Pianist Iyad Sughayer
In Recital at the Arts Club of Washington
Monday, October 21, at 7:00 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Mozart A minor Sonata k.310
LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
1. Funérailles
3. (Andante lagrimoso)
4. Cantique d’amour
KHACHATURIAN Poem
KHACHATURIAN Piano Sonata (1961)
Palestianian-Jordanian pianist Iyad Sughayer performs music of Mozart, Liszt, and Khatchaturian in his first American tour. The young pianist recently released the first in a series of albums of the complete piano music of Aram Khatchaturian, and will also appear at Steinway Hall for his New York debut.
Mr. Sughayer is sponsored by London’s Keyboard Charitable Trust, which helps the most gifted young pianists perform on international stages. The trust includes such notable musicians as Evgeny Kissin, Alfred Brendel, and the late Claudio Abbado among its trustees.
Iyad Sughayer
Mr. Sughayer has performed across the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East. He has been a soloist with the European Union Chamber Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata as well as the Royal Northern College of Music, Chetham’s, and the Prague Youth, the Cairo, and the Amman Symphony Orchestras.
Born in Amman in 1993, Iyad received his first lessons at the age of five from the pianist, conductor and composer Mohammad Sidiq, at Jordan’s National Music Conservatory. He made his concerto debut at the age of eight with the National Music Conservatory Orchestra. In 2008, he continued his piano studies at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, with Marie Louise Taylor and Dr Murray McLachlan, and received many prizes and awards. These included the Dennis Midwood Keyboard Prize and first prize in Chetham’s Concerto Competition.
In 2012, Iyad was awarded a full scholarship to continue studying with Dr Murray McLachlan at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester. At the RNCM, he was the winner of both the RNCM Concerto Competition and the EPTA Piano Competition, and received the Peter Frankl Piano Prize.
Having gained a full scholarship at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, Iyad studied with Martino Tirimo and Peter Tuite, completing his Master’s degree in 2018. He was the recipient of the David and Margaret Lipsey Award and was the Derek Butler scholar. In his final year at Trinity Laban, Iyad was awarded the Trinity Laban Gold Medal, the college’s most prestigious prize.
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