Friday Lunchtime Concert: Pianist, Ivan Hovorun at Brighton Unitarian Church, Brighton on Friday 21st April 2023

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Friday Lunchtime Concert

Pianist, Ivan Hovorun

Add to my Calendar 21-04-2023 12:30 21-04-2023 14:30 36 Friday Lunchtime Concert Biography Ivan Hovorun is forging a reputation as one of the most acutely perceptive and insightfully intelligent musicians of our time. Born in Ukraine, Ivan’s piano studies began with his mother, herself a talented professional musician, at the age of five and at the age of six went on to study at the Krushelnytska Music High School. He first performed for the public of his native city at the age of nine. He was only eleven when he first performed with a full orchestra, since when he has been invited to perform annually with the Lviv Symphony Orchestra. Ivan chose to pursue his higher musical studies in England, having been awarded a scholarship in 2004 to study at the Royal Northern College of Music, from which he graduated with a Master of Music degree in 2011. He has performed with major Eastern and Western European orchestras as diverse as the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine and the Manchester Camerata, Collegium Musicum. His extensive list of artistic collaborations has seen him work with Kenneth Woods, John Traill, Andre de Ridder, Clarc Rudell and Gordan Nikolitch. In past seasons, Ivan’s festival and orchestral appearances have included Scarlatti, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninov Festivals at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester; the International Rachmaninov Conference in the same city; and the James Macmillan Festival, Alexander Goehr Festival and Judith Weir Festival at the Wigmore Hall in London and at the RNCM; Buckingham Summer Festival. In recent years, Ivan’s performances have explored a richly diverse repertoire, including the piano works on the Folia Theme, Grand Sonatas and complete Franz Liszt Etudes. He has assembled these works into performance programmes which are designed as complex syntheses of knowledge, experience and interpretation, presented through the medium of consummate musicianship. These programmes aim innovatively to enlighten, entertain and educate, compelling the audience into an interactive process of comparison, thought and analysis through the format of the performance. Brighton Unitarian Church, Brighton DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Brighton Unitarian Church
New Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 1UF
England

Friday 21st April 2023
12:30 PM

Programme

Arturo Márquez – Danzon no.2
Joaquín Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio
Felix Mendelssohn – Rondo capriccioso, Op.14
Vladimir Horowitz – Carmen Variations
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Turkish March (Rondo all Turca)
Franz Liszt – Consolation no.3 in D flat major, S.172: Lento placido
Ludwig van Beethoven – Rondo a capriccio 'Rage over a lost penny', Op.129

Performers

Ivan Hovorun – piano

Programme Note

Biography

Ivan Hovorun is forging a reputation as one of the most acutely perceptive and insightfully intelligent musicians of our time.

Born in Ukraine, Ivan’s piano studies began with his mother, herself a talented professional musician, at the age of five and at the age of six went on to study at the Krushelnytska Music High School. He first performed for the public of his native city at the age of nine. He was only eleven when he first performed with a full orchestra, since when he has been invited to perform annually with the Lviv Symphony Orchestra.

Ivan chose to pursue his higher musical studies in England, having been awarded a scholarship in 2004 to study at the Royal Northern College of Music, from which he graduated with a Master of Music degree in 2011.

He has performed with major Eastern and Western European orchestras as diverse as the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine and the Manchester Camerata, Collegium Musicum. His extensive list of artistic collaborations has seen him work with Kenneth Woods, John Traill, Andre de Ridder, Clarc Rudell and Gordan Nikolitch.

In past seasons, Ivan’s festival and orchestral appearances have included Scarlatti, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninov Festivals at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester; the International Rachmaninov Conference in the same city; and the James Macmillan Festival, Alexander Goehr Festival and Judith Weir Festival at the Wigmore Hall in London and at the RNCM; Buckingham Summer Festival.

In recent years, Ivan’s performances have explored a richly diverse repertoire, including the piano works on the Folia Theme, Grand Sonatas and complete Franz Liszt Etudes. He has assembled these works into performance programmes which are designed as complex syntheses of knowledge, experience and interpretation, presented through the medium of consummate musicianship. These programmes aim innovatively to enlighten, entertain and educate, compelling the audience into an interactive process of comparison, thought and analysis through the format of the performance.

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