Sunday 8 July 2018, 7.30pm
Georgian-Swiss pianist Tamriko Kordzaia presents pieces for solo piano by Jürg Frey, Richard Ayres and Klaus Lang, as well as a world premiere of a new piece by Swiss composer and saxophonist Antoine Chessex.
PROGRAMME
Jürg Frey - Extended Circular Music No. 9 (2015) (15 Min)
Richard Ayres - No. 8 (1991) (6 Min )
Antoine Chessex - New Piece for Piano Solo (World Premiere) (2018) (~15-20 Min)
Intermission
Klaus Lang - Sieben Sonnengesichter, No. 1, 3, 7 (2011/2013) (~35 min)
Georgian-Swiss pianist Tamriko Kordzaia became renowned in her native Georgia as an interpreter of Mozart and Haydn. After moving to Switzerland, she continued in this field, but became more and more engaged in new music, especially in the works of the younger generations of composers. She has received numerous national and international awards, including the first prize and the prize for Mozart interpretation at the International Sakai Competition in Osaka and the culture award of the City of Winterthur. She has been a member of the Mondrian Ensemble in Zurich since 2008 while constantly touring the world for concerts. She premiered pieces by Klaus Lang, Jürg Frey, David Dramm, Felix Profos, Roland Moser, Mikheil Shugliashvil and others and released CDs on Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, WERGO, A Tree in a Field Records and Guild; In 2020 Col Legno released a CD with music by the Austrian composer Thomas Wally and on the Berlin label Tochnit Aleph the solo piece "Experience of Limits" by Antoine Chessex was published on vinyl. Since 2005 Tamriko Kordzaia is artistic director of the Georgian-Swiss festival for current music »Close Encounters«. Tamriko Kordzaia is piano professor at the Zurich University of the Arts.
www.tamriko.net
