Tuesday, October 29, 2024 7:30pm
Special concert event- outside of our regular concert season, in collaboration with the Arts & Letters Club. Concert will take place at the Arts & Letters Club; 14 Elm Street, Toronto 7:30pm
Ishay Shaer, piano
Program:
Bach: Partita #2 in C-
Schumann: Fantasy Op 17 in C+
Debussy: Images Book 2
Srul Irving Glick*: Four Preludes for Solo Piano
Ishay Shaer, piano
“Shaer treats the composer’s allusions by “reading” both the musical and the literary texts: Asking questions, providing answers, leading dialogues, meditating, narrating or being impulsively enthusiastic. Ideas that seem as though they develop at the very moment give his interpretation of the piece a persuasive originality”. Fritz Herzog, “General-Anzeiger Bonn”
Ishay Shaer is an Internationally recognized pianist whose career has taken him to concert Halls throughout Europe, United States, South America and parts of Asia.
His recent performances include, among others, recitals at the Tonhalle Zurich, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall, UK; Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Poland; deSingel, Belgium; Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago, USA; Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico, Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Teatro Solís, Uruguay.
He has taken part in musical events such as Montreal Bach Festival, Gdansk Music Festival, Swansea Festival of Music and Arts, Dr. Anton Philipszaal piano series (Netherlands), Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima, Semanas Musicales de Frutillar, Fundación Beethoven (Chile) and Israel Festival. In addition, he has performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt and the McGill Chamber Orchestra.
Ishay Shaer was awarded first prize in the 2006 Newport International Competition in the UK, and a year later won third prize in the “Silvio Bengalli” International Piano Competition in Italy. In his home country, he has received several awards, including the prestigious Clairmont prize. In 2009 he was a prizewinner at the International Beethoven Competition in Bonn. Throughout the years, Shaer has been supported by esteemed organizations, such as the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Swiss Orpheum Foundation, being included in its promotion programme for young soloists.
In 2017, Shaer released an album dedicated to late works by Beethoven, with the British label Orchid Classics. The album has been played in prominent radio stations, including BBC Radio 3, France Musique and WQXR (New York), and was highly praised in music magazines such as the BBC Music Magazine and Codalario Magazine, where the critic wrote: “Fortunately for us, [Shaer] pursues the individuality of his sound and looks for his own interpretative lines … an interpreter attentive to details, who has a very careful sound and shows a wonderful understanding of the musical discourse … This is an essential recording on the shelf of any music lover.”
*Canadian Composer