A Walk on the Piano with Uri Brener
Uri Brener will be the guest of honor Thursday, 7 April (9pm, Aula Magna via Gobbi 5), at an evening dedicated to classical music organized by Bocconi Student Affairs Division's ISU Bocconi in collaboration with Furcht Pianos
Composer, pianist and improviser, Uri Brener will present a performance based on his recent CD "A Walk", an attempt to create a mega-composition, consisting of pieces of various genres, styles and eras, including compositions by Brener himself.
The choice of music for this project is not traditional and the order of the works is not chronological. It is rather a mosaic where contrasting elements coexist, put into a new light and getting a different reading because of the unusual context in which they are placed). Adorned and united by free improvisation, in the program will appear, among others, the following pieces:
Aa.vv. Chaconne from "Fiori Musicali of different compositions" (Venice 1635) Girolamo Frescobaldi Passacaglie in another tone (1637); Alexander Scriabin Studio n. 2 op. 26 | Prelude no. 21 op.11; Alexander Aisenstadt Two Preludes (1980); Dmitri Shostakovich Elegy Raimon Llull Cantabel els ocells (sec. XII); Jan Tiersen Comptine d'un Autre Ete, Bela Bartok Boating from "Microcosmos"; Uri Brener The Gust, Transition from cycle "Search" 11 o'clock 8 Preludes (1986) Perelandra Tale (Cantus V) | Imponderability (Cantus II).
Uri Brener, born in Moscow in 1974, began playing the piano at four andmade his first attempts at composition at seven. Uri Brener's music is performed all over the world and encompasses many different genres and styles.
He has won a number of prestigious awards and scholarships, including the Prime Minister Prize for composition in 2006, and the very prestigious ACUM Award three times (in 2008, in 2010 and 2015) in diverse categories.
Free entry as long as seats are available.
Next concert Thursday, April 21 at 9pm, Dino Betti van der Noot