Stretto Piano Festival: Stretto Piano Multi-Artist Celebration
Free
- Donna Weng Friedman, piano
- Julia Furlan, piano
- Elizabeth Wolff, piano
- Anna Arazi, piano
- Julia Siciliano, piano
- Diana Solomon-Glover, narrator
- Judith Kim, violin
- Lana Auerbach, violin
- Jesscia Thompson, violin
- Sydney Link, viola
- Amelia Smerz, cello
- Luba Slepoi, piano
- Darien French-Owen, flute
- Alan Schaffer, clarinet
Florence Price — Piano Quintet in A minor ("I. Allegro non troppo")
Sofia Gubaidulina — Chaconne
Stefania de Kenessey — Microvids: for Solo Piano and Poetry Recitation
Frédéric Chopin — Waltz No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2
Valerie Coleman — Portraits of Langston
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 (arr. for viola & piano)
Celebrating Stretto pianists Donna Weng Friedman and Julia Furlan (New York), Elizabeth Wolff (NYC/Twin Cities), Anna Arazi (Boston), Julia Siciliano (Chicago), plus their collaborators including The River Road String Quartet, narrator Diana Solomon-Glover, violist Jessica Thompson, pianist Luba Slepoi, flautist Darien French-Owen, and clarinetist Alan Schaffer, the Fourth International Stretto Piano Festival is delighted to present music by great classical and contemporary composers including Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Gubaidalina, Florence Price, Stefania DeKenessey, and Valerie Coleman.
Most or all of the pianists will be playing on a Stretto piano with a 5.9 inch octave.
Our diverse artists of various ages and backgrounds are exploring and enjoying stretto pianos like never before. Some are new to them and some have played on them for years, earning university degrees, winning competitions, and exploring hard-to-reach repertoire as often as possible. It’s time for these wonderful instruments to be known and played everywhere by artists of all genres. The Festival and Stretto Piano Concerts hope that this event can be a springboard for more year-round global events featuring international artists that gain publicity and new followers, and create opportunities for composers and performers everywhere.
This in-person concert will also be livestreamed via the Stretto Piano Concerts YouTube channel at 3pm Eastern.