Pleyel Piano Recital Series

About this Program:

Yuta Sugano returns to the Scarab Club with a program that promises the integration of poetry, emotion, and great facility. He is particularly experienced with the technology and demands of historical instruments.

Yuta is based in Metro Detroit and currently serves as an artist-in-residence at Steinway Detroit and hosts the “Essential Repertoire”concert series. As a recipient of numerous prizes, he has performed as a soloist in Asia, Australia, North and Central Americas, and Europe.

He is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory and master’s degree in music from the University of Michigan. He received his Doctor of Musical Art degree with a cognate field in Piano Pedagogy from the University of Kansas, where he served as a graduate teaching assistant.

Yuta is a proud sponsor of the Coat’s Disease Foundation.

The recital program includes works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Debussy, and Chopin.

About our Pleyel Piano:

Our Pleyel Piano is a vintage instrument built in 1879. It is a particularly special piano that offers a unique and intimate recital experience. The Dixon family kindly donated this piano.

Pleyel et Cie. ("Pleyel and Company") is a French piano manufacturing firm founded by composer Ignace Pleyel in 1807. This company provided pianos to the renowned composer Frédéric Chopin, who considered Pleyel pianos to be the "non plus ultra" (the highest point to be obtained). Pleyel et Cie. also operated a concert hall, the Salle Pleyel, where Chopin performed his first and last Paris concerts.

Pleyel's major contribution to piano development was the first use of a metal frame in a piano. Pleyel pianos were the preferred choice of composers such as Chopin, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, de Falla and Stravinsky. Pianists and teachers such as Alfred Cortot, Philip Manuel, and Gavin Williamson also preferred Pleyel pianos.

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