Champagne & Chopin
with Kevin Kenner

Tuesday 4th May, 7.30 pm,
Mayfield Parish Church

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849):

Waltz in E Major KK IVa/12
Mazurka No 1 in C Major Op 68
Mazurka in A Minor KK IV a/7
Ballad No 1 in G Minor Op 23
Polonaise in G-flat Major (Les adieux de Varsovie) B 36
Mazurka No 1 in F-sharp Minor Op 6
Nocturne in C-sharp Minor KK IV a/16
Scherzo in B flat Minor, Op 31
Polonaise No 3 in F Minor Op 71
Mazurka No 2 in C-sharp Minor
Valse No 3 in D-flat Major
Ballade No 4 in F Minor
Souvenir de Paganini
Mazurka No 1 in A Minor Op 59
Scherzo No 3 in C-sharp Minor Op 39

Kevin Kenner was the winner in 1990 of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and of the Bronze Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He has since performed as soloist with world-class orchestras including the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, The Czech Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony of Japan, and in the US with the principal orchestras of San Francisco, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Rochester, Baltimore, St. Paul and many others. He has been invited to work with many renowned conductors, including Sir Charles Groves, Andrew Davis, Hans Vonk, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Kazimierz Kord, Jiri Belohlavek and Antoni Wit.

He has given performances of chamber music with the Belcea Quartet, the Tokyo String Quartet, the Endellion String Quartet and the Vogler String Quartet among many others. He also acts as an adjudicator for some of the world's prestigious international piano competitions. Since 2001 he has been engaged as a professor of piano at the Royal College of Music, London, where a number of his students have gone on to win prizes in international piano competitions and sign contracts with major record labels. Kevin Kenner's recordings include many discs of Chopin works as well as recordings of Ravel, Schumann, Beethoven and Piazzolla. He has also established himself as a specialist in period instruments and his recent recording of Chopin solo piano works on an 1848 Pleyel for the National Chopin Institute of Poland received a 5 star "superb" rating by the French magazine Diapason.

"a player of grace, subtle variety and strength, with a mature grasp of dramatic structure and proportion" The Financial Times

"a major talent...an artist whose intellect, imagination and pianism speak powerfully and eloquently" The Washington Post

"one of the finest American pianists to come along in years" The Chicago Tribune