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John Montague & Linda Hutchins(May 11)
Winthrop Hall (May 12)

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Marc-André Hamelin
Sunday, May 11, 4:00 pm
Monday, May 12, 7:30 pm

Called “one of the most adventurous and certainly the most courageous pianists of recent times” by the International Piano Quarterly, Montréal native Marc-André Hamelin is internationally renowned for his musical virtuosity and refined pianism.

“Hamelin’s legend will grow – right now there is no one
like him.”  The New Yorker

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PROGRAM
Haydn • Sonata in F major, Hob. XVI:23
Haydn • Sonata in B-flat Major, Hob. XVI:41
Weissenberg • Sonate en état de jazz (Sonata in a State of Jazz)
Chopin • Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60 and Ballade in A-flat Major, Op.47
Hamelin • Etude No. 8, "Erlkoenig" and Etude No. 7

Godowsky • Symphonic Metamorphoses on Johann Strauss’s “Wine, Woman and Song”

Encores:

Trenet •                            (Sunday)

Hamelin • Little Nocturne (Monday)

 
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