
La Jolla Music Society
A Weekend in Paris: The Salon and The Masquerade
Prelude Lecture by Jennifer Walker· 6:30 PM · The JAI
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Salons were the cultural and intellectual hub of Paris; open forums for the city’s most creative minds to engage in thought-provoking and often subversive conversations. These events, along with the famed Masquerade balls, were rife with stirring and seductive new ideas, art, literature, and music. The pieces on this program emerged from these glamorous salons and range from the charming piano duo by Debussy and Sarasate’s devilishly virtuosic Carmen Fantasy to Ravel and Caplet’s decadent and macabre evocations of Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Masque of the Red Death.
DEBUSSY
Petite Suite, for Piano Four-Hands
CHOPIN
Nocturne, Op. 62, No. 2
VARIOUS
A Selection of Songs by Poulenc, Hahn, and Debussy
CAPLET
Conte Fantastique
RAVEL
La Valse for Two Pianos
SARASATE
Fantasy on Bizet’s Carmen, Op. 25
Artists on this program

Doug Balliett
bass
Doug Balliett

Efe Baltacigil
cello
Efe Baltacigil

Inon Barnatan
piano
Inon Barnatan
“One of the most admired pianists of his generation” (New York Times), Inon Barnatan has received universal acclaim for his “uncommon sensitivity” (The New Yorker), “impeccable musicality and phrasing” (Le Figaro), and his stature as “a true poet of the keyboard: refined, searching, unfailingly communicative” (The Evening Standard). A multifaceted musician, Barnatan is equally celebrated as soloist, curator and collaborator.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Inon Barnatan started playing the piano at the age of three after his parents discovered he had perfect pitch, and made his orchestral debut at age 11. His musical education connects him to some of the 20th century’s most illustrious pianists and teachers: he studied first with Professor Victor Derevianko, who, himself, studied with the Russian master Heinrich Neuhaus; and in 1997 he moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Maria Curcio—a student of the legendary Artur Schnabel—and with Christopher Elton. Today Barnatan performs at all the great halls of the world, collaborating and recording with the top chamber and classical conductors, orchestras, and musicians.

Fleur Barron
mezzo soprano
Fleur Barron

Imogen Cooper
piano
Imogen Cooper

Augustin Hadelich
violin
Augustin Hadelich

Erin Keefe
violin
Erin Keefe

Alexi Kenney
violin
Alexi Kenney

Bridget Kibbey
harp
Bridget Kibbey

Francesco Piemontesi
piano
Francesco Piemontesi

Joyce Yang
piano