Event

The Complete Chopin Cycle with pianist David Rothman

Presented by The Old Church.

It has been a life-long dream of David's to perform all of the composition of Chopin, and now, in a series of concerts, occurring every other Wednesday through April, it has finally come to fruition.

David Rothman was born in Toronto, Canada in 1962. When he was ten years old he was awarded a piano scholarship, in open competition, to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Surrey, England. Members of the jury included Yehudi Menuhin and Nadia Boulanger. Among his teachers at the Menuhin School were Louis Kentner and Vlado Perlemuter. At age seventeen he won a piano scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he was a student of Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Seymour Lipkin.

David Rothman presently lives in Portland, Oregon and is a frequent guest artist on The Old Church's Sack Lunch Concert Series. Performing the complete works of Frédéric Chopin has been one of his goals and it is quite a monumental task. In the course of this series, David will perform 51 Mazurkas, 24 Studies, 24 Preludes, 19 Nocturnes, 4 Ballades, 4 Scherzos, 4 Impromptus, 7 Polonaises, 14 Waltzes, one Berceuse, one Fantaisie, and one Barcarole.

Program

Wednesday, January 28 ~ 7:00pm

Four Masurkas, Op. 17 (1833)
Four Masurkas, Op. 22 (1836)
Three Nocturnes, Op. 15 (1830-33)
Polonaise Op. 26, No. 2 in E-flat minor (1833-36)

INTERMISSION

Études Op. 10
No. 1: Étude in C major, Waterfall (composed 1830)
No. 2: Étude in A minor, Chromatic (1830)
No. 3: Étude in E major, Tristesse, or L'adieu (1832)
No. 4: Étude in C-sharp minor, Torrent (1832)
No. 5: Étude in G-flat major, Black Keys (1830)
No. 6: Étude in E-flat minor, Lament (1830)
No. 7: Étude in C major, Toccata (1832)
No. 8: Étude in F major, Sunshine (1829)
No. 9: Étude in F minor, (1829)
No. 10 Étude in A-flat major (1829)
No. 11: Étude in E-flat major, Arpeggio (1829)
No. 12: Étude in C minor, Revolutionary (1831)