Laurent Korcia Violin Recital

Laurent Korcia is a French violinist who studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. After receiving a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire, he won the Paganini Competition in Genoa, a Grand Prix at the Jacques Thibaud Competition, the Premier Grand Prix at the international Zino Francescatti Competition and a scholarship from the Young Concert Artists Trust in London.
In 2002, he was awarded the Victoires de la Musique as instrumental soloist of the year in France and was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He also received the George Enesco Prize of the SACEM and the Grand Prix of the Académie Charles-Cros.
Korcia performs regularly with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Charles Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Emmanuel Krivine, Kurt Masur, John Nelson, Michel Plasson, Manuel Rosenthal, Yutaka Sado, Tugan Sokhiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, and Walter Weller. He includes solo violin recitals in his concert repertoire, with programmes ranging from Bach to contemporary music.
Since 1999, Korcia has been playing on the Zahn Stradivarius (1719), a violin on loan by the French group LVMH, Moët-Hennessy-Louis Vuitton.

Program:
1. Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 Op. 78 （27’）
-Vivace ma non troppo
-dagio
-Allegro molto moderato
2. Johannes Brahms: Scherzo from F.A.E Sonata （6’）
3. Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango-Café 1930（7’）
4. Bela Bartok: Danses Roumaines（6’）
-Interval-
5. Ernest Bloch: Nigun from Baal Shem （6’）
6. Manuel De Falla: Nana （2’）
7. Kreisler/De Falla: La Vida Breve-Danse Espagnole (4’)
8. Kreisler/Albeniz: Tango （3’）
9. Kreisler/Albeniz: Malaguena（3’）
10. Fritz Kreisler: La Gitana（2’30”）
11. Maurice Ravel: Habanera (3’30”)
12. Maurice Ravel: Tzigane （9’30”）

*Program is subject to change without prior notice.

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