Get up closer and personal with Artistic Director Philip Setzer as he introduces Manchester Music Festival 50th Anniversary programming with Young Artists Class of 2024 in a program of solo works. Featuring special guest Shawn Harrington, Curator of the Manchester Historical Society.

Reception to follow.

*Presented in Partnership with Manchester Community Library

Program

Camille Saint-Saëns
Etude in D-flat, Op. 52 No. 6 (“En forme de Valse”)

Alexander Scriabin
Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1 
Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 42, No. 5
Etude in F-sharp, Op. 42, No.4
Etude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12 

Felix Blumenfeld
Etude in A-flat for the left hand, Op. 36
Etude-Fantasie in E-flat minor, Op. 25, No. 2 

Franz Liszt
Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 3 in G-sharp minor ("La campanella")
Études d'exécution transcendante S.139: No. 10 

Frédéric Chopin
Etude in E, Op. 10, No. 3
Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 7
Etude in A minor, Op. 25, No. 11 (“Winter Wind”)
Etude in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12 (“Revolutionary”)

Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition

Celebrating the inaugural partnership with Steinway & Sons, MMF presents the Steinway & Sons Spirio, a high-resolution self-playing piano, with MMF Young Artists Class of 2024 in a program of solo works.

Reception to follow.

MMF Artistic Director Philip Setzer joins a panel of distinguished authors to discuss the Romantic Era, raising questions and seeking answers about what "romantic" and Romanticism meant in history both emotionally and intellectually. 

PLEASE JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE OUR

GOLDEN JUBILEE

COCKTAILS, DINNER, AUCTION, & DANCING