Newsletter Stretto Piano Festival 5-DAY FESTIVAL PASS
 Featuring over 30 artists from five continents playing Stretto pianos with narrower-than-conventional keys ~ A growing international movement! Unique in the worldThe only music festivaloffering pianists a choiceof piano key sizeThe Stretto Piano Festival 2023 presentsOnline International Concerts for Nine Days,July 15-23Live Concerts in NYC for Five Days,July 18-22where we will have twoSteinway Grand Pianos on stage:One with 5.9-inch octave narrow keysfor small and medium-sized hands&One with 6.5-inch octave conventional keysfor large hands Full Festival Passes are now availablefor our ticketed live concerts in NYCJuly 15-23, 2023Hello, Everyone! I’ll be updating you on all the exciting developments over the next month as we move towards the first day of The Third International Stretto Piano Festival, July 15-23, 2023. Thank you for reading the announcements and for staying abreast of our work. There is something here for every piano music lover – from JS Bach to Brazilian Jazz to Joni Mitchell to Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and David Amram, including shows by kids and teens and a Music Lovers high-level amateur and pro players event. All ages are included and we are expanding the genres of music we present. Join us for the entire week to enjoy great concerts and learn about the power and life-changing benefits of Stretto pianos These pianos have keys that are narrower than conventional piano keys. Instead of a 6.5-octave reach, Stretto pianos’ octaves span 6.0 inches,5.5 inches, and closely similar dimensions such as my Model C Steinway grand with 5.9-inch octave keys. The experience of playing Stretto piano keys is amazing. We are very grateful to all of you who are supporting Stretto Piano Concerts and the Festival with your generous donations and ticket purchases. You may now attend all the live concerts in NYC by purchasing a 5-day pass ~ click the first pink button below. We are so excited to present this unique event and all of our wonderful artists! Yours with gratitude,Hannah Let’s have a great eventand build a concert hall in NYC together! Click here for our FULL 5-day FESTIVAL PASS…five evenings of concerts in NYC! and if you’re not in NYC:Click Here to Make a DonationOur First Online Concert for The Stretto Piano Festival 2023Opening the 9-day eventPlease mark your calendar!  Carol LeoneSaturday, July 15, 20233:00 ~ 3:30 PM The Stretto piano pioneer & advocate Professor of Piano at Southern Methodist University, Dr. Carol Leone performs an introductory program of 19th-century Romances and Etudes that exemplifies the Romantic period’s trend toward heroic virtuosity and the expression of love and yearning. The Stretto Piano Festival is delighted to present her online concert, filmed in Dallas, TX, USA STAY TUNED FOR LIVE LINKS TO THISAND OTHER FREE ONLINE CONCERTSJULY 15-23! Dr. Leone is the first ever pianist to release a ground-breaking CD recording on a Steinway concert grand piano with three different sizes of keys, Change of Keys. Hear her wonderful artistry and brilliant technical acumen on this unique award-winning album! One Piano, Three KeyboardsSolo Piano Music of:Béla Bartók,Ludwig van Beethoven,Frédéric Chopin,Claude Debussy,Franz Joseph Haydn,Robert Schumann-Liszt The International Stretto Piano Festival is honored to have Dr. Leone as a member of its Board of Advisors. Her great accomplishments and dedication as a performer, educator, writer, researcher, and promoter of Stretto pianos including work with the DS Foundation and DS Keyboards are of great value to our ongoing, collective international mission. Live Concerts in NYCat beautiful Engelman Recital Hall at BPAC Please click here and scrollfor the full live concert rosterJuly 18-22see the red bannersfor live-in-NYC ticket linksClick here for ticketsLook for the red banners as you scroll downFirst Live-in-NYC Concert for Stretto Piano Festival 2023  Tuesday, July 18, 20238:00 PM – 10:00 PM ETThe International Stretto Festival founder, Hannah Reimann, kicks off the in-person concerts in NYC with a program of Joni Mitchell’s Piano Songs and more. Guitarist Michele Temple will join this evening of authentic versions of songs for true Joni fans and people new to her music, performed in the original keys and arrangements as her original studio recordings. Reimann & Temple have performed this music in four states for 11 years.Engelman Recital Hall55 Lexington Ave @East 25th StreetNew York, NY, 10011 USAClick Here for Tickets  Wednesday, July 19, 20238:00 PM – 10:00 PMCanadian virtuoso Roger Lord joins the International Stretto Piano Festival for a live performance We are honored to present Roger Lord, “The Piano Prince of Canada,” who has played for millions on Chinese TV, and journeyed the world to play great classics of all eras. Mr. Lord also showcases the work of dozens of contemporary composers. His program for the Stretto 2023, “Miniatures,” will include the work of ten composers including Christopher Norton, Astor Piazzolla, Gallant, Morel, Saygun, and Gershwin, plus folk melodies by four Chinese composers: • Wang Jianzhong – Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon• Sang Tong – Spring Breeze and Bamboo Flute• He Luting – Evening Party• Chen Peixun – Autumn Moon over a Calm Lake Don’t miss this rare event live in NYC! Click Here for TicketsNEW UPDATES FOR STRETTO 2023  Thursday, July 20, 20238:00 PM – 10:00 PMChristopher O’Riley performs his “Virtually-Tempered Clavier” before his Kennedy Center performance this Fall Engelman Recital Hall, New York, NY, USA Christopher O’Riley‘s Virtually-Tempered Clavier opens a new world of interpretation of JS Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, celebrating the masterwork’s 300th anniversary. The 7.30 pm performance will be preceded by a talk by O’Riley, interviewed by Hannah Reimann, the Stretto Piano Festival’s Creator and Artistic Director at 6.30 pm. The ticket link will be updated shortly to include this time indication. Join us early on to understand how O’Riley honors this known Baroque music, introducing 21st-century ideas with stylistic knowledge and innovation. Pianist, arranger, collaborative artist, composer, educator, and media personality Christopher O’Riley follows his passions into a fractal array of innovative directions, ever striving for the truest and deepest human connection, through performance and collaboration. It is with O’Riley’s dedication to the learning abilities, personalities, and imaginations of artists that he comes to his latest endeavor – a home-recorded traversal of J.S. Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier. O’Riley has produced an online archive of video lectures entitled “Everything We Need to Know About Playing the Piano We Learn From The Well-Tempered Clavier,” a series illuminating a new perspective on each Prelude and Fugue, expanding on the ways the paucity of Bach’s notation encourages us to engage creatively and imaginatively. Click Here for Tickets  David Amram & Ran Feng — Closing Night CelebrationSaturday, July 22, 20237:00 PM – 10:00 PM The scope of composer David Amram‘s music includes film music(“The Manchurian Candidate” & “Splendor in the Grass”), concert music, and performing standards and originals he plays with his band including the song “Pull My Daisy,” one of numerous collaborations with his close friend, Jack Kerouac. Stretto Piano Concerts is excited and proud to have Amram on its Board of Advisors. We’re delighted to be promoting David Amram’s Sonata for Piano (1960) as part of the closing night’s celebration for the 2023 Stretto Piano Festival’s live concerts in NYC. The Sonata is a through-composed, three-movement concert work that contains elements of Jazz – please see David’s words below to learn more. This final live concert will begin with a classical recital by pianist Ran Feng at 7 pm with Amram’s music starting around 8 pm.Click Here for Tickets  The vintage photograph of Amram is from the LP of his Sonata for Piano recorded by pianist Mitchell Andrews in 1965.We plan to have copies of the printed C.F.Peters score of the Sonata for sale which David will sign after the concert. We’re looking forward to the upcoming recording of this piece by the outstanding pianist Thomas Weaver which will take place in September 2023. Ran Feng will begin the closing night celebration of live concerts in NYC with a recital of solo works by Brahms and Schubert-Lizst. Then she’ll play Movement I of the Amram Piano Sonata.  Yoshiko Kline will share the performance of the Amram Piano Sonata with Ms. Feng, playing Movements II & III THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL STRETTO PIANO FESTIVAL and Stretto Piano Concerts had another enjoyable and informativePIANO TECH RADIO HOUR podcast with the great innovator and host, Eathan Janney, on Saturday, June 24, 2023! You’ll be able to listen to this podcast on platforms like Apple Podcasts on your iPhone shortly. Here’s the Facebook link to the recent episode for those who wish to hear it that way. Virtuosos Christopher O’Riley, Anna Arazi, and Ran Feng, all of whom will be performing for the festival on July 20 and July 22 were |
