Piano Festivities - Eilat

May 11-14, 2006


Prize Winners of The 11th Arthur Rubinstein International
Piano Master Competition, 2005
Alexander Gavrylyuk
(Ukraine-Australia) 1st Prize
Igor Levit (Germany) 2nd Prize
Yeol - Eum Son (Korea) 3rd Prize


and Guests:
Nitai Zori, Violinist
 Yoel Greenberg, Violist
Hillel Zori, Cellist          
                  Eran Borovich, Double-Bass Player

Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble
Barak Tal, Conductor

 

Jazz Piano Trio:
Omri Mor, Pianist
 Oded Goldschmidt, Doube-Bass Player
Rea Bar-Ness, Percussionist

 

Dr. Asaf Zohar, Pianist & Lecturer

 

Competition Directors and Pianists:
Marianne Granvig, President, FMCIM/WFIMC , Denmark
Prof. Tomer Lev, Head of the Buchman-Mehta School of Music,
Tel-Aviv University
Mr. Quinten Peelen, Executive Director, Liszt International Piano Competition,

Utrecht, Holland
with 
Prof. Arie Vardi, Music Adviser, ARIMS 
John O'Conor, Chairman, AXA International Piano Competition, Ireland
Online from Dublin

 

Yael Shuv, Film critic & lecturer

 

 
Thursday, May 11th, 2006 

 

The Magic Fingers

Arthur Rubinstein - Master Classes:

Lecture, movie & demonstrations

Dr. Asaf Zohar (in Hebrew)

 

  Royal Beach Chaplin
18:00 p.m.
 

Yeol-Eum Son

with
Nitai Zori, Violinist
Hillel Zori, Cellist


Beethoven: Sonata no. 32 in C minor op. 111

Schumann: Symphonic Etudes op. 13

I n t e r m i s s i o n

Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor op. 67

  Royal Garden Hall
21:00 p.m.
 

Meet the Artists

Gavrylyuk, Levit, Son

Gathering with musicians and the public;

Interview with the musicians, including a screening

of their playing in the 11th competition

Idith Zvi, Master of Ceremonies (in English)

 

  Royal Beach Chaplin
23:15 p.m.
 

 
Friday, May 12th, 2006 

 

Igor Levit

with
Nitai Zori, Violinist
Yoel Greenberg, Violist
Hillel Zori, Cellist
Eran Borovich,  Doube-Bass Player  

Mozart: Piano Sonata in B flat Major KV 570

Mozart: Piano Sonata in C minor KV 457

I n t e r m i s s i o n

Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major op. 114,

                 "Trout"

  Royal Garden Hall
11:00 a.m.
 

Competitions - what are they good for?

A symposium with Competition Directors and Pianists

 

Marianne Granvig, Denmark

Prof. Tomer Lev, Israel

Quinten Peelen, Holland

with

Prof. Arie Vardi, Israel

John O'Conor, Ireland (Online from Dublin)

Idith Zvi,  Master of Ceremonies

 

  Royal Beach Chaplin
17:00 p.m.
 

Making Music Together

Three pianists, two pianos, four hands:

Gavrylyuk, Levit, Son

Brahms: Variations in B flat major,

               on a theme by Haydn op. 56b,

               for two pianos (St. Anthony Choral)

Alexander Gavrylyuk, Igor Levit

Mozart:  Sonata in D major for two pianos KV 448

Igor Levit, Yeol-Eum Son

I n t e r m i s s i o n

Schubert: Fantasy in F minor for four hands

                 D. 940

Yeol-Eum Son, Igor Levit

Rachmaninov: Suite no. 2 op. 12 for two pianos

Igor Levit, Alexander Gavrylyuk 

  Royal Beach Hall
21:00 p.m.
 

Into the Night

Piano Jazz Trio:
Omri Mor, Pianist
Oded Goldschmidt, Doube-Bass Player
Rea Bar-Ness, Percussionist

 

  Royal Beach Chaplin
23:15 p.m.

 

 
Saturday, May 13th, 2006 

 

Alexander Gavrylyuk

with
Nitai Zori, Violinist
Hillel Zori, Cellist


Haydn: Sonata in B minor Hob. XVI/32

Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

I n t e r m i s s i o n

Brahms: 3 Intermezzi op. 117

Rachmaninov: Trio in G minor

  Royal Garden Hall
11:00 a.m.

 

CinemaPiano

The Piano in the Movies

Yael Shuv, Lecturer

  Royal Beach Chaplin
17:00 p.m.

 

Finale
Alexander Gavrylyuk, Igor Levit, Yeol - Eum Son

with
Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble
Barak Tal, Conductor


Bach: Concerto in F minor BWV 1056

Alexander Gavrylyuk

Bach: Concerto for two pianos in C major

          BWV 1061

Igor Levit, Yeol-Eum Son

Bach: Concerto for three pianos in D minor

          BWV 1063

Yeol-Eum Son, Igor Levit, Alexander Garylyuk

I n t e r m i s s i o n

Mozart: Divertimento in D major KV 136

Britten: Simple Symphony op. 4

  Royal Beach Hall
21:00 p.m.
 
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