*Contemporary Music Research Unit (CMRU) Lecture Series 2016/17**
**Goldsmiths, University of London*
The Contemporary Music Research Unit is pleased to present an invited
talk and performance by
*Michael Finnissy & Ian Pace*
*/Verdi Transcriptions/
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When: Thursday 1 December, 6:30pm - 8pm
Where: Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall Building, Goldsmiths,
University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW (map:
http://osm.org/go/euuvkem50)
Cost: free / all welcome
https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=10251
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*Pianist Ian Pace performs the complete /Verdi Transcriptions/ in
Finnissy's 70th year, starting with a talk with the composer.*
Ian Pace is a pianist of long-established reputation, specialising in
the farthest reaches of musical modernism and transcendental virtuosity,
as well as a writer and musicologist focusing on issues of performance,
music and society and the avant-garde. He was born in Hartlepool,
England in 1968, and studied at Chetham’s School of Music, The Queen’s
College, Oxford and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at the Juilliard School in
New York. His main teacher, and a major influence upon his work, was the
Hungarian pianist György Sándor, a student of Bartók.
Composed over a period of thirty years and culminating in the powerful
final transfiguration of Verdi’s 'Requiem Aeternam', the /Verdi
Transcriptions/ is one of Finnissy’s most powerful and satisfying works
for solo piano.
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*On Michael Finnissy:*
‘What's striking about the music is its feeling of utter spontaneity,
and its incredible emotional power . . . the remarkable thing about
Finnissy's music is that despite its frequent sorrow and anger, it has a
marvellous power to affirm.’
Ivan Hewett, /The Telegraph/
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CMRU talks are free and open to all.
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Associate Lecturer, Department of Music
Visiting Research Fellow, Contemporary Music Research Unit
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.gold.ac.uk/music/staff/exarchos/
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