Seda Röder

Contemporary German Piano Music
Seda Röder, piano
Lecture Concert
Friday, December 5, 2008, 8:00 pm
Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
tickets: $ 10 (suggested donation)
Info: +1 617 262 6050
info@boston.goethe.org

Alban Berg: Piano Sonata Op. 1
Hans Werner Henze: la mano sinistra
Helmut Lachenmann: Ein Kinderspiel
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück IX
Hans Tutschku: Zellen-Linien for Piano and Live-Electronics

We hope many of you can make it!

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On November 14 Seda will perform pieces by Stockhausen, Lachenmann, and Henze for the composition seminar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. The performance will be followed by an informal discussion with Prof. Peter Child and his students.

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Composed late in his life, the Six Pieces for Piano op. 118 by Johannes Brahms constitute a turning point in the history of piano music. On the one hand this collection of short pieces adheres to traditional forms and structures. On the other hand, however, Brahms explores novel sonorities and new methods of developing musical material that paved the way for the music of the 2nd Viennese School in the beginning of the 20th century.

Seda has recorded these wonderful pieces earlier this year at Harvard University, and her interpretation of Brahms’ masterpieces will be published on a forthcoming CD along with Alban Berg’s Sonata op. 1 and Mozart’s Sonata in F major, K. 280.

As a preview of the forthcoming CD we present to you a section of the third piece in the cycle, the Ballade in g minor. We hope you enjoy the music! If you would like to order Seda’s CD please contact us at info@sedaroeder.com.

To receive information about upcoming performances, please register on this website.