Key Change Piano Festival
In honor of the 150th birthday of Alexander Scriabin, our 2022-23 Key Change Piano Revolutionaries Series celebrates the work and influence of Scriabin and his groundbreaking contemporaries in the Romantic era with seven distinct concerts over the course of the year.
The Key Change series will feature UI distinguished piano faculty and their students, as well as guest artists from across Iowa. Over the course of the 7-concert series, artists will perform the complete set of Scriabin's 10 sonatas!
Each concert will be played twice: Once in the Concert Hall of the UI School of Music's Voxman Building in Iowa City, and once at the Opus Cafe in Cedar Rapids. The series is presented in partnership with Orchestra Iowa.
Concert 1 (September 2022)
Concert 2 (October 2022)
Concert 3 (November 2022)
Concert 4 (January 2023)
Concert 5 (February 2023)
Concert 6 (March 2023)
Concert 7 (April 2023)
Concert #1
Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 3pm, Concert Hall, Voxman Music Building
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 6pm, Opus Concert Café, Cedar Rapids
Piece | Composer | Performer |
Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise Brillante in Eb Major, Op.22 | Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | Canlin Qiu** |
Sonata No.2 in Ab Major, Op.57 | Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) | Calvin Kotrba** |
Sonata No.2, in G# minor, Op.19
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Mariya Akhadjanova** |
Intermission |
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Piece | Composer | Performer |
Berceuse in Db Major, Op.57 | Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | Tim Hankewich**** |
Clouds | Florence Price (1887-1953) | Kendra Hunt** |
24 Preludes, Op.11
Polonaise in Bb minor, Op.21 |
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Ksenia Nosikova* |
Concert #2
Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 3pm, Concert Hall, Voxman Music Building
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 6pm, Opus Concert Café, Cedar Rapids
Piece | Composer | Performer |
Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49 | Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | Klyde Ledamo** |
Trois Morceaux
Prelude in D Flat |
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) | Nicole Messerschmitt** |
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 | Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | Ana Yam** |
Fantasy in B minor, Op.28 |
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Madeline Anderson** |
Intermission |
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Piece | Composer | Performer |
Two Intermezzi, Op.12
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Jenna Salliman** |
Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | Shu-Min (Alice) Chang*** |
Concert #3
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 6pm, Opus Concert Café, Cedar Rapids
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 3pm, Concert Hall, Voxman Music Building
Piece | Composer | Performer |
Twelve Etudes, Op.25
Twelve Etudes, Op.8
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) |
Justin Hettlage** |
Three Caprices, Op.33
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) | Le Thuy (Jun) Duong** |
Three Pieces, Op.2
Eight Etudes, Op.42
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Feiyang Li** |
Twelve Etudes of Dexterity, Op.41
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Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) | Chien-Chun (Anna) Chen** |
Intermission |
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Piece | Composer | Performer |
Sonata in E minor
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Florence Price (1887-1953) | Marian Lee**** |
Scherzo No.4 in E Major, Op.54 | Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | Paul Casiano** |
Sonata No.9, Op.68 (“Black Mass”) | Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Nathan Carterette** |
Concert #4
Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 7:30pm, Concert Hall, Voxman Music Building
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 6pm, Opus Concert Café, Cedar Rapids
Piece | Composer | Performer |
Twelve Etudes, Op.8
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Jason Lee** |
Variations on an Original Theme (of an Exceedingly Dismal Nature) | Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) | Yi Wang** |
Soirées Musicales, Op.6
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Clara Schumann (1819-1896) | Yifan Zhang* |
Sonata No.7, Op.64 (“White Mass”) | Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Nathan Carterette** |
Intermission |
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Piece | Composer | Performer |
Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op.6
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Craig Jordan** |
Six Pieces for Solo Piano
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Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) | Yaqi Huang** |
Romance (1913) | Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) | Renee Santos** |
Two Poems, Op.32
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Rene Lecuona* |
Concert #5
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 6pm, Opus Concert Café, Cedar Rapids
Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 3pm, Concert Hall, Voxman Music Building
Piece | Composer | Performer |
Fantasie Nègre No.4 in B minor | Florence Price (1887-1953) | Madeline Anderson** |
Two Impromptu, Op.14
Vers La Flemme, Op.72 |
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Mariya Akhadjanova** |
Reverie, Op.24 (arr. for Piano, Four Hands)
Three Pieces for Piano, Four Hands
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847) |
Du Huang**** and Xiao Hu**** |
Intermission |
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Piece | Composer | Performer |
Three Etudes, Op.65
Poeme in Db Major, Op.41 |
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Sean Botkin**** |
Soirées de Vienne: Nine Valses-Caprices after Schubert, S.427
Aufenhalt! S.560 No.3 (from “Schwanengesang”, D.957 by Franz Schubert) |
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) | Ksenia Nosikova* |
Sonata No.4, Op.30
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) |
Alan Huckleberry* |
Concert #6
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 6pm, Opus Concert Café, Cedar Rapids
Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 7:30pm, Concert Hall, Voxman Music Building
Piece | Composer | Performer |
Two Pieces for the Left Hand Alone, Op.9
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Neil Krzeski ** |
Sonatine
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Mathilde Kralik (1857-1944) | Hsin-Hui Liu** |
Two Nocturnes, Op.27
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | Miko Kominami**** |
Sonata No.5, Op.53 | Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Shu-Min (Alice) Chang*** |
Intermission |
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Piece | Composer | Performer |
Second Reverie, Op.28 Reverie-Impromptu, Op.3 |
Guadalupe Olmedo (1854-1889) Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) |
Karina Glasinovic** |
Sonata No.6, Op.62 | Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Justin Hettlage** |
Twenty-Four Preludes, Op.28
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | Rene Lecuona* |
Concert #7
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 6pm, Opus Concert Café, Cedar Rapids
Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 7:30pm, Concert Hall, Voxman Music Building
Piece | Composer | Performer(s) |
Sonata No.10, Op.70 | Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Stephen Mulvahill** |
Piano Trio in G minor, Op.17
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Clara Schumann (1819-1896) |
Miera Kim****, violin Carey Bostian****, cello Tammie Walker*, piano |
Intermission |
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Piece | Composer | Performer |
Sonata No. 3 in F# minor, Op. 23
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Bowen (Peter) Liu** |
Eight Etudes, Op. 42
Sonata No.8, Op.66 |
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) | Vakhtang Kodanashvili**** |
* UI Faculty
** UI Student
*** UI Alumna
**** Guest Artist