The 26th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 20 to August 13, 2017
Concerts and Master Classes
Admission free. Suggested Donation $5 at door

 


Thursday, August 10, 2017,  7:30 PM

at

Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA


Mana Tokuno
, pianist

 

 
   

~Program~


BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen


SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15
1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Of Distant Lands and Peoples)
2. Kuriose Geschichte (A Curious Story)
3. Haschemann (Blind Man’s Bluff)
4. Bittendes Kind (Pleading Child)
5. Glückes genug (Happy Enough)
6. Wichtige Begebenheit (An Important Event)
7. Träumerei (Dreaming)
8. Am Kamin (By the Fireside)
9. Ritter vom Steckenpferd (Knight of the Hobbyhorse)
10. Fast zu ernst (Almost too Serious)
11. Fürchtenmachen (Frightening)
12, Kind im Einschlummern (Child Falling Asleep)
13, Der Dichter spricht (The Poet Speaks)


CHOPIN: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23


~Intermission~


FAURÉ: Barcarolle No. 2 in G major, Op. 41

DEBUSSY: from Préludes Book II
…Bruyères (Heaths)
… La puerta del Vino (The Wine Gate)
… Ondine (Water Nymph)


RAVEL: Sonatine
Modéré
Mouvement de Menuet
Animé


CHOPIN: Barcarolle, Op. 60


  " .... the French part of the offering went so satisfactorily .... "
-David Moran, The Boston Musical Intelligencer


Steinway piano provided by M. Steinert & Sons

Meet The Artists
Mana Tokuno, pianist

Pianist Mana Tokuno has received wide-spread acclaim for her sensitive and insightful interpretations and her brilliant virtuosity. First Prize winner of the prestigious Competition Internationalé, she also received the Leo Sirota Award for Piano Solo Performance at the Corpus Christi International Competition as well as the Special Award for Schubert Interpretation at the International Competition Valsesia Musica in Varallo, Italy. Other prizes include the Dosei-Kai Prize for Distinction in Performance, and the Silver Medal in the Chubu Chopin Competition in Nagoya, Japan. Among other honors, Ms. Tokuno was selected in two consecutive seasons from a world-wide pool of applicants to perform in master classes by Daniel Barenboim and Leon Fleischer at Carnegie Hall.

Known for her ability to bring a vast array of styles to life, Ms. Tokuno has performed at Carnegie (Weill) Hall and CAMI Hall in New York as well as at Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall in Boston. She was also invited to give a solo recital as part of a Chopin Festival at the Polish Consulate in New York. In addition to solo and chamber performances in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Romania, she has appeared at many venues in her native Japan and in numerous recitals and chamber concerts in the United States.

Ms. Tokuno’s principal teachers were Midori Tanabe at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where she was an honors graduate, and Victor Rosenbaum at the New England Conservatory in Boston where she received the Master of Music degree with academic honors and was selected to perform with the NEC Orchestra at the Commencement Concert. Ms. Tokuno also holds Graduate Diploma in Collaborative Piano from New England Conservatory.

Now a highly regarded teacher herself, Ms. Tokuno was formerly on the faculty of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. She has been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School in Boston since 2008, and the Cremona International Music Academy since 2011. Her debut solo CD “Beethoven Sonatas & Bagatelles” was released on GiNOTE RECORDS® in October 2009 and is available worldwide at iTunes, Amazon.com, and CD Baby. You can also listen on iTunes to Ms. Tokuno playing “Tokuno Toccata,” the piece written for her Carnegie Hall Recital in April 2010 by a Boston composer, Thomas Oboe Lee, as well as the masterclass with Leon Fleisher on Schubert’s Sonata in A major, D. 959 at Carnegie Hall Weill Institute Webpage.





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