Utah Symphony’s Jason Hardink performs Beethoven, Messiaen
Jason Hardink, principal keyboard player of the Utah Symphony Orchestra, will perform for Cedar City in a free concert Oct. 18. The concert will be held in the Thorley Recital Hall in SUU’s Music Building at 7:30 p.m. The program will include Messiaen’s “Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus” from “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus,” Ferneyhough’s “Lemma-Icon-Epigram,” and Beethoven’s Sonata in B-flat, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier.”
Hardink is a native of Rhode Island and a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and the Shepherd School of Music. His former teachers include Robert Boberg and Sanford Margolis. Hardink holds a doctorate in music from Rice University where he studied with Brian Connelly. His doctoral thesis, “Messiaen and Plainchant,” explores the varying levels of influence that Gregorian chant exerted on the music of Olivier Messiaen.
“Jason Hardink plays with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, and the program includes some of the most difficult music ever written for the piano,” said Dr. Christian Bohnenstengel, director of piano studies at SUU. “Several of our students will have the opportunity to work with Mr. Hardink in a master class setting that afternoon.”
“We seldom get the opportunity to hear a program of this magnitude in recital,” said Brendan Bennett, a senior piano major from Lehi. “It shows me the realm of possibilities as a pianist.”
Other events in which Hardink will perform during the 2018–19 season include a solo recital at Carnegie Hall presented by Key Pianists and performances of Michael Hersch’s stunning 2.5-hour solo piano cycle “The Vanishing Pavilions” at Oberlin, and Aperio, Music of the Americas.
For more information about the music department at SUU, please visit suu.edu/pva/music.
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