2023 PYPA Piano Festival

Program

Arvo Pärt(b. 1935)

Für Alina

Haydn

Sonata in D Major, Hob. XV1/37

I. Allegro con brio

II. Largo e sostenuto

III. Finale: Presto ma non troppo

Schubert

Fantasy in C, D.760 (Wanderer Fantasy)

Debussy

Two Préludes:

La Fille aux cheveux de lin (Book 1)

La Puerta del vino (Book 2)

Moszkowski

Caprice espagnole, Op. 37

Intermission

Poulenc

Sonata for Piano Four Hands

I. Prelude

II. Rustique

III. Final

Primo: Feitai Zhao

Secondo: Michael Lewin

Debussy

Two movements from Petite Suites:

En Baueau(Sailing)

Ballet

Primo: Michael Lewin

Secondo: Shiyang Fan

Copland

Variations on a Shaker Theme (from “Appalachian Spring”)

Primo: Michael Lewin

Secondo: Yinghan Hannah Wang

Brahms

Four Hungarian Dances

No. 5 in F-sharp minor

No. 1 in G minor

No. 2 in D minor

No. 6 in D-flat Major

Primo: Ching-Yun Hu

Secondo: Michael Lewin

Ticket: $28

Michael Lewin

Piano Chair, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Michael Lewin is one of America’s foremost concert pianists, winning over audiences in 30 countries with playing of “majestic power and searing emotion.” (The London Times). His career was launched with top prizes in the Franz Liszt International Competition, the American Pianists Association Award and the William Kapell (University of Maryland) International Piano Competition. His recordings have won a Grammy Award and a Roundglass Music Award.

He has appeared as orchestral soloist with the Netherlands Philharmonic, CairoSymphony, China National Radio Orchestra, Bucharest Philharmonic, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, State Symphony of Greece, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Phoenix, Indianapolis, Miami, North Carolina, West Virginia, Nevada, New Orleans, Colorado, Guadalajara, and Puerto Rico Symphonies. Solo appearances include New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Taiwan’s National Concert Hall, Hong Kong’s City Hall Theatre, Holland’s Muziekcentrum, Moscow’s Great Hall, the Athens Megaron, the National Gallery of Art, the Newport, Ravinia and Spoleto Festivals and PBS Television. His extensive repertoire includes over 40 piano concertos, with particular interest in the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy and a host of American and Latin American composers.

Mr. Lewin’s award-winning discography on Sono Luminus, Naxos and Centaur includes a pair of acclaimed Debussy recordings entitled “Beau Soir” and “Starry Night”, the complete piano music of Charles T. Griffes and Scarlatti Sonatas for Naxos, “Michael Lewin plays Liszt,” “A Russian Piano Recital”, “Bamboula!” piano music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, “Piano Phantoms,” “If I Were a Bird” and the 4 Violin Sonatas by William Bolcom with Irina Muresanu. Michael Lewin is a Professor and Head of Piano at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Classical Music Director for Ethos Music in China.

He gives master classes worldwide, directs the Boston Conservatory Piano Masters Series and has taught many prize-winning and successful pianists. He is a Juilliard School graduate and a Steinway Artist. His teachers included Leon Fleisher, Yvonne Lefebure, Adele Marcus and Irwin Freundlich. Please visit www.michaellewin.com for more information.