CAMA's Masterseries Presents Benjamin Grosvenor, piano ⫽ Friday, March 18, 2022 ⫽ Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara ⫽ 7:30PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2022, 7:30PM CAMA's Masterseries Presents BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, piano “His solo recitals recall an earlier generation of wizards of the piano.” —Financial Times British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor (b.1992) has been described as “the best pianist to come out of England in the last 50 years.” One only needs to listen to his playing to understand that the accolades are well deserved. Grosvenor’s promise was evident from a young age; he was the winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician Competition at the age of eleven, and was invited to perform with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Opening Night of the 2011 BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall at age nineteen. Turned away from performance by suddenly imposed pandemic precautions while already in Santa Barbara in March 2020, CAMA is delighted to welcome Benjamin Grosvenor back for his proper Santa Barbara and Masterseries debut! PROGRAM: FRANCK: Prélude, Chorale et Fugue, FWV 21 (1884) R. SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana, Op.16 ALBÉNIZ: Iberia, Book I RAVEL: Jeux d’eau RAVEL: La valse •
FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2022, 7:30PM
CAMA's Masterseries Presents
BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, piano
“His solo recitals recall an earlier generation of wizards of the piano.” —Financial Times
British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor (b.1992) has been described as “the best pianist to come out of England in the last 50 years.” One only needs to listen to his playing to understand that the accolades are well deserved. Grosvenor’s promise was evident from a young age; he was the winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician Competition at the age of eleven, and was invited to perform with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Opening Night of the 2011 BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall at age nineteen. Turned away from performance by suddenly imposed pandemic precautions while already in Santa Barbara in March 2020, CAMA is delighted to welcome Benjamin Grosvenor back for his proper Santa Barbara and Masterseries debut!
PROGRAM:
FRANCK: Prélude, Chorale et Fugue, FWV 21 (1884)
R. SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana, Op.16
ALBÉNIZ: Iberia, Book I
RAVEL: Jeux d’eau
RAVEL: La valse
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner<br />
English Baroque Soloists<br />
© Sim Canetty-Clarke<br />
APRIL<br />
12<br />
TUE, 7:<strong>30PM</strong><br />
2022<br />
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS<br />
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Music Director<br />
Kati Debretzeni, violin <strong>⫽</strong> Fanny Paccoud, viola<br />
Almost inexcusably absent from the pantheon of great conductors appearing<br />
in Santa Barbara during CAMA’s long history, Sir John Eliot Gardiner will at last<br />
grace the Granada stage directing the English Baroque Soloists, the preeminent<br />
period-instrument chamber ensemble founded by the maestro himself in 1978.<br />
Arguably the foremost living interpreter of 17th‐ and 18th‐century choral and<br />
orchestral repertoire, Sir John Eliot Gardiner is also the Founder and Director<br />
of the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.<br />
With these and other ensembles, he has recorded more than 250 albums; among<br />
them are benchmark recordings of the Monteverdi Vespers and Bach B‐minor<br />
Mass, the complete Beethoven symphony cycle on period instruments, and each<br />
and every Bach sacred cantata. In his spare time, the prodigious maestro runs an<br />
organic farm at Springhead near Fontmell Magna in North Dorset.<br />
Haydn: Symphony No.103 in E‐flat Major, “The Drumroll,” H.1/103<br />
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E‐flat Major, K.364 (320d)<br />
Mozart: Symphony No.39 in E‐flat Major, K.543<br />
Principal Sponsors: Herbert & Elaine Kendall • Jocelyne & William Meeker<br />
Sponsors: NancyBell Coe & Bill Burke<br />
Co-Sponsors: Elizabeth Karlsberg & Jeff Young • John & Fran Nielsen<br />
George & Judy Writer • Nancy & Byron Kent Wood
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