Thanks to Earle and Judy Kittleman for reminding us of the remarkable Salida Aspen concerts coming up.
Make sure to read to the bottom if you are a guitar fan. -bd
Photo: New York Philharmonic
Joyce Yang, the young South Korean pianist, who has gained international stardom in classical music, will be in Salida Tuesday, July 27 to perform the 3rd in this summer’s Salida Aspen Concerts series at 7:30 p.m. in Held Auditorium at Salida High School, 10th and D Streets.
She has been called by one critic “the most gifted young pianist of her generation.” Yang has soloed with the New York Philharmonic more than ten times. She has performed with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, and Houston Symphony.
This will be her fourth appearance in Salida where she has become a favorite. She will be interviewed in a pre-concert talk on stage at 6:45-7:05 p.m.
Ms Yang will be joined in the second half of the concert by violinist David Halen, concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony and Andrew Shulman, who has played with many world-famous orchestras. They will play “Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8″ by Johannes Brahms.
In the first part of the program Yang will solo in some of the most popular works of Sergei Rachmaninoff: “Prelude in G major, Op. 32, No. 5″; “Etude Tableux in E-flat major, Op. 33, No. 6″; “Elegie in E-flat minor, Op. 3″ and “Prelude in B-flat major, Op. 23, No. 2.”
Yang will also play a difficult work “Estampes” by Claude Debussy and a sonata by Carl Vine, a contemporary Australian composer.
This special concert is underwritten by Collegiate Peaks Bank of Salida.
Tickets at $15.00 (students $3.00) are available at the door or online.
Salida Aspen Concerts continue as follows:
Saturday, July 31
They have been coming to Aspen and then over Independence Pass to play for Salida audiences every year since 1978. The members of the American Brass Quintet have been called “the high priests of brass.” This quintet, which specializes in Renaissance and modern music, will be joined by an up-and-coming ensemble, the Oracle Brass Quintet. This is the one concert every year that is held just up the Arkansas Valley in Buena Vista at Valley Fellowship Church, 608 S. San Juan. The program will be announced later.
Saturday, Aug. 7
Israeli-born pianist Inon Barnatan (BARNatan) came to Salida for the first time last year. Only 31 years old, Barnatan is considered an expert on Schubert. He will play Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major (The Hunt); Britten/Stevenson’s Peter Grimes Fantasy (from the opera Peter Grimes); Maurice Ravel’s La Valse; and Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959.
Saturday, Aug. 14
For the final concert in the series, the audience will get a treat they haven’t had since 1981: a solo guitarist. Benjamin Pila is the only classical guitarist chosen to be a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He has played at New York’s Lincoln Center and Washington DC’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He will play Joaquin Rodrigo’s Tres Piezas Espanolas for Guitar and other pieces for solo guitar. Then Pila will be joined by the Tesla Quartet of Boulder, Colo. Together they will play Luigi Boccherini’s Quintet for Guitar and Strings and Antonin Dvorak’s American Quartet. Weblink: www.BenPila.com .
Tesla Quartet—Ross Snyder, Xian Meng, Megan Mason, and Kimberly Patterson—formed in 2008 at Juilliard and currently holds a fellowship as the Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Last year, the quartet won Second Prize at the Arriaga Chamber Music Competition. The ensemble currently serves as string mentors to the Boulder Youth Symphony, and has public school residencies in Aspen and Vail.
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