Friday 26 September 2025
4pm
Milton Court Concert Hall
Composition and Keyboard Induction Concert
Programme
Igor Stravinsky
‘Moderato’ from Sonata for two pianos
Reuben Esterhuizen*
piano, piano
Grace Ahn | piano
Ulani Lo | piano
Graham Fitkin
Aract
Pernille Faye*
Alluvium
Junyan Cai | piano
Bendit Chan | piano
Lucy Holmes*
Tesserae
Elena Kats-Chernin
Dance of the Paper Umbrellas
Lin Cong | piano
Alicia Elsom | piano
Henri Dutilleux
Figures de résonances No 1
Andre Serra*
memories of honey and salt
Jinglei Li | piano
Yan-Cheng Lin | piano
Henri Dutilleux
Figures de résonances No 2
Joseph Graydon*
Vignettes II
Yichun Huang | piano
Xin Jiang | piano
Molly Arnuk*
small, flying, looking down
Béla Bartók
‘Ostinato’
No 7 from 7 Pieces from ‘Mikrokosmos’ Sz108
Geneviene Liew | piano
Alfredo van de Munt | piano
Willem Buurman*
Toucan
Yuyang Li*
Morning alarm
Béla Bartók
‘Perpetuum Mobile’
No 3 from 7 Pieces from ‘Mikrokosmos’ Sz108
Xiaoman Zhong | piano
Charlotte Brettell | piano
Olivier Messiaen
‘Amen du Judgement’
No 6 from Visions de l’Amen
Emily Pedersen*
Laissez Résonner
Nicole Wu | piano
Yawen Xu | piano
Elena Langer
Excerpt from Red Mare
Mary Offer*
Forgotten faces
Jodie Tang | piano
Lilly Vadaneaux | piano
*Guildhall School student composer
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