We're delighted to have Robert Bily, the 2024 Alexis Gregory Vendome Prize winner, return to The New School for a recital as part of the inaugural Mannes Summer Piano Festival!
Program
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110
de Falla: Danza ritual del fuego (“Ritual Fire Dance”), from El amor brujo
de Falla: Homenaje pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy
Debussy: Pour le piano, L. 95
Dutilleux: Choral et variations, Mov. 3 from sonate pour piano
Intermission
Carl Vine: 5 Bagatelles
Vítězslav Novák: Amoroso, No. 3 from Vzpomínky, Op. 6
Marc-Andre Hamelin: Étude No. 1 in A Minor (“Triple Étude, after Chopin”)
Chopin: Scherzo No.2 in B-flat minor, op.31
About Robert Bily
Czech pianist ROBERT BILY was born in Ústí nad Labem. He is currently a student of Pavel Gililov at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. Previously he studied with Dirk Fischbeck in Halle (Saale) and with Jacques Ammon at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig.
Bily is an award winner of numerous national and international competitions, including first prizes at the Alexis Gregory Vendome Prize In Partnership with the Mannes School of Music, the Ettlingen International Competition, the international "Anton Rubinstein" award in Düsseldorf, the international "Young Talents & Orchestra" competition in Milan, the Troisdorf International Piano Competition, the "Tadini" International Music Competition in Lovere and the International Music Festival in Paris.
He attended piano masterclasses with renowned artists such as Emanuel Ax, Barry Douglas, Arie Vardi, Michel Beroff, Robert Levin, Daejin Kim and Vincenzo Balzani.
He participated as a soloist at many music festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Georg Friedrich Händel Festspiele and Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival. He has given concerts with orchestras such as Bacãu's Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra, Jugendsinfonieorchester Sachsen-Anhalt, Staatskapelle Halle, and appeared in prestigious venues including Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle in Halle, Die Glocke in Bremen, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Berlin Philharmonie and Teatro dal Verme in Milan. He has performed in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Italy, England, Spain, and Norway.
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