Masterpieces of musical evocation and imagination
Spanish piano virtuoso Javier Perianes embarks on a hero's journey, from Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy to Albeniz's Iberia.
Concerts in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth and Sydney.
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A musical odyssey across daring harmonies, restless beauty and exotic landscapes, with Spain's leading pianist, Javier Perianes.
For this tour, Perianes brings the first part of an ambitious five-year solo recording and performance project with Schubert at its centre. Schubert's monumental Wanderer Fantasy is the spiritual heart of these performances, performed with the profound and elusive late Klavierstücke.
In dialogue with Schubert, two masterpieces of musical evocation and imagination. Debussy's Préludes conjure vivid scenes and fleeting impressions, while Albéniz invokes colourful memories of Spain in his legendary final work, Iberia. And at the crossroads of the journey, Australian composer Elizabeth Younan, inspired by the music of 19th-century Vienna, writes for a Spanish pianist, weaving together here and there and then and now.
"His demeanour and technique … radiate calm, yet the precision and speed of his fingerwork can be quite shattering. Seldom, if ever, have I encountered such a combination of evident modesty and utter brilliance."
ARTIST DISCOVERY PLAYLIST
Listen to Javier Perianes before you hear him live via the YouTube playlist below.
JAVIER PERIANES piano |
SCHUBERT Drei Klavierstücke D. 946 |
Elizabeth Younan is an Australian composer whose violin solo … your heart dreams of spring appears on Jennifer Koh's Grammy award-winning album Alone Together. Her music has been presented by numerous significant ensembles including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and she is the composer for the acclaimed podcast Lost Women of Science. Elizabeth holds degrees from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she studied with Carl Vine AO. She later graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music as the first Australian composer admitted to the institution. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at The Juilliard School on full-tuition scholarship. Her honours include a General Sir John Monash Scholarship, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award, and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |
