PASS Presents: Valerie Tryon

Chopin:

Ballade no.2 in A flat

Waltz no. 1 in E flat

Waltz no.5, opus 42 in A flat

Waltz no. 10, opus 69 in B minor

Waltz no. 11, opus 70, no. 1 in G flat

Nocturne op. 9, no.1 in B flat minor

Nocturne opus 9, no. 2 in E flat

Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor

Intermission

John Ireland:

The Island Spell

Dohnanyi:

Rhapsody

Liszt:

Sonetto del Petrarcha no. 104

3 Consolations

Hungarian Rhapsody no.12 in D flat

Valerie Tryon, Pianist

Valerie Tryon has performed a Valentine’s Day recital at The Hamilton Conservatory for many years and despite playing all over the world, in many different concert halls, she particularly enjoys this venue and the warm Hamilton audience.

Valerie is a world-renowned concert pianist. Born in England, the youngest student to be admitted to the Royal Academy of Music in London, she still travels to Europe annually to perform, and manages an extraordinary schedule, in North America and abroad, of recitals, recordings, master classes and teaching.

Valerie’s repertoire is vast and diverse and although her particular reputation is for her interpretation of the Romantics - Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov and others, she retains a lifelong and enduring passion for Debussy and Ravel, initiated by her prizewinning scholarship to Paris as a young student, to study with the distinguished French professor, Jacques Février.

Retiring with an honorary doctorate from McMaster University, where she was Artist-in-Residence and Associate Professor for many years, Valerie continues as Artist-in-Residence and teacher at Redeemer University in between her many concerts and recitals worldwide. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, a Juno Award winner, a Gallery of Distinction Inductee, holds the Harriet Cohen Award for Distinguished Services to Music, and the Franz Liszt Medal, from the Hungarian Ministry of Culture, for her lifelong commitment to and promotion of Liszt’s music. In December of 2017 she was awarded Canada’s highest honour, The Order of Canada, performing at the Awards dinner for Governor General Julie Payette, at her request.

Valerie has made innumerable albums for many recording companies over the years, some of which are now regarded as collector’s items. The most recent series of CD’s are from Somm Recordings and include de Falla’s ’Nights in the Gardens of Spain’, Cesar Franck’s ‘Symphonic Variations’ released in 2013, the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #1 in 2014, a Ravel/Debussy disc in 2015, and a Mozart concertos disc in 2018. all with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also recorded two Legacy DVD’s during the Covid years – the first is The Great Romantics and the second a French Impressionist disc – Remembering Jacques Fevrier

Valerie’s archives to date reside at McMaster University.

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