The Cal Poly Humboldt Department of Dance, Music and Theatre presents “Cal Poly Humboldt Recital Series: Vladislav Kern, piano,” a concert featuring one of the great young pianists in the world today.   Join us Saturday, October 5th 7:30pm at the Fulkerson Recital Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt. Tickets are $20 General, $5 for Children and Cal Poly Humboldt  students with ID. You can also enjoy the concert from the comfort of your own home for $7 and watch it on our Livestream. To purchase tickets, visit https://tickets.humboldt.edu/dance-music-and-theatre and click the gold navigation button labeled Dance, Music & Theatre.

Dr. Daniela Mineva, Director of Keyboard Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, encourages everyone to take advantage of this opportunity to see one of classical music’s brightest young performers. "We are extremely excited to have Vladislav with us. He is a magnificent player and his program is spectacular. Last year, we heard his mother Olga Kern and on October 5th we will have the unique opportunity to hear this top-level young talent. Vladislav is also a poet who has published his first book and now he is working on a second one. He is an incredible improvisator, and I hope we will have the opportunity to hear his fantastic improvisations."

The program for the concert includes, Chaconne, famously the final movement in Bach’s Partita in d minor for Violin solo. Vladislav Kern will be performing the Bach-Busoni transcription for piano. “Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)…was an outstanding pianist, and Bach’s Chaconne seems to have exerted such a fascination on him that he wanted to transcribe it for his own instrument. In doing so, Busoni tried to remain as close to the original as possible while adapting the music to suit the technical possibilities of the piano.” — Munich, automne 2013 Norbert Müllemann

Kern will also perform Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23, colloquially known as the Appassionata (meaning "passionate" in Italian). “One of his greatest and most technically challenging piano sonatas, the Appassionata was considered by Beethoven to be his most tempestuous piano sonata until the twenty-ninth piano sonata (known as the Hammerklavier).” —wikipedia

“The Impromptus, Op. 90, are a set of four impromptus for solo piano composed by Franz Schubert in 1827. The Impromptus have become a staple of the piano repertoire, praised for their lyrical beauty, complex structure, and expressive depth. They are emblematic of Schubert's mature style, characterized by a combination of directness and intimacy of expression, poetic sensitivity, and structural control and grandeur. They also contributed to the evolution of the genre of the short piano piece, influencing later Romantic composers.” —wikipedia

The Dante Sonata by Franz Liszt is “a piano sonata in one movement inspired by the reading of Victor Hugo's poem ’Après une lecture de Dante’ (After a reading of Dante). The piece is divided into two main subjects. The first, a chromatic theme in D minor, typifies the wailing of souls in Hell and heavily uses the tritone (augmented 4th or diminished 5th), known as the Devil's interval, and further reinforces the hellish imagery. The second theme is a beatific chorale in F-sharp major, derived from the first, which represents the joy of those in Heaven. The piece ends with a rapid chromatic octave section that when played at speed seems to split into three distinct themes, reflecting Satan's three faces in Dante's Inferno. “ —wikipedia

Vladislav Kern is a Russian-American pianist, composer, and poet. He is a Young Steinway Artist in addition to being named winner of many international competitions and festivals in Denmark, Czech Republic, Republic of South Africa and the USA, including the Clara Schumann International Music Competition, Tureck-Bach International Piano Competition in New York, and Price Rubin International Competition.

Vlad was born into a family of musicians and started playing piano at the age of 4. When Vlad was just 6, he was accepted to the Central Music School at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory. At the age of 12 Vlad continued his education in New York at The Juilliard School of Music.

One year later he received the prestigious Van Cliburn scholarship, the first time in the history of The Juilliard School, Pre-College Division. From 2016 to 2019 he also studied in Italy at Academia Pianistica Internazionale “Incontri col Maestro” di Imola.

Currently he studies at the Juilliard School College Division.

Vlad has performed in such world-known venues as David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center (NYC), La Sala Verdi at the Conservatorio di Milano, Konserthuset Stockholm, The Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He collaborated with such musicians as Leonard Slatkin, Roberto Minczuk, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Jindong Cai, Giancarlo De Lorenzo, Michael Morgan and many others. He has numerous recordings on the radio and television in many countries, including Italy, the USA, Luxembourg, Sweden and Finland.

Do not miss out on the incredible opportunity to hear a world class performance.

Date: Saturday, October 5th 2024

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Fulkerson Recital Hall, Cal Poly Humboldt

Price: $20 general, $5 children, $5 for Cal Poly Humboldt students with ID and $7 for our livestream

Contact:  mus@humboldt.edu

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