Bachauer concert series

Sep 27, 2024 : 7:30 pm

Session 124

Touchpoints

A laureate of The Bachauer and other international competitions, Anna Han offers touchpoints of the vast piano literature, from Toccatas by Bach, Kabalevsky, and Prokofiev to Rachmaninoff’s monumental 2nd Sonata.

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Anna Han

Anna Han has been hailed by The Washington Post as “prodigiously gifted... [with] a display of imagination, taste and pianistic firepower far beyond her years.” She is currently based in Berlin, where she recently completed her Artist Diploma from the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin as a student of Sir András Schiff and Schaghajegh Nostrati. Second prize winner of the 2023 Naumburg International Piano Competition and first prize winner of the 2023 National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Auditions, Anna Han also is a laureate of The Bachauer’s International Junior Competitions.

Dmitri Kabalevsky

Rondo-Toccata, op. 60, no. 4

Unsuk Chin

Etude No. 5 “Toccata”

François Couperin

Le tic-toc-choc ou Les maillotins

Sergei Prokofiev

Toccata, op. 11

Dmitri Shostakovich

Prelude and Fugue in A Major, op. 87, no. 7

Domenico Scarlatti

Sonata in D Minor, K. 213