Featuring Former Students
Yee-Wen Hsu
Nicholas Jimenez
Wayne Ching
Minkyung Jung
Monica Kang-Sasaki
Justin Sun
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Program
Opening Remarks
Susan Thomas, Director, Butler School of Music
Anton Nel, Division Head, Keyboard Studies
Wayne Ching
J.S. Bach
arr. Egon Petri
Sheep may Safely Graze
Giacomo Puccini
arr. Yvar Mikhashoff
Romanza, “O mio babbino caro”
Minkyung Jung
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Selections from The Seasons, op. 37a
Barcarolle (June)
At the Fireside (January)
Nicholas Jimenez
Frédéric Chopin
Selection from Preludes, op. 28
15 in D-flat Major
16 in B-flat Minor
17 in A-flat Major
18 in F Minor
Yee-Wen Hsu
Anatoly Lyadov
Prelude in B minor, op. 11 no. 1
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in F Major, op. 15, no. 1
Monica Kang-Sasaki
Karen Tanaka
from Techno Etudes
III (quarter note = 124)
from Techno Etudes II.
III Forcefully and solidly
Justin Sun
Maurice Ravel
Scarbo from Gaspard de la nuit
intermission
Special AV presentation
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, op. 30
Allegro ma non tanto
Intermezzo
Finale
Gregory Allen, piano
The University of Texas Symphony Orchestra
Tim Muffin, conductor
Archived recording from April 2, 1993
About the Artists
Gregory Allen
Gregory Allen, professor of piano at The University of Texas at Austin, was the Grand Prize winner of the 1980 Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv; he also won top honors at the Queen Elisabeth, Gina Bachauer and Washington International Competitions. He has appeared with numerous major orchestras and has adjudicated many prestigious competitions. Chamber music has always been a large part of professor Allen’s career. He has collaborated with a number of well-known String Quartets; as a founding member of the Chamber Soloists of Austin, he programmed the premieres of approximately 40 new works. The group was invited by the USIA to an extensive tour of South America in 1992. To commemorate the centennial of Arthur Rubinstein’s birth in 1987 Allen researched and recorded three albums of music written for and dedicated to Rubinstein. He also recorded the complete piano works of Joaquín Rodrigo, in collaboration Anton Nel, fellow professor of piano at the Butler School of Music. Recently Allen has completed new arrangements of both Brahms String Sextets for Piano Trio; and a transcription for solo piano of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue for organ. Allen’s major teachers include John Perry, Jerome Lowenthal, and Leon Fleisher. He has served on the piano faculty at UT Austin since 1973.
Event Details
Free admission