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A truly rare opportunity to listen to Vladimir Ashkenazy, one of the major pianists in the world, in recital with his two sons, Vovka (piano) and Dimitri (clarinet)

ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show

Dimitri Ashkenazy, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vovka Ashkenazy

PROGRAMME (Part I)
 
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 – 1856)
Three romances for clarinet and piano, Op. 94
1) Nicht schnell
2) Einfach, innig
3) Nicht schnell

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano),
Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet)
 
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI (1913 – 1994)
Five Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Piano (1954)
1) Allegro molto
2) Andantino
3) Allegro giocoso
4) Andante
5) Allegro molto

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano),
Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet)
 
FRANCIS POULENC (1899 – 1963)
Sonata for clarinet and piano, Op. 184
1) Allegro tristamente
(Allegretto – Très calme – Tempo allegretto)
2) Romanza (Très calme)
3) Allegro con fuoco (Très animé)

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano),
Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet)
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Dimitri Ashkenazy, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vovka Ashkenazy
ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
  ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
 
ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
The Chopin Society of Hong Kong Ltd is most grateful to Teresa Li-Lai, vice chairwoman of the Society, for her most generous sponsorship of this event
ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
Dimitri Ashkenazy, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vovka Ashkenazy

PROGRAMME (Part II)

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 – 1828)
Divertimento (for two pianos) in G minor,
D 818/ Op. 54
(“à l’hongroise”)

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano),
Vovka Ashkenazy (piano)

MAURICE RAVEL (1875 – 1937)
La Valse (for two pianos)

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano),
Vovka Ashkenazy (piano)

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ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show

Dimitri Ashkenazy, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vovka Ashkenazy

Vladimir Ashkenazy

In the years since Vladimir Ashkenazy first came to prominence on the world stage winning the first prize of the 1962 piano Tchaikovsky Competition, he has built an extraordinary career, not only as one of the most renowned pianists of our times, but as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities including conducting, recording, TV and educational work.

Conducting has formed the largest part of his activities for the past 20 years. He took up the new position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in January 2009 and collaborates with them on a number of exciting projects including composer festivals, major recording projects and international touring activities. He has previously held posts as Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic and Music Director of NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Alongside these positions, Ashkenazy continues his longstanding relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra of which he was appointed Conductor Laureate in 2000. In addition to his performances with the orchestra in London and around the UK each season, he has toured with them worldwide. Ashkenazy also holds the positions of Music Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra, and Conductor Laureate of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He has maintained strong links with a number of other major orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin as well as making guest appearances with many other major orchestras around the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

While conducting takes up a significant portion of his time each season, Ashkenazy maintains a most active recording programme adding to his extraordinarily comprehensive recording catalogue with releases such as the 1999 Grammy award-winning Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No.3 (a work which he commissioned), Bach’s Wohltemperierte Klavier, Rachmaninov Transcriptions, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, and a recent CD of piano and clarinet duos with his son Dimitri.

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  ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
  ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
Dimitri Ashkenazy, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vovka Ashkenazy

Dimitri Ashkenazy

Born in New York, Dimitri Ashkenazy began playing the piano at the age of six and then switched to the clarinet under the tuition of Giambattista Sisini, with whom he continued studying when he entered the Conservatory of Lucerne in 1989. Since completing his studies, he has gone on to perform widely, both as soloist and chamber musician appearing at, among others, the Royal Festival Hall in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hollywood Bowl with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the Sydney Opera House with the SBS Youth Orchestra, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and in Japan with the Japan Philharmonic.

In addition to the major concertos for the clarinet, his repertoire extends to include contemporary works such as Peter Maxwell Davies’ Strathclyde Concerto No.4, which he has performed with the composer himself conducting both in London and in Santiago de Compostela, and Krzysztof Penderecki’s own transcription of his Viola Concerto with the composer himself conducting both in Poland and on tour in Spain. He also gave the world premiere performances of concertos by Marco Tutino (with the Filarmonici della Scala, Milan) and Filippo del Corno (with the orchestra “I Pomeriggi Musicali”), and of Peter Maxwell Davies’ Clarinet Quintet “Hymn to Artemis Locheia” with the Brodsky Quartet at the Lucerne Festival. An active chamber musician, he has performed with the Kodály and Faust Quartets and with partners including Barbara Bonney, Christina Ortiz, Maria João Pires and, of course, his brother Vovka and his father Vladimir Ashkenazy.

In addition to his concert activity, Dimitri Ashkenazy has made numerous CDs and TV recordings, and has been invited to give master classes in Australia, Spain, Iceland, Switzerland and the U.S.

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ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show
ashkenazy, ashkenazy 3x, ashkenazy 3X Music show

Dimitri Ashkenazy, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vovka Ashkenazy

Vovka Ashkenazy

After completing his musical and piano studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Vovka Ashkenazy made his debut in London at the Barbican Centre in 1983 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Richard Hickox, with whom he performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. Since then his career has taken him all across Europe, and to Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the Americas. He has participated in the Marlboro Festival in Vermont, as well as in the Edinburgh and Spoleto festivals. Orchestras he has appeared with include nearly all the major British orchestras as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Australian Chamber, and the Berlin Symphony Orchestras. Conductors he has worked with include Semyon Bychkov, Martin Fischer-Dieskau and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, at venues such as the Hollywood Bowl, the Sydney Opera House, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Festival Hall, London.

He is very active as a chamber musician and has recorded a CD of Italian music with his brother, the clarinettist Dimitri Ashkenazy, together with whom he toured repeatedly in Japan. The year 2001 saw the start of a new piano-duo partnership with Greek virtuoso pianist, Vassilis Tsabropoulos. This duo has already performed at the Piano en Valois festival and twice at the Athens Megaron. He has also worked together with the Reykjavík Wind Quintet and has released a CD with them on the Chandos label with one more CD forthcoming.

Alongside his concert activities, Vovka Ashkenazy also devotes his time to teaching. He has given master classes in Australia, Denmark, England, Greece, Guatemala, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the U.S. and he has recently become a member of the chamber music coaching staff at Pro Corda in the UK. He was Professor of Piano at the Conservatoire Gabriel Fauré in Angoulême, France, from 1998 – 2007.

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