Albert Cano Smit

Description

Swiss-born pianist Albert Cano Smit, First Prize winner of the 2017 Naumburg Competition, will be the featured artist in the December concert of Steinway Society – The Bay Area’s 25th Anniversary Season. The concert will be held Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. at West Valley College in Saratoga. A pre-concert talk starts at 1:45 p.m. The artist will be available to meet the audience following the concert.

WHO: Steinway Society — The Bay Area presents ALBERT CANO SMIT
WHAT: Piano concert
WHEN: Sunday, December 8, 2019 2:30 p.m. Pre-concert lecture (1:45 p.m.). Meet-the-artist time follows the concerts.
WHERE: West Valley College Theater, 14000 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga
TICKETS/INFO: Single Tickets: $40-$60. Senior/Student Discounts Available. Student Rush $10, thirty minutes prior to performance. http://www.steinwaysociety.com or 408-300-5635

WHY: Albert Cano Smit won his first international competition at age 14. Since then, his first prize winnings include the International Piano Competition Eugenia Verdet, The Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Junior Intercollegiate Competition, and the Royal Northern College of Music’s Chopin Prize. Smit was a finalist in the Concours International de Montreal and recently made his Carnegie Hall debut. His Fondation Louis Vuitton recital at the Frank Gehry designed “glass cloud” in Paris earlier this year was broadcast live globally.
Smit’s performance is the first of three concerts for the Steinway Society — The Bay Area that will be held at West Valley College in Saratoga this season.
“…plays with the maturity of someone three times his age.”
--CBC Music

PROGRAM:
J. S. Bach, Capriccio on the Departure of His Beloved Brother, BWV 992

Schumann, Kreisleriana, Op. 16

1. Äußerst bewegt (“Extremely animated”), D minor 

2. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch (“Very heartfelt and not too fast”), B-flat major 

3. Sehr aufgeregt (“Very agitated”), G minor 

4. Sehr langsam (“Very slow”), B-flat major/G minor 

5. Sehr lebhaft (“Very lively”), G minor 

6. Sehr langsam (“Very slow”), B-flat major 

7. Sehr rasch (“Very fast”), C minor/E-flat major 

8. Schnell und spielend (“Fast and playful”), G minor 


INTERMISSION

Messiaen, Selections from Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus

1. No. XV, Le baiser de l’enfant Jésus (“The Kiss of Baby Jesus”) 

2. No. XII, La parole toute-puissante (“The Omnipotent Word”)

Chopin, Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 1

Prokofiev, Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83

I. Allegro inquieto—Andantino
II. Andante caloroso 

III. Precipitato 


More Info

Link

http://www.steinwaysociety.com

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408.300.5635 (Box Office)