![]() ![]() A welcome reception and panel discussion on solo concerto performance will open the workshop. There will also be masterclasses for all performers with a member of the CCW faculty and accompanying second pianist. All accepted performers will receive a 50-minute lesson with one of the CCW piano faculty, a meeting with the orchestra conductor, up to a 30 minute rehearsal (depending on concerto selection) with the CCF Orchestra, and a performance in the final concert with the orchestra. Twelve to fourteen pianists will be accepted to participate as performers based on their video applications. Thank you so much for your support and interests and please check back for future posts.Īmateur pianists, 25 years of age or older who are non-professional pianists are eligible to participate. I am also looking into the possibility of some other locations that may be an option in the coming year. Mission College is also preparing for the construction of a new performing arts center but that will still be a few years down the road. ![]() We've had nine excellent years of instruction and performances but the 10th year has proven to be quite a challenge, first due to Covid and now this.įor now, we will be looking ahead and trying to determine if the West Valley College theater will be available next year or sometime soon. I am very sorry for this change of events and that once again our event will not take place. I was hoping that there would be a way to work around it but it does not seem possible. Due to construction work that is now planned for the West Valley College Theater, the venue will not be available. We are sorry to announce that CCF for 2023 will not be able to take place. Joseph Ordaz - Artistic Director & Conductor He is a frequent collaborator with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, serving as an SPCO Artistic Partner since 2014, and has led the orchestra from the piano in unconducted performances of a broad range of works, including concertos by Schumann, Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach, as well as chamber music by Ligeti, Ives, Janáček, and Bartók.California CONCERTO FESTIVAL for Amateur Pianists Denk returns frequently to Carnegie Hall and in recent seasons has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra, as well as on tour with Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms. Winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and the Avery Fisher Prize, Denk was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists. But in this case I’d argue he does something different – a piece about the nature of melancholy, a sadness (if you like) about sadness.” 511, “Mozart wrote so many sad songs in his short life: laments of ardent young tenors, of innocent maids, of jilted Countesses, sorrows across the human spectrum, across class and age and mindset, giving voice to regrets vast and small. Denk says of Mozart’s Rondo in A minor, K. ![]() A purer tragedy – and a clearer narrative,” he says. If 503 proposes grand, certain chords and then undermines them, 466 takes the opposite approach: it starts from a distilled unease which accumulates into chords and statements, outbursts of anger. The D minor Concerto is a far more famous and popular piece than 503, partly because it is what it promises to be. “This may explain why it is not one of the most popular of his concertos… You feel that Mozart is instructing you to listen more deeply, away from ornament, behind the frills, to realize that music is more than an assembly of charming and diverting tunes, to think about ideas beneath the surface, forces and principles. Which has always seemed to me one of the key messages of this great concerto, so different from the rest, and so full of the love of its creator. 503 in his liner note: “As I write these words… the world as it used to be has vanished, a pandemic world has settled in, and – as we keep telling ourselves – we have to live with uncertainty. 466 – bookending the composer’s solo Rondo in A minor, K. $ ĭenk is joined by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for two Mozart concertos – No. ![]()
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