Piano virtuoso Sara Davis Buechner performs an eclectic and  international programme of piano works, beginning with Bach’s Sixth  Partita in the rare arrangement of Egon Petri, traversing the  delightful set of ten miniatures entitled “Histoires” by Jacques  Ibert, and concluding with Yoshinao Nakada’s landmark Sonata of 1949.

Canadian pianist Sard Davis Buechner has been celebrated as a pianist of  noteworthy accomplishment, virtuosic mastery, artistic sensitivity  and extraordinary versatility. She is a major prizewinner of many of  the world’s most prestigious international piano competitions  including a Bronze Medalist of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International  Piano Competition in Moscow.

With an active repertoire of nearly 100  piano concertos ranging from Bach to Wuorinen, she has appeared as  soloist with America's most prominent orchestras including the New  York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Saint Louis and San  Francisco Symphony Orchestras; and abroad with the Japan  Philharmonic, City of Birmingham (U.K.) Symphony Orchestra, BBC  Philharmonic, Kuopio (Finland) Philharmonic, and more.

In 2003 Buechner was appointed Assistant Professor of Piano at the University  of British Columbia - Vancouver. She is a former faculty member of  New York University, and has presented lectures and masterclasses  worldwide, from the Royal Academy in London to the Juilliard School  to the Kobe-Yamate Gakuen in Osaka, Japan.

PROGRAM:

MOZART
Five Works for Piano
Sonatensatz in G minor KV 312
Adagio in B minor KV 540
Menuett in D major KV 354
Eine kleine Gigue in G major KV 576
Sonatensatz in B-flat major KV 400

JACQUES IBERT
Histoires (Ten Stories)

POULENC
Mouvements Perpétuels

KOUJI TAKU
Variations on a Theme of Poulenc [1957]

GERSHWIN
Three Foxtrots
Do - Do - Do
Someone to Watch Over Me
Kickin' the Clouds Away

February 29 & March 1, 2008  8pm