Mahan Esfahani
Born in Tehran in 1984, the early keyboards specialist and BBC New Generation Artist MAHAN ESFAHANI is fast gaining international recognition as a soloist and collaborative artist on the harpsichord, fortepiano and organ in both early and contemporary repertoire. He has appeared with such ensembles as The English Concert, Il Complesso Barocco (dir. Alan Curtis), the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the King's Noyse and in such series and festivals as London's Wigmore Hall, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, the Goettingen Handel Festival, the City of London Festival, the Halle Handel Festival, the Settimana Mozart of Milan, Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, Seattle's Benaroya Hall, Birmingham's Symphony Hall, the Festwoche Herrenhausen of Hannover, the Collection of Musical Instruments at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini of Venice, the Montisi Festival, Milan's Basilica di San Marco, the Berkeley Early Music Festival, the San Francisco Early Music Society, Los Angeles' Da Camera Society, Gotham Early Music at New York's Times Center, and many other concert seasons both in the U.S. and Europe.
He studied Musicology & Theory as a President's Scholar at Stanford University, where he graduated with honours and distinction with a thesis on aesthetics in early nineteenth-century opera seria and worked closely under the guidance of the eminent American musicologist George Houle. Further studies have been with the Australian harpsichordist Peter Watchorn (Boston) and with the Italian organist Lorenzo Ghielmi (Milan). Among his numerous musical and academic awards are a 2009 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. In Autumn 2008 he began a three-year term as Artist-in-Residence at New College, Oxford. As well as a busy recital and broadcast schedule - including two appearances at the legendary BBC Proms in August of 2009 - his future projects include further work on a series of recordings for the Musica Omnia label encompassing the works for harpsichord and organ of the Elizabethan John Bull (the first volume of which has been released in 2009: www.musicaomnia.org), and performances and recordings of twentieth-century concerti for the harpsichord with the BBC Concert Orchestra and National Orchestra of Wales; he has also recorded as a solo organist for Naxos.
Program
July 12 - Noon Harpsichord Recital - Castelmuzio
12:00 - Pieve di Santo Stefano
Mahan Esfahani
Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo (ca. 1704?), BWV 993: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
1. Arioso. Le adulazioni dei suoi amici che tentano di dissuaderlo dal viaggio.
2. Andante. Una rappresentazione delle diverse disgrazie che possono capitare all'estero.
3. Una lamentazione generale.
4. Qua gli amici arrivano e constatano che non può essere diversamente, e gli dicono addio.
5. Aria di postiglione.
6. Fuga all'imitazione della cornetta di posta.
Sonata in c, op. 5 no. 6 (1766): Johann Christian Bach (1715-1782)
Grave
Allegro moderato
Tempo di gavotta
Cinque sonate per clavicembalo: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
K. 15 in mi minore
K. 213 in re minore
K. 115 in do minore
K. 69 in fa minore
K. 502 in Do Maggiore
Toccata in fa-diesis minore, BWV 910: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• Tickets at the door 15.-, 25.- € |
