World Masters at Play

Fazioli International Piano Recital Series

By arrangement with Sly Pianos and in association with APO

Auckland Museum's inaugural Fazioli Piano Recital Series will give Aucklanders the chance to experience the excitement that surrounds this elite instrument.

This series is a direct result of the purchase of a legendary Fazioli for Auckland Museum's new auditorium. Entirely handmade, the soundboard timbers are taken from the same famous Val di Fiemme forest where Stradavarius chose the wood for his violins. Fazioli's are prized for their distinctive quality, beauty and character of sound and attract patronage from some of the world's finest pianists.

The Inaugural Recital Series features four of the world's most distinguished pianists including: Jin Ju (Saturday 28 April), Nelson Goerner (Saturday 26 May), Markus Groh (Saturday 4 August) and Nikolai Demidenko (Thursday 30 August).

Ticket prices:
$45 per recital, ($40 for members)
$160 season ticket (for 4 recitals)

On sale Dates:
Season Tickets: From March 30
Individual Recitals: From April 11
Priority Bookings: For all museum members, Friends of Slys and APO Subscribers for season tickets from today - please quote your membership or reference number when booking

Bookings:
Through the Museum's Booking Line: Phone 306 7048

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Jin Ju
Saturday 28 April, 8pm
"Jin Ju is one of the most exciting young pianists on the international concert scene..."
Twa Jakcson of the UK Metro (2005)
Jin Ju has been wowing audiences since her third prize-winning performance in the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. She is the winner of many competitions including the China National Piano Competition, (1996) the first Theodor Leschetitzky International Piano competition (2000) Beethoven Piano Society Competition and the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition (2003). She has made appearances at numerous important concert venues such as The Bridgewater Hall and The Moscow Conservatoire. As a soloist she has performed with some of the world's greatest orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the Macao Symphony Orchestra and many others. Her performances have been broadcast for Television and Radio throughout China and also for the BBC and NPR of the USA. Jin Ju obtained for Masters Degree from the Central Conservatoire in Beijing. In 1999 she received an honorary diploma of Academia Chigiana in Sienna, Italy. She then studied post-graduate performance with Martin Roscoe at the RNCM in Manchester.

Carl Czerny La Recordanza, Variations op 33
Beethoven Sonata op 57 Appassionata
Interval
Chopin 4 Ballades

Nelson Goerner
Saturday 26 May, 8pm
Goerner maintains an intellectual approach and a tough, dry, cool tone. Superb."
Rheinische Post, Germany 10 October 2005
Born in 1969 in San Pedro, Argentina, Nelson Goerner has already established himself as one of the foremost pianists of his generation. After studying in Argentina with Jorge Garrubba, Juan Carlos Arabian and Carmen Scalcione, he was awarded First Prize at the Franz Liszt Competition in Buenos Aires in 1986. This led to a scholarship (jointly funded by the Arts and Science Committee of the CIMAE Foundation and the Mozarteum Argentino) to work with Maria Tipo at the Geneva Conservatory, and in 1990 he won the First Prize at the Geneva Competition. Goerner has given recitals in venues throughout Europe and has also performed with Orchestras in Berlin, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Los Angeles and Montreal He has also performed chamber music with the Takács Quartet in England, Spain and Italy.

Janacek Sonata 1.X.1905
Schumann Humoresque Op 20
INTERVAL
Chopin 12 Etudes Op 10

Markus Groh
Saturday 4 August, 8pm
A spellbinding recitalist, revealing shapes, textures and colours that one seldom hears in live performance. Critics agree: "Groh is a great pianist." [Toronto Star]; "…a superb recital…" [New York Times]; "A new star in the pianistic firmament…" [Neue Zürcher Zeitung].
Consistently cited for his astonishing power and "sound imagination," Markus Groh has confirmed his place among the finest pianists in the world today. Born in 1970 in Germany, Groh gained immediate world attention after winning the prestigious Queen Elizabeth International Competition in 1995 - the first German to do so. Other awards include First Prize at the 1990 Artur Schnabel Competition in Berlin. Groh has appeared with many Symphony Orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra , Berlin Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, London Symphony, MDR Orchestra at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, SWR Orchestra (Stuttgart), St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Beijing Symphony, Mr Groh is a frequent guest at international festivals and is the founder and artistic director of the Bebersee Festival near Berlin.

"complete late Brahms"
Brahms - 7 Fantasien op. 116
Brahms - Intermezzi op. 117
***interval***
Brahms - 6 Klavierstücke op. 118
Brahms - 4 Klavierstücke op. 119

Nikolai Demidenko
Thursday 30 August 8pm
"His extraordinary intimacy with the piano, which withholds no secrets of keyboard brilliance or expressive colouring from him, maximises the potential in the scoring, however modest or extravagant, of whatever he chooses to play." Gerald Larner, The Times

Nikolai Demidenko studied at the Moscow Conservatoire with Dmitri Bashkirov. A medalist in the 1976 Montreal and 1978 Tchaikovsky international competitions, he made his British début in 1985 with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. A visiting professor at the University of Surrey, he has been resident in the UK since 1990 and was proud to be granted British citizenship in 1995. Nikolai Demidenko's frequent Wigmore Hall recitals have included his six-part series entitled Piano Masterworks which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. He also appears regularly in both the London International Piano series at the Royal Festival Hall and the Great Performers series at the Barbican Concert Hall. Demidenko has played with some of the finest orhestras in the world and given recitals in over 15 countries - he made his New York début at the Frick Collection in 2001 and plays annually in the Herkulessaal in Munich.

BACH-LISZT Fantasy and Fugue in G minor BWV 542
J.S. BACH Italian Concerto in F BWV 971
LISZT Variations on a theme from J.S. Bach's
Cantata 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' S180
Interval
SCHUMANN Sonata in F sharp minor Op 11

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