Dennis Russell Davies & Maki Namekawa

Program

Ever since they first played together in 2003, Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa have been touring the world, including performances at Lincoln Center with the US premiere of Philip Glass’s Four Movements for Two Pianos, Ars Electronica festival in Linz (Austria), Morgan Library New York, the Festival lnternational de Musique de Colmar (France), Festwochen in Gmunden and the Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany).

Program

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands, D. 940, Op. 103

Kurt Schwertsik (b. 1935)

Six Pieces from Macbeth: “I’ll Charm the Air to Give a Sound” for piano four-hands, Op. 71

Intermission

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Concertino for Two Piano in A minor, Op. 94

Philip Glass (b. 1937)

Four Movements for Two Pianos

About the Artists

Dennis Russell Davies is the chief conductor of the Bruckner Orchester Linz and the Sinfonieorchester Basel. A masterly and innovative force in classical music, the Toledo, Ohio, native is among today’s most inventive conductors. A modern, articulate, and versatile artist revered for his command of both traditional and contemporary music, he is also recognised as an accomplished pianist and as an acclaimed collaborator, sought out by orchestras, composers and artists alike for his interpretive skills. Since 1980 he has lived abroad, but maintains an active presence on the North American music scene as a regular guest conductor with the major orchestras and opera houses of New York and Chicago.

Maki Namekawa is an active soloist having recently performed Arvo Pärt’s Lamentate at Carnegie Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. Namekawa was recently chosen by Philip Glass to be the first interpreter on recording of his complete piano Etudes.

Artist website

Watch & Listen

Four Movements for Two Pianos by Philip Glass

Performed by Dennis Russell Davies, piano, and Maki Namekawa, piano

Some fun facts about Dennis Russell Davies’s career