ANDREW WAN – CHARLES RICHARD-HAMELIN

Suspension of all Concerts at Bourgie Hall March 12 to April 11, inclusively

OSM concertmaster Andrew Wan and pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin forge ahead with their complete Beethoven Sonatas for violin and piano series.

Artists
Andrew Wan, violin
Andrew Wan studied with Masao Kawasaki and Ronald Copes at the Juilliard School. As a soloist, he has performed throughout the world under conductors including Vengerov, Petrenko, Labadie, Rizzi, Oundjian, Stern and DePreist, and has performed in concert with several artists, including the Juilliard String Quartet, Repin, Hamelin, Trifonov, Pressler, Widmann, Ax, Ehnes and Shaham. A consummate and accomplished musician, Andrew Wan is active as a soloist, chamber musician and as Concertmaster of the OSM. He also teaches at McGill University.

Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano
Silver medalist and laureate of the Krystian Zimerman Prize at the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Canadian pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin is standing out today as one of the most important musicians of his generation. In 2014, he also won the second prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition and the third prize at the Seoul International Music Competition in South Korea. Charles is the recipient of the Order of Arts and Letters of Quebec and the prestigious Career Development Award offered by the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.

Program
BEETHOVEN
The Complete Violin and Piano Sonatas – Concert III
Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23
Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47, “Kreutzer”
Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96

Thursday, March 19th 2020 at 7:30pm
Duration: 1 Hrs 30 Min With intermission

For tickets and information: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/concerts 514-285-200

Bourgie Concert Hall
1339 Sherbrooke Street West,
Montreal, Quebec
H3G 2E8