Christopher Duigan - Celebrating Chopin Piano Recital
Celebrating Chopin has played in over 40 concerts since January this year. These include performance in Johannesburg, Classic FM Soirées - Pretoria, Kimberley, Hilton College, Howard College Theatre – Durban, Franschhoek Literary Festival and Grahamstown National Arts Festival.
On the 200th anniversary of Fredrick Chopin’s birth in Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Poland in 1810, Christopher Duigan marks this special occasion with a selection on music focusing on this composer's highly engaging musical output.
The programme fro the Centre for the Book performance in Cape Town includes Waltz in C-sharp minor, ‘Minute’ Waltz, Nocturne in E-flat, Ballade No 1 op 23, Mazurkas, ‘Raindrop’ Prelude, Fantasie-Impromptu and ‘Heroic ’Polonaise op 53.
Christopher Duigan is widely regarded as one of the country's leading concert artists, and has been recently hailed as a South African piano icon and a 'national music treasure' (Classic Feel, June 2009). He appears regularly as soloist on South Africa's premier concert stages and has received regular invitations to play with major orchestras including the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic, Cape Philharmonic and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras.
In March 2010 Christopher Duigan was invited to join the Steinway Artists Roster joining an ‘exquisite circle’ of renowned musicians, including Artur Rubenstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Alfred Brendel, Lang Lang, Keith Jarrett and Diana Krall.
Date: 12 September 2010
Time: 15h00
Venue: Centre for the Book at 62 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
Parking: Secure street parking available with car guards in attendance in Queen Victoria Street
Ticket Price: FREE - Donations collected after the performance toward concert expenses.
Bookings Essential
Information & Bookings: Bryn van Wyk (08h30 - 17h00 Mon - Fri)
021 422 0079 or bryn@pianoforte.co.za
Programme includes:
Waltz in E-flat Opus 18
Nocturne in F-sharp major Opus 15 No. 2
Ballade No 1 in G minor Opus 23
Raindrop Prelude Opus 28 No. 12
Nocturne in C-sharp minor Opus 27 No. 1
Waltz in C-sharp minor Opus 64 No. 2
Waltz in A-flat major Opus 42
Mazurka in G minor Opus 67 (posth)
Mazurka in C major Opus 68 No. 1 (posth)
Mazurka in A minor Opus 68 No. 2 (posth)
Fantasie-Impromptu Opus 66 (posth)
Polonaise in A-flat major Opus 53 'Heroic'