Alessio Bax & Lucille Chung

press release: As part of the Salon Piano Series held at Farley's House of Pianos, Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung will perform pieces by Schubert and Poulenc for one piano/four hands and for two pianos. The concert is on Sunday, January 17, 2016, at 4:00 pm. Tickets are available online at salonpianoseries.org, or at Farley's House of Pianos (608.271.2626) or Orange Tree Imports.

The two-piano pieces will be played on rare "twin" pianos restored by Farley's House of Pianos: a 1914 Mason & Hamlin CC and a 1914 Mason & Hamlin BB.

Bax, a winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition and the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, started off 2016 performing several concerts in Japan with other concerts scheduled in Spain, Chile, South Korea and China.

Chung, an alumni of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, is a winner of the Virginia Parker Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Governor General of Canada.  In 2015, she performed in Canada, Italy, Germany, and Argentina.

Program

Fantasia in F Minor, D. 940—Schubert

Andantino varie, D. 823—Schubert

Military March No. 1, D. 733—Schubert

Lebensstürme, D. 947—Schubert

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor, original transcription for two pianos—Poulenc

Salon Piano Series is a non-profit founded by Tim and Renée Farley to continue the tradition of intimate salon concerts at Farley’s House of Pianos.