Jin Ju

Brilla, al centro di questo quinto appuntamento affidato alla maestria di Jin Ju, la famosa Sonata n. 14, dedicata all’amata contessa Giulietta Ricciardini e rinominata, grazie alla malinconica atmosfera notturna in cui sembra immersa, Al chiaro di luna.

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 B-flat major op. 22
Sonata quasi una fantasia in E-flat major op. 27 n. 1
Sonata quasi una fantasia in C-sharp minor op. 27 n. 2 Au clair de lune
Sonata in D major op. 28 Pastorale

(fortepiano Conrad Graf opus 1041)

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.