Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.
Rolex Learning Center Forum
Laure Menin was on track to becoming a successful career as a concert pianist, had she not had the wild idea, after graduating from the Aix-en-Provence Conservatory, to pursue scientific studies. Today, she works as a researcher in EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC).
Encouraged to perform before the EPFL community by her former music professor, piano virtuoso Bernard Flavigny, Laure Menin will delight us with a selection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, and as the centerpiece, the Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 by Robert Schumann, on this autumn evening.
The Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann
Schumann’s concerto, composed between 1841 and 1845 and created on the piano by Clara Schumann, the composers wife, is a masterpiece in its diversity and the beauty of the melodic themes that make it up. Laure Menin will perform the solo sections, while Bernard Flavigny will masterfully play the orchestral part.
Concert Program (duration: one hour)
- Two chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach – piano
- Adagio from the sonata for violin and piano BWV 1016 by Jean-Sébastien Bach
- Piano Concerto in A Minor by Robert Schumann, reinterpreted for two pianos
- Two “Rêveries d’automne” by JP Menin, dedicated and composed in 1980 for his daughter Laure