Program
| Composer | Work | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Sonata for piano four-hands in B-flat major, K. 358 | 1774 |
| Robert Schumann | Six Impromptus Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66 | 1848 |
| Claude Debussy | Six épigraphes antiques, L. 131 | 1914 |
| Maurice Ravel | Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (transcribed by L. Garban) | 1917 |
About the Artists
Chengcheng Yao
Stefan Chaplikov
Stefan Chaplikov enjoys a versatile career as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed across Europe and North America to high critical acclaim. He won first prize at the International Piano Competition in Varna and second prize at the Concours International de Piano Albert-Roussel à Sofia. His latest CD, an album of piano sonatas by Clementi, is scheduled for release on the Naxos label in August 2018.
Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Stefan made his concert debut in Sofia at the age of eleven as a soloist with the Sofia Soloists chamber ensemble. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Michell Béroff and was a Rebanks Family Fellow at The Glenn Gould School under the tutelage of John Perry. His graduate degrees include an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music under Peter Frankl. He is now a doctoral student at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studies with Leon Fleisher.