BIPF: Community Piano Day

Birmingham International Piano Festival - Community Piano Day

11am - The Bradshaw Hall

Klaus Sticken, Professor of Piano, Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

Viennese Programme:
Beethoven Eroica Variations
Berg Piano Sonata
Schubert Wanderer-Fantasie

12.30pm, 1.30pm, 3pm, 4pm  - Recital Hall

Four 50 minute solo piano programmes from some of the finest young artists in the world. Beginning today, and then running over five days, 20 Young Artists give Public Recitals as part of the Birmingham International Piano Competition.

Jury: Professor Shuhua Chen (China), Professor Klaus Sticken (Austria), Pascal Nemirovski (France), John Thwaites (UK).
Prizes announced on 18 June.

Jazz Improv Workshop
Eastside Jazz Club

12pm - 12.30pm
2.30pm - 3pm

Learn how to play a jazz tune from scratch and how to create your very own musical building blocks. Join this interactive jazz workshop with Juliane Deil all about the core building blocks of jazz music and you’ll have a chance to make up your own melodies. This is open to groups as well as individuals and prior knowledge of playing the piano is not strictly necessary.

5pm - The Bradshaw Hall

Daniel Browell, Associate Head of the Department of Keyboard Studies, RBC. Masterclass.

6pm  - The Bradshaw Hall

Roman Kosyakov [pictured below] (RBC Piano Tutor, First Prize 2018 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition)

Schumann Abegg Variations
Brahms Variations on a theme by Handel

All events on Sunday 14 April are Free, but audience members should register for their free ticket.

Jan Loeffler (pictured) (Head of Piano in Junior RBC and a Senior RBC Piano Tutor) is running this Community Piano Day. Events are all free, but you may also purchase a £30 Participant Ticket which entitles you to a 30 minute One-to-One Lesson (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult). Tutors will include Junior and Senior RBC staff and Karl-Heinz Simon. In addition to purchasing your Participant Ticket please email Jan.Loeffler@bcu.ac.uk