Ukrainian born pianist, Marianna Grynchuk, presents The Firm’s third concert in this year’s series featuring the waltz with a beautiful selection of pieces by Frédéric Chopin and the premiere of two new works by Adelaide composers.
Marianna Grynchuk is an honours graduate of the Elder Conservatorium and recipient of numerous scholarships and awards. She has performed nationally and internationally including in Moscow and New York.
“I love immersing myself in a wide range of repertoire” says the young pianist. “Chopin, in particular, is a composer whom I cherish and respect. His connection with the piano was unique and you can feel it in each and every piece, no matter how miniature or grandiose.”
Marianna Grynchuk will be playing a selection of Chopin’s much loved mazurkas and waltzes, which draw on the composer’s distinctive heritage of Polish folk traditions and French Romanticism.
From the heartland of the waltz, the concert will include Johann Strauss II’s own arrangement of his popular Tales from the Vienna Woods.
In keeping with The Firm’s practice of combining the old with the new, two new waltzes by Adelaide composers and Firm directors, Raymond Chapman Smith and Quentin Grant, will be performed for the first time. It’s an experience which Grynchuk says she relishes: “The joy, aside from playing new music to audiences, is in being able to work with the actual composers, to really ‘get into their heads’ so to speak”.
Chapman Smith’s Marienbadklavier draws on memories of a mythical spa and an enigmatic French film whilst Grant’s Winter Star Waltzes takes the listener on a cool and icy journey through a musical landscape that is influenced by the atmospheric writings of the 20th Century Swiss author Robert Walser.
Complimentary drinks and nibbles will be served after the concert.
Concert Program:
Johann Strauss II, Tales from the Vienna Woods
Raymond Chapman Smith, Marienbadklavier
Quentin Grant, Winter Star Waltzes
Frederic Chopin, Prelude in A major,
4 Mazurkas op. 24
Grande valse brilliante in E flat major op.18
Grande valse in A minor op. 34. No. 2
Valse in D flat major, op. 64 No. 1 “Minute Waltz”
Valse in C sharp minor, op. 64. No. 2
Valse in E minor, op. post
September 22, 8pm, Elder Hall, Adelaide
Tickets: $12 ($7 conc) available at the door or http://www.trybooking.com/FKTK.
What the critics say:
“Marianna Grynchuk is a young woman on a mission.”
– Rodney Smith The Advertiser February 2014
“Chapman Smith’s deep immersion in Viennese culture of centuries past has made it possible for him to evoke this long-distant world with utter conviction and naturalness”
– Stephen Whittington, The Advertiser July 2014
“Continuing to be the best value concert in town . . .Get your dance card filled by The Firm at one or all of their remaining four shows in this series”
– Gordon Forester, Glam Adelaide July 2014
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