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Steinway Salon: Jerome Kuderna Plays Debussy

Pianist Jerome Kuderna has been recognized as a leading interpreter of contemporary music for the past 30 years.  He kicks off the Steinway Salon series with a beautiful afternoon program including Claude Debussy's Études, composed in 1915.

Program:

Debussy: Etude pour les cinq doigts (for five fingers) (1915)
Ross Bauer: Dirge Elegy (for Arlene Zallman) (2007)
Arlene Zallman: Variations on "Alma Che Fai?" by Luca Marenzio (1996)
Debussy: Etude pour les quartes (for fourths) (1915)
Roger Sessions: From My Diary #1 (1939)
Brian Fennelly: Babbittelle, from Memoria (2012)
Milton Babbitt: My Complements to Roger (1978)
Debussy: Etude pour les agrements (for ornaments) (1915)
Robert Helps: Nocturne (1973)
Debussy: Etude pour les tierces (for thirds) (1915)
Elliott Carter: Intermittences (2005)

Jerome Kuderna received his initial training in piano and conducting in Denver with Antonia Brico. While studying the music of Webern and Schoenberg with Rudolf Kolisch he performed works by the 2nd Viennese school with soprano Bethany Beardslee. He studied piano with Adele Marcus at Juilliard and Robert Helps at the New England Conservatory. He has taught at the University of Louisville and at Princeton University where he met Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt. His doctoral studies at NYU included a Ph. D dissertation on the piano works of Babbitt. He has premiered works by American composers including Milton Babbitt, Richard Swift, Alden Jenks, Robert Helps, Ann Callaway, Judith Shatin and Herb Bielawa . In January 2006 he gave the West Coast premiere of Elliott Carter's Piano Concerto with the Berkeley Symphony under the baton of George Thompson. He currently gives weekly lecture- recitals under the auspices of The Berkeley Arts festival.