Wednesday 23rd, September

Debra Fast, violin

Sandro Ivo Bartoli, piano

Programme (piano and violin recital)

Tommaso Vitali:   Ciaccona in g minor

Johann Sebastian Bach:       Partita No.3 in e major BWV 1006
(piano accompaniments by Robert Schumann)

Interval

Sebastiano Caltabiano:      Aria Italiana (1935)

César Auguste Franck:     Sonata in a major for violin and piano

Saturday, 26th September

Programme  (piano recital)

Sandro Ivo Bartoli, piano

Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne in d minor

(Arr. Ferruccio Busoni)

Franz Liszt:     Fantasy and Fugue on the theme “Bach”

Fryderyk Chopin:    Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise Brillante, viagra for sale in uk Op.22

Interval

Nino Rota:    Variazioni e Fuga sul nome di Bach (1950)

César Auguste Franck:        Prelude, Choral et Fugue

Sandro Ivo Bartoli

Sandro Ivo Bartoli (piano) is one of the finest pianists to emerge out of Italy in the past two decades. Born in Pisa in 1970, he studied at the Florence State Conservatoire and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The most influential contribution to his artistic development, however, came between 1991 and 1995 through his collaboration with the late Russian pianist Shura Cherkassky. He has played throughout Europe and the United States with major orchestras and appears at some of the world's major music festivals. He has also recorded for Radio and television programmes throughout Europe. Alongside performances in London, Stockholm and Cologne he recently has performed in Munich with Martha Argerich and Rodion Schedrin, in Madrid, broadcast live on Radio Nacional Espanola. He has completed the world premiere recording of the Concertos of Malipiero with the Radio Orchestra of Saarbrücken under Michele Carulli. His discography comprises piano works of Malipiero, Casella, Grainger, Pabst, Mahler, Saint-Saëns, Chopin, Schubert and more recently works of Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco. In 2010 he will tour Europe performing both concertos by Frédéric Chopin in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday. Sandro Ivo Bartoli is the subject for a documentary film for French television by director Miroslav Sebestik, titled «Musicien» and also due for release in 2010.

Debra Fast, violin

Debra Fast is a Canadian violinist who began

her musical studies in Vancouver at the age of four. She began performing in 1988 in a concert t broadcast live on Canadian Television. Since then, she has performed across Canada with the most important Canadian orchestras. She has toured throughout Europe as a member of the Armadillo String Quartet, and is a founding member of the Fidelio String Quartet, with whom she has toured throughout the United States, Canada and the Antilles. She has premiered several new works from emerging Canadian composers.  For the last three years she has been performing with Italian pianist Sandro Ivo Bartoli. Together, the duo has crossed the world two times, performing the music of composers such as Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, receiving great public acclaim. Last year, Debra Fast has begun collaboration with the renowned Italian violinist, Marco Fornaciari. For many years, Ms Fast has been performing on a mysterious violin handed over to her by her late great grandfather.