Piano Sonata - Part 2

2nd part of Elliott Carter's Piano Sonata, composed in 1945-46 and revised in 1982, performed by John Anderson July 19, 2009 in the Aula Magna of the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, as part of the Ticino Musica Festival. Please watch part 1 if you haven't already, and part 3 for the rest of the second movement. Part 1 contains some brief information about the piece. www.johnclementanderson.com JOHN ANDERSON has two diplomas from the Music Academy of Pescara, where he studied with Bruno Mezzena. He began his musical education with Phyllis Olsen at the age of four in his hometown, Lawrence, Kansas, (USA), and continued to study privately with her until university, and attended occasional masterclasses with Byrnell Figler and one with José Ramos Santana. He graduated from Hertford College, Oxford, in 2004 with a First in music, and in 2005 served as artistic director to the first Oxford International Music Festival. He received perfect marks from the Academy of Pescara for his first piano diploma, and was awarded perfect marks, lauds and "special mention" for his second diploma concentrating in 20th century piano repertoire. He was a regular participant of the Ticino Musica Festivals in Lugano/Ascona/Locarno Switzerland from 2001 until 2010. He continues to study with Bruno Mezzena in Pescara. He has performed in the USA, Italy, Switzerland, UK, and in Russia, and with various orchestras, including performances of Stavinsky's Concerto for Piano and Winds (with the Pescara Academy Orchestra), Saint-Saens' Rhapsodie d'Auvergne, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 (with the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra and Juan Francisco LaManna conducting), and the Schumann Concerto in A minor (with Hertford College Orchestra, Oxford, and the Pescara Academy Orchestra). His interests also include composition and analysis, which he studied with his Oxford tutor, Hugh Collins Rice. He was a jury member of the 2009 international singing competition "Putevka k zvezdam" in Moscow. He is president of the Italian music association "Project Odradek".