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World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens
3 Ponton Road
Nine Elms, Battersea
London
SW11 7BD
England
Programme
Edvard Grieg – Holberg Suite, Op.40
Dora Pejacevic – 2 Nocturnes Op 50
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Un canard hors de l’eau (Homage to Ravel)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Contemplation (Homage to Grieg)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – In the Dew (Homage to Janáček)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Lullaby (Homage to Schubert)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Bar(tik)tók (Homage to Bartók)
Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces: Little Bird, Waltz, Notturno, The Brook, 2 Norwegian Dances
Cécile Chaminade – Autrefois, Op.87 no.4
Sergei Rachmaninov – Prelude in G major, Op.32 no.5
Sergei Rachmaninov – Prelude in G minor, Op.23 no.5
Sergei Rachmaninov – Prelude in D Major, Op.23 no.4
Sergei Rachmaninov – Prelude in B flat major, Op.23 no.2
Performers
Ivana Gavric – piano
Programme Note
Ivana Gavrić’s playing has been described as “altogether of an extraordinary calibre” (BBC Music Magazine) and “notable for its beautiful sound, musical integrity and introspection” (The Independent). She has attracted considerable praise for her interpretations of Janáček, Liszt, Schubert, and more recently Grieg; the Washington Post describing her playing as “impressive, insightful…ravishing”.
Ivana’s recent concerto performances include Grieg and Rachmaninov with the Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall, and Beethoven’s Emperor with the RPO at the Royal Albert Hall. She has been heard on the concert platform at Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Gilmore Piano Festival, as well as across China and in Canada. She created a sensation with her debut album In the Mists, winning BBC Music Magazine Newcomer of the Year and her recording of Grieg: Piano Works was selected as Gramophone Editor’s Choice and the Grieg Society’s Recording of the Year. A long-standing collaboration with the award-winning composer, Cheryl Frances-Hoad has led to solo works and more recently a concerto entitled Between the Skies, the River and the Hills written for Ivana, which she recorded on her album ‘Origins’. Ivana is also committed to performing works by female composers of the past, particularly Cécile Chaminade and Dora Pejačević.
A dedicated chamber musician, Ivana is an alumna of IMS Prussia Cove, Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and Live Music Now. Outside the concert hall she is featured playing Chopin and Beethoven in BBC2’s adaptation of The Line of Beauty, and Bach in Anthony Minghella’s film Breaking and Entering.
Ivana is proud to be an ambassador for the charity ‘Music Action International’.
This programme explores composers writing music as if from ‘another time’, whether paying homage to a particular composer like Cheryl Frances-Hoad, or simply writing in an olden style, like Grieg and Chaminade.
Ivana also celebrates the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninov, and gives a platform to his direct contemporary, Dora Pejačević, long forgotten, who is now finally starting to receive her deserved attention internationally, as a leading figure in Croatian classical music.
