfeild
Blanca Uribe
Benita Valente
1996
First Jury
Isobel Moore Rolston
Jane Coop
José Feghali
Charles Foreman
Tom Krause
Steven Lubin
Samuel Wong
Second Jury
James Campbell
Rafael Druian
Marc-André Hamelin
Evgeny Mogilevsky
John P.L. Roberts
Alan Smith
Blanca Uribe
Takuo Yuasa
1992
First Jury
Marilyn Engle
Knut Franke
Dale Jackson
Paul Pollei
Jeremy Siepmann
Peter Simon
Second Jury
Nikolai Demidenko
Janina Fialkowska
Hitoshi Kobayashi
Anton Kuerti
David Owen Norris
Jon Kimura Parker
Andre-Michel Schub
Maurice Till
Charles Wadsworth
COMPETITION PROCESS
THE COMPLETE ARTIST
The Complete Artist is a thoughtful interpreter, a consummate collaborator, an awe-inspiring virtuoso, a communicator, a risk-taking explorer, a dreamer. The Complete Artist expresses and interprets ideas from a wide cultural context and keen imagination through performances and programming choices that are informed and seasoned by a fascination for life outside the practice studio. The Complete Artist inspires the heart and engages the intellect.
The Honens International Piano Competition discovers unique, imaginative, and informed pianists—emerging Complete Artists whose distinctive voice, versatility, and ease as communicators demonstrate that they are ready for professional careers.
The Complete Artist’s interpretations are founded upon the intellectual and emotional understanding of musical text, and upon their ability to synthesize and express such understanding so as to challenge and stir both the intellect and the emotions of the listener. This creative awareness stems not only from knowledge of a particular composition itself but from a wide knowledge of related music, of musical literature as a whole, and of the arts in general. If the resulting interpretation appears unusual and unconventional, it does so freshly and naturally. Pianists taking part in the Honens Competition must also express—through their stage deportment, program design, and interviews with arts journalists—a sensitivity to contemporary culture and a willingness and finesse to communicate effectively with audiences regardless of age, location, background, or degree of musical sophistication.
APPLICATION PROCESS AND EVALUATION
Applications to the Competition are accepted through an online platform. Pianists of all nationalities, aged 20 to 30, with the exception of previous Honens Laureates and professionally managed pianists, are eligible to apply. Honens asks for a comprehensive resume of education, experience, and interests. Proof of schooling, and documentation from performances and competitions must be provided. The Applicant Screening Jury evaluates all eligible applications, based on experience relative to age, proposed Competition programming, and letters of reference. The Applicant Screening Jury chooses 50 pianists to advance to the Quarterfinals.
QUARTERFINALS
International Audition Round
Quarterfinalists perform a 40-minute recital in New York or Frankfurt. Recitals are video recorded under conditions that are as similar as possible. Following the recital, each Quarterfinalist participates in a ten-minute, English-language interview, which is also captured on video. The First Jury reviews all recital and interview recordings and selects 10 pianists to advance to the Semifinals.
SEMIFINALS
Solo and Collaborative Round
Performance order is determined in advance of the Semifinals. This order of performance is maintained throughout the Semifinals except, at the discretion of the Jury Facilitator, for reason of accident, illness, or other untoward circumstance.
Pianists choose their performance piano(s) from instruments supplied by Honens’ Official Piano supplier, Steinway & Sons. Each pianist is allotted 30 minutes for piano selection. They may choose a different instrument for the solo recital, collaborative performance, and for Finals I. The piano for Finals II is pre-chosen by Honens’ Artistic Director and will be the same instrument used by each Finalist.
Each Semifinalist performs in two separate rounds:
Semifinals I a 65-minute self-programmed solo recital which must include a newly commissioned 8-minute work by Canadian pianist / composer Stewart Goodyear*
Semifinals II a 60-minute solo / collaborative recital which must include one of Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas, one piece from Fritz Kreisler’s Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen, and solo repertoire to complete the program
*The Stewart Goodyear commission is made possible through the generosity of Irene and Walt DeBoni.
Pianists are asked to design their recital programs with the same care and on the same principles as for a public, professional concerts. Honens believes that a Complete Artist explores both the pivotal works of piano literature and the music of our time (i.e., works composed during the last 50 years).
Each pianist has a 75-minute rehearsal with the collaborative artist, Martin Beaver, and a run-through immediately before the collaborative recital.
The Second Jury selects three pianists to advance to the Finals. Jury deliberations take place immediately following the Semifinals X recitals and the announcement of the Finalists is made that same evening.
FINALS
Chamber, Concerto, and Interview Round
The order of chamber and concerto performance is made programmatically and is decided by Honens’ Artistic Director and the conductor of Finals II.
Each Finalist performs in two separate rounds:
Finals I a three-part performance consisting of a Mozart concerto (from a prescribed list) with string quintet, a set of Schubert lieder (from a prescribed list) with a singer, and an encore announced from the stage
Finals II any concerto composed after 1791, with full orchestra
Each Finalist also undertakes a 30-minute English-language interview with an arts journalist.
Each Finalist has a 90-minute rehearsal with the Viano String Quartet + Sam Loeck (bass), and a 45-minute rehearsal with mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó prior to their Finals I performance.
They also have a 30-minute meeting with the conductor immediately followed by a two-hour rehearsal with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra for their Finals II concerto. There is a dress rehearsal on the day of each performance.
Final Jury deliberations take place immediately following the Finals II performance and the announcement of the 2022 Honens Prize Laureate is made that same evening.
MEETING WITH JURORS AND MENTOR-IN-RESIDENCE
All members of the Second Jury remain in Calgary for one day after the Finals to share their knowledge and expertise with Competition pianists. Pianists may discuss questions relating to their own technique and musicianship with each Juror.
A highly respected pianist attends the final week of the Competition as Mentor-in-Residence. The 2022 Mentor-in-Residence is Jeremy Denk. The seven pianists who do not advance to the Finals each meet with the Mentor for a 60-minute coaching session. The Mentor also attends the Finals after which he meets with the two Finalists and the Honens Prize Laureate.
JURIES
Honens’ juries include concert pianists and other individuals (artist managers, collaborative musicians, presenters, etc.) from the musical world who play a meaningful role in a concert artist’s career. All jurors have extensive knowledge of the piano literature and represent and / or are aware of the qualities an artist must possess in order to build and sustain a career in today’s world.
JURY FACILITATOR
Honens’ Artistic Director acts as Jury Facilitator. He has the right at any time to remind juries of criteria for the choice of pianists and prizewinners to maintain the integrity of the process and of the Competition and may invite discussion at any time. He is a voting member of the Applicant Screening Jury but does not vote during any subsequent stage of the Competition.
OFFICIAL MATHEMATICIAN
Honens’ Official Mathematician monitors and regulates the voting process and scoring procedures to ensure absolute fairness. He attends jury deliberations but does not vote and is not invited to discuss musicians with juries. The Jury Facilitator may ask the Official Mathematician to lead discussions on topics of scoring or voting procedures, or when scores or rankings are indecipherable between pianists.
JURY MANUAL
Guidelines and processes are in place to ensure that the Honens International Piano Competition is as fair as possible and that it continues to lead the competition world by reputation. Scan this QR code to read the complete Jury guidelines as well as the voting and tabulation procedures.
AWARDS
CASH AWARDS
The Honens Prize Laureate receives one of the largest cash prizes awarded to a single Laureate by any international competition for emerging classical musicians.
Honens Prize Laureate
One pianist
$100,000 CAD
Finalists*
Two pianists
$10,000 CAD each
Semifinalists*
Seven pianists
$2,500 CAD each
Best Performance of Commissioned Work* + $2,500 CAD
Best Performance of a Beethoven Violin Sonata*
$2,500 CAD
Audience Prize*
$2,500 CAD
*2022 awards made possible through the generosity of Judith Kilbourne. +Commissioned work made possible through the generosity of Irene and Walt DeBoni.
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
The 2022 Honens Prize Laureate will be awarded a comprehensive three-year artistic and career development program valued at a half-million dollars.
Previous Artist Development Programs have offered career-defining debut recitals at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Konzerthaus Berlin; residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; mentorship programs with the leading artists of our time including Emmanuel Ax, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Angela Hewitt, and Hélène Mercier; the production, release, and worldwide distribution of professional recordings; and repertoire and public relations coaching.
The Artist Development Program is largely supported by the generosity of Honens Laureate Circle members in Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa and by foundations from across Canada.
Honens is grateful for the support of these individuals who played an important role in making the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition a reality.
2022 COMPETITION AWARDS
“Support of these awards is in celebration of thirty years of meaningful music making and successful competitions in the name of Esther Honens, a woman determined and passionate in her efforts to bring some of the finest young pianists in the world to Calgary. There were forty candidates that first Competition! The stories of their journeys to a freezing cold city ‘somewhere in Canada’ are hilarious! My late husband Bill was the founding Chairman of that inaugural event. It was a mammoth task, a significant challenge to be sure, but as Calgary has proved again and again, volunteers and resources emerged from all over the city and succeeded in presenting a fabulous, winning event.”
—Judith Kilbourne
2022 SECOND JURY
“Honens is incredibly dear to my heart and my commitment to the organization is unwavering. I joined the foundational Board of Directors in 1991 and became Chair in 2000—30 years later I have the privilege of witnessing a thriving organization ready to take on new challenges. I am proud to support the Second Jury of the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition—continuing the long tradition of bringing the world to Calgary!”
—Jenny Belzberg
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BECOME A LAUREATE CIRCLE MEMBER
“The member benefits are critical to my enjoyment of Laureate Circle membership. The recitals allow Circle Members to directly observe and emotionally experience the results of their monetary support.”
—William Hogg, Laureate Circle Member, Calgary
Honens’ Artist Development Program is supported in part by Honens Laureate Circles across the country. Laureate Circle Members nurture the fledgling careers of these inspiring emerging artists and receive exclusive benefits including invitations to intimate salon performances, international musical excursions, and access to ticket discounts.
To learn more about the Laureate Circle and member benefits, contact: Jennifer Weihmann
403 299 0130 ext. 132 jweihmann@honens.com
COMPETITION GUIDE
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER
12 PM
MIND OVER MUSIC
HAL AND MARNIE WYATT ATELIER
Introduction to Mindful Listening Lecture Demonstration Page 34
2:30 PM
SEMIFINALS I solo recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL
Simon Karakulidi
Łukasz Byrdy Page 36
7:30 PM
SEMIFINALS II solo recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL
Angie Zhang
Rachel Breen
Page 38
FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER
12 PM
MIND OVER MUSIC
HAL AND MARNIE WYATT ATELIER
The Cognitive Competitor Panel Discussion Page 40
2:30 PM
SEMIFINALS III solo recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL
Sae Yoon Chon
Philipp Scheucher Page 42
7:30 PM
SEMIFINALS IV solo recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL
Ádám Balogh
Illia Ovcharenko Page 44
SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER
10 AM MASTERCLASS
BELLA CONCERT HALL
Imogen Cooper Piano
Free admission Page 46 12 PM
MIND OVER MUSIC
HAL AND MARNIE WYATT ATELIER
Healing the Brain Through Music Panel Discussion Page 47
2:30 PM
SEMIFINALS V solo recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL
George Fu
Aleksandra Kasman Laude Page 48
7:30 PM
SEMIFINALS VI collaborative recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL
Simon Karakulidi
Łukasz Byrdy
Page 50
SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER
10 AM
MASTERCLASS
BELLA CONCERT HALL
Orli Shaham
Piano Free admission Page 52
12 PM MIND OVER MUSIC
HAL AND MARNIE WYATT
ATELIER
Mastering the Mental Game Workshop Page 53
2:30 PM
SEMIFINALS VII collaborative recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL
Angie Zhang
Rachel Breen Page 54
7:30 PM
SEMIFINALS VIII collaborative recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL
Sae Yoon Chon
Philipp Scheucher Page 58
MONDAY 24 OCTOBER
2:30 PM
SEMIFINALS IX collaborative recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL Ádám Balogh
Illia Ovcharenko Page 60
7:30 PM
SEMIFINALS X collaborative recitals
BELLA CONCERT HALL
George Fu Aleksandra Kasman Laude Page 62
11 PM OR LATER ANNOUNCEMENT OF FINALISTS TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER
7:30 PM NICOLAS NAMORADZE
BELLA CONCERT HALL Rachmaninov Refracted Page 64
WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER
4:30 PM HONENS HONOURS
ROSS GLEN HALL
Jan and Larry Fichtner
Julie Nesrallah host Page 68
7:30 PM
JEREMY DENK
BELLA CONCERT HALL Page 69
THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER
7:30 PM
FINALS I
BELLA CONCERT HALL Page 70 FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER
7:30 PM
FINALS II & AWARDS SHOW
JACK SINGER CONCERT HALL Page 72
11 PM OR LATER ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2022 HONENS PRIZE LAUREATE
INTRODUCTION TO MINDFUL LISTENING
THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER
LECTURE DEMONSTRATION
12 PM
Hal and Marnie Wyatt Atelier
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Nicolas Namoradze presents a session interspersing piano performances with discussions and guided mindfulness exercises designed to place participants into a perceptive headspace to listen to specific pieces of music. The foundational meditations explore facets of our awareness and attention, our interpreting of stories and dramatic narratives, how we perceive and conceptualize musical textures, and the communication and internalization of emotional affect, prompting a reappraisal of our relationship to music as listeners.
MIND OVER MUSIC
Mind Over Music is a four-session mini-symposium exploring a range of questions surrounding music competitions in the 21st century, primarily from the perspectives of cognitive science. Events include two panel discussions, a workshop, and a lecture demonstration that touch on such topics as performance psychology, mindfulness, mental health, aesthetics, and neuroscience.
Curated and hosted by 2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze, Mind Over Music is made possible through the generosity of the Azrieli Foundation and with the cooperation of the Azrieli Accelerator and Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.
Nicolas Namoradze
Honens is grateful for Irene & Walt DeBoni’s commitment to keeping new music alive.
“We believe in supporting composers—particularly Canadian composers. We feel that it is important to have music that reflects our time, as well as the classics that we all love. We thoroughly enjoyed sponsoring the retrospective of Alexina Louie's work at the 2019 Honens Festival so when we were asked to sponsor Stewart Goodyear's commission for this year's Competition, it was a natural fit.”
—Irene & Walt DeBoni
“Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso is a virtuosic piano composition written in the spirit of Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns, but inspired by music of Sub-Saharan Africa. The piece opens with a 46-bar serenade of harmony and colour, creating an atmosphere improvisatory and mysterious until it stops on an A-flat chord. The A-flat then repeats and takes on a drumming effect before the Rondo takes off, the rhythm of 3/8 and 6/16 dominating the dance. The middle theme, established in bold octaves in the right hand, and repeated near the end of the work, takes the spirit of a chant.”
—Stewart Goodyear
SEMIFINALS I THURSDAY 20
OCTOBER
2:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Simon Karakulidi Russia
Age 25
Valentin
Silvestrov b. 1937
Ludwig van
Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
Stewart
Goodyear b. 1978
INTERVAL
No. 1 Allegretto from 3 Bagatelles Op. 1 (2005)
Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111
Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile
Piano Sonata in B minor S.178
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Łukasz Byrdy Poland
Age 28
Karol
Szymanowski 1882 – 1937
Stewart
Goodyear b. 1978
Frédéric
Chopin 1810 – 1849
Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
Masques Op. 34
No. 2 Tantris le Bouffon Vivace assai – Largo No. 3 Sérénade de Don Juan: Vivace
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Etude Op. 25 No. 7 in C-sharp minor
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5
Allegro maestoso
Andante espressivo
Scherzo. Allegro energico – Trio Intermezzo. Andante molto Finale. Allegro moderato ma rubato
honens.com/livestream-2022
SEMIFINALS II
THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER
7:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Angie Zhang United States
Age 26
Mily
Balakirev
1837 – 1910
Stewart
Goodyear
b. 1978
Frédéric
Chopin
1810 – 1849
Piano Sonata in B-flat minor
Andantino
Mazurka: Moderato
Intermezzo: Larghetto
Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58
Allegro maestoso
Scherzo: Molto vivace
Largo
Finale: Presto non tanto
INTERVAL
Rachel Breen United States
Age 26
Nikolai Medtner 1880 – 1951
Stewart Goodyear b. 1978
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
Piano Sonata No. 3 in G minor Op. 22
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Aria
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3: Canone all’Unisono
Variation 4
Variation 5
Variation 6: Canone alla Seconda
Variation 7: Al tempo di Giga
Variation 8
Variation 9: Canoni alla Terza
Variation 10: Fughetta
Variation 11
Variation 12: Canone alla Quarta
Variation 13
Variation 14
Variation 15: Canone alla Quinta
Variation 16: Ouverture
Variation 17
Variation 18: Canone alla Sesta
Variation 19
Variation 20
Variation 21: Canone alla Settima
Variation 22: Alla breve
Variation 23
Variation 24: Canone all’Ottava
Variation 25: Adagio
Variation 26
Variation 27: Canone alla Nona
Variation 28
Variation 29
Variation 30: Quodlibet
Aria da capo
THE COGNITIVE COMPETITOR
FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER
PANEL DISCUSSION
12 PM
Hal and Marnie Wyatt Atelier
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Featuring a professional musician, a sports psychologist, former athlete, and a neurological / medical specialist, this panel discussion focuses on mental training, stress, cognitive skill, and sustaining good mental health under intense pressure.
MIND OVER MUSIC
Mind Over Music is a four-session mini-symposium exploring a range of questions surrounding music competitions in the 21st century, primarily from the perspectives of cognitive science.
Events include two panel discussions, a workshop, and a lecture demonstration that touch on such topics as performance psychology, mindfulness, mental health, aesthetics, and neuroscience.
Curated and hosted by 2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze, Mind Over Music is made possible through the generosity of the Azrieli Foundation and with the cooperation of the Azrieli Accelerator and Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.
Nicolas Namoradze
Crystal Phillips
Jaideep Bains
Cal Botterill
SEMIFINALS III
FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER
2:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Sae Yoon Chon South Korea
Age 27
Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
Stewart
Goodyear b. 1978
Sergei
Prokofiev 1891 – 1953
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5
Allegro maestoso
Andante espressivo
Scherzo. Allegro energico – Trio
Intermezzo. Andante molto
Finale. Allegro moderato ma rubato
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major Op. 84
Andante dolce
Andante sognando
Vivace
INTERVAL
Philipp Scheucher Austria
Age 29
Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
Gerd Kühr b. 1952
Schubert
Kühr
Schubert
Stewart Goodyear b. 1978
Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
No. 1 in E-flat minor: Allegro assai from Drei Klavierstücke D. 946
Intermezzo No. 1 (2013/14) from Zwei Intermezzi zu Schubert’s “Drei Klavierstücke” D. 946
No. 2 in E-flat Major: Allegretto from Drei Klavierstücke D. 946
Intermezzo No. 2 (2013/14) from Zwei Intermezzi zu Schubert’s “Drei Klavierstücke” D. 946
No. 3 in C Major: Allegro from Drei Klavierstücke D. 946
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Symphonic Etudes Op. 13
SEMIFINALS IV FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER
7:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Ádám Balogh Hungary
Age 24
Béla
Bartók 1881 – 1945
Maurice Ravel 1875 – 1937
Stewart Goodyear b. 1978
Sergei Rachmaninov 1873 – 1943
Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs
Op. 20 Sz. 74
Molto moderato
Molto capriccioso
Lento, rubato
Allegretto scherzando
Allegro molto
Allegro moderato, molto capriccioso
Sostenuto, rubato
Allegro
Gaspard de la nuit
Ondine
Le gibet Scarbo
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 36
Allegro agitato
Non allegro - Lento
Allegro molto
INTERVAL
Illia Ovcharenko Ukraine
Age 21
Stewart Goodyear b. 1978
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Alberto Ginastera 1916 – 1983
Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major Op. 81a “Les Adieux”
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
FREE ADMISSION
Imogen Cooper piano
Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
Katherine Pham Calgary
Ludwig van
Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Maria Watson Lethbridge
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750 arr. Ferruccio Busoni
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca from Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année S. 161
III. Scherzo: Allegro from Sonata in C Major Op. 2 No. 3
Ka Yuk (Rose) Yam Edmonton Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004
Masterclasses coordinated by Jani Parsons and Akiko Tominaga.
HEALING THE BRAIN THROUGH MUSIC
SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER
PANEL DISCUSSION
12 PM
Hal and Marnie Wyatt Atelier
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
A panel of experts connected to the areas of mental health, neurodegeneration, and neurodevelopmental conditions speak to the impact of music on the brain in different conditions either from their own research or research from the literature, and connect it to the theme of the discussion, citing the latest advances in science.
MIND OVER MUSIC
Mind Over Music is a four-session mini-symposium exploring a range of questions surrounding music competitions in the 21st century, primarily from the perspectives of cognitive science.
Events include two panel discussions, a workshop, and a lecture demonstration that touch on such topics as performance psychology, mindfulness, mental health, aesthetics, and neuroscience.
Curated and hosted by 2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze, Mind Over Music is made possible through the generosity of the Azrieli Foundation and with the cooperation of the Azrieli Accelerator and Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.
Nicolas Namoradze
Jennifer Buchanan Bin Hu
Stephanie Plamondon
Andrew G. M. Bulloch
SEMIFINALS V SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER
2:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
George Fu United States
Age 31
Frederic Rzewski 1938 – 2021
Frédéric
Chopin 1810 – 1849
Stewart
Goodyear b. 1978
Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
Down By the Riverside from Four North American Ballads
Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major D. 960
Molto moderato
Andante sostenuto
Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza – Trio Allegro ma non troppo
INTERVAL
Aleksandra Kasman Laude United States
Age 27
Sergei Rachmaninov 1873 – 1943
Stewart Goodyear b. 1978
Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
Preludes Op. 32
No. 1 in C Major: Allegro vivace
No. 4 in E minor: Allegro con brio No. 5 in G Major: Moderato
No. 6 in F minor: Allegro appassionato No. 7 in F Major: Moderato
No. 8 in A minor: Vivo
No. 9 in A Major: Allegro moderato
No. 10 in B minor: Lento
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Fantasie in C Major Op. 17
Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen, Im Legenden-Ton Mäßig. Durchaus energisch Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten
SEMIFINALS VI
SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER
7:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Simon Karakulidi Russia
Age 25
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz Kreisler 1875 – 1962
Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
Nico Muhly b. 1981
INTERVAL
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major Op. 96
Allegro moderato Adagio espressivo Scherzo. Allegro Poco allegretto
Liebesfreud from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Drei Klavierstücke D. 946 Allegro assai Allegretto Allegro
Short Stuff (2009)
Łukasz Byrdy Poland
Age 28
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz Kreisler 1875 – 1962
Modest Mussorgsky 1839 – 1881
Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2
Allegro con brio
Adagio cantabile
Scherzo. Allegro
Finale. Allegro
Liebesleid from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Pictures at an Exhibition
Promenade
The Gnome Promenade
The old castle Promenade
Tuileries
Bydlo Promenade
Ballet of the unhatched chicks
Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle Promenade
Limoges, the marketplace
Catacombs (Sepulcrum romanum)
Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
The hut on fowl’s legs (Baba Yaga)
The Great Gate of Kiev
MASTERCLASS
SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER
10 AM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
FREE ADMISSION
Orli Shaham piano
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Paolo Miguel Tablante Edmonton
Frédéric
Chopin 1810 – 1849
Noah Robertson
High River
Alexander Scriabin
1872 – 1915
Sergei Rachmaninov
1873 – 1943
Nikoli Nesterov
Calgary
Masterclasses coordinated
No. 1: Allegro from Piano Sonata in E-flat Major Op. 31 No. 3
Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major Op. 47
No. 1 in F-sharp Major: Andante cantabile from Deux poèmes Op. 32
No. 3 in F-sharp minor from Études tableaux Op. 39
by Jani Parsons and Akiko Tominaga.
MASTERING THE MENTAL GAME
SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER WORKSHOP
12 PM
Hal and Marnie Wyatt Atelier
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Designed with performers in mind, Nicolas Namoradze explores various mental practice techniques. Several methods are described with guided exercises and demonstrations, including imagery work, stress control, getting in ‘the zone,’ concentration techniques, and dealing with negative thought patterns.
MIND OVER MUSIC
Mind Over Music is a four-session mini-symposium exploring a range of questions surrounding music competitions in the 21st century, primarily from the perspectives of cognitive science.
Events include two panel discussions, a workshop, and a lecture demonstration that touch on such topics as performance psychology, mindfulness, mental health, aesthetics, and neuroscience.
Curated and hosted by 2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze, Mind Over Music is made possible through the generosity of the Azrieli Foundation and with the cooperation of the Azrieli Accelerator and Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.
Nicolas Namoradze
SEMIFINALS VII
SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER
2:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Angie Zhang United States
Age 26
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz
Kreisler 1875 – 1962
Alexander Scriabin 1872 – 1915
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2
Allegro con brio Adagio cantabile Scherzo. Allegro Finale. Allegro
Liebesleid from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Fantaisie in B minor Op. 28
Kreisler arr. Rachmaninov
INTERVAL
Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Major K. 280/189e
Allegro assai Adagio Presto
Liebesfreud
Rachel Breen United States
Age 26
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz Kreisler 1875 – 1962
György Kurtág b. 1926
Alexander Scriabin 1872 – 1915
Sergei Prokofiev 1891 – 1953
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major Op. 12 No. 2 Allegro vivace Andante, più tosto Allegretto Allegro piacevole
Liebesleid from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Prelude and Waltz in C from Játékok Vol. I
No. 23 in F Major from 24 Preludes Op. 11
No. 1 in B-flat Major Intermezzo from 3 Pieces from Cinderella Op. 95
Beethoven No. 3 in E-flat Major: Andante, Cantabile e grazioso from Six Bagatelles Op. 126
Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
Luciano Berio 1925 – 2003
Chopin
Impromptu No. 1 in A-flat Major Op. 29
No. 3 Wasserklavier from Six Encores for Piano
Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp Major Op. 36
Nicolai Medtner 1880 – 1951
Sergei Rachmaninov 1873 – 1943
Leonid Desyatnikov b. 1955
Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
J.S. Bach 1685 – 1750
Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
Kreisler arr. Rachmaninov
No. 5 in F-sharp minor: Presto from Fairy Tales (Märchen) Op. 51
No. 4 in B minor: Allegro assai from Études tableaux Op. 39
Prelude No. 4 in E minor from Songs of Bukovina (24 for Preludes for Piano)
No. 6 Allegretto grazioso in A Major “Frühlingslied” from Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words) Book 5 Op. 62
Prelude and Fugue in D Major BWV 850 from Well-Tempered Clavier Book I
No. 12 Minstrels: Modéré from Préludes Book 1 L. 117
Liebesfreud
SEMIFINALS VIII
SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER
7:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Sae Yoon Chon South Korea
Age 27
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz Kreisler 1875 – 1962
Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
INTERVAL
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major Op. 12 No. 1 Allegro con brio Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto Rondo: Allegro
Liebesleid from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Piano Sonata in B minor S. 178
Philipp Scheucher Austria
Age 29
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz Kreisler 1875 – 1962
Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major Op. 47 “Kreutzer” Adagio sostenuto – Presto – Adagio Andante con variazioni Final. Presto
Schön Rosmarin from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Nuages gris S. 199
Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka Danse russe Chez Pétrouchka La semaine grasse
SEMIFINALS IX MONDAY
24 OCTOBER
2:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Ádám Balogh Hungary
Age 24
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz
Kreisler 1875 – 1962
Kreisler arr. Rachmaninov
Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major Op. 47 “Kreutzer” Adagio sostenuto – Presto – Adagio Andante con variazioni
Final: Presto
Liebesleid from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Liebesfreud
Sonata No. 9 in E Major Op. 14 No. 1
Allegro
Allegretto Rondo. Allegro comodo
INTERVAL
Illia Ovcharenko Ukraine
Age 21
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz Kreisler 1875 – 1962
Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Allegro con brio Adagio cantabile Scherzo. Allegro Finale. Allegro
Liebesleid from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Piano Sonata in B minor S. 178
SEMIFINALS X MONDAY 24 OCTOBER
7:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
George Fu United States
Age 31
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz Kreisler 1875 – 1962
Olivier Messiaen 1908 – 1992
Maurice Ravel 1875 – 1937
George Fu b. 1991
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major Op. 96 Allegro moderato Adagio espressivo
Scherzo. Allegro Poco allegretto
Liebesleid from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Le loriot from Catalogue d’Oiseaux 1er Livre
Oiseaux tristes from Miroirs
The Hen (after Rameau) from Three Paraphrases from Respighi’s The Birds (2021)
Sergei Rachmaninov 1873 – 1943
INTERVAL
Études tableaux Op. 39
No. 5 in E-flat minor
No. 8 in D minor
No. 9 in D Major
Aleksandra Kasman Laude United States
Age 27
Martin Beaver violin
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Fritz Kreisler 1875 – 1962
Sergei Prokofiev 1891 – 1953
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major Op. 96 Allegro moderato Adagio espressivo
Scherzo. Allegro Poco allegretto
Liebesleid from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major Op. 84 Andante dolce
Andante sognando Vivace
NICOLAS NAMORADZE
TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER
Rachmaninov Refracted
7:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Nicolas Namoradze piano
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
Bach arr. Rachmaninov
Sergei Rachmaninov 1873 – 1943 arr. Namoradze
Nicolas Namoradze b. 1992
INTERVAL
Rachmaninov arr. Kocsis
Rachmaninov
Contrapuncti VI & VII from The Art of Fugue BWV 1080
Gavotte from Violin Partita No. 3 BWV 1006
Adagio from Symphony No. 2 Op. 27
Memories of Rachmaninoff’s “Georgian Song” (World Premiere)
Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14
Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 28
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The Queen’s Cartoonists
An all-ages celebration of live jazz and your favourite cartoons.
Booker
T:
A Stax Revue
Jazz and R&B icon Booker T. Jones plays Stax Records hits like “Green Onions” and “Respect.”
Joey Alexander Trio
Jazz piano virtuoso and protégé of Wynton Marsalis makes his bandleader debut.
JANUARY 26, 2023
FEBRUARY 25, 2023
APRIL 28, 2023
HONENS HONOURS
WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER
A Tribute to Jan and Larry Fichtner
4:30 PM
Ross Glen Hall
Roderick Mah Centre for Continuous Learning, Mount Royal University
Julie Nesrallah host
Honens Honours pays tribute to individuals and organizations whose dedication to the arts, like that of Esther Honens, has made an extraordinary contribution to our city, province, and country. Larry has served as a director of many arts organizations over the years, including Honens, the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Arts Centre.
Both Jan and Larry are committed to bringing together artists for one-of-a-kind collaborations, often in their home, with the end goals being the creation of amazing musical experiences and the support of emerging and established artists alike.
The Fichtners have been a part of the Honens Family since 1992 when they hosted Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who competed in the inaugural Honens International Piano Competition. Their close friendship with Jean-Efflam and his family continues to this day.
Honour these champions of the arts community at this fundraising dinner and celebration. Proceeds support the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition and its outreach into the community.
Honens Honors Sponsor HEATHER EDWARDS
JEREMY DENK
WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER
Solo Recital
7:30 PM
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Jeremy Denk piano
Famed pianist Jeremy Denk joins the Honens lineup with a solo recital and as Mentor-in-Residence, providing feedback to each Competitor after the completion of their time in the Competition. Winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and the Avery Fisher Prize, The New York Times writes, “Mr. Denk, clearly, is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs.”
FINALS I
THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER
6:30 PM
PRE-CONCERT CHAT
Hal and Marnie Wyatt Atelier
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Stewart Goodyear
Jon Kimura Parker
7:30 PM
FINALS I
Bella Concert Hall
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University
Viano String Quartet
Lucy Wang violin
Hao Zhou violin
Aiden Kane viola
Tate Zawadiuk cello
Sam Loeck bass
Three Finalists
Krisztina Szabó mezzo-soprano Julie Nesrallah host
Three Finalists each perform a chamber music recital including a Mozart concerto and a selection of Schubert chosen from the lists below. The Finals Program, which will be available at each Finals performance, will include names of finalists and further details about each program.
Program options:
Mozart
Schubert—Program I
Schubert—Program II
Piano Concerto No. 11 in F Major KV 413
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414
Piano Concerto No. 13 in C Major KV 415
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major KV 449
Die Forelle Op. 32 D. 550
Du Bist die Ruh Op. 59 No. 3 D. 776
Der Erlkönig Op. 1 D. 328
Gretchen am Spinnrade Op. 2 D. 118
Nacht und Träume D. 827
Die junge Nonne Op. 43 No. 1 D. 828
Chamber selections if chosen as a Finalist:
Ádám Balogh
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
Rachel Breen
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
Łukasz Byrdy
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
Sae Yoon Chon
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
George Fu
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
Simon Karakulidi
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major KV 449 Program II
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 Program II
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 Program II
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major KV 449 Program II
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 Program II
Piano Concerto No. 13 in C Major KV 415 Program II
Aleksandra Kasman Laude
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
Illia Ovcharenko
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
Philipp Scheucher
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
Angie Zhang
Mozart Concerto
Schubert Lieder
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major KV 449 Program II
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 Program I
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 Program I
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major KV 449 Program II
FINALS II
FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER
6:30 PM PRE-CONCERT CHAT
Jack Singer Concert Hall Lobby, Arts Commons
Jeffrey Kahane
Jon Kimura Parker
7:30 PM FINALS II
Jack Singer Concert Hall, Arts Commons
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Jeffrey Kahane conductor Julie Nesrallah host
Three Finalists
Each finalists performs a concerto, composed after 1791, with full orchestra. The Finals Program, which will be available at each Finals performance, will include names of finalists and further details about each program.
Concerto selections if chosen as a Finalist:
Ádám Balogh
Brahms
Rachel Breen
Beethoven
Łukasz Byrdy
Chopin
Sae Yoon Chon
Prokofiev
George Fu
Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major Op. 83
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major Op. 58
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Op. 21
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 16
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor Op. 23
Simon Karakulidi
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 16
Aleksandra Kasman Laude
Rachmaninov
Illia Ovcharenko
Tchaikovsky
Philipp Scheucher
Beethoven
Angie Zhang
Rachmaninov
George Fu
Tchaikovsky
Simon Karakulidi
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op. 30
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat minor Op. 23
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major Op. 73 “Emperor”
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor Op. 23
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 16
AWARDS SHOW
FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING FINALS II
Jack Singer Concert Hall, Arts Commons
Julie Nesrallah host
The evening culminates in excitement with the announcement of the 2022 Honens Prize Laureate.
HONENS COMPETITORS
ÁDÁM BALOGH
Hungary
Age 24
Ádám Balogh was born in Hungary to a family of musicians and made his concerto debut at the age of 13 with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Since then, he has performed with many orchestras in Hungary including the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian National Symphonic Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. Balogh has also performed with the NYCA Symphony Orchestra (New York) and the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, among others.
He is a prizewinner of international competitions, including PianoTalents (Italy), the Jenö Takács Competition (Austria), the Chopin Competition (Hungary), the Junior Cliburn Competition (Texas), the New York Concert Artists Worldwide Debut Audition, as well as the competitions of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival (New York) and the Tel-Hai Masterclasses (Israel). He has performed around Europe, the United States, and Asia.
Balogh is currently a student of Arie Vardi in Hannover, pursuing his master’s degree. Previously, he studied in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest as a student of Attila Némethy and Gábor Eckhardt. As an active participant of masterclasses, he has worked with Dmitri Bashkirov, Zoltán Kocsis, Roger Muraro, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, and Yoheved Kaplinsky, among others.
In 2017, Balogh received the Junior Prima award, considered the most prestigious in Hungary for artists under the age of 35. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Junior Prize of the Tüke Foundation of Pécs and the Cziffra Festival’s Junior Award (Hungary). Most recently, he won Second Prize at the Bartok World Competition (Hungary) as well as Fifth Prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition.
RACHEL BREEN
United States
Age 26
Californian Rachel Breen received her bachelor’s degree with academic honors from The Juilliard School (New York), where she was a student of Julian Martin. Previously, she studied with Dr. Sharon Mann; until age ten, she was self-taught. She recently completed dual master’s programs at the Hannover Hochschule für Musik and Yale School of Music (Connecticut) with Lars Vogt and Boris Slutsky, respectively.
Breen has earned top prizes at the International Beethoven Piano Competition (Vienna); the Cziffra Festival (Hungary); the Nuova Coppa Pianisti International Competition (Italy); the Livorno International Piano Competition, the Gallinari International Competition, and Premio Roberto Melini (Italy); and the Spanish Composers International Competition. She was selected as the 2021 to 2023 National Federation of Music Clubs’ Young Artist, and received the 2021 Kurt Alten Prize from her university in Hannover. She has performed and taught across the United States, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, and Hungary, and was featured in the 2021 podcast 30 Bach alongside Jeremy Denk, Angela Hewitt, Tim Page, and Simone Dinnerstein. In August 2022, her CD recording of works by underrepresented minority composers will be released through New Muses Project.
Aside from piano, Breen has an interest in languages, receiving First Prize on the National Latin Exam and Third Prize on the National French Exam. She spends her spare time running, exploring philosophy and visual arts, and forgetting to answer important emails.
Breen is based in both Europe and the United States.
ŁUKASZ BYRDY
Poland
Age 28
Łukasz Byrdy studied with Waldemar Andrzejewski and Joanna Marcinkowska at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań (Poland) and is currently a student of Klaus Hellwig at the Universität der Künste Berlin. He is a prizewinner of numerous international piano competitions including: First Prize at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Hannover (Germany, 2019), Third Prize at the 1st Beijing International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (China, 2016), and Third Prize at the IV International Piano Competition “in memoriam Pietro Iadeluca” in Arsoli (Italy, 2016). As a member of Paderewski Piano Trio, Byrdy has also won chamber music competitions in Geneva and Bydgoszcz.
In 2015, Byrdy qualified for Round II of the XVII International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw). He received scholarships to Morningside Music Bridge in 2010 and 2011 in Calgary and the Aspen Music Festival in 2012.
Byrdy has given concerts at EXPO in Dubai and Milan; Chopin and His Europe Festival, and the International Paderewski Festival (Warsaw); Festival Chopin à Paris; and performed at festivals in Chengdu, Moscow, and Duszniki-Zdrój. Byrdy has performed in many of Poland’s important concert halls including Fryderyk Chopin’s birthplace in Żelazowa Wola, Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Royal Castle in Warsaw, Royal Łazienki Park, and Polish Radio’s National Orchestra Concert Hall. He has also performed across the United States, Canada, China, Russia, UAE, Austria, France, Lithuania, Norway, Italy, Malta, and Germany.
In 2017, Byrdy released his first CD featuring concertos of Chopin and Mozart in chamber version with the Altra Volta String Quartet.
SAE YOON CHON
South Korea
Age 27
South Korean pianist Sae Yoon Chon is one of the most outstanding young pianists to emerge onto the international scene in recent years. He won First Prize at the 2018 Dublin International Piano Competition and has been a major prizewinner at international piano competitions in Hong Kong, Valencia, Los Angeles, and Seoul, plus Hilton Head International Piano Competition and Young Concert Artists. He has performed at the Verbier and Orford Festivals.
Chon made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall and has given solo recitals at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Seoul Arts Center, and many others.
Chon first studied piano in his native South Korea with Hyoung-Joon Chang. He completed his Bachelor of Music degree on full scholarship at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, studying with John O’Conor, and occasionally with James Anagnoson and Leon Fleisher. He also completed the Artist Diploma at the Glenn Gould School with John O’Conor. During this period, Chon became a recipient of the prestigious Ihnatowycz Prize. He is now continuing his master’s degree at The Juilliard School (New York) with Robert McDonald.
Chon has played with many orchestras including those of Cleveland, Hong Kong, Valencia, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.
GEORGE FU
United States
Age 31
Praised for his performances of distinctive intelligence, sensitivity, and virtuosity, American pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu is establishing an international reputation as a musician who is a “deep thinker, thoroughly in command” (theartsdesk.com) with “stunning virtuosity” (Boston Music Intelligencer).
Fu has appeared at international venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Carnegie Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall and Kings Place (London), and Tanglewood (Massachusetts). His performances and interviews have been featured on broadcasts around the world, ranging from BBC Radio 3 and National Public Radio to appearances on PBS / American Public Television and On Stage At Curtis (Philadelphia).
Fu has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (Massachusetts), and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra (Philadelphia). In addition to being a passionate chamber musician who frequently collaborates with a variety of musicians, Fu is a founding member of Trio Zimbalist, a new piano trio consisting of himself, Josef Špaček (violin) and Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin (cello). He is an enthusiastic performer of contemporary music, enjoying collaborations with composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, George Lewis, Tansy Davies, Phil Cashian, Matthew Aucoin, and Freya Waley-Cohen, as well as being a composer himself.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University, Fu studied under Jonathan Biss and Meng-Chieh Liu at the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), and then under Christopher Elton and Joanna MacGregor at the Royal Academy of Music (London). He receives career support from the Kirckman Concert Society, the City Music Foundation, and the Keyboard Charitable Trust.
SIMON KARAKULIDI
Russia
Age 25
Born in 1997 in Surgut, Siberia, pianist Simon Karakulidi has lived in the United States since 2016. An aspiring polymath with interests ranging from politics to philosophy, he received his master’s degree at the Yale School of Music (Connecticut), a tuition-free program at Yale University under Wei-Yi Yang. Before then, he studied with the Van Cliburn Gold Prize winner Stanislav Ioudenitch in Parkville, Missouri. Karakulidi has also been mentored by Diego Prigollini. Karakulidi is enthusiastic about American classical music and is currently engaged in learning the complete piano works of David Lang and Nico Muhly.
Most recently, Karakulidi won Second Prize at Virginia Waring International Piano Competition (California) and First Prize at the Hellam International Concerto Competition (Missouri). He also won First Prize from the 2019 Wideman International Piano Competition (Louisiana), First Prize at the Ann & Charles Eisemann International Young Artists Competition (Texas), and the Grand Prize of the Naftzger Competition (Kansas).
ALEKSANDRA KASMAN LAUDE
United States
Age 27
Praised for her playing and commitment to rarely-heard repertoire, Aleksandra (Sasha) Kasman Laude is in demand as a soloist and teacher with engagements around the world.
Kasman Laude appears as a guest artist at the invitation of such festivals as International Keyboard Institute and Festival (New York), pianoSonoma (California), Southeastern Piano Festival (South Carolina), Utah State University Piano Festival, Kyiv International Summer Music Academy, Busan International Music Academy (South Korea), and PianoCity Milano. She has given solo recitals at major concert venues including Steinway Hall (New York), Yamaha Ginza Hall (Tokyo), Salle Cortot (Paris), and Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa).
Kasman Laude made her concerto debut at age thirteen with the Symphonic Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine and the Alabama Symphony, and has since worked with numerous orchestras in the USA and abroad. She is an advocate and experienced performer of contemporary music, premiering works of Nathan Daughtrey, Zachary Detrick, and Eric Mobley.
A top prizewinner of numerous international competitions, she holds Artistin-Residence positions at NPR’s Performance Today, PianoArts of North America, and pianoSonoma.
Kasman Laude is a Rackham doctoral candidate in the studio of Logan Skelton and Graduate Student Instructor at the SMTD of the University of Michigan. She holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School (New York), where she studied with Robert McDonald and served as a Teaching Fellow and Gluck Fellow.
Kasman Laude began her musical studies with her parents, Yakov and Tatiana Kasman, acclaimed pianists and pedagogues. Kasman Laude is a dedicated music teacher herself; in addition to maintaining a private studio, she has given masterclasses at Lee University and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and lectured at Bowling Green State University. Since 2015, she has enjoyed serving as a PianoArts Fellow giving yearly teaching and performing tours to thousands of children in Milwaukee schools and throughout the community.
ILLIA OVCHARENKO
Ukraine
Age 21
Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv under the tutelage of Arie Vardie, Illia Ovcharenko has already performed with leading orchestras including the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland), National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, National Radio of Ukraine, and the Versailles Conservatory String Orchestra. He has also collaborated with prestigious conductors such as Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Arie Vardi, Ian Hobson, Mykola Diadyura, Kai Bumann, Benoit Girault, Volodymyr Sirenko, Nicolo Giuliani, and Vitaly Protasov.
Ovcharenko is a frequent participant at music festivals worldwide in countries including France, Ukraine, Israel, United States, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy. He has appeared at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Festival (Israel), Aspen Music Festival (USA), Festival Auvers-surOise and the Pontoise Piano Campus (France), and Bern Interlaken Classics (Switzerland), among others. The recipient of the Polonsky Fellowship (2019, 2021), he studied at the Aspen Music Festival (Colorado) with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Hung Kuan Chen.
His most recent achievements include Second Prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in 2022, becoming a Laureate of the Busoni International Piano Competition (Italy) in 2021, winning the Michelangeli Prize at the Eppan International Piano Academy (Italy), as well as First Prize at the Horowitz International Piano Competition (Ukraine) in 2019.
Ovcharenko is a recipient of the Presidential Scholarship of Ukraine.
PHILIPP SCHEUCHER
Austria
Age 29
Whether in Vienna’s Musikverein, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, or Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Philipp Scheucher is at home in the most prestigious concert halls of Europe and beyond. WDR Broadcasting Cooperation wrote: “His absolute presence onstage and his clean, attentive sound of his interpretations set new quality standards,” following his First Prize win at the International Music Prize in Cologne (Germany).
Born in Graz, Austria, Scheucher’s extraordinary musical talent was noticed by Maria Zgubic at the University of Music and Performing Arts (Graz) at the age of ten, when his career as a pianist started to develop. Under the guidance of Markus Schirmer, he found his own personality and artistry on the piano and finished his Konzertexamen studies with Ilja Scheps in Cologne in 2021. Currently, Scheucher receives further encouragement from Markus Becker, broadening his chamber music repertoire. In addition, he is a Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation Scholar for the Artist Diploma at the prestigious Royal College of Music in London, guided by Ian Jones and Dorian Leljak.
Scheucher has concert engagements around the world having won numerous prizes at international competitions including his most recent success as the Second Prize winner at the International Beethoven Competition (Vienna). His exceptional programs cover the standard repertoire of today’s classical pianists with an affinity for performing works by living composers such as Marc-André Hamelin, Lera Auerbach, Gerd Kühr, and Beat Furrer.
His solo debut album Quasi Fantasia was released in 2019, followed by his double album Concert apértif du Piano in 2020, and his Beethoven album by Naxos in 2022.
Scheucher’s musical flexibility, technical abilities, and his interaction with an audience all add to his promise as a leading artist of his generation.
ANGIE ZHANG
United States
Age 26
Praised as “warmly expressive, sensitive, and polished” and “a valuable advocate for classical music” by New York Concert Review, American pianist Angie Zhang is passionate about sharing the harpsichord, fortepiano, and modern piano with audiences. She breathes life into pieces with historically informed, yet boldly modern interpretations and electrifying execution.
Angie is a sought-after recital and concerto soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue, and social sculptor who prioritizes genuine human interactions and seeks to create impact. Her performances on pianos of all shapes, sizes, and eras have been internationally acclaimed and presented at important venues including Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center (New York), and the Teatro Nacional of the Dominican Republic. Her fervent commitment to artistic excellence invites live and digital audiences to discover a more complete story of the piano lineage and repertoire.
A prizewinner in over 20 competitions and a seasoned soloist, she is widely regarded as one of the foremost ‘complete artists’ of her generation. She has performed in North America, Europe, and Asia and has collaborated onstage with artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Marie McDermott, and Maestro Fabio Luisi. A formidable chamber musician, she has performed Beethoven’s complete works for piano and cello with Tchaikovsky International Cello Competition Winner Zlatomir Fung and appeared with the St. Lawrence and Aeolus Quartets. Recent festival appearances include Music Academy of the West and La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest (California), Sarasota and Aspen Music Festivals, Perlman Music Program (New York), and Bowdoin International Music Festival (Maine).
Angie holds a Bachelor and Master of Music with Chamber and Academic Honors from Juilliard School, where her principal teachers included Yoheved Kaplinsky and Joseph Kalichstein. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at University of Michigan with Logan Skelton. Angie is a Yamaha Artist.
GUEST ARTISTS
Piano at the Phil.
Katherine Chi performs Beethoven
12 + 13 May / 7:30PM Jack Singer Concert Hall
Mozart’s Double Piano
with Charles Richard-Hamelin and Ryan Zhu
17 + 18 February / 7:30PM Jack Singer Concert Hall
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2000 Honens Prize Laureate
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
The Calgary Philharmonic celebrated 65 years as a pillar of Calgary’s vibrant arts community in 2020 and has grown to be one of Canada’s most celebrated live music ensembles. Led by Music Director Rune Bergmann, the Orchestra presents classical standards, pop favourites, bold collaborations, and cuttingedge new works, and attracts world-renowned guest artists and dynamic conductors each season. In addition to 66 orchestra musicians, the Calgary Phil is one of two major symphony orchestras in Canada that has its own Chorus of over 125 volunteer singers, which celebrates 60 years in 2023. In a typical season, the Calgary Phil welcomes over 100,000 visitors to the concert hall, engages more than 10,000 students through its education programs, and reaches audiences worldwide through free and accessible digital programming. Follow Calgary Phil on social media @calgaryphil and register for email updates at calgaryphil.com/newsletter.
Rune Bergmann| Music Director
Karl Hirzer | Associate Conductor
FIRST VIOLINS
Diana Cohen | Concertmaster
John Lowry | Associate Concertmaster
Donovan Seidle | Assistant Concertmaster
Eric Auerbach
Edmund Chung
Hangyul Kim
Olga Kotova
Bonnie Louie
Genevieve Micheletti
Maria van der Sloot
Hojean Yoo
SECOND VIOLINS
Lorna Tsai*
Stephanie Soltice-Johnson**
Erin Burkholder
Jeremy Gabbert
Hyewon Grillet-Kim
Craig Hutchenreuther
Minnie Min Kyung Kwon
Theresa Lane
Adriana Lebedovich
Steven J. Lubiarz
VIOLAS
Laurent Grillet-Kim*
Marcin Swoboda**
Arthur Bachmann
Jeremy Bauman
Peter Blake
Michael Bursey
Alisa Klebanov
Jesse Morrison
CELLOS
Arnold Choi*
Josué Valdepeñas**
Dongkyun An
Kathleen de Caen
Thomas Megee
David Morrissey
Daniel Poceta
BASSES
Sam Loeck*
Kyle Sanborn +
Matthew Heller
Trish Bereti-Reid
Patrick Staples
Jonathan Yeoh
FLUTES
Sara Hahn-Scinocco*
Gwen Klassen**
PICCOLO
Gwen Klassen
OBOES
Alex Klein*
David Sussman**
ENGLISH HORN
David Sussman
CLARINETS
Slavko Popovic*
Jocelyn Colquhoun**
BASSOONS
Antoine St-Ongem*
Michael Hope**
HORNS
Position to be filled*
Jennifer Frank-Umana**
Position to be filled**
Maxwell Stein**
Heather Wootton**
TRUMPETS
Adam Zinatelli* Miranda Cairns**
TROMBONES
James Scott* Position to be filled**
BASS TROMBONE
David Reid*
TUBA
Tom McCaslin*
TIMPANI
Alexander Cohen*
PERCUSSION
Position to be filled*
HARP
Tisha Murvihill*
+ Leave of absence
* Principal
** Assistant Principal
*** Associate Principal
The members of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra are members of The Calgary Musicians Association, Local 547 of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. The Calgary Phil is proud to perform live symphonic music for Alberta Ballet, Calgary Opera, and the Honens International Piano Competition.
Learn more about Calgary Phil musicians at calgaryphil.com/musicians.
Martin Beaver violin
Canadian violinist Martin Beaver was first violin of the world-renowned Tokyo String Quartet from 2002 until its final season in 2013. As such, he appeared to critical and public acclaim on the major stages of the world including New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. Concerto and recital appearances have taken him to North and South America, Europe, and Asia with orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège (Belgium), the Montreal Symphony, and the Sapporo Symphony (Japan), and with conductors including Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Gilbert Varga, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Chamber music collaborations include eminent artists such as Leon Fleisher, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, Sabine Meyer, and Yefim Bronfman. Beaver is a founding member of the Montrose Trio with pianist Jon Kimura Parker and cellist Clive Greensmith.
Beaver’s teachers include Victor Danchenko, Josef Gingold, and Henryk Szeryng. A laureate of the Queen Elisabeth, Montreal, and Indianapolis Competitions, he has subsequently served on juries of major international violin and chamber music competitions including the Queen Elisabeth Competition (Belgium) and the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (Japan). A devoted educator, Beaver has conducted masterclasses on five continents. He has held teaching positions at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto); the University of British Columbia; Peabody Conservatory, and NYU (US). More recently, he was Artist-inResidence at the Yale School of Music (US). He currently serves as Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Colburn Conservatory of Music and Colburn Music Academy in Los Angeles.
Jeremy Denk piano MENTOR-IN-RESIDENCE
Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, proclaimed by the New York Times “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs.” Denk is also a New York Times bestselling author, winner of both the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In the 2022 / 23 season, Denk will continue his multi-season exploration of Book 1 of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier and will also perform with orchestras and in recital halls across UK, Europe, and the United States, including a return to Carnegie Hall play-directing Bach concerti with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and a multi-concert residency at the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland. An avid chamber musician, Denk will also embark on a US tour with the renowned Takács Quartet.
Denk’s latest album of Mozart piano concertos was released in 2021 on Nonesuch Records. The album, deemed “urgent and essential” by
BBC Radio 3, was featured as Album of the Week’ on Classic FM, and ‘Record of the Week’ on BBC Radio’s Record Review.
Denk has performed multiple times at Carnegie Hall and in recent years has worked with such orchestras as Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra. Further afield, he has performed multiple times at the BBC Proms and Klavierfestival Ruhr, and appeared in such halls as the Köln Philharmonie, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Boulez Saal in Berlin. He has also performed extensively across the UK, including recently with the London Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and play-directing the Britten Sinfonia.
Denk is also known for his original and insightful writing, which Alex Ross praises for its “arresting sensitivity and wit.” He wrote the libretto for a comic opera presented by Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, and the Aspen Festival, and his writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, The Guardian, and on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. His memoir Every Good Boy Does Fine was published to universal acclaim by Random House in 2022.
Jeremy Denk is a graduate of Oberlin College, Indiana University, and the Juilliard School. He lives in New York City.
Jeffrey Kahane conductor
Equally at home at the piano or on the podium, Jeffrey Kahane is recognized around the world for his mastery of a diverse repertoire ranging from Bach and Mozart to the music of our time. First Prize winner at the 1983 Rubinstein Competition and a finalist at the 1981 Van Cliburn Competition, he has appeared as soloist with major orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Chicago and San Francisco symphonies among many others, and is a popular artist at all of the major US summer festivals. In August 2016, he was appointed Music Director of the Sarasota Music Festival and is also the Artistic Adviser of the Sarasota Orchestra.
Kahane made his conducting debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in 1988. Since then, he has guest conducted many of the major US orchestras including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Indianapolis, and New World symphonies, among others. In May 2017, he completed his 20th and final season as Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He also served as the Music Director of the Colorado Symphony from the 2005 / 06 season through the 2009 / 10 season and for ten seasons was Music Director of the Santa Rosa Symphony, where he is now Conductor Laureate.
Jeffrey Kahane is currently a Professor of Keyboard Studies at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.
Sam Loeck bass
Sam Loeck joined the Calgary Philharmonic as Principal Bass in 2016. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Sam earned his bachelor’s degree in music performance from the University of Nebraska. He then earned a master’s degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with Bruce Bransby and was named winner of the IU Bass Concerto Competition. Sam has participated in numerous music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, Moritzburg Festival, Pacific Music Festival, and the Banff International String Quartet Festival. He has performed extensively as guest-Principal Bass with the London Symphony Orchestra (UK), and served as a substitute bass with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony.
Sam performs on a beautiful bass made in 2014 by Aaron Reiley. When he is away from the instrument, Sam is an avid woodworker and enjoys solitude in the mountains.
Nicolas Namoradze piano
Pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze came to international attention in 2018 upon winning the triennial Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary AB, Canada—among the largest prizes in classical music. His recitals around the globe have been met with universal critical praise, and recent album releases have received extraordinary accolades, including: the Choc de Classica, Record of the Month in Limelight, Instrumental Disc of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, Editor’s Choice in Presto Classical, and Critics’ Choice in International Piano. Among the most critically acclaimed musicians of his generation, Namoradze was bestowed the 2020 and 2021 Young Pianist Award by the UK Critics’ Circle, which called him “very much more than a top-flight pianist.” His current activities include recitals at concert halls including New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, and the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan; festival appearances at Tanglewood, Banff, Gstaad, Santa Fe, and more; and performances with orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Sinfonieorchester Basel, with conductors such as Iván Fischer, Karina Canellakis, and Ken-David Masur. After completing his undergraduate in Budapest, Vienna, and Florence, Namoradze moved to New York for his master’s at The Juilliard School and his doctorate at the CUNY Graduate Center. His teachers and mentors have included Emanuel Ax, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Zoltán Kocsis, Matti Raekallio, András Schiff, and Eliso Virsaladze in piano, and John Corigliano in composition. He currently pursues postgraduate studies in neuropsychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College, London, where his research interests include the effects of mental practice and mindfulness on musical performance. Namoradze is the author of the book Ligeti’s Macroharmonies, published by Springer in the Computational Music Science series, and his compositions are published by Muse Press.
Julie Nesrallah host
The dazzling Julie Nesrallah performs for leading opera companies, symphonies, festivals, and chamber music ensembles across Canada and around the world. Nesrallah sang God Save the Queen for Will and Kate, then the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and for Canada Day festivities on Parliament Hill in a performance that was viewed by millions. She also sang for An Evening for Peace for Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan in Montreal.
Nesrallah is the host of Tempo on CBC Music and is also the executive producer and star of Carmen on Tap which performs Georges Bizet’s Carmen as dinner theatre. Nesrallah has been the recipient of several distinguished awards including the Canada Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Award & Mid-Career Grant, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her cultural contribution to Canada’s performing arts.
Krisztina Szabó mezzo-soprano
Hungarian-Canadian, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó is highly sought after in both North America and Europe as an artist of supreme musicianship and stagecraft. She is known for her interpretation of Baroque music as well as her promotion and performance of contemporary Canadian works.
Szabó has performed with San Francisco Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, and Wexford Festival Opera. In 2018, she made her Royal Opera and Netherlands Opera debuts in George Benjamin’s new opera, Lessons in Love and Violence, the recording of which received a Grammy nomination for Best Opera Recording.
Szabó’s career has seen her on all the major opera and concert stages across Canada. She regularly performs with the Canadian Opera Company, Vancouver Opera, Tapestry Opera, Early Music Vancouver, and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
She has been nominated for Outstanding Performance by the Dora Awards twice, and was in Kopernikus (Claude Vivier) with Against the Grain Theatre (Toronto) which won a Dora Award for Best Ensemble.
Her discography includes New Jewish Music, Vol. 3 (Analekta), Ana Sokolovic – Sirens (Naxos), and Talisker Players Where Words and Music Meet (Centrediscs).
Digital projects include Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle (Judith) with the Canadian Opera Company, Tafelmusik’s The Voice of Vivaldi, Festival of the Sound’s Arias and Antics, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with Vancouver Opera, An Italian Baroque Festive Celebration with Early Music Vancouver; performing in recital for the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and Behind the Keys with Vancouver Bach Choir, and Tapestry Opera’s S.O.S. Sketch Opera Singers. Szabó is Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera at the University of British Columbia School of Music.
Viano String Quartet
Praised for their “huge range of dynamics, massive sound and spontaneity” (American Record Guide), the Viano String Quartet won First Prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and top prizes at the Osaka (Japan) and Wigmore Hall (England) International Chamber Music Competitions, where they also received the Haydn Prize and Sidney Griller Award.
Formed in 2015 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where they were Ensemble-in-Residence during the 2020 / 21 season, the Quartet has performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall (England); Segerstrom Center for the Arts, SOKA Performing Arts Center, and the Cerritos Center for Performing Arts (US) and with with world-class musicians such as pianists Emanuel Ax and Elisso Virsaladze, violist Paul Coletti, and violinist Martin Beaver. The quartet was named the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music for 2021 / 22 season.
The name “Viano” was created to describe the four individual instruments in a string quartet interacting as one. Each of the four instruments begins with the letter “v”, and like a piano, all four string instruments together play both harmony and melody, creating a unified instrument called the “Viano.”
Lucy Wang violin
Hao Zhou violin
Aiden Kane viola
Tate Zawadiuk cello
HONENS JURIES
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & JURY FACILITATOR
Honens’ Artistic Director acts as Jury Facilitator. He has the right at any time to remind juries of criteria for the choice of pianists and prizewinners to maintain the integrity of the process and of the Competition and may invite discussion at any time. He is a voting member of the Applicant Screening Jury but does not vote during any subsequent stage of the Competition.
Jon Kimura Parker Canada / USA (Indicates nationality / country of residence)
Pianist Jon Kimura Parker is known for his charisma, enthusiasm, and dynamic performances. A veteran of the international concert stage, he has performed regularly in the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, London’s South Bank, the Sydney Opera House, and the Beijing Concert Hall. He is the Creative Partner of the Minnesota Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Honens International Piano Competition, Artistic Advisor for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, and Professor of Piano at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. This season he also chaired the jury of the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. A collaborator in a wide variety of styles, Jon Kimura Parker has performed with Doc Severinsen, Audra McDonald, Bobby McFerrin, Pablo Ziegler, and Sanjaya Malakar. As a founding member of Off the Score, he also performed with Stewart Copeland – the legendary drummer of The Police – for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival’s 20th Anniversary Season, featuring his own arrangements of music by Prokofiev, Ravel, and Stravinsky.
Parker’s discography of a dozen albums features music ranging from Mozart and Chopin to Barber, Stravinsky, and John Adams. His YouTube channel features a series of Concerto Chat videos, which explore the piano concerto repertoire. In addition, his Whole Notes series, featuring performances of great composers, is available on Amazon Prime Video.
Jon Kimura Parker studied with Edward Parker and Keiko Parker, Lee Kum-Sing at the Vancouver Academy of Music and the University of British Columbia, Marek Jablonski at the Banff Centre, and Adele Marcus at The Juilliard School. Winner of the Gold Medal at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition, Parker is an Officer of The Order of Canada and has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of British Columbia and the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Known to friends – new and old – as “Jackie,” Parker is married to violinist / violist Aloysia Friedmann, and their daughter Sophie graduated from Rice University in 2021.
FIRST JURY
The First Jury, comprised of four members, evaluated the 50 Quarterfinal video recorded 40-minute recitals and 10-minute interviews, and selected ten pianists to advance to the Semifinals in Calgary.
Louise Bessette Canada
A versatile musician and a piano wizard, Louise Bessette is in demand as a concert artist in Europe, America, and Asia. She has recorded a wide variety of repertoire, appearing the world over with distinguished orchestras and by invitation to first-rate festivals. She premieres works specially written for her and her reviews are laudatory.
In 2016, Bessette was honoured at London’s University of Western Ontario, where she received the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, to celebrate her accomplishments as an internationally recognized performer. In 2019, she received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (GGPAA), a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award for Classical Music. The GGPAA are Canada’s highest honour in the performing arts.
As a pianist with an eclectic repertoire and an eagerness to promote exchange with other art forms, Bessette recorded works by Alkan and Grieg for a film soundtrack in 2009. Hidden Diary by French film director Julie Lopes-Curval, starring Catherine Deneuve and Marie-Josée Croze, which was presented as a world premiere at the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal (2009), and then in movie theatres all over the world.
Bessette received her tenth Opus Prize from Conseil québécois de la musique (Quebec Music Council) in 2021. In 2015, she was listed as one of Canada’s top 25 pianists by CBC Music. Other awards include First Prizes at the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (Canada, 1981), Concours International de Musique Contemporaine (France, 1986), International Gaudeamus Competition (Netherlands, 1989); Femme de l’Année at Salon de la Femme de Montréal—Arts Category (1989); Prix Québec-Flandre (1991); Member of the Order of Canada (2001); Officier de l’Ordre national du Québec (2005), and Canadian Music Centre Ambassador (2009). Bessette has been a professor of piano at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal since 1996.
Loie Fallis Canada
Loie Fallis is one of the most seasoned artistic administrators in the classical music business. She is Vice-President of Artistic Planning with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) where she works with TSO Music Director Gustavo Gimeno on season planning. Now in her 42nd season with the TSO, Fallis engages with the world’s top guest conductors, soloists, and composers, and is equally committed to mentoring and creating opportunities for emerging artists. She has collaborated with many of the TSO’s past Music Directors, including Sir Andrew Davis, Gunther Herbig, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Peter Oundjian. After graduating from Queen’s University (Ontario) and studying at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, she worked at the Guelph Spring Festival and the Canadian Opera Company (Ontario) before joining the TSO in 1980.
She is a frequent participant at industry conferences in Canada, the US, and Europe and has served on the Boards of the Glenn Gould Foundation and Orchestras Canada. Fallis lives in Toronto with her husband, the prominent violist Steven Dann.
Roman Rabinovich Israel / Canada (Indicates nationality / country of residence)
The eloquent pianist Roman Rabinovich has been highly lauded by the New York Times, BBC Music Magazine, San Francisco Classical Voice, and others. He has performed throughout Europe and the United States in venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Rabinovich has participated in festivals including Marlboro (US); Lucerne, Davos (Switzerland); Prague Spring (Czech Republic); Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). An avid chamber musician, he is also a regular guest at ChamberFest Cleveland. Rabinovich has earned critical praise for his explorations of the piano music of Haydn. At the 2018 Bath Festival, he presented a ten-recital 42-sonata series, earning praise in The Sunday Times. Prior to that, in 2016 as Artist-in-Residence at the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland, he performed 25 Haydn sonatas in 5 days, and over two seasons, in 2016 and 2017, he performed all the Haydn sonatas in Tel Aviv. Roman Rabinovich made his Israel Philharmonic debut under the baton of Zubin Mehta at age 10. He was a top prizewinner at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008 (Israel), and in 2015 was selected by Sir András Schiff as one of three pianists for the inaugural “Building Bridges” series, created to highlight young pianists of unusual promise. Born in Tashkent, Rabinovich immigrated to Israel with his family in 1994, beginning his studies there with Irena Vishnevitsky and Arie Vardi; he went on to graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music (US) as a student of Seymour Lipkin, and earned his master’s degree at The Juilliard School where he studied with Robert McDonald.
Gilles Vonsattel Switzerland-United States / United States (Indicates nationality / country of residence)
Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel is an artist of uncommon breadth with a repertoire that ranges from J.S. Bach’s Art of the Fugue to the complete works of Xenakis. He is Laureate of the 2009 Honens Piano Competition, recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and winner of the Naumburg and Geneva Competitions. Most recently, he received the 2016 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, recognizing a pianist under 40 who has significant influence on the world of chamber music. Deeply committed to the chamber music repertoire, Vonsattel has been an artist member of New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2012, and is a former member of Chamber Music Society Two. In solo and chamber music performances, Vonsattel has appeared at the Tonhalle Zürich, Wigmore Hall in London and Munich’s Gasteig, and at international festivals including the Gilmore and Caramoor Festivals in the US and la Roque d’Anthéron in France. He has appeared with esteemed orchestras including the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, San Francisco Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, and l’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève. Vonsattel is committed to the performance of contemporary works, having given premieres on both sides of the Atlantic. He has worked closely with composers including George Benjamin, Heinz Holliger, and Jörg Widmann. His first recording on the Honens label was named one of the year’s best classical albums in Time Out New York in 2011. His most recent album, titled Shadowlines, released by Honens in 2015, was called a “mesmerizing disc” by The New York Times. Vonsattel received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics from Columbia University and a master’s degree in Music Performance from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. He is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
SECOND JURY
The Second Jury, comprised of seven members, evaluates ten Semifinalist pianists who each perform two recitals during the Semifinal rounds. They choose three pianists to advance to the Finals for a chamber performance, a concerto with orchestra, and a second interview with an arts journalist. The Second Jury ultimately chooses the Honens Prize Laureate.
Michel Béroff France
Michel Béroff was born in France in 1950. After graduating from the Paris Conservatoire in 1966, he won first prize at the first international Olivier Messiaen Piano Competition (France). He has since been considered one of the most outstanding interpreters of Messiaen’s music. Béroff then went on to play with the most prestigious orchestras around the world under the direction of such conductors as Abbado, Barenboim, Bernstein, Boulez, Dohnanyi, Dorati, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Gielen, Inbal, Jochum, Leinsdorf, Masur, Ozawa, Previn, Rostropovitch, Sinopoli, Solti, Tennsted, Tilson-Thomas, and Zinman. As a chamber music partner, he has been very active playing with Martha Argerich, Barbara Hendricks, Jean-Philippe Collard, Augustin Dumay, Pierre Amoyal, and Lynn Harrell. Professor Emeritus at the Paris Conservatoire, where he taught for 25 years, Béroff gives regular masterclasses in many countries, including Japan, China, US, Italy, and France. An exclusive EMI artist for over 25 years, he has made more than 50 recordings; among them the complete works for piano and orchestra of Liszt, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur. For Deutsche Gramophone, he recorded Ravel’s left-hand concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Claudio Abbado. His latest recordings include the complete piano music of Debussy. Béroff is a five-time winner of France’s “Grand Prix du Disque.”
As a jury member, he has served many important piano competitions including Tchaikovsky (Russia), Van Cliburn (US), Leeds (UK), Clara Haskil (Switzerland), Rubinstein (Israel), and Marguerite Long (France), among others. Many of his students have won top prizes at international competitions, the latest one is Seong-Jin Cho, who won the 2015 Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
Earl Blackburn United States
Earl Blackburn has been active in the arts for over 40 years, first as a performer and now as an artist manager. From 1985 to 1995, Blackburn owned his own management agency, Blackburn and Associates, which focused primarily on classical music soloists. In 1995, Blackburn accepted the position of Vice President and Manager with IMG Artists, New York, where he was instrumental in starting the career of pianist Lang Lang. He moved to ICM / Opus 3 Artists in 2002 where he worked on the careers of artists such as Lynn Harrell, Yuja Wang, Jon Kimura Parker, Orli Shaham, Ravi Shankar, and Wu Man, among many others. In 2017, he opened his own agency, Kanzen Arts, dedicated to a concise roster of top artists.
Blackburn is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music (US) where he studied percussion performance with Gerald Carlyss and Michael Bookspan of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1972 through 1976. Following graduation, Blackburn spent the next 10 years performing with orchestras and festivals including the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra (US), where he was principal percussionist, and the Bethlehem Bach Festival (US), the oldest festival of Bach’s music in North America. Blackburn is known for his projectoriented approach to management and is keenly interested in the further development of artistic exchange with Asia.
He currently lives in Forest Hills, New York with his wife of 25 years, Claire Bright, and their 30-year-old macaw, Josy.
Katherine Chi Canada / United States (Indicates nationality / country of residence)
Pianist Katherine Chi, firmly established as one of Canada’s fastest rising stars, has performed throughout Europe and North America to great acclaim. “Ms. Chi displayed a keen musical intelligence and a powerful arsenal of technique,” notes the New York Times. Recent and upcoming performances include appearances with the Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Thunder Bay Symphonies; the Calgary and Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestras; and concerts at the Library of Congress, Freer Gallery, and Gilmore International Keyboard Festival (US). She has appeared with the Alabama, Colorado, Columbus, Edmonton, Grand Rapids, Kitchener-Waterloo, Nova Scotia, Philadelphia, Quebec, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria Symphony Orchestras; CBC Radio Orchestra; Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra; I Musici de Montreal; Manitoba Chamber Orchestra; the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen; and Toronto Sinfonia. Festival appearances including Aldeburgh (UK); Banff, Canada’s Festival of the Sound, Launadière, Domaine Forget (Canada); Marlboro (US); Osnabrück Kammermusik, Klavier-Festival Ruhr (Germany); Santander Summer Music (Spain); and Festival Vancouver.
Just a year after her debut recital at the age of nine, Chi was accepted to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music (US). She continued studies at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where she received her master’s degree, graduate, artist diploma, and doctorate. She later studied for two years at the International Piano Foundation in Como, Italy, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. In 2000, Chi was named Prize Laureate of the Honens International Piano Competition and was the first Canadian, and the first woman, to win this award. She was also a prizewinner at the 1998 Busoni International Piano Competition.
Imogen Cooper United Kingdom
Regarded as one of the finest interpreters of Classical and Romantic repertoire, Imogen Cooper is internationally renowned for her virtuosity and lyricism. Recent and future concerto performances include the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, Cleveland Orchestra with Dame Jane Glover, the Hallé Orchestra with Sir Mark Elder, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Ryan Wigglesworth and the Aurora Orchestra with Nicholas Collon. Her solo recitals this season include performances in London, Paris, Vienna, Toronto and Philadelphia. Imogen has a widespread international career and has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival and NHK Symphony Orchestras. She has also undertaken tours with the Camerata Salzburg, Australian and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras. She has played at the BBC Proms and with all the major British orchestras, including particularly close relationships with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Britten Sinfonia. Her recital appearances have included Tokyo, New York, Prague, and Klavierfest Ruhr in Germany.
Imogen is a committed chamber musician and performs regularly with Henning Kraggerud and Adrian Brendel. As a Lieder recitalist, she performs with Ian Bostridge, Sarah Connolly, Henk Neven, and Mark Padmore; following a long collaboration with Wolfgang Holzmair in both the concert hall and recording studio. Her recent solo recordings for Chandos Records feature music by French and Spanish composers, Beethoven, Liszt, and Wagner. Her discography also includes Mozart concertos with the Royal Northern Sinfonia (Avie), a solo recital at Wigmore Hall (Wigmore Live) and a cycle of solo works by Schubert recorded live and released under the label Schubert Live.
She received a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2021. The honour adds to Imogen’s many awards and accolades, including the Queen’s Medal for Music (2019), Royal Philharmonic Society Performer’s Award (2008), and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2007).
The Imogen Cooper Music Trust was founded in 2015 to support young pianists at the cusp of their careers and give them time in an environment of peace and beauty.
Stewart Goodyear Canada
Proclaimed “a phenomenon” by the Los Angeles Times and “one of the best pianists of his generation” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewart Goodyear is an accomplished concert pianist, improviser, and composer. Mr. Goodyear has performed with, and has been commissioned by, many of the major orchestras and chamber music organizations around the world. Last year, Orchid Classics released Mr. Goodyear’s recording of his suite for piano and orchestra, Callaloo and his piano sonata. His recent commissions include a Piano Quintet for the Penderecki String Quartet, and a piano work for the Honens International Piano Competition.
Mr. Goodyear’s discography includes the complete sonatas and piano concertos of Beethoven, as well as concertos by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Rachmaninov, an album of Ravel piano works, and an album, entitled For Glenn Gould, which combines repertoire from Mr. Gould’s US and Montreal debuts. His Rachmaninov recording received a Juno nomination for Best Classical Album for Soloist and Large Ensemble Accompaniment. Mr. Goodyear’s recording of his own transcription of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker (Complete Ballet), was chosen by the New York Times as one of the best classical music recordings of 2015. His discography is released on the Marquis Classics, Orchid Classics, and Steinway and Sons labels. His latest album, entitled Phoenix, on the Bright Shiny Things label, includes Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
Highlights for the 2022-2023 season includes the opening night of the Vancouver Symphony season performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with music director Otto Tausk. He then gives the world premiere of his own piano concerto with the Albany Symphony and music director David Alan Miller for the opening of their season. Further orchestral appearances include the Baltimore, Nashville, Colorado and Toledo Symphony orchestras, the Noord Nederlands Orkest, and dates with the Chineke! Orchestra at Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto and the Celebrity Series of Boston. Recital appearances include the Wallis in Los Angeles, Wake Forest University, and Music in the Morning in Vancouver. He continues as Artist-in-Residence at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory where he premieres an RCM commission of his new quintet for piano and jazz musicians.
Ick-Choo Moon Korea
Praised by the Los Angeles Times for his “power, virtuosity and mastery of tone color that is vivid and evocative,” Korean-born pianist Ick-Choo Moon is the recipient of numerous awards including those from the Montreal and Geneva International Competitions, and the Gina Bachauer International Competition at the Juilliard School. In 1989, he gave a critically acclaimed New York recital debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall as winner of the William Petschek Award.
Since making his US debut with the Minnesota Orchestra under Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Moon has performed as soloist with the Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony, National Arts Center Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Leningrad Symphony, KBS Orchestra, Korean Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, and others. He has also given recitals in the United States, Canada, England, Russia, France, Japan, and Korea. His performances have been broadcast frequently on radio and TV in the US, Canada, and Korea.
Moon grew up in the U.S. and Canada as well as in his native Korea and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and with Gyorgy Sebok at Indiana University where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees with highest distinction. He later received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School where he worked with Sascha Gorodnitzki.
Currently Professor Emeritus of Piano at Seoul National University in Korea, Moon has also taught at UCLA where he headed the piano department and at University of Southern California. During the summers, he has taught and performed at Brevard Music Center, the Chautauqua Institute, Festival MusicAlp in France, and in numerous festivals in Korea. He has also been a jury member in several international competitions such as the Cleveland, Franz Liszt (Budapest), Seoul (Korea), Hamamatsu (Japan), and others.
Orli Shaham Isreal / United States (Indicates nationality / country of residence)
A consummate musician recognized for her grace, subtlety, and brilliance, pianist Orli Shaham is hailed by critics on four continents. The New York Times called her a “brilliant pianist,” The Chicago Tribune referred to her as “a first-rate Mozartean,” and London’s Guardian said Ms. Shaham’s playing at the Proms was “perfection.”
Orli Shaham has performed with many of the major orchestras around the world, and has appeared in recital internationally, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. She is Artistic Director of Pacific Symphony’s chamber series Café Ludwig in California since 2007, and Artistic Director of the interactive children’s concert series, Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard, which she founded in 2010.
Highlights of Ms. Shaham’s 2022 / 23 concert season include performances with the Finnish Radio Symphony; Pacific Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic (USA); and Vancouver Symphony (Canada) where she was named VSO’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence. In 2022, she released Volumes 2 and 3 of the complete Mozart piano sonatas. Her Mozart recording project also includes Volume 1 of the piano sonatas, and piano concertos with St. Louis Symphony all of which are part of her discography of a dozen titles on Canary Classics, Deutsche Gramophone, Sony, and other labels.
Orli Shaham is a Co-Host and Creative for the NPR program From the Top. She is on the piano and chamber music faculty at The Juilliard School and is chair of the Board of Trustees at Kaufman Music Center in New York. Orli Shaham has been a Steinway Artist since 2003.
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