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World Premiere/Australian Exclusive
Perth International Arts Festival Commission
Philip Glass
complete Piano Etudes
Performed by Philip Glass, Maki Namekawa and Sally Whitwell
perth concert hall
Saturday 16 February
This performance runs for 2 hours and 30 minutes including interval
Throughout 2013 Perth Concert Hall celebrates 40
years presenting music to the people of Perth and
Western Australia. This performance is included as
part of the 40th anniversary celebrations.
The 18th, 19th and 20th Etudes
(from Complete Piano Etudes) are commissioned by
Perth International Arts Festival with the support of
the Medici Donors and Griffiths Architects.
Medici Donors

Philip Glass
complete Piano Etudes
Performed by Philip Glass, Maki Namekawa and Sally Whitwell
Philip Glass
Etudes for Piano
Philip Glass
Etudes #1,2, 4
Etudes for Piano is a set of twenty etudes composed between the years of
1992 and 2012. The first ten were composed with the idea of providing
performable music that would also improve my piano playing, and I feel
that I have succeeded fairly well in that regard. The second set, Etudes
#11-20 were composed with a different idea in mind. By then, I had
acquired the performing technique that I needed, and I was looking at
Etudes #11-20 as part of the general array of musical expression that
had become available to me through my years of composing. Finally,
I anticipated that the sequence of Etudes #1-20 when played in their
entirety would provide a musical shape of its own.
Sally Whitwell
Etudes #9, 14, 7, 15, 16, 19, 11
Interval (20 minutes)
Philip Glass
Etudes #8, 17, 10
Maki Namekawa
Etudes #3, 5, 6, 18, 12, 13, 20
It was important that the personalities of my guest performers as
interpreters could be reflected in a specific set of pieces drawn from the
overall work. Therefore, I provided them each an integrated set of pieces
which could be played as a work complete in itself. For that reason, the
order of this evening’s concert has been rearranged.
The music will be performed in the following way. The concert will
begin with my playing Etudes #1, 2 and 4. This will be followed by Sally
Whitwell’s performances of #9, 14, 7, 15, 16, 19 and 11. At this point there
will be a short intermission. After the intermission, I will perform Etudes
#8, 17 and 10. This will be followed by Maki Namekawa’s performances
of Etudes #3, 5, 6, 18, 12, 13 and 20.
There were a number of special events and commissions that brought
about the actual composition of the pieces. Etudes #1–5 were composed
for Dennis Russell Davies on the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1994.
Etude #6 was commissioned by the Sydney Festival in 1996. Etudes
#11 and 12 were commissioned by Bruce Levingston in 2007 and
premiered at Avery Fisher Hall. Etude #17 was commissioned for the
25th Anniversary of the Menil Collection in Houston, TX and premiered
on 2 December 2012. Etudes #18, 19 and 20 and were commissioned by
the Perth International Arts Festival in 2012 and will be performed for the
first time this evening.
Philip Glass
11 February 2013

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Biography
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of
Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years
of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned
money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation.
Upon his return to New York, he applied these Eastern techniques to his
own music. By 1974, Glass had a number of significant and innovative
projects, creating a large collection of new music for his performing group,
the Philip Glass Ensemble, and for the Mabou Mines theatre company,
which he co-founded. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts,
followed by the landmark opera, Einstein on the Beach, created with
Robert Wilson in 1976, which is currently touring internationally.
Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for
opera, dance, theatre, chamber ensemble, orchestra and film. His score
for Martin Scorsese’s Kundun received an Academy Award nomination,
while his score for Peter Weir’s The Truman Show won him a Golden
Globe. His film score for Stephen Daldry’s The Hours received Golden
Globe, Grammy and Academy Award nominations, along with winning
a BAFTA in Film Music from the British Academy of Film and Television
Arts. Original scores for the critically acclaimed films The Illusionist and
Notes on a Scandal were released last year. Glass has received an Oscar
nomination for his Notes score.
In 2004 Glass premiered the new work Orion, a collaboration between
Glass and six other international artists opening in Athens as part of
the cultural celebration of the 2004 Olympics in Greece, and his Piano
Concerto No. 2 (‘After Lewis and Clark’) with the Omaha Symphony
Orchestra. Glass’ latest symphonies, Symphony No. 7 and Symphony
No. 8, premiered in 2005 with the National Symphony Orchestra at the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and Bruckner
Orchester Linz at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, respectively. 2005 also
saw the premiere of Waiting for the Barbarians, an opera based on the
book by JM Coetzee. Glass’ orchestral tribute to Indian spiritual leader
Sri Ramakrishna, The Passion of Ramakrishna, premiered in 2006 at
Orange County Performing Arts Center.
Glass maintained a dense creative schedule throughout 2007 and 2008,
unveiling several highly anticipated works, including Book of Longing,
a collaboration with Leonard Cohen, and an opera about the end of the
Civil War titled Appomattox. In April 2007, the English National Opera, in
conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera, remounted Glass’ Satyagraha,
which appeared in New York in April 2008. Recent film projects include
a score to Woody Allen’s film, Cassandra’s Dream, and a documentary on
Ray Kurzweil, Transcendent Man, which premiered in April 2009.
Glass’ recent opera, based on the life and work of Johannes Kepler
and commissioned by Linz 2009, Cultural Capital of Europe, and
Landestheater Linz, premiered in September 2009 in Linz, Austria and in
November 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Symphony #9 was completed in 2011 and premiered in Linz, Austria on
1 January 2012 by the Bruckner Orchestra with a US premiere in New
York at Carnegie Hall on 31 January 2012 as part of the composer’s 75th
birthday celebration. Symphony #10 received its European premiere
in France in the summer of 2012. In August of 2011, Glass launched the
inaugural season of The Days and Nights Festival, a multi-disciplinary arts
festival in Carmel/Big Sur, California: www.daysandnightsfestival.com
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Maki Namekawa
Maki Namekawa is an internationally acclaimed soloist and a chamber
musician, equally at home in classical and contemporary repertoire.
She has performed with renowned ensembles such as the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, the Munich and Dresden Philharmonic Orchestras,
Munich and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, the Linz Bruckner and the
Seattle Symphony Orchestra. She frequently records for major German
radio networks.
Her past engagements include performances of Alfred Schnittke’s Piano
Concerto, Concertgebouw Amsterdam; Elliott Carter’s Dialogues for Piano
and Orchestra; Alan Hovhaness’s Lousadzak for Piano and String Orchestra,
Basel Sinfonietta; Khachaturian’s Concerto-Rhapsody, Erfurt Philharmonic
Orchestra; Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto; Schoenberg’s Piano
Concerto op.42, John Cage’s Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber
Orchestra and Alan Hovhaness’s Lousadzak for Piano and String Orchestra,
Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. She
appeared with Linz Festival Sinfonietta conducted by Howard Griffiths
and played the piano concerto of György Ligeti with the Munich Chamber
Orchestra. In 2012 she performed Arvo Pärts’ Lamentate at Carnegie Hall
New York and Igor Strawinsky’s concerto for piano and wind instruments
with the Bamberger Symphoniker.
Since 2005, Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies have been performing
together as a piano duo in Europe and the US. The duo have performed
Philip Glass’ Four Movements for Two Pianos, and works by Brahms,
Bernstein, Debussy and Braunfels.
Namekawa’s CD/DVD releases include Images 4 Music (Steve Reich’s
Piano Phase and Philip Glass’ Les Enfants Terrible, both with
Dennis Russell Davies; Visuals by Martin Wattenberg, Lotte Schreiber
and Norbert Pfaffenbichler; and Mozart’s Zauberflöte and Beethoven’s
Fidelio arranged for piano four hands by Alexander Zemlinsky. In 2009
she released American Piano Music with the works of Leonard Bernstein,
Aaron Copland and Philip Glass. In 2010 she released a CD with
Haydn’s Jahreszeiten and Schöpfung, also in a four-hand piano
arrangement by Zemlinsky.
Namekawa studied piano at Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo with
professors Mikio Ikezawa and Henriette Puig-Roget from Conservatoire
de Paris. In 1994 she won the Leonid Kreutzer Prize, awarded yearly by
the Japanese Kreutzer Society. In 1995 she continued her studies with
Werner Genuit and Kaya Han at Karlsruhe School of Music, where she
completed her diploma as a soloist with special distinction. She then
went on to perfect her artistry in Classical-Romantic repertoire with
Edith Picht-Axenfeld, and in contemporary music with György Kurtág,
with Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Cologne Musikhochschule),
Prof. Stefan Litwin (Saarbrücken Conservatory) and Florent Boffard.
Sally Whitwell
Sally Whitwell performs, teaches and arranges everything from classical
music and new Australian commissions right through to showtunes and pop.
Her debut album of music by Philip Glass, Mad Rush, won an Aria for Best
Classical Album in 2011 and The Good, The Bad and The Awkward received an
ARIA nomination for Best Classical Album in 2012.
She has performed with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Opera
and Ballet Orchestra and Sinfonia Australis and has worked as a dance
accompanist for Opera Australia, Bangarra Dance Theatre, The Australian
Ballet School, Royal New Zealand Ballet and Sydney Dance Company.
Whitwell has collaborated with many organisations, including Gondwana
Voices, Sydney Children’s Choir, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Musica Viva,
Cantillation, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir and Australian Pop Choirs, and she
has performed at the Sydney Opera House, Brisbane Powerhouse, Arts Centre
Melbourne, The Famous Spiegeltent and Peninsula Summer Music Festival.
As a passionate and gifted educator, she has been involved with various
educational programs at Sydney Conservatorium Access Centre, NIDA,
University of Western Sydney, Symphony Australia, Youth Music Australia,
Australian Theatre for Young People, Australian National Braille Music
Association and Bondi Wave (the alternative music course).
She has toured with various ensembles in the UK, Europe, the
United States, Central America, Japan, New Zealand and throughout Australia.
She has also appeared on several recordings for ABC Classics.
Pomegranate Arts (Touring Producer)
Founded in 1998 by Linda Brumbach, Pomegranate Arts is an independent
production company dedicated to the development of international
contemporary performing arts projects. Since its inception, Pomegranate
Arts has conceived, produced, or represented projects by Philip Glass,
Laurie Anderson, London’s Improbable, Sankai Juku, Dan Zanes and Goran
Bregovic. Special projects include Dracula: The Music And Film with Philip
Glass and the Kronos Quartet; the music theatre work Shockheaded Peter;
Brazilian vocalist Virginia Rodrigues; Drama Desk Award winning Charlie Victor
Romeo; Healing the Divide, A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation, presented
by Philip Glass and Richard Gere; and Hal Willner’s Came So Far For Beauty,
An Evening Of Leonard Cohen Songs. Recent projects include the first North
American tour of Goran Bregovic and the remounting of Lucinda Childs’ 1979
classic Dance. Pomegranate Arts is the exclusive producer and management
for the 2012-13 revival of Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, and Lucinda Childs’
masterpiece Einstein on the Beach recreated in celebration of Philip Glass’ 75th
birthday in 2012.
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