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SZERVÁNSZKY/CAVAYE
PIANO DUO

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Marche Écossaise sur un thème populaire

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Préludes

1. Bruyères
2. Général Lavine – eccentric

3. La cathédrale engloutie

4. Minstrels

BEETHOVEN 
Symphony No. 7 in A major Op.92       

(arrangement for piano duet)

I. Poco sostenuto – Vivace

II  Allegretto

III  Presto – presto meno assai – Presto

IV .Allegro con brio

followed by
WINE AND CANAPES RECEPTION
to launch the 88 KEYS appeal

Valeria Szervánszky & Ronald Cavaye have been performing as a piano duo since 1979. They have played extensively in Europe, the USA, China, and particularly in Japan, where they both held piano professorships at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tōkyō.

They perform a broad repertoire and have a special working and personal relationship with the Hungarian composer, György Kurtág, making the first complete recording of the first four volumes (solos, duets and two pianos) of Játékok – Games.

Other recordings include the Mozart concertos for two and three pianos, Stravinsky’s own arrangement of Le sacre du printemps for piano duet, Ravel’s Ma Mère l'oye (part of which was used as the soundtrack for the Oscar-winning film, Call Me By Your Name), Debussy’s Six Epigraphes Antiques, Bartók’s Sonata for 2 Pianos & Percussion, Ravel’s La Valse, and other works by Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Kurtág, and Webern.

Valeria Szervánszky studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music with Pál Kadosa and György Kurtág, and at the Musikhochschule in Hannover with Hans Leygraf. Before moving to Tōkyō, she taught the “Exceptionally Gifted Children's Class” at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and is still active as a teacher. She is also the dedicatee of Kurtág’s Szálkák – Splinters, a piece originally composed for the cimbalom and rewritten for piano.

Ronald Cavaye studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Oliver Davies, at the Musikhochschule in Hannover with Hans Leygraf and at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music with Pál Kadosa and György Kurtág. He has taught masterclasses and served on the jury of international piano competitions in in the UK, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, Japan, China, and the USA. He has also written for The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, the Edinburgh Festival, the Paris Autumn Festival. and is the author of Music Education of the Japanese, and two books and numerous translations of the Japanese Kabuki theatre: Kabuki - A Pocket Guide (Tuttle); Kabuki Plays on Stage Vol. III – Darkness and Desire (University of Hawai’i Press); and A Guide to the Japanese Stage (Kodansha International, Japan, co-author).