As part of the worldwide Prokofiev 2003 celebrations Turner Sims Concert Hall in Southampton presents an important six-concert series this Autumn based around the composer's nine completed piano sonatas, one of the great sets of instrumental music of the twentieth century. The series, which begins on Tuesday 30 September with a recital by distinguished Russian pianist Dmitri Alexeev, is the only complete professional survey of the works in the UK in this anniversary year and one of only three globally.
     The sonatas will be performed alongside other works by Prokofiev as well as music by composers who influenced him or were his contemporaries: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Ravel, Debussy, Koechlin, Haydn and Shostakovich. Integral to the series are four pre-concert talks given by eminent speakers, each of whom will be looking at a different aspect of the composer.
The complete series is as follows:

Tuesday 30 September at 8pm   Dmitri Alexeev - Sonata No 6

Pre-concert talk at 7pm - Prokofiev the Composer by Professor David Brown, Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Southampton and author of major biographies on Musorgsky, Glinka and Tchaikovsky.

Sunday 19 October at 3pm   François-Frédéric Guy  - Sonata No 8

Monday 27 October at 12.50pm   Bobby Chen - Sonata No 4

Tuesday 4 November at 8pm   Peter Jablonski - Sonata No 9

Pre-concert talk at 7pm - Prokofiev the Man by Noëlle Mann, Director of Prokofiev 2003 and Curator of the Serge Prokofiev Archive

Tuesday 25 November at 8pm   Boris Berman - Sonatas Nos 5 and 7

Pre-concert talk at 7pm - Prokofiev the Pianist by David Nice, writer and broadcaster and author of 'Prokofiev: From Russia to the West 1891-1935'

Thursday 11 December at 8pm   Peter Donohoe - Sonatas Nos 1, 2 and 3

Pre-concert talk at 7pm - Prokofiev in Performance by Peter Donohoe

Tickets for the series, which forms part of the Turner Sims Autumn season, go on sale from Monday 1 September from the Box Office on (023) 8059 5151.
Further information on the artists, speakers and music in the series will be available
on the Turner Sims website from Monday 4 August and in the season brochure, to be published in the middle of August.

Tel. (023)8059 2223
Fax. (023) 8059 2505
E-mail: info@turnersims.co.uk
Web: www.turnersims.co.uk

For interviews, pictures and review tickets contact
Kevin Appleby, Concert Hall Manager, on +44 (0)23 8059 2223
or Jilly Evans, Marketing Officer, on +44 (0)23 8059 2504

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