Saturday 23 November
The Liszt Society Day and International Competition
Provisional Programme
12 noon : Annual General Meeting
1.10 pm The Liszt Society and the Keyboard Charitable Trust
present a recital by
Letian Yu
(First Prizewinner, 2023 Liszt Society Competition)
Liszt: Danse macabre - Poème symphonique de Camille Saint-Saëns [opus 40], S555 (10')
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage -Deuxième Année -Italie, S161
no 5: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (7')
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage-Troisième Année- Italie, S163
no 4: Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (9')
Liszt: Rapsodie espagnole – Folies d'Espagne et Jota aragonesa, S254 (13')
Chopin (1810-1849) Nocturne in B major, opus 62 no.1 (7')
Liszt: Grandes Études de Paganini, S141
No. 3 La campanella (5')
Letian Yu, at the age of 15, became the first Chinese winner of the Liszt Society International Piano Competition, having been brought to London by the redoubtable CIPMF piano festival director Hao Yao. He has returned to Perivale give this prizewinner's recital. He was born in Shanghai, China in May 2008. He started learning piano at the age of 5. In 2020, he went to study at the Special Piano Department of the Genius Class of the Affiliated High School of Tchaikovsky Academy in Russia. He has successively studied under teachers Hongyi Fu, Xiaoou Qiu, Ye Feng, Ying Cai, Maxim Kazitskii, Professor Nianqiu Liu, Qingxia Pu, Professor Natalia Trull and Daniil Tsvetkov. He has also received careful guidance from Kate Liu and Xinyuan Wang, and since 2023, has also been in Leslie Howard's masterclasses.
During his years of piano study, Letian Yu has won more than 20 honours in domestic and international competitions. He has won the gold medal in the Shanghai Student Art Individual Competition many times, the first prize in the 28th Chopin International Youth Competition in Shanghai, the first prize in the Gloria Factum and "Friendship Cup" International Piano Competition held in Moscow, the first prize in the adult category of the St. Petersburg International Young Pianist Bartolomeo Cristofori Competition, the first prize in the American Youth Musician International Piano Competition held in the United States, the first prize in the professional category of the 28th Japan PIARA International Piano Award China Division, the first prize in the Clara Schumann International Piano Competition held in Germany, and he won the Young Euregio Piano Award 2024.
2.0 pm Lunch break
3.0 pm The Liszt Society International Piano Competition Final 2024
Sebastian-Benedict Flore (Italy and United Kingdom) (b. 2002)
Großes Konzertsolo S176 (21')
Catherine Chang (New Zealand) (b. 2002)
Deuxième Ballade S171 (15')
Deux Légendes, S175: (17')
1 St François d'Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux
2 St François de Paule marchant sur les flots
Michele Taraborrelli (Italy) (b. 1999)
Venezia e Napoli – Supplément aux Années de pèlerinage 2 d volume, S162
1 Gondoliera; 2 Canzone; 3 Tarantella (17')
A la chapelle Sixtine – Miserere d'Allegri et Ave verum corpus de Mozart, S462ii (13')
Shiv Yajnik (United States of America) (b. 2002)
Großes Konzertsolo, S176 (21')
Dritter Mephisto-Walzer, S215 (8')
Xuanxiang Wu (People's Republic of China) (b. 2007)
Douze Études d'exécution transcendante, S139:
No. 11 in D-flat major Harmonies du soir (9')
Réminiscences de Don Juan (Mozart Don Giovanni ) S418 (17')
The adjudication by jurors Melvyn Cooper, Mark Viner and Leslie Howard should take place at around 5.30pm.
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