University of Toronto’s Hart House, once a core presenter of concerts in Toronto, has let its Sunday-afternoon presentations at Hart House drift into irregularity.
- Classical Music 101: What Does A Conductor Do? - June 17, 2019
- Classical Music 101 | What Does Period Instrument Mean? - May 6, 2019
- CLASSICAL MUSIC 101 | What Does It Mean To Be In Tune? - April 23, 2019
And it seems that the really promising ones usually coincide with something pianistically alluring up Philosopher’s Walk at Koerner Hall.
Today, while I sit listening to Yuja Wang’s sold-out recital on Bloor St., 2013 Eckhardt-Grammaté National Music Competition winner, Manitoba native Everett Hopfner, gives a mostly-Canadian recital in the Great Hall at Hart House.
Best of all, the concert is free.
Canadian composers continue to write music for solo piano, but one almost never hears any of it outside of competitions. Here’s a chance — and I think this is a really strong programme by composers who know a thing or two about telling a story in music, not just giving the pianist new ways of creating a sonic splash.
This is what Hopfner is scheduled to play, starting at 3 p.m.:
Hallucinations (2013) by Randolph Peters
Hidden Voices (2003) by Kotoka Suzuki
Preludes and Afterthoughts: Fantasy-Transcriptions on Chopin’s Preludes, Op. 28 (2009-11) by Douglas Finch
Pas à Pas (1985) by Belgian composer Karel Goeyvaerts
Vertigo Beach: Études pour piano à Tom Verlaine (2007) by Nicole Lizée
Sunflower Sutra (1999) by American Jerome Kitke
John Terauds
- Classical Music 101: What Does A Conductor Do? - June 17, 2019
- Classical Music 101 | What Does Period Instrument Mean? - May 6, 2019
- CLASSICAL MUSIC 101 | What Does It Mean To Be In Tune? - April 23, 2019
