Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan appeared for the first time last year in the Salida Aspen Concert series and is returning this year to solo works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Maurice Ravel.
The concert is at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, August 7 at John Held Auditorium, Salida High School, 10th and D Streets. Early ticket holders are invited to a pre-concert discussion at 6:45 p.m. with Barnatan and program director Deborah Barnekow.
At just thirty years old, Barnatan has gained an international reputation through his many performances in recital and with orchestras. In April 2009 he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.
It has been said of Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas that they represent the cornerstone of classic piano-sonata literature. Beethoven took up the sonata form from the old masters and gave it new expression and power. Barnatan will play Beethoven’s “Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major, Op. 31, no. 3,” nicknamed “The Hunt.”
Franz Schubert was at the musical forefront of the Romantic Movement in 19th century Europe. Among the composer of that era he is singled out for his gift of melody. Barnatan, who is considered an expert on Schubert, will play Schubert’s “Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959.” It was written when the composer was 31 and in the last year of his life.
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) was known as a master orchestrator who usually composed first for piano. Barnatan will play the piano version of Ravel’s “La Valse,” a piece first written for orchestra and then transcribed for piano, the reverse of Ravel’s normal practice.
Barnatan will also play “Peter Grimes Fantasy (1971),” by contemporary English composer Ronald Stevenson. The composition takes thematic ideas from Benjamin Britten’s famous opera “Peter Grimes.”
Tickets are $15.00 (students $3.00) at the door or online at SalidaAspenConcerts.org.
This is the 34th season of Salida Aspen Concerts produced in partnership with the Aspen Music Festival and School. The sixth and last concert in the series is Saturday, August 14, and is described as follows:
Saturday, August 14
The final concert in the series features solo guitarist, Benjamin Pila, the only classical guitarist chosen to be a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He will play Joaquin Rodrigo’s Tres Piezas Espanolas for Guitar and other pieces for solo guitar. Pila will be joined by the Tesla Quartet of Boulder, Colo. Together they will play Luigi Boccherini’s Quintet for Guitar and Strings.
Tesla Quartet formed in 2008 at Juilliard and currently holds a fellowship as the Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado-Boulder. 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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