Favorite Piano Music for Two and Four Hands
Sunday, March 22, 7:00 pm
Strong Auditorium, UR River Campus
PROGRAM:
Anh Dang Minh Vu, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach Italian Concerto, 1st mov. Frédéric Chopin Mazurka op. 59 no. 1 Frédéric Chopin Barcarolle op. 60 Claude Debussy "Reflets dans l'eau" from Images I Nicolai Kapustin Étude de concert op. 40 No. 1 "Prelude" Intermission
Anh Dang Minh Vu and Dariusz Terefenko, piano four-hands Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances: No.1; No.4; No.6 Gioachino Rossini Overture to “The Barber of Seville” Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn Tonk
Vu Dang Minh Anh (also known as Ania) was born in Warsaw (Poland) in 1994 to a family of Vietnamese descent. She began playing the piano at the age of five and was officially enrolled in a music school at the age of seven. She graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Complex of State Music Schools no. 4 in Warsaw and currently is a sophomore at the Eastman School of Music pursuing degrees in composition and music theory, and studying piano under the tutelage of Prof. Vincent Lenti. Throughout her musical education, she has won several prizes in national and international piano competitions and has performed three times in the Hanoi Opera House in Vietnam.
Dariusz Terefenko, Associate Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media, began his career at the Eastman School of Music as a master’s student of jazz piano. After completing his M.M. in jazz piano performance (1998), he enrolled and finished a Ph.D. in music theory (2004). Terefenko holds a unique, joint teaching appointment in two departments: Jazz and Contemporary Media and Music Theory. Dr. Terefenko maintains an active performance life, frequently playing concerts in the USA, Canada and Europe. His latest duo project, Crossing Paths, features alto saxophonist Alexa Tarantino. In 2014, Terefenko published a book: Jazz Theory – From Basic to Advanced Study (Routledge), which has already been adopted as a required textbook at the prestigious music universities in the USA, Canada, and Europe.
Co-sponsored by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies and the University of Rochester Department of Music. Free and open to the public.