Aleck Karis performs music of Debussy and Stravinsky
Please join us on Friday, October 12th at 1:15 pm in Winifred Smith Hall for a recital by renowned pianist Aleck Karis. The concert is free and open to the public.
Aleck Karis has performed recitals, chamber music, and concertos across the Americas, Europe, Japan, and China. As the pianist of the new music ensemble Speculum Musicae he has participated in over a hundred premieres and performed at major American and European festivals. His appearances with orchestra have ranged from concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin to those of Stravinsky, Messiaen and Carter. His six solo discs on Bridge Records include Chopin/Carter/Schumann, Mozart, Stravinsky, Cage, Feldman/Webern/Wolpe, and Poulenc. His two discs on Roméo Records are Music of Philip Glass and Late Chopin. He has studied with William Daghlian, Artur Balsam and Beveridge Webster, and is a distinguished professor of music at the University of California, San Diego.
Program
Children’s Corner (1908), Claude Debussy
Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
Jimbo’s Lullaby
Serenade of the Doll
The Snow is Dancing
The Little Shepherd
Golliwogg’s cake walk
Etudes, Book I (1915), Claude Debussy
I. pour les cinq doigts
II. pour les Tierces
III. pour les Quartes
IV. pour les Sixtes
V. pour les Octaves
VI. pour les huit doigts
----intermission----
Sonata (1924) , Igor Stravinsky
Quarter=112
Adagietto
Quarter=112
Etudes, Book II (1915), Claude Debussy
VII. pour les degrés chromatiques
VIII. pour les agréments
IX. pour les notes repétées
X. pour les Sonorités opposées
XI. pour les Arpèges composés
XII. pour les accords