Stefano Greco, one of the world's renowned specialists in Bach's music, begins the first of a three-event visit hosted by our Composition Department. Tonight's event is in two parts. Stefano will first perform original compositions from a select group of our Composition students. The second part of our program features Stefano performing Etudes for Piano, written by our co-chair of the Composition area, Richard Danielpour.
Program
Part One
Performance of works by students composers:
Madeline Barrett: Prelude and Fugue
Sydney Wang: Prelude and Fugue
Pedro Osuna: Prelude and Fugue
Austin Ali: Prelude and Fugue
Andreas Apostolou: Prelude and Fugue
Part Two
Performance of Richard Danielpour's Etudes for Piano:
Etude No. 1 (Five Finger Arpeggios)
Etude No. 4 (Rapid Scales)
Etude No. 5 (Octaves)
Etude No. 6 (Sixths and Trills)
Etude No. 7 (Mirror Etude: Repeated Notes Between Both Hands)
Etude No. 8 (“Stride” Etude)
Etude No. 9 (Left Hand Etude: “Singing Left Hand”)
Etude No. 10 (Arpeggio Etude)
Etude No. 11 (Repeated Notes with Ornamentation)
Etude No. 12 (Phrased Pairs)
This program is made possible by the Joyce S. and Robert U. Nelson Fund. Robert Uriel Nelson was a revered musicologist and music professor at UCLA, who, together with his wife, established a generous endowment for the university to make programs like this possible.