【Piano Master Class】
主講人: Joanne Polk
(Member of the piano faculty
of Manhattan School of Music)
日期:2018年05月21日(一)
時間:13:30~15:10
地點:北藝大音樂廳(請由音樂廳後台進入)
※北藝大鋼琴組必到
※歡迎有興趣者前往聆聽
L. v. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.3 Op.2 no.3
Piano:陳皓川 Hao-Chuan, Chen
Schumann:Kreisleriana, op.16
Piano:李洸頡 Kuang-Chieh, Li
JOANNE POLK was catapulted into the public eye with her recordings
of the complete piano works of American composer Amy Beach (1867-1944) on the
Arabesque Recordings label. She celebrated the centennial of Beach’s Piano
Concerto by giving the work its London premiere with the English Chamber
Orchestra at the Barbican Center, under the baton of Paul Goodwin, and
subsequently performed it with the Women’s Philharmonic in San Francisco, under
conductor Apo Hsu, in a performance described as “brilliant” by critic Joshua
Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle. He further lauded her
performance as “an enormously vital, imaginative reading. Her playing was
expansive in the opening movement, brittle and keen in the delightful scherzo. She
brought a light touch to the foreshortened slow movement and fearless technical
panache to the showy conclusion.”
As a result of her work to date, promoting
the music of women composers, Joanne Polk was named one of Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of the Year (2014) in
an article titled, “Profiles in Courage.” In September 2014, Ms. Polk’s CD The Flatterer, solo piano music of
French Romantic composer Cécile Chaminade, was released on the Steinway and
Sons Label. The CD was a “Pick of the Week” on New York’s classical radio
station, WQXR, and debuted at Number 1 on the Classical Billboard Chart. In September, 2017, Polk’s recording titled Gershwin and Wild was released on the
Steinway and Sons Label. Featured on
this CD are Earl Wild’s Seven Virtuoso Etudes on Gershwin Songs, his Variations on Someone to Watch Over Me,
as well as Wild’s Piano Sonata.
Her first recording in the Amy Beach
series, by the still waters,
received the 1998 INDIE award for best solo recording. Empress of Night, the fifth volume
of Ms. Polk’s survey of Beach’s piano works, includes the Piano Concerto with
the English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Goodwin conducting, and Beach’s renowned
Piano Quintet with the Lark Quartet. The sixth volume, Morning Glories, partners Ms. Polk
again with the Lark Quartet in three of Amy Beach’s chamber music works. Two
all-Beach performances at Merkin Concert Hall, also with the Lark Quartet, were
applauded by the New York Times, as they deemed Polk’s performances
“polished and assured.” The American Record Guide reported, “Polk and
the Larks played their hearts out. We in the audience shouted ourselves hoarse
with gratitude.” Her 2007 CD titled Songs of Amy Beach, recorded with
baritone Patrick Mason for Bridge Records, was nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award.
In 2010, Ms. Polk’s two-CD set of solo
piano music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Songs
for Pianoforte, was released on the Newport Classic label. Her solo piano CD,
titled Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn,
was released in 2012 on the Bridge Records label. Other recordings include Completely Clara: Lieder by Clara Wieck
Schumann, her debut CD
for Arabesque Recording, featuring Metropolitan Opera soprano Korliss Uecker. This
CD was selected as a “Best of the Year” recording by The Seattle Times
and was featured on New York Public Radio’s Performance Today. Ms.
Polk’s CD for Albany Records, Callisto,
features the solo piano music of Judith Lang Zaimont.
Joanne Polk received her Bachelor of Music
and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, and her Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music. She has given master classes and
recitals at many summer festivals and universities across the globe. Ms. Polk is one of three directors of Manhattan in the Mountains Summer Music
Festival, a three-week summer music festival in the Catskill Mountains,
devoted to chamber music, solo performing, and community engagement. Ms. Polk’s recent concert engagements, both
as a soloist and a chamber musician, have taken her from concert halls in
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Italy, to Smith College in Massachusetts to, in
2018, Guangzhou, China.
Ms. Polk is a member of the piano faculty
of Manhattan School of Music, and is an exclusive Steinway artist. Please visit Joanne Polk’s website at
www.joannepolkpianist.com
