78° Festival MMF
I Grandi Interpreti Concert
Murray Perahia
Program
Franz Joseph Haydn
Sonata in A flat major Hob. XVI:46
Variations in F minor Hob. XVII:6
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata Quasi una Fantasia in C sharp minor op. 27 n. 2, Au claire de lune
Interval
César Franck
Prélude, Choral et Fugue
Fryderyk Chopin
Notturno in D flat major op. 27 n. 2
Scherzo n.1 in B minor op. 20
Murray Perahia
He was born in New York in 1947 and began playing the piano at the age of four, later attending Mannes College. He worked with Rudolf Serkin and Pablo Casals at the Marlboro Festival, studied with Mieczyslaw Horszowski and developed a strong friendship with Vladimir Horowitz. Winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1972, the next year he gave his first concert at the Aldeburgh Festival, where he worked with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. He was the co-artistic director of the Festival from 1982 through 1989. He has won several Gramophone and Grammy Awards, and is an honorary member of the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. He holds honorary doctorates from Oxford University, the Royal College of Music, Leeds University and Duke University. In 2004, he was awarded the Order of Knighthood of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
