Join us for master pianist, Sofya Golyak in concert.

Thursday, June 26, 2025, 7 PM

Kitt Recital Hall

Flagstaff Piano Festival presents dazzling concert pianist SOFYA GULYAK in a solo recital featuring works by Bach/Busoni, Franck, Chopin, and Liszt. In 2009, Sofya Gulyak was awarded 1st

Prize and the Princess Mary Gold Medal at the 16th Leeds International Piano Competition, the first woman to achieve this distinction. Since then, she has appeared internationally to great critical and public acclaim. Other prestigious prizes she has won include first prizes at the Kapell, Maj Lind, Tivoli, Isangyun, and San Marino international piano competitions, second prize (first not awarded) at Busoni, and third prize at the Long–Thibaud–Crespin Competition. Sofya Gulyak is Associate Professor of Piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and was previously a piano professor at the Royal College of Music in London.

During her residency at Flagstaff Piano Festival, Sofya Gulyak will also teach a public piano masterclass on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 10:00AM-12:00PM in Kitt Recital Hall. Admission to the masterclass is free.

Program:

BACH/BUSONI – Chaconne from Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004

FRANCK – Prelude, Fugue, and Variation, Op. 18

BACH/BUSONI – Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659

BACH/BUSONI – Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

CHOPIN – Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 45

CHOPIN – Rondo à la mazur, Op. 5

CHOPIN/LISZT – Meine Freuden, S. 480/5

CHOPIN/LISZT – Mädchen Wunsch, S. 480/1

LISZT – Réminiscences de Norma, S. 394

LISZT – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp Minor, S. 244/2 (Cadenza by Sofya Gulyak)

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