Master Class with Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin

Friday, September 23, 2:00 pm Master Class with Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin Music building, room 126 Charles Richard-Hamelin is a Canadian concert pianist. A former student of McGill University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 2011, Richard-Hamelin concluded his master's at Yale School of Music in 2013. After reaching the final stage in important piano competitions held in Montreal and Seoul, he had a distinguished participation at the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw, 2015), where he received the second prize and the Krystian Zimerman Prize for the best performance of a Sonata. Six SoCA piano students will play excerpts from pieces they are working on. Dr. Philip Adamson’s studio: Voiles (Préludes, Book 1) - Debussy - Logan Adlam Ballade, Op.10 #3 - Brahms - Konrad Jarecki Rêverie - Debussy - Allison Knight Dr. E. Gregory Butler’s studio: Prelude and Fugue, BWV 846 by J. S. Bach, performed by Bethany Russell. Prelude and Fugue, BWV 853 By. J. S. Bach, performed by Zhining "Jim" Hu. Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1 performed by Mary-Valene Daniel.