Saturday, March 11, 7:30 PM Heritage Auditorium, Assumption Hall
Fantastical Borrowings
Douglas Finch
The School of Creative Arts welcomes pianist Douglas Finch who will present a program of contemporary Canadian piano music along with works by Ives and Chopin.
Richard Causton - Non mi comporto male (1993)
John Burge - from 24 Preludes (2015)
no. 13 in F-Sharp Major [One-Note Ostinato]
no. 14 in E-flat Minor (arranged/improvised by D.Finch)
no. 15 in D-Flat Major [Polytonality]
Rodney Sharman - Opera Transcription - Tristan und Isolde (2013)
Douglas Finch - Improvised Prelude
Charles Ives - Hawthorne from the Concord Sonata (1911-12)
Pause
Douglas Finch - Preludes and Afterthoughts - Fantasy-Transcriptions on Chopin’s Preludes op. 28 (2009-11)
Chopin - 4th Ballade (1842)
Improvisations
ADMISSION Adults/Seniors $20 / Students with ID $5 - Buy Tickets Here
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Douglas Finch is a Canadian pianist and composer, known for his innovative and imaginative approach to performance, and for helping to revive the lost art of classical improvisation in concert. He was born in Winnipeg, and had his initial musical training with his mother and later Winnifred Sim and Jean Broadfoot. He continued at the University of Western Ontario with William Aide and then at Juilliard, NY, with Beveridge Webster. After winning a Silver Medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels in 1978, he began to perform extensively throughout Canada, as well as devoting much of his time to composition, with a number of his works being broadcast on CBC Radio. He settled in London, UK, in 1993 and soon afterwards co-founded The Continuum Ensemble with conductor Philip Headlam, premiering over 40 new works and recording for Avie and NMC (music by Errollyn Wallen and Roger Smalley). He has been artistic director of several acclaimed events in London, including 'In the MOMENT', a festival of dance and music at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Greenwich in February 2009 that featured over 350 performers. As a composer, he has written works for piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra and theatre as well as the soundtracks for four feature-length films by British director Jon Sanders, one of which - Late September (2009) - features him as a pianist/character in the film. His ‘Night Love Song - Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra’ was premièred by Rivka Golani and the Canadian Sinfonietta at the Glenn Gould Concert Hall, Toronto, November 24, 2012. Douglas Finch is Professor of Piano and Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and a regular guest teacher at Chetham’s School of Music, Chetham’s International Piano Summer School, and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
-- Douglas Finch in rehearsal with Sigi Torinus, photo by Amin Nadi