Prelude - Flavio Villani: Piano Solo
100 St Heliers Bay Rd, St Heliers, AucklandTicket Information
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NOTE: This concert is a repeat of the Town Hall concert on the 30th March to allow extra people to be part of this event since the cap of 100 people under RED Covid restrictions for the Concert Chamber has been met already. It is planned in the St Heliers Community Centre, where already Flavio Villani shares his music school L'Accademia with a team of local and international musicians.
Preludes. Openings. New beginnings. New possibilities. Chopin, Rachmaninoff and piano improvisations.
Before becoming a form immortalised in a score, a Prelude was a largely improvised work devised prior to the main musical performance. Its purpose was to “prepare” an audience for the music to follow, set the mood, and enable the pianist to ascertain the qualities of an unfamiliar piano.
A prelude was a promise – a promise of musical possibilities and mood. And it was an important ‘stepping stone’ in the development of a pianist before they might go on to improvise and compose larger works.
Join international pianist Flavio Villani and embark on an odyssey through this richly varied musical form with the much-loved, many-varied Preludes of Chopin and Rachmaninoff.
The Chopin Preludes Op.28 represent one of Chopin’s masterworks and helped to set the Prelude as a form in its own right while Rachmaninoff’s Preludes Op.23, written 70 years later, further developed the form.
Flavio will also present his own Preludes. These explore stories and moods from the rocambolesque events of the past year, offering a tantalising glimpse of the work that he aims to bring to new heights during his upcoming trip to London to study at Guildhall School of Music in London.
Covid Lockdown Notice: Due to the lockdown restrictions this event has been rescheduled to November from its original date. In the unlikely case the event will still incur in a restricting Covid level, ticket holders will be able to opt between having a refund or transfer their ticket to another date.
Programme
Bach/Busoni - Chaconne
Chopin - Preludes Op.28
Rachmaninov - Preludes Op.23 n.2, 4 and 5
Flavio Villani - Preludes extemporised
Flavio Villani is a New Zealand pianist who made Auckland his home after moving from Italy more than a decade ago. Flavio graduated with Masters in Music (Hons) in 2012 from the University of Auckland under the tutorship of Stephen De Pledge. In 2015 he was the subject of the internationally acclaimed biopic documentary Crossing Rachmaninoff. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Waikato, with Katherine Austin as supervisor.
Flavio’s doctoral studies focus on the methodologies of improvisation used within Classical music. Up until the end of the nineteenth century, improvisation was an essential component of a musician’s development.
“Villani’s delicate score derived purely through piano is stunning. […] It makes you wonder what the musical score of your own life would be." - Manawatu Standard
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