FILIPPO GORINI
These concerts are generously sponsored by Kris and Michael Kern and Maryellen and Michael McCulloch.
SUN, JAN 7, 2024
4:00PM / Lincoln Performance Hall, PSU
TUES, JAN 9, 2024
7:30PM / Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
“touched by a fierce ecstasy”
One of the piano world's rising stars, praised for "brave, original playing" (Guardian) and performances "exploding with pure joie de vivre" (BBC Music Magazine), Filippo Gorini returns to PPI with a program exploring the vast range of human emotion.
Charting a journey of tragedy and turmoil, Berg's only piano sonata is a work of searing intensity written at the crossroads of romanticism and modernism, while Schubert's bucolic Sonata in A Major lyrically evokes the beauty of summer in the Austrian countryside. And in his towering Diabelli Variations, Beethoven uses a simple waltz as the springboard for daring feats of musical expression fueled by the composer's boundless imagination.
BERG Sonata, op. 1
SCHUBERT Sonata in A Major, D. 664
— Intermission —
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations, op. 120
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Box Office
Seating Map (PDF)
We participate in the Arts for All ticketing discount program. Student tickets, $10.
Questions? Call (503) 228-1388
or email robin@portlandpiano.org.Lincoln Performance Hall at Portland State University
1620 SW Park Ave (at Market St.)
Portland, OR 97201Driving Directions | Trimet Directions
Parking is available nearby in PSU Parking Structure 2, diagonally across the street from Lincoln Hall. However, there is a parking fee. Please visit the kiosk at the entrance and have your license plate number handy. Park in the areas marked "Permit Parking Only".
For more information about parking and Lincoln Performance Hall, call our office at 503.228.1388. Office hours are Monday through Thursday 9am - 4pm.
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Box Office
Seating Map (PDF)
We participate in the Arts for All ticketing discount program. Student tickets, $10.
Questions? Call (503) 228-1388or email robin@portlandpiano.org.
The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
12625 SW Crescent St.
Beaverton, OR 97005Driving Directions | Trimet Directions
Parking is available at this venue for a nominal fee in the parking garage adjacent to The Reser.
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PRE-CONCERT LECTURE: Arrive early to the concert and listen to an insightful pre-concert lecture given by Bill Crane, executive director, and Amelia De Vaal, Resident Musicologist — 3:15 PM (Sunday) and 6:45 PM (Tuesday).
PROGRAM NOTES: Get a start on learning about this program by reading the program notes.
GET TO KNOW FILIPPO GORINI
NATIONALITY: Italian
HOME: Milan, Italy
NOTEWORTHY: Filippo has proposed a very different way of touring as an artist in 2025-26 and, he hopes, in years to come. “The idea is simple: Instead of constantly travelling from one concert venue to another, I will focus on seven cities in different parts of the world, staying in each for a full month and offering much more than a single performance.”
WHAT GIVES YOU ENERGY TO KEEP UP ALL THE CREATIVITY?
I get bored by absence of activity or novelty, so there are always a lot of ideas in the back of my head forming. If I have an impending concert, that is usually my focus and motivation in the days leading up to it, but in emptier periods I develop long term projects. One such project is “Sonata for Seven Cities.” (As noted above.)
WHAT IS A PRODUCT OF ANY KIND YOU RECOMMEND?
Good noise-cancelling earphones: I love silence, I hate noise . . . enough said!
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