Photo: performing with the Panocha Quartet in the Hall of Masks at the 2005Český Krumlov Chamber Music Festival
Events
March 2010 takes Roy to Canada and the US for performances, lectures and masterclasses at Kingston (Ont.), Calgary and the Peabody Institute. April sees a series of concerts in England:
an Eaton Square concert on 8 April with the renowned Panocha Quartet from Prague (Fauré and Dvořák piano quintets)
A Chopin 'soirée' lecture-recital at the Royal Academy of Music (Friday 30 April, 6 p.m., David Josefowitz Recital Hall), and a Chopin-based pre-concert talkat the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Thursday 29 April at 6.15 p.m., preceding Pascal Rogé's recital
Friday 7 May: a rare London hearing of Chabrier's ravishing Pièces pittoresques: 6 p.m., Chabrier 'soirée', Royal Academy of Music, David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Sunday 16 April: Roy will participate in the Erik Satie study day at Gresham's College, London
mid-May: Keynote address by Roy at Canterbury University, Christchurch, conference on Music and Numbers
Other plans in 2010 include an Australian tour from August to early October, with concerts in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide, and a return visit to Scotland later in the year for concerts and classes in Glasgow and St Andrews.
A page will soon be added with sound clips relating to Roy's Yale book The Art of French Piano Music (see the present site's Home page or Books page).
