Sivan Silver/Gil Garburg, Piano Duo
Sunday, May 7, 2023
3 pm
Anderson Hills Church
7515 Forest Road
Cincinnati, OH 45255
In the great, and often underappreciated art of piano duo playing, Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg are setting a new standard with acclaim by audiences and critics alike. They have both performed and collaborated with orchestras internationally in approximately 70 countries on five continents - at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Vienna Musikverein, the Salzburg Festpielhaus, the Sydney Opera House and the Berlin Philharmonie, among countless others.
The duo joined forces with the Vienna Symphony to record the world premiere of a new concerto – written for and dedicated to them – Richard Dünster’s adaptation of Brahms Quartet Op. 25 for piano, four hands and string orchestra. They also appeared as soloists with the Orchestra of the Americas, alongside Yo-Yo Ma and Claudio Bohorquez, on their 2021 European tour. Silver-Garburg recordings are received with high praise: Their most recent album, Illumination, was named CD of the Week by music magazine Concerti.
Silver and Garburg were well on their way to promising solo careers when they paired up, both as a married couple and at the piano. They have been performing together for 20 years. Since 2014, they have occupied one of the few extant professorships for piano duo at the Graz University of the Arts. They present master classes at leading academic institutes in Moscow, Beijing, Melbourne, Vienna, Jerusalem and more.
Program
Overture from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"....................Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)
Original version for piano, four hands by the composer
Sonata in B minor............................................................................Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)
Arrangement for two pianos by Camille Saint-Säens (1835 – 1921)
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Fantasy in F minor, D. 940, op. 103......................................Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, op. 28.............Camille Saint-Säens (1835 – 1921)
Arrangement for two pianos by Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
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Malagueña...........Arrangement
Waltz................Johannes Brahms
Silver-Garburg, Piano Duo
Acclaimed International Artists, Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg record for Oehms Classics.
Photography by Gayna Bassin
