San Francisco International Piano Festival - Festival Finale

Presented by Old First Concerts

Portraits of Jory Vinikour and Gwendolyn Mok

The festival concludes Season 4.5 through the lens of an historical epoch that is both precedent and premonition: the 1918 Spanish Flu, the armistice of 1919, and the advent of the roaring twenties. The Piano Festival takes its inspiration from this moment and follows the thread of innocence lost and reclaimed, tragedy mourned, joy in rebirth, and the dizzying juxtaposition of folly and destruction.

Highlights include performances of Couperin, Bach, and Poulenc with Jory Vinikour and Philippe LeRoy, Gwendolyn Mok and Jesse Barrett performing Saint-Saens’ Sonata for Oboe and Piano, works by Nadia Boulanger and Germaine Tailleferre, and the vertiginous La Valse by Ravel reimagined through multimedia.

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Program Items

Nadia Boulanger Vers la vie nouvelle
Francis Poulenc Suite Française
Camille Saint-Saëns Sonata for Oboe and Piano
Germaine Tailleferre 2 Valses for two pianos
Strauss/Godowsky Die Fledermaus Paraphrase
Maurice Ravel La Valse

Performers

Jory Vinikour harpsichord
Philippe LeRoy harpsichord
Gwendolyn Mok piano
Jesse Barret oboe
Jeffrey LaDeur piano

Old First Presbyterian Church

Old First Presbyterian Church

1751 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States