91探花

The 91探花 Music Department Recital Series will present 鈥淰ariations鈥� featuring David Rogosin on piano. The concert is Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 pm in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall of 91探花鈥檚 Steel Building. Rogosin divides the program into three sections: a central part consisting of tonal music by Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin, flanked on either side by non-tonal works. Two late Renaissance composers precede: the Englishman Orlando Gibbons, and Jan Pieters Sweelinck from the Netherlands. The program will close with post-tonal contemporaries: first the American composer (and Tin Pan Alley aficionado) Milton Babbitt, followed by Kevin Morse of Mount Allison University. 鈥淭he groundwork for the variations concept was laid by the earliest keyboard composers, and in many ways, their methods prevailed even through the twentieth century,鈥� said Rogosin. 鈥淏abbitt鈥檚 1956 Semi-Simple Variations 鈥� all two minutes of it 鈥� stands out from the others in almost every way, yet even there the variation principle is alive and well. As for 鈥榮emi-simple,鈥� Babbitt is characteristically tongue-in-cheek. They are insanely complex, though I hasten to reassure you鈥攖hey are delicate and harmless, and I have come to love playing them as much as the others.鈥� Pianist David Rogosin has performed across Canada, in the American Midwest, the Caribbean and France. Praised for the brilliance, clarity, and passion of his performances, he is highly regarded as a performer, adjudicator, and clinician. Aside from solo recitals, Rogosin is a frequent collaborator and chamber player with a particular passion for the two-piano repertoire. He has released two solo recordings: Incandescence (2005) and Evocation (2012), the latter nominated for an the Classical Recording of the Year at that year鈥檚 ECMAs. Professor at Mount Allison University since 2001, he was awarded that institution鈥檚 Paul Par茅 Excellence Award in 2013. His first sabbatical in 2007-08 was spent in Paris preparing a recital program based on Messiaen鈥檚 Visions de l鈥橝men for two pianos. A second sabbatical in 2015-16 was used to prepare two new solo programs: Variations and Ludus Tonalis, a program centered around Paul Hindemith鈥檚 contrapuntal opus of the same name, a kind of twentieth-century Well-Tempered Clavier. A month of this time was spent as artist in residence at The Banff Centre. Rogosin holds a master鈥檚 degree from the Universit茅 de Montr茅al and a doctorate in performance from the University of British Columbia. Apart from classical music he enjoys jazz, world music, cooking and woodworking, and holds the rank of shodan in aikido, a martial art that he teaches on the Mount Allison campus since 2015. Admission is $25 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets are available at the door.