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We know this is a difficult time for everyone. Things have dramatically changed in the way we live, socialize, and enjoy life. That’s why we are launching Honens @ Home, clips of music for you to enjoy in the comfort of your own home. New videos are uploaded each week.
Let’s enjoy the music together.
2009 Honens Laureate Gilles Vonsattel
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 performed live at The Huntington Library in California.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Stefano Andreatta
MASON …just as the sun is always… (2006) performed live at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
20k15 Honens Semifinalist Yoon-Jee Kim
BARBER The Monk and His Cat and The Desire for Hermitage from Hermit Songs Op. 29 with soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian at 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Finalist Han Chen
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor D. 958 recorded live at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2015 Honens Semifinalist Karim Said
BRAHMS Theme and Variations in D minor Op. 18b recorded live at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Tzu-Yin Huang
LISZTBagatelle sans tonalité S. 216a, Valse oubliée No. 1 S. 215/1, and Romance oubliée No. 1 S. 527 recorded at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2009 Honens Prize Laureate Georgy Tchaidze
HAYDN Sonata in F Major Hob. XVI/23 recorded at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Aristo Sham
BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel Op. 24 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2015 Honens Semifinalist Yoon-Jee Kim
DVORAK “The String is Taut” and “Songs my Mother Taught Me” from Op. 55 with soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Tzu-Yin Huang
CHOPIN Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Aristo Sham
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Major Op. 78 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Stefano Andreatta
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 36 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2015 Honens Semifinalist Yoon-Jee Kim
HAYDN Symphony No. 94 in G Major “Surprise Symphony” at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2015 Honens Semifinalist Samson Tsoy
C.P.E. BACH Sonata in G minor Wq. 65/17 at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Finalist Han Chen
ROUSSEL Divertissement Op. 6 with the Azahar Ensemble at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2009 Honens Prize Laureate Georgy Tchaidze
HAYDN Andante con variazioni in F minor Hob. XVII/6 recorded at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
2015 Honens Semifinalist Samson Tsoy
TCHAIKOVSKY / PLETNEV Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Russian Trepak, and Chinese Dance from Concert Suite from The Nutcracker Op. 71 at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2012 Honens Prize Laureate Pavel Kolesnikov
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight Sonata” at the 2012 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
J.S. BACH Gigue from Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV 830, R. SCHUMANN Einfach from Humoreske in B-flat Major Op. 20, and CHOPIN arr. GODOWSKY Etude in G-sharp minor Op. 25 No. 6 “Double Thirds” at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
TAKI arr. NAMORADZE Moon, Refracted and NAMORADZE Etudes I-III.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
LOUIE I Leap Through the Sky with Stars recorded for the Chelsea Music Festival.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
L. BEETHOVEN Quintet for piano and winds in E-flat Major Op. 16 with the Azahar Ensemble at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2012 Honens Prize Laureate Pavel Kolesnikov
R. SCHUMANN Kinderszenen “Scenes from Childhood” (last six miniatures) at the 2012 Honens International Piano Competition.
2012 Honens Prize Laureate Pavel Kolesnikov
R. SCHUMANN Kinderszenen “Scenes from Childhood” (first seven miniatures) at the 2012 Honens International Piano Competition.
2003 Honens Laureate Winston Choi
W. G. STILL Three Visions recorded at Choi’s home in Chicago.
2015 Honens Finalist Henry Kramer
F. CHOPIN Preludes Op. 28 at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
Honens Artistic Director Jon Kimura Parker
Happy Holidays from all of us at Honens!
2006 Honens Laureate Hinrich Alpers
L. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major Op. 53 “Waldstein” recorded at Alpers’ home in Germany.
2006 Honens Laureate Hinrich Alpers
F. LISZT transcription of Beethovens’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor Op. 125 (third movement) recorded at Alpers’ home in Germany.
2000 Honens Laureate Alessandra Ammara
M. RAVEL Scarbo from Gaspard de la nuit recorded at Sala da Pranzo d’Estate in Italy.
2003 Honens Laureate Winston Choi
F. SCHUBERT Impromptu No. 3 in B-flat Major Op. 142 and A. BEACH Ballade Op. 6 recorded at Choi’s home in Chicago.
2003 Honens Laureate Roberto Plano
V. BELLINI Casta Diva from Norma recorded at Plano’s home in Italy.
2006 Honens Laureate Hinrich Alpers
M. RAVEL Sonatine recorded at Alpers’ home in Germany.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Adela Liculescu
G. FAURE Allegro quasi presto from Violin Sonata No. 1 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Finalist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner
W. OQUIN Détours at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
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A. LOUIE Memories in an Ancient Garden from Scenes from a Jade Terrace, recorded in Jon Kimura Parker’s studio at Rice University.
Gryphon Trio
A. DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor Op. 90 “Dumky” at Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts at Queen’s University.
Duo 19:21
W. LUTOSLAWSKI Variations on a Theme by Paganini at the Dairy Arts Center for the Boulder International Chamber Music Competition
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2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
N.NAMORADZE Etudes I-III at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Tzu-Yin Huang
B. BARTÓK arr. G. SÁNDOR Intermezzo interrotto at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2015 Honens Prize Laureate Luca Buratto
J. BRAHMS Geistliches Wiegenlied with violist Hsin-Yun Huang and Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Semifinaist Megan-Geoffrey Prins
J. ZAIDEL-RUDOLPH Catch me if you can at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
R. TAKI arr. N. NAMORADZE Moon Refracted in Toyko, Japan.
Honens Prize Laureates Katherine Chi (2000), Minsoo Sohn (2006), and Georgy Tchaidze (2009)
C. DEBUSSY arr. A. CAPLET Jeux de vagues from La Mer at the 2012 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
R. SCHUMANN Humoreske Op. 20 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition
2018 Honens Finalist Han Chen
G. FINZI Who is Silvia?, O Mistress Mine, and It was a lover and his lass from Let Us Garlands Bring Op. 18 with Phillip Addis at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
A. COPLAND Hoe-down from Rodeo with Jon Kimura Parker at the 2019 Honens Festival.
2015 Honens Finalist Artem Yasynskyy
V. HOROWITZ Carmen Fantasy, variations on a theme from Bizet’s Carmen at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
S. PROKOFIEV Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 with violinist Jonathan Crow at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Finalist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner
L. BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Adela Liculescu
C. GLUCK (arr. G. SGAMBATI) Melody from Orfeo ed Euridice and D. SCARLATTI Sonata in D minor K. 141 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2015 Honens Finalist Henry Kramer
M. RAVEL Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit, F. CHOPIN Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 “Raindrop”, and G.LIGETI Musica Ricercata at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2015 Honens Semifinalist Scott Cuellar
G. FAURÉ Préludes Op. 103 at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2009 Honens Prize Laureate Georgy Tchaidze
N. MEDTNER Fairy Tale (Skazki) Op. 34 No. 2 and A. DVOŘÁK Finale from Piano Quintet in A Major Op. 81 with the Cecilia String Quartet.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
Conversation with Honens Artistic Director Jon Kimura Parker.
2018 Honens Semifinalist Tzu-Yin Huang
J.S. BACH Partita No. 3 in A minor BWV 827 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2015 Honens Finalist Artem Yasynskyy
G. PESSON La Lumière n’a pas de bras pour nous porter and J. HOFMANN Mazurka in A minor Op. 16 No. 1 at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Finalist Han Chen
F. LISZT Réminiscences de Don Juan S. 418 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2018 Honens Finalist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner
C. DEBUSSY Violin Sonata in G minor at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition with violinist Jonathan Crow.
2012 Honens Prize Laureate Pavel Kolesnikov
F. MENDELSSOHN Molto allegro e vivace from Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 in D Major Op. 58 at the 2012 Honens International Piano Competition with cellist Johannes Moser.
2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze
J.S. BACH Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV 830 at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.
2015 Honens Prize Laureate Luca Buratto
R. SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 No. 14 Zart und singen at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition.
