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Faculty Concert Series | Musical Imageries

Musical Imageries This concert features the combination of violin and piano in repertoire from around the world. Piano faculty member Mina Kusomoto and guest Everhard Paredes will perform transcriptions of such composers as Chopin, Rameau and Liszt. Resident Teaching Artists Naho Parrini and Marc Peloquin will present William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano, a work that was inspired by three sculptures including Richmond Barthe’s African Dancer and Sargent Johnson’s Mother and Child.
Faculty Concert Series | Musical Imageries
Virtual Concert
October 30, 2020 7:00 pm

Musical Imageries

This concert features the combination of violin and piano in repertoire from around the world.  Piano faculty member Mina Kusomoto and guest Everhard Paredes will perform transcriptions of such composers as Chopin, Rameau and Liszt.  Resident Teaching Artists Naho Parrini and Marc Peloquin will present William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano, a work that was inspired by three sculptures including Richmond Barthe’s African Dancer and Sargent Johnson’s Mother and Child.

 

Concert 1: The Art of Transcription

 

BSM piano faculty, Mina Kusumoto will present the master works of transcription – arrangement pieces of a music for different instrument. Enjoy to explore how piano and violin exchange their sound and create new sound of the original piece. 

 

Performers:

Mina Kusumoto, piano

Everhard Paredes, Violin

 

Program:
Sarabande: Rameau-Godowsky 

Prelude and Allegro: Fritz Kreisler 

Nocturne in C- Sharp Minor: Chopin-Milstein 

Grandes Etude de Paganini No.3, “La Campanella”: Franz Liszt 

Night Club 1960: Piazzolla-Varelas 

 

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Concert 2: Ned Rorem’s Violin Sonata

 

Naho Parrini and Marc Peloquin will present Ned Rorem’s rarely performed Violin Sonata composed in 1949.

 

Performers

Marc Peloquin, piano 

Naho Parrini, violin

 

Program:

Composer: William Grant Still (1895-1978)
Piece: Suite for Violin and Piano (1943)
I. African Dancer
II. Mother and Child
III. Gamin

 

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