Jin Ju / 2

Spetta a Jin Ju il compito di chiudere questa rassegna, dando vita ad alcune delle pagine più amate dal loro stesso autore come la Sonata n. 23, rinominata Appassionata in virtù dell’intenso carattere drammatico che la percorre, e la monumentale Sonata Hammerklavier.

Accademia del fortepiano
Ludwig van Beethoven: 35 sonatas in 8 concerts on original instruments
First Italian performance of the whole cycle thanks to the support of Fondazione Carlo Marchi and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in F minor op. 57 Appassionata
Sonata in A major op. 101
Sonata in B-flat major op. 106 Hammerklavier

(fortepiano Conrad Graf opus 1041 - fortepiano John Broadwood)

JIN JU
Born in Shanghai, she studied piano at the Central Conservatory of Beijing and the Accademia Chigiana of Siena.  Winner of the China National Piano Competition, of the Beethoven Society Competiton, the Unisa International Piano Competition and the International Piano Competition Theodor Leschetisky, she was also a prize at the winner Tchaikovsky International Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. She has performed in important concert halls such as the Konzerhaus of Berlin and Vienna and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.  In 2008 the Chinese state television CCTV made a documentary about her and the next year her concert at the Sala Nervi at the Vatican for Pope Benedict XVI, in which she played seven different antique pianos, was transmitted in world vision.