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Flagstaff Piano Festival presents NAU Faculty members and master pianists: Aimee Fincher, Tiatian Liang, Kenneth Osowski, and Silvan Negruțiu in solo, duet, and quartet performances featuring works by J. Strauss II, Chee, Dun, Einaudi, Osowski, Silvestri, Beach, and Piazzolla.

Saturday, June 21 at 7 PM | Kitt Recital Hall

This event is free an open to the public!

Come enjoy the very first event of the 2025 Flagstaff Piano Festival!

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Grab some lunch and dine outdoors in the Flagstaff sun while enjoying music from local bands!

May 25 - September 28 • Sundays • 12:00pm-2:00pm in Heritage Square

Flagstaff Piano Festival presents master pianist John O’Conor in a solo recital featuring works by Beethoven, Debussy, and Chopin.

Sunday, June 22 at 3 PM | Kitt Recital Hall

Flagstaff Piano Festival presents the acclaimed 1973 1st Prize Winner at the Beethoven International Piano Competition in Vienna, Irish pianist JOHN O’CONOR, in a solo recital featuring works by Beethoven, Debussy, and Chopin. “A pianist of unbounding sensitivity” (Gramophone); “He represents a vanishing tradition that favors inner expression and atmosphere over showmanship and bravura” (Chicago Tribune); “Impeccable technique and musicality … it would be hard to imagine better performances” (Sunday Times-London); “Exquisite playing” (New York Times). John O’Conor is Chair of the Piano Division at Shenandoah Conservatory and serves on the piano faculty at the Glenn Gould School.

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During his residency at Flagstaff Piano Festival, John O’Conor will also teach a public piano masterclass on Monday, June 23, 2025, at 10:00AM-12:00PM in Kitt Recital Hall. Admission to the masterclass is free.

Program:

BEETHOVEN – Six Bagatelles, Op. 126

BEETHOVEN – Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"

DEBUSSY – La fille aux cheveux de lin

DEBUSSY – Clair de lune

CHOPIN – Prelude in D-flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15

CHOPIN – Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2

CHOPIN – Waltz in C-sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2

CHOPIN – Berceuse in D-flat Major, Op. 57

CHOPIN – Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47

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Join us for a master class in piano with master pianist, John O’Conor

Monday, June 23, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Kitt Recital Hall

What is a masterclass?

In a piano masterclass a renowned expert performer and a student join each other in front of an audience. The student performs a selected solo piece from memory, and the professional performer listens. Then the master musician gives feedback and advice to the student while the audience observes and learns vicariously. The expert musician may have the student repeat various sections of the music as they work on tone , color, mood, movement or other high level performance skills until that section has gotten even better than it was before. If you play piano, or played in the past, observing a masterclass can be a low key way to revisit that experience and might even encourage you to sit down at the piano again! For current students, involvement in masterclasses is seen as one of the most effective experiences for leveling up into more serious musicianship!

Free and open to the public!

Who is John O’Conor?

Irish pianist John O’Conor has been gathering wonderful reviews for over fifty years. He studied in his native Dublin, in Vienna with Dieter Weber and with the legendary Wilhelm Kempff. His unanimous first prize at the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna in 1973 opened the door to a career that has brought him all around the world.

He has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, l’Orchestre National de France, the NHK Orchestra in Japan and the Atlanta, Cleveland, San Francisco, Dallas, Montreal and Detroit Symphonies in North America.

He has given concerts in many of the world’s most famous halls including Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre in London, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Dvořák Hall in Prague, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea and the Bunka Kaikan in Japan.

He enjoys collaborating in Lieder recitals and performing chamber music with many instrumentalists and ensembles such as the Cleveland, Tokyo, Vanbrugh, Vermeer, Takacs, Vogler and Ying Quartets.

#CALisMusic #KittSchoolofMusic #NAUpiano #FlagstaffPianoFestival #FPF2025 #JohnO’Conor

Join us for a master class in piano with master pianist, Steven Spooner.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Kitt Recital Hall

What is a masterclass?

In a piano masterclass a renowned expert performer and a student join each other in front of an audience. The student performs a selected solo piece from memory, and the professional performer listens. Then the master musician gives feedback and advice to the student while the audience observes and learns vicariously. The expert musician may have the student repeat various sections of the music as they work on tone , color, mood, movement or other high level performance skills until that section has gotten even better than it was before. If you play piano, or played in the past, observing a masterclass can be a low key way to revisit that experience and might even encourage you to sit down at the piano again! For current students, involvement in masterclasses is seen as one of the most effective experiences for leveling up into more serious musicianship!

Free and open to the public!

Who is Steven Spooner?

Spooner is a prizewinner at seven international piano competitions, top prizewinner at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. He also earned First Prize and was recipient of the Niekamp Career Grant as most outstanding pianist in French music at the Paris Conservatory. In 2008, he was awarded the Ivory Classics Foundation Prize that enabled him to study Liszt with the legendary virtuoso, Earl Wild.

Steven Spooner is Professor of Piano on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory, and he has studied at the Tbilisi Conservatory, Moscow Conservatory, and Indiana University.

Spooner has been engaged at many of the world’s most prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Great Hall of the Liszt Academy (Budapest), Salle Cortot (Paris), and Shanghai Concert Hall, among many others as soloist with orchestra and recitalist.

Read More about Spooner - https://peabody.jhu.edu/faculty/steven-spooner/

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Join us for the first Young Artist Concert of FPF 2025!

Thursday, June 24, 7 PM

Kitt Recital Hall

Who will be playing at the Young Artists Concert?

College, High School, and Middle School pianists from around the state and country arte attending the FPF Academy this week. They each prepare a concert level performance while at the academy and present their work at one of two Young Artists concerts, while also presenting at the FPF competition at the end of the week! This is the first Young Artist concert of the festival and will feature different students and pieces than will be featured at the later concert on Friday.

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Join us for a master class in piano with master pianist, Sofya Golyak.

Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Kitt Recital Hall

What is a masterclass?

In a piano masterclass a renowned expert performer and a student join each other in front of an audience. The student performs a selected solo piece from memory, and the professional performer listens. Then the master musician gives feedback and advice to the student while the audience observes and learns vicariously. The expert musician may have the student repeat various sections of the music as they work on tone , color, mood, movement or other high level performance skills until that section has gotten even better than it was before. If you play piano, or played in the past, observing a masterclass can be a low key way to revisit that experience and might even encourage you to sit down at the piano again! For current students, involvement in masterclasses is seen as one of the most effective experiences for leveling up into more serious musicianship!

Free and open to the public!

Who is Sofya Gulyak?

In September 2009 Sofya Gulyak was awarded the 1st prize and the Princess Mary Gold Medal at the Sixteenth Leeds International Piano Competition – the first woman in the history of the competition to achieve this distinction. Since then she has appeared all over the world to great acclaim, including performances with London Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony, Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic, Rio de Janeiro Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’ Arena di Verona, Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna, NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, Enescu Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Slovak Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Copenhagen Symphony and many more!

Read more about Sofya - https://www.sofyagulyak.com/about-me

#CALisMusic #KittSchoolofMusic #NAUpiano #FlagstaffPianoFestival #FPF2025 #SofyaGulyak

Irish group dances for all!
World rhythms and improvisational twists!
Live fiddle and guitar!
Free! (donations welcome)
Co-adaptive dancing fun before every main workshop, 5pm-6pm, especially for disabled dancers and their friends

Irish group dances for all!
World rhythms and improvisational twists!
Live fiddle and guitar!
Free! (donations welcome)
Co-adaptive dancing fun before every main workshop, 5pm-6pm, especially for disabled dancers and their friends

Irish group dances for all!
World rhythms and improvisational twists!
Live fiddle and guitar!
Free! (donations welcome)
Co-adaptive dancing fun before every main workshop, 5pm-6pm, especially for disabled dancers and their friends