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Salome Jordania

10 October 2024 @ 12:45 pm 1:45 pm

£7 Adults

Tickets on the door (cash or card). Under 18s and carers go free

Doors open at 12:15 pm

Aylesbury Lunchtime Music

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St Mary the Virgin

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Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP20 2JJ United Kingdom
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Pianist Salome Jordania

Performers

Notes on the performers

Winner of New York Concert Artists Worldwide Competition, Georgian pianist Salome Jordania has appeared as a recitalist, chamber musician as well as concerto soloist in different cities of Germany, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Italy, Spain, Austria, Israel, Ukraine, The Netherlands, France, Russia, Mexico and various states of the USA. Salome has been invited as a guest artist performing solo recitals at various festivals like: Texas International Piano Festival; Batumi International Piano Festival in Georgia; Music For Peace Festival Gala (as a winner of their competition) in Moscow, Russia; Yamaha Rising Stars Concerts in Tokyo, Japan; IKIF Rising Stars Series in New York City, USA; Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, France, Piano en Valois in France; Georges Cziffra Festival, Vienna, Austria; Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice, Italy and Gijon International Piano Festival in Spain as a first recipient of Dominique Webber scholarship.

She has performed as a soloist with different orchestras such as: Georgian Philarmonic Orchestra, Tbilisi, Georgia, Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi in Salerno, Italy; UAT Symphony in Mexico; SLO Symphony in California, USA; Orquesta de Valencia, Spain; Orchestre de Picardie, France; UTC Symphony in Tennessee, USA; Batumi Philarmonic Orchestra, Georgia; Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra, Russia; Georgian Sinfonietta, Tbilisi; Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Yerevan; Potsdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany and Kharkiv Philarmonic Orchestra, Ukraine.

In 2021 and 2023, Salome was invited to be a jury member of The International Piano Competition of Nataly Yeshchenko in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She had a successful debut recital at Berlin Philarmonie Hall in March of 2023. The same year, she was also chosen as one of the finalists at Classeek Ambassador Programme.

Salome made her Lincoln Center debut performing John Corigliano’s “Chiaroscuro” as part of the AXIOM Festival. Her first CD recorded by NAXOS came out in May of 2022 where she recorded a piece titled “La Makina” written by composer Martin Matalon.

Her upcoming concert tour in 2023-2024 includes solo recitals and performances with orchestra in Switzerland, France, UK, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Japan and the US.

Pianist Salome Jordania began her studies at the age of seven with renowned professor Natalia Natsvlishvili in her native Tbilisi, Georgia. Since young age she has won multiple national and international competitions including 1st prize at Chopin National Competition in Georgia and was granted a special prize by the Mayor of Tbilisi naming her “Cultural Ambassador of Georgia” at 13 years old. Salome earned her Bachelor Degree from The Juilliard School of Music with Prof Julian Martin and her Master’s degree from Yale School of Music with Boris Berman graduating with the Charles S. Miller prize as a distinguished pianist and with Yale Alumni Prize award.

During recent years, Ms. Jordania was awarded the Norma Fischer Prize in Wideman International Competition; won silver medal at IKIF competition in New York City; First Prize at Golden Key Competition in Frankfurt, Germany; won bronze medal at the Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition, where she was awarded three additional special prizes for best Performance of Mozart, best performance of Chopin, and best interpretation of the commissioned piece, received Finalist Prize, Yamaha Prize and EDHEC prize at Etoiles du Piano, France and the Georges Cziffra Award by the Cziffra Foundation in Vienna, Austria.

She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma degree at Guildhall School of Music in London, UK with Prof Ronan O’Hora, where she is a recipient of Steinway and Sons scholarship.

Programme

Programme notes

Frédéric Chopin

Variations Brillantes Op. 12

The Variations brillantes “Je vends des Scapulaires” Op 12, based on the homonymous aria from the opera, are Chopin’s final variation set and a virtual farewell to the virtuoso style cherished in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia

Frédéric Chopin

Nocturne in F-Sharp major op.15 no.2

The Nocturnes, Op. 15 are a set of three nocturnes for solo piano written by Frédéric Chopin between 1830 and 1833. The work was published in January 1834, and was dedicated to Ferdinand Hiller. These nocturnes display a more personal approach to the nocturne form than that of the earlier Op 9. The melodies and emotional depth of these nocturnes have thus been thought of as more “Chopinesque.”

Chopin’s fifth nocturne is in A–B–A form, in 2 4 time. Many consider this nocturne to be the best of the opus, stating that its musical maturity matches some of his later nocturnes.” Pianist Theodor Kullak remarked about this piece, “The return of the heavenly opening theme… touches [one] like a benediction.”

Source: Wikipedia

Alexander Scriabin

Poeme-satanique op.36

In the Poème satanique, Op 36, Liszt’s influence on Scriabin is at its clearest; the sensual chromaticism of the Mephisto Waltz No 1 is evoked here. Later, speaking to his friend and associate Sabaneev, Scriabin characterized this work as ‘the apotheosis of insincerity. It is all hypocritical, false.’ The dolce appassionato of love is juxtaposed with a riso ironico, a powerful and recurrent ‘ironic laughter’. This mocking, quizzical attitude was explored later in Énigme (Op 52 No 2), Ironies (Op 56 No 2) and the Deux poèmes, Op 63. In the third statement of the luxuriant second idea, marked amoroso, Scriabin reverses the positions of principal and secondary voices, a tactic already adopted in Op 32 No 1 and later a favourite strategy. Here, a characteristic ‘above the clouds’ effect is achieved.

Source: Simon Nicholls

Kaija Saariaho

Prelude for piano

Kaija Saariaho was a Finnish composer (1952 – 2023). Prelude (2006) was composed for long-time collab­o­rator Tuija Hakkila as a devel­opment of the piano part of the song cycle Quatre instants (espe­cially its beginning, hence the title), which Tuija had premiered with soprano Karita Mattila in 2003. Much like the source work, Prelude explores the passionate obsession for a pulsating idee fixe that never gets a release or reso­lution. The work is a ‘prelude’ also in exposing ideas of sustained rhythmical flow, idiomatic to the instrument, that Kaija explored further in her ulterior piano writing in chamber music works, and beyond.

Source: Kaija Saariaho

Franz Liszt

Les Cloches de Geneve

The Bells of Geneva is a work taken from the first year of Franz Liszt ‘s Pilgrimage Years: Switzerland. A collection that would probably have as a preface another small collection of three pieces, Apparition (1834). This first Swiss year evokes Liszt’s stay in this country 20 years earlier with Marie d’Agoult.

Dedicated to his first daughter Blandine (1835-1862), this piece is accompanied by a quote from Byron taken from Childe Harold: “I do not live in myself, but I become a part of what surrounds me.”

Source: Wikipedia

Alexander Scriabin

Sonata-fantasie no.2 op.19
  1. Second movement: Presto

Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, (Op. 19, also titled Sonata-Fantasy) took five years for him to write. It was finally published in 1898, at the urging of his publisher. The piece is in two movements, with a style combining Chopin-like Romanticism with an impressionistic touch. The piece is widely appreciated and is one of Scriabin’s most popular pieces.

Source: Wikipedia

Alexander Scriabin

Nocturne for left hand op.9 no.2

In summer 1891 Scriabin hurt his right hand through too much practice. For this reason he cultivated his playing with his left hand for which he composed his Prélude et Nocturne op. 9 in 1894.

Source: Wikipedia

Maurice Ravel

La Valse

La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris. It was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work.

Source: Wikipedia