Representing Park Lane Group Young Artists Series.
Programme
Debussy – Images Book 1
- Reflets dans l’eau
- Hommage à Rameau
- Mouvement
Adams – China Gates
Scriabin – Two Dances Op 73
Debussy – Six Épigraphes Antiques
- Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d’été
- Pour un tombeau sans nom
- Pour que la nuit soit propice
- Pour la danseuse aux crotales
- Pour l’Égyptienne
- Pour remercier la pluie du matin
Scriabin – Ver la flame Op 72
The programme is dedicated to Debussy, this year being the 100th anniversary of his death in 1918.
Performer
Olga Stezhko Piano
Minsk-born Olga Stezhko was educated in Belarus, Italy and then the Royal Academy of Music, completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with distinction. Her international successes include: Grand Prix, Halina Czerny-Stefanska In Memoriam International Piano Competition (Poland), First Prize, Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition (France), Third Prize, Prix Amadèo International Piano Competition (Germany). She performed with particular success in Park Lane Group concerts (Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room, National Gallery), plus Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Salle Cortot Paris, Carnegie Hall New York. As concert pianist, recording artist and interpreter of early and mid-20th century repertoire, Olga Stezhko’s other performances include the Palermo Classical Festival, Leeds International Concert Season, ‘Belarusians of the World’ Arts Festival (Minsk), there being awarded the Ministry of Culture’s Special Recognition. Olga Stezhko specialises in Debussy and Scriabin, the principal parts of her programme today, her music being a journey for the soul and the intellect. Her début album ‘Eta Carinae’, combining her passion for astronomy together with music by Scriabin and Busoni, was hailed by Gramophone Magazine as “an outstanding début … not for the faint-hearted but for those who enjoy dark and menacing regions of the mind”. Her next, an all-Debussy album, will be released worldwide this year marking the centenary of the composer’s death.
