*CORRECTION: NEW TIME: 6pm - 9:15pm*

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>
> *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/
> *
>
> When: Thursday 1 December, 6pm - 9:15pm
> 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.
> For further information please contact:
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> Dr Dimitris Exarchos: [log in to unmask]
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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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Associate Lecturer, Department of Music
Visiting Research Fellow, Contemporary Music Research Unit
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.gold.ac.uk/music/staff/exarchos/