Gepubliceerd op: 25 april 2025
Catskill Mountain International Fortepiano Salon
Malcolm Bilson on Dotted Rhythms
Sunday, April 27 @ 12:00 pm = 18:00h in Europe
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| Renowned fortepianist and scholar Malcolm Bilson, a leading figure in the revival of historical performance, will speak at the International Fortepiano Salon on April 27 at 12 PM. “I am delighted to be asked to speak to the International Fortepiano Salon this month,” he says. “I have been working for a time on a lecture about dotted rhythms, about which I have perhaps somewhat radical ideas, and which I hope will stimulate reactions from some of you.” Celebrated for his insightful interpretations and provocative scholarship, Bilson’s presentation promises to be both engaging and illuminating, featuring musical examples and video excerpts. Malcolm Bilson has been in the forefront of the period-instrument movement for over fifty years. A member of the Cornell Music Department from 1968, he began his pioneering activity in the early 1970s as a performer of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on late 18th- and early 19th-century pianos. Since then he has proven to be a key contributor to the restoration of the fortepiano to the concert stage and to fresh recordings of the “mainstream” repertory. In addition to an extensive career as a soloist and chamber player, Bilson has toured with the English Baroque Soloists with John Eliot Gardiner, the Academy of Ancient Music with Christopher Hogwood, the Philharmonia Baroque under Nicholas McGegan, Tafelmusik of Toronto, Concerto Köln and other early and modern instrument orchestras around the world. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bard College and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Mr. Bilson has recorded the three most important complete cycles of works for piano by Mozart: the piano concertos with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists, the piano-violin Sonatas with Sergiu Luca, and the solo piano sonatas. His traversal on period pianos of the Schubert piano sonatas (including the so-called incomplete sonatas) was completed in 2003, and in 2005 a single CD of Haydn sonatas appeared on the Claves label. In the fall of 1994 Bilson and six of his former artist-pupils from Cornell’s D.M.A. program in historical performance practice presented the 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven in New York City, the first time ever that these works had been given as a cycle on period instruments. The New York Times said that “what emerged in these performances was an unusually clear sense of how revolutionary these works must have sounded in their time.” The recording of this series garnered over fifty very positive reviews.In addition to his activities in Cornell’s performance-practice program, Professor Bilson teaches piano to both graduate and undergraduate students. In the 1990s he was Adjunct Professor at the Eastman School of Music. He has given annual summer fortepiano workshops at various locations in the United States and Europe as well as master classes and lectures (generally in conjunction with solo performances) around the world. In his educational video entitled “Knowing the Score,” released in 2005, Bilson discusses the question: Do we really know how to read the notation of the so-called ‘classical’ masters? |
| Malcolm Bilson, pioneering fortepianist, scholar, performer |
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International Fortepiano Salon
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