Nineteen year old pianist Marika Bournaki is quickly emerging as
an exciting young artist with an extraordinarily engaging musicianship;
as one critic noted, “her playing exudes passion.” Recent engagements have
included Grieg’s A minor Concerto with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra,
a National Arts Centre performance in Ottawa in the Debut Recital series, the Flanders Festival in Belgium and the Konzert Accordate Series in Aachen, Germany. In 2009 Marika was soloist in the Schumann Piano Concerto with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra at the Palaces of St. Petersburg Symphony Festival in Russia. Last season’s highlights include Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon on N.P.R.’s “From the Top,” a sold-out fundraising recital for the Glenn Gould Foundation at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall and a performance on opening night of the illustrious Luminato Festival in Toronto.
PROGRAM
Sonata in E major, No. 30, 0p. 109 Ludwig van Beethoven
Vivace ma non troppo - Adagio (1770 - 1827)
espressivo
Prestissimo
Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung
(Full of Song, with deepest Emotion)
Faschingsschwank aus Wien Robert Schumann
(Carnival Farce from Vienna) (1810 - 1856)
Allegro
Romanze
Scherzino
Intermezzo
Finale
INTERMISSION
Italian Concerto, BWV 971 Johann Sebastian Bach
Allegro (1685 - 1750)
Andante
Presto
Fantasy in F# minor, op. 28 Felix Mendelssohn
Con moto agitato (1809 - 1847)
Allegro con moto
Presto
Graceful Ghost Rag William Bolcom
(b. 1938)
Sonatine Maurice Ravel
Modéré (1875 - 1937)
Movement de Menuet
Animé