featuring Roger Admiral
Roger Admiral performs music from the 17th to the 21st century, and teaches piano at University of Alberta, Augustana Campus. Performances include György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Ricketts’ Meloscuro with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the piano works of Iannis Xenakis for Vancouver New Music, and collaborations on recitals for Curto-Circuito de Música Contemporânea Brazil, Festival of Contemporary Polish Music (Wrocław), New Music Concerts (Toronto), Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series, Carnegie / Weill Hall, Time:Spans (New York City) and Südwestrundfunk Sinfonieorchester for Donaueschinger Musiktage.
This concert is the first of 7 concerts and masterclasses across Alberta, meant to increase visibility for the Augustana Bachelor’s of Music program. It coincides with the 10th anniversary for the 9-foot Steinway in the Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre’s Cargill Theatre.
In the traditional recital program style, a variety of historical eras will be represented. Bach’s suite is a group of stylized European dances. Haydn’s sonata shows how the keyboard sonata expanded in range because of the growth in public concert halls, coinciding with his move from Austria to London, England. Chopin’s great ingenuity at the keyboard is evidenced in the nocturne, a poetic form that he is identified with. Rachmaninoff mixes private images with pianistic figures that hearken to religious chant.
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach – English Suite No. 6
Franz Joseph Haydn – Sonata, Hob. XVI: 52
Frederic Chopin – Nocturne, Op. 62, No. 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Études-Tableaux, Op. 33
