GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY GALA – National Chopin Competition Turns 50!
About this Event
1314 Miller Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33146
The Chopin Foundation in collaboration with the Frost School of Music and Frost Music Live! Signature Series presents
The National Chopin Piano Competition Golden Anniversary Gala Concert and Dinner
Featuring pianists Kevin Kenner & Avery Gagliano
Concert at the Gusman Concert Hall
Optional Post-concert Dinner at the Hormel Music Innovation Stage
As part of the Chopin Foundation’s PRELUDE to the 2025 National Chopin Piano Competition, this gala event is the only public fundraising event to raise funds and awareness for the Competition. Since 1975, the Competition has brought the best young American pianists to Miami to compete for cash prizes and the opportunity to represent the US at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. This exciting gala performance features TWO excellent artists: the winner of the 2020 US Competition, Avery Gagliano, and the winner of the 1990 Warsaw Competition, Kevin Kenner
Join us in celebrating the golden anniversary of the National Chopin Piano Competition and in honoring Founder and President, Lady Blanka Rosenstiel.
Program
Avery Gagliano
F. Chopin
Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 55 No. 2
Mazurkas, Op. 30
R. Schumann
Novelletten Op. 21 No. 8 in F-sharp minor
Romanze Op. 28 no. 2
Avery Gagliano & Kevin Kenner
W. A. Mozart / E. Grieg
Sonata K. 545 C major for two pianos
Intermission
Kevin Kenner & Quintet
F. Chopin
Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22
Krakowiak, Op. 14
Variations on Mozart’s “La ci darem la mano”, Op. 2
For 50 years, the Chopin Foundation and the National Chopin Piano Competition have earned a prestigious reputation in Miami, in the U.S. and abroad as one of the foremost proponents of talented American pianists. Through competition prizes, scholarships, and performance opportunities, the organization has touched the lives of thousands of young artists and enriched the South Florida cultural community
SUN / NOV 10, 2024 / 4:00 P.M.
UM Gusman Concert Hall
General Admission: $50
Concert Ticket + Post-concert Dinner: $200
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