Piano party with Martin Oei & Klara Würtz in the Concertgebouw

For this episode in the piano festival series, Martin Oei and Klára Würtz go through the ages; from Mozart Sonata for two pianos tot Milhauds Scaramouchethey present a varied and diverse program that exudes fun.

Here they will play on our beautiful Bösendorfer 225 and C. Bechstein 234 grand piano

Due to illness, Martyn van den Hoek is unable to perform this afternoon. He will be replaced by the Hungarian-Dutch pianist Klára Würtz, who, like Van den Hoek, teaches piano at the Utrecht Conservatory.

From Mozart to Milhaud
With Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos as a starting point, Martin Oei and Klára Würtz soon ventured off the classical path. Würtz ends up in the heart of romantic piano music with the Polonaise fantasy and the Barcarolleby Chopin. From there it moves with one foot to the twentieth century in Schumann's Six etudes, edited by Debussy. After that there is no stopping: Martin Oei makes the keys dance in the piano version of Stravinky'sPetrushka. The pianists conclude the afternoon with the exuberant Scaramouche by Darius Milhaud.

Martin Oei and Klára Würtz
Klára Würtz started an international career at the age of five as a member of the Hungarian Radio & Television Children's Choir. She studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and won several prizes at international competitions in the 1980s. She has now performed on major stages worldwide and has released an impressive series of CDs to her name. In the 1990s she settled in the Netherlands and formed a permanent piano trio with violinist Joan Berkhemer and cellist Nadia David. Martin Oei has formed a permanent duo with Daniel Wayenberg for the past six years. They specialized in piano concertos on two grand pianos and their tour of concerts by Rachmaninoff attracted full houses. With Würtz, Oei also explores the piano duo repertoire on both sides of Romanticism.

This concert has an intermission