The Mannes School is delighted to have Robert Bily, the 2024 Alexis Gregory Vendome Prize winner, return to The New School for a recital as part of the inaugural Mannes Summer Piano Festival!

Program
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110
de Falla: Danza ritual del fuego (“Ritual Fire Dance”), from El amor brujo
de Falla: Homenaje pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy
Debussy: Pour le piano, L. 95
Dutilleux: Choral et variations, Mov. 3 from sonate pour piano
–Intermission–
Carl Vine: 5 Bagatelles
Vítězslav Novák: Amoroso, No. 3 from Vzpomínky, Op. 6
Marc-Andre Hamelin: Étude No. 1 in A Minor (“Triple Étude, after Chopin”)
Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in B minor, Op. 20

About Robert Bily
Czech pianist ROBERT BILY was born in Ústí nad Labem. He is currently a student of Pavel Gililov at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. Previously he studied with Dirk Fischbeck in Halle (Saale) and with Jacques Ammon at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig.

About the Mannes Summer Piano Festival Concert Series

Join at Mannes for a celebration of piano artistry at the inaugural Mannes Summer Piano Festival. From July 15 to July 24, experience an extraordinary lineup of internationally acclaimed pianists gracing the stage of the historic Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall at The New School.