Roy Howat, Royal Academy of Music

Wendy Hiscocks, Australia National University
Evening concert, Friday, 16 November, 7:30pm, McKay Auditorium

This evening's program includes Claude Debussy's masterpiece for two pianos "En Blanc et Noir," as well as the American premiere of a new arrangement by Wendy Hiscocks of the famous Danse macabre by Camille Saint-Saens. 

Scottish pianist, Roy Howat is an international expert in French piano music, having studied in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter, a student of Maurice Ravel.  Wendy Hiscocks is a well-known composer/pianist from Australia who will be featured on Australian national television in 2008.

            * Claude Debussy
                  o En blanc et noir (1915)
            * Gabriel Fauré
                  o Nocturnes nos. 1 & 9 (c. 1875 & 1910)
            * Francis Poulenc
                  o Élégie (2 pianos, 1959, à la mémoire de Marie-Blanche Polignac)
            * Intermission
            * Maurice Ravel
                  o À la manière de Borodine; À la manière de Chabrier (1913)
            * Gabriel Fauré
                  o Barcarolles nos. 7 & 5 (1907 & 1894)
            * Claude Debussy
                  o Page d'album (1915); La plus que lente (1910)
            * Emmanuel Chabrier
                  o 3 Valses romantiques (1880–3)