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Sunday, February 16, 2025<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

— a “hybrid” event —<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mathilde Handelsman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

piano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World of Yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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“\u2026But in the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives.<\/em>“
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (1942)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


This program for solo piano brings together two composers that, on the surface, one wouldn\u2019t necessarily think of associating, their sound worlds being so different: Maurice Ravel and Dmitri Shostakovich. And yet, across two major works represented here \u2013 Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin<\/em>, and Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87<\/em> \u2013 a few connecting features seem to appear, discreetly, in corners. First, because of the war context for each of these works, and second in the common feeling of nostalgia these pieces share, of looking towards the past and paying homage to composers of yesteryear and ancient forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the center of the program, I chose to insert a contemporary piece by the living, female Korean composer Unsuk Chin, who pays tribute both to her elder, the composer Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti, and to the tradition of Javanese gamelan from which she draws inspiration for this study of pianistic virtuosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dmitri Shostakovich<\/strong> \u2013Preludes et fugues, Op. 87, 1st book<\/em> (1951) :
No. 1 in C major
No. 3 in G major
No. 4 in E minor
No. 5 in D major
No. 7 in A major
 
Unsuk Chin<\/strong> \u2013 Etude No. 1 \u00ab In C \u00bb (1999, revised in 2003)
 
Maurice Ravel<\/strong> \u2013 Le Tombeau de Couperin <\/em>(1914)
Pr\u00e9lude
Fugue
Forlane
Rigaudon
Menuet
Toccata<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognized for her \u201ccalm technical control, extraordinary vigor, and flawless musicality,\u201d (Derni\u00e8res Nouvelles d\u2019Alsace<\/em>, 2013), Dr. Mathilde Handelsman<\/strong> is a concert pianist, poet, and educator from Paris, France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, Mathilde\u2019s d\u00e9but album devoted to Claude Debussy, Images<\/em>, was released for Sheva Collection. Passionate about French music, she regularly gives lecture-recitals on Debussy and champions the piano works of the late Roger Boutry (Grand Prix de Rome, 1954).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights from the 2019-2020 concert season featured Mathilde alongside Nicolas Namoradze at the inauguration of the Tanglewood Learning Institute in a highly acclaimed two-piano performance. Recent festival appearances include the Tanglewood Music Center, Sarasota Music Festival, and the Wissembourg International Music Festival. Next season, Mathilde will d\u00e9but at Carnegie Hall as a 1st Prize winner of the 2021 American Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Concerto Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mathilde was born in Paris to a family of musicians and painters. Her principal teachers are Menahem Pressler, John O\u2019Conor, and Laurent Cabasso. She has also received guidance from Emanuel Ax, Garrick Ohlsson, Peter Serkin, and Robert Levin. After graduating from the Acad\u00e9mie Sup\u00e9rieure de Musique de Strasbourg, Mathilde furthered her studies at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University-Bloomington. In 2020, she graduated from the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Shenandoah University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Mathilde Handelsman currently serves as a Resident Artist and piano faculty at the University of New Hampshire. Her work as a poet includes two published volumes, Pr\u00e9-sage <\/em>(2016) and L\u2019Absurde G\u00e9nie des fleurs<\/em> (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday, February 16, 2025 — a “hybrid” event — Mathilde Handelsman piano The World of Yesterday “\u2026But in the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives.“Stefan Zweig, The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8064","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}