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Professor Alvaro Pierri

Guitar

Alvaro Pierri was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to a musical family and was taught from an early age music and guitar.  He completed his studies at the Uruguayan National Institute of Musicology and under Abel Carlevaro and Guido Santorsola.  He participated in international guitar competitions where he won numerous first prizes including the gold medal and first prize at the 18th Paris International Guitar Competition, Radio France.

Alvaro Pierri now teaches at the University of Quebec in Montreal, at McGill University and at Mozarteum in Salzburg, as well as conducting masterclasses and participating in festivals across the world.

Professor Pierri pursues a very active career as a soloist and with orchestras and chamber groups playing troughout Europe, Japan and North and South America.  He has given world premiers of works by composers such as Brouwer, Santorsola, Carlevaro, Rougier, Gonzales and others, many of these specially composed for him.  As a chamber musician he has performed with numerous artists such as Astor Piazzolla, felow Uruguayan guitarist Eduardo Fernandez and Leo Brouwer.

His discrography includes 12 CDs and his recordings have been nominated five times for the coveted FELIX award for the best classical CD of the year, a prize which he has won twice.


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A Guitar Recital

Monday 16 January 2006, at 7:30 pm, Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall

 

 

Programme
 

Part I

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)  

Three Sonatas

Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)

Rossiniana opus 119

Manuel M. Ponce  (1882-1948)

Sonata "Romantica" (Hommage a Schubert)

- Allegro moderato

- Andante

- Allegretto vivo-piu lento

- Allegro non troppo

Marlos Nobre (1939)

Prologo & Toccata

Intermission

Part II

Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959)

Douze Etudes (Twelve Studies)

Intermission

Part III

Sir William Walton (1902-1983)

Five Bagatelles

- Allegro, Lento, Alla cubana, Lento, Con slancio

Steve Reich (1936)

"Electric Counterpoint"

- Fast    -Slow    -Fast



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Master classes

Professor Fernandez will conduct a guitar workshop/ master classes to take place at
TOM LEE MUSIC THEATRE 1, Cameron Lane, Tsim Sha Tsui, as follows:

Tuesday  17th January 06    from 16:00 - 20:00
Wednesday   18th January 06  from 16:00 - 20:00
Thursday   19th January 06  from 16:00 - 20:00
Friday  20th January 06  from 16:00 - 20:00



Attendance to the workshop/master classes will be free of charge for those completing attendance to all 4 sessions of the workshop but enrolment is necessary and a deposit of HKD 500 will be required, which will be refunded in cash upon completion of the 4 sessions of the workshop. Those wishing to attend only some sessions of the workshop can do so having enrolled and paid this deposit, but the Chopin Society will not refund the money and the HKD 500 will be kept by the Chopin Society .

These regulations will not apply to those traveling from outside Hong Kong and no deposit will be required thus taking into account the expenses involved in traveling and accommodation. For information and enrolment, please send your particulars and inquiries to the Chopin Society of Hong Kong at afreris@netvigator.com or by fax :2810-0465

Information about The Chopin Society of Hong Kong and its activities can be found in the Society's website at www.chopinsocietyhk.org or e-mail: afreris@netvigator.com for further details.

Tickets are available from Urbtix Outlets at HK$100 and HK$150.

Concessionary tickets at 50% discount are available to students, senior citizens and the disabled. A 50% group discount is available when buying four or more tickets.

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This performance is presented under the rental Subsidy Scheme of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

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