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Welcome to the Academy’s annual Summer Piano Festival, celebrating the creative range of repertoire played by our pianists and curated by Professor Joanna MacGregor, the Academy’s Head of Piano.

From Alfred Brendel and our Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists cycle to chamber music, multi-arts collaborations and new music for quartertone upright pianos, dip in and out of as many free events as you like.

The Festival ends with a BBC Radio 3 broadcast concert.

www.ram.ac.uk/pianofest

Piano Festival Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th June

All Piano Festival events are free, no tickets required

27 TUESDAY 10.15–11.00AM FREE

Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists II

VENUE Museum Piano Gallery

Op.49 no.1 in G minor Emil DuncumbOp.49 no.2 in G Louise CournarieOp.79 in G Hyun-Jeong Hwang

Three of Beethoven’s briefest sonatas, played on the 1805 Broadwood grand fortepiano.

27 TUESDAY 11.15AM–3.00PM FREE

Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists III

VENUE David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Op.27 no.1 in E flat, ‘Quasi una fantasia’ Ka Man ChingOp.27 no.2 in C sharp minor, ‘Moonlight’ Ariel LanyiOp.28 in D, ‘Pastoral’ Frederic BagerOp.31 no.1 in G Antoine PréatOp.31 no.3 in E flat, ‘The Hunt’ Vasileios AlevizosOp.106 in B flat, ‘Hammerklavier‘ Anna Szalucka

JUNE27 TUESDAY 1.00–6.00PM FREE

Piano, Multimedia, Film

VENUE York Gate 250, 251 and 252 and Museum Piano Gallery

1.00pm: Let’s Dance

Shengjun Lin, Ziteng Fan and Kei Takumi collaborate with dancers from London Contemporary Dance School and visual artists from Central Saint Martins in music by Grieg, Bartók and Ligeti.

3.00pm: Let’s Tango

Belle Chen presents a radio play celebrating vividly colourful American cultures with flautist Hannah Porter Occeña. Seung Bin Lee teams up with a dancer and interactive visuals in works by Piazzolla and Barber.

5.00pm: Film and Music

Vasileios Alevizos performs original compositions with animators from Central Saint Martins.

27 TUESDAY 4.00–5.00PM FREE

Jacob Barnes Prize Winners’ Concert: Quartertonal Piano Project

VENUE David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Joseph Havlat and Thomas Ang pianoTwo upright pianos are tuned a quartertone apart in the middle of the hall in this performance of brand new music, plus works by Ives, John Corigliano and Georg Friedrich Haas.

27 TUESDAY 5.30–6.30PM FREE

Mozart from the Keyboard

VENUE Duke’s Hall

Costanza Principe and Cristian Sandrin direct Mozart’s K.415 and K.595 concertos from the keyboard, with the Piano Festival Chamber Ensemble.

26 MONDAY 11.00AM–4.30PM FREE

Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists I

VENUE David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Op.2 no.1 in F minor XinRu ChenOp.2 no.2 in A Yuemeng LiOp.2 no.3 in C Ziteng Fan Op.7 in E flat Yehuda Inbar Op.10 no.1 in C minor John Bae Op.10 no.2 in F Bo LyuOp.10 no.3 in D Seung Bin LeeOp.13 in C minor, ‘Pathétique’ Isata Kanneh-MasonOp.14 no.1 in E Weng Soon Tee Op.14 no.2 in G Jenny RutherfordOp.22 in B flat Alexandra Balog Op.26 in A flat Joseph Havlat

26 MONDAY 3.00–5.30PM FREE

Piano, Multimedia, Film

VENUE York Gate 250, 251 and 252 and Museum Piano Gallery

Pianists from Neil Brand’s Improvising to Film course — Vasileios Alevizos, Greta Åstedt, He Chang, Hok Chun Chung, David Gray, Joseph Havlat, Sabina Im and Niklas Oldemeier — perform live to film excerpts.

26 MONDAY 6.00–7.00PM FREE

Alfred Brendel on Beethoven’s Sonatas

VENUE Duke’s Hall

The great pianist talks to Professor Joanna MacGregor about his earliest experiences recording and performing the complete Beethoven sonatas.

JUNE

28 WEDNESDAY 11.00AM–12.00 NOON

Hummel’s Mozart Transcriptions

VENUE Museum Piano Gallery

Pocket Sinfonia: Rosie Bowker flute Eleanor Corr violin George Ross cello Emil Duncumb fortepiano

Mozart transc. Hummel Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K.492; Concerto in C minor, K.491; Symphony no.35 in D, K.385, ‘Haffner’

28 WEDNESDAY 12.10–5.30PM FREE

Beethoven: 32 Sonatas, 32 Pianists IV

VENUE David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Op.31 no.2 in D minor, ‘Tempest’ Cristian SandrinOp.53 in C, ‘Waldstein’ Bocheng WangOp.54 in F Greta ÅstedtOp.57 in F minor, ‘Appassionata’ Alim BeisembayevOp.81a in E flat, ‘Les adieux’ Yayi TianOp.78 in F sharp, ‘À Thérèse’ Costanza PrincipeOp.90 in E minor Charlie Woof-ByrneOp.101 in A Anna GeniusheneOp.109 in E Kenny FuOp.110 in A flat Francesca OrlandoOp.111 in C minor Manos Kitsikopoulos

JUNE28 WEDNESDAY 1.00–5.00PM FREE

Piano Rolls

VENUE Henry Wood Room

A rolling programme of chamber music:

1.00pm: Piano and Trumpet: New Views

Lucy Humphris trumpet Harry Rylance piano

Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Balletto Takemitsu Paths Debussy La cathédrale engloutie Bruch Canzone, op.55 Janác ek In the Mists (excerpts)Bartók Suite, op.14 Harry James Concerto for Trumpet

2.00pm: Piano and Flute: New Views

Jagoda Krzemin ska flute Julia Klimek piano

Szeligowski SonatineWeinberg Twelve Miniatures, op.29Kilor Three PreludesKrzesimir Debski Moment Musical (premiere)

3.00pm: Piano and Viola: Late Brahms

Zhenwei Shi viola Ariel Lanyi piano

Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor, op.120 no.1Brahms Viola Sonata in E flat, op.120 no.2

4.00pm: Piano and Wind Quintets

Eleanor Sullivan oboe, James Gilbert clarinet, Olivia Palmer-Baker bassoon, Joel Roberts horn and Mihály Berecz piano

Beethoven Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, op.16 Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K.452

28 WEDNESDAY 1.00–6.00PM FREE

Piano, Multimedia, Film

VENUE York Gate 250, 251 and 252 and Museum Piano Gallery

1.00pm: Modern Love

Ma Regina Montesclaros and Can Li collaborate with visual artists from Central Saint Martins; music by Filipino composers Tupas and Abelardo, as well as Ravel and Fauré.

3.00pm: Film and Music

Pianists from Neil Brand’s course perform live to film excerpts.

5.00pm: Night Music

Greta Åstedt and Fee Shin-Yi Blumenthaler perform music by Bridge, Bartók and Salvatore Sciarrino, with visual artists from Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.

28 WEDNESDAY 6.00–7.45PM FREE

Final Festival Event

VENUE Duke’s Hall

Bukolika Trio: Roma Tic violin Joanna Gutowska cello Anna Szalucka piano

Roxanna Panufnik Piano Trio, op.1 Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque in G minor Martin Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes

Joseph Havlat and Thomas Ang piano

John Adams Hallellujah JunctionGrainger Fantasy on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess

This concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

www.ram.ac.uk/pianofestAll Piano Festival events are free, no tickets required

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