Program

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Festival “Rarities of Piano Music”, as many of you may have already noticed. Up to now more than 2000 piano pieces have been performed during the festival, most of them uncommon or rare jewels of the repertoire. So what is to come in the jubilee year? You will find the answer on the following pages of this flyer. There will be more concerts than usual and to commemorate Liszt’s 200th birthday the festival will provide its own highlights: Donald Manildi, the curator of the worldwide biggest collection of piano recordings at the University of Maryland, will give a talk in our matinee, and you will find a Liszt exhibition in the foyer arranged by Dr. Joachim Draheim. Moreover we will look into the question of the importance of piano recitals in today’s concert life. This topic will be debated in a panel discussion headed by international high-calibre piano experts.

The pianists of this year’s festival (august 19 – 27, 2011) are:

	Freitag, 19. August 2011 - Roland Pöntinen
	Sonnabend, 20. August 2011 - Matinee
	Sonnabend, 20. August 2011 - Nadejda Vlaeva
	Sonnabend, 20. August 2011 - Daniel Berman
	Sonntag, 21. August 2011 - Podiumsdiskussion
	Sonntag, 21. August 2011 - Artur Pizarro
	Montag, 22. August 2011 - Marc-André Hamelin
	Dienstag, 23. August 2011 - Danny Driver
	Mittwoch, 24. August 2011 - Piers Lane
	Donnerstag, 25. August 2011 - Igor Tchetuev
	Freitag, 26. August 2011 - Olga Solovieva
	Freitag, 26. August 2011 - Håvard Gimse
	Sonnabend, 27. August 2011 - Jonathan Powell

I am sure that this special and extended program will not only arouse the anticipation of our longterm regular customers but also of those who discovered the Festival only recently.

Yours,
Peter Froundjian