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Wednesday 15 May 2002, at 8.00 pm  City Hall Concert Hall

The Lady Kadoorie Master Teachers Series

 

 

Alvaro Pierri

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.

 Programme

Nicolo Paganini                Grande Sonata per la Chitara (Allegro, Romanza, Andantino variato)

E. Moreno Torroba          Sonatina (Allegretto, Andante, Allegro)

Alberto Ginastera              Sonata para Guitara (Esordio, Scherzo, Canto, Final)

 Intermission

Jacques Hetu                    Suite pour Guitar (Prelude, Nocturne, Ballade, Reverie, Finales)

                                        This work was composed for A. Pierri.

Astor Piazzolla                  Cinco Piezas (Campero, Romantico, Acentuado, Triston, Compadre)

Egberto Gismonti              Central Guitar, Agua e vinho, Frevo.

Professor Pierri will hold masterclasses on the 16th and 17th of May at the Recital Hall of the City Hall. Attendance to these masterclasses will be free of charge but enrollment is necessary. For information and enrollment please send your particulars and inquiries to The Chopin Society of Hong Kong:

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Time Schedule for Masterclasses 

 

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