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Art of Piano: James Anagnoson & Micah Yui

Headshots of James Anagnoson and Micah Yui

James Anagnoson, photo by Stuart Lowe and Micah Yui, photo by Philip Pirolo.
 

Join James Anagnoson and Micah Yui for an evening of music for two pianos, featuring works by Brahms, Dvořák, Debussy, and Gershwin.

James Anagnoson is one of Canada’s most celebrated pianists and the Dean of The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School. As half of the internationally acclaimed duo Anagnoson & Kinton, he has performed over 1,500 concerts worldwide, earning praise from The New York Times for their “formidable precision and panache.” He has also taught and mentored generations of prize-winning pianists, shaping Canada’s classical music landscape for decades.

Yui, meanwhile, is an acclaimed Canadian pianist, whose playing contains "blazing enthusiasm, power, and technical assurance” (Los Angeles Times). She’s played solo recitals around the world, including at venues in Zurich, Tokyo, New York, Toronto, and Copenhagen. She’s also given radio performances on CBC, NHK, and WQXR, plus orchestral performances with the Syracuse, Edmonton, Victoria, Montreal Metropolitan, Asheville, and Baltimore Chamber orchestras.

Both are part of the faculty for Art of Piano, a program that pushes the instrument to new heights in skill, expression, and composition.

Art of Piano is generously supported by lead donor Heather Edwards.

Additional support provided by Helen Graham and the Yolanda Freeze Master Artists Music fund. 

Program:

Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Two Pianos in F minor, Op. 34b
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante, un poco Adagio
III. Scherzo – Allegro
IV. Finale – Poco sostenuto – Allegro non troppo – Presto, non troppo

Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dances
Op. 72, No. 10
Op. 46, No. 8

Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
(Two piano version by the composer)

George Gershwin
Excerpt from Rhapsody in Blue (for Two Pianos)

 

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