Two Grands, Eight Hands!

 

Two Grands, Eight Hands! The Team's end-of-year Ballroom Celebration

 

Celebrate the end of 2026 in the elegance of the Rippon Lea ballroom, at this gala multi-piano event! All four Team partners (Robert Chamberlain, Darryl Coote, Rohan Murray & Kevin Suherman) will perform an exciting program of piano music for four, six and eight hands at two Schimmel grand pianos! Including the premiere of a new work by Australian composer Linda Kouvaras, specially commissioned by Team of Pianists for this occasion. (Photo of Linda Kouvaras below by Nicole Cleary)

Enjoy canapé refreshments (included in ticket price), pre-recital bar drinks on the pool terrace (at cost) and meet committee members of the Friends of the Team of Pianists, in this festive occasion in a special heritage venue.

With generous sponsorship from Friends of the Team of Pianists (FOTOPS), financial members of the Friends may purchase specially discounted tickets, while anyone else purchasing a full-price ticket will automatically receive 6 months’ complimentary membership of the Friends until July 2027.

The recital programme includes:

• Mendelssohn - Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 21 for 2 pianos 8 hands, arr. Friedrich Hermann
• Brahms - Sonata in F minor for 2 pianos, movements 1 & 3: Allegro non troppo, Scherzo - Allegro)
• Linda Kouvaras - world premiere performance of Gravity and Flight: Two Movements for Eight Hands at Two Pianos, a new work commissioned by Team of Pianists
• INTERVAL
• Schumann - Andante and Variations Op. 46 for two pianos 
• Piazzolla - Oblivion for 6 hands, transcribed by Lora Yatso
• Smetana - Rondo in C major for 2 pianos, 8 hands

The Team of Pianists gratefully acknowledges the support of Bernies Music Land, Australian agent for Schimmel pianos: Bernies Music Land, 381 Canterbury Road, Ringwood: 3134. Tel. 03 9872 5122, www.musicland.com.au and www.schimmelpianos.com.au.

• Saturday November 21 2026, 3.00pm at Xavier College Memorial Chapel, Kew: Gardens, Goodbyes and Serenades