Stephen Cook will perform an eclectic program of French, Russian and American music for his final Doctoral recital at ASU.

The program will include Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit and Stravinsky's Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka. These epic works are monuments of the piano literature and legendary among pianists for their extreme technical difficulty.  In addition, Stephen will perform a recent work by Emmy Award winning Los Angeles composer Stephen Cohn entitled Seven Dances. Mr. Cohn was recently praised in the Huffington Post for his new Quartet entitled Winter Soul. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rodney-punt/the-eclipse-quartet-and-i_b_815966.html  Cook has also worked closely with Stephen Cohn on two of his other visionary piano works: A Warrior's Paradox and Moods of A Goddess.

Program:

Maurice Ravel- Sonatine
Gaspard de la Nuit

Stephen Cohn-Seven Dances

Igor Stravinsky-Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka

Reception will follow!  admission is free

For more information, please visit: www.stephenbcook.com www.youtube.com/sbcpianist.  Tto find out more about composer Stephen Cohn, please visit: www.stephencohn.com

Katzin Concert Hall Arizona State University School of Music Mill ave. and Gammage Parkway Tempe, AZ 85282

Sonata in A-flat major, Hob. XVI/46   Joseph Haydn

Kinderszenen, Op. 15   Robert Schumann

Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20   Béla Bartók

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Sonatensatz   Johannes Brahms

Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Op. 78 in G Major   Johannes Brahms

Valse Sentimentale, Op. 51, No. 6   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Two Preludes from Book I    Claude Debussy
     Danseuses de Delphes
     Les Collines d'Ana Capri

Ballade No. 4, Op. 58 in F minor   Frédéric Chopin

Sonata No.7, Op.83 in B-flat Major   Sergei Prokofiev

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