The Grand Piano

Studio Dissonances, 4000 Saint-Ambroise, Suite 282

Program

Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor, BWV 883

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Sonata in D minor K.9

Sonata in B minor K.27

Sonata in F minor K.466

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Sonata in C major KV.545

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Impromptu op.90 no.3, Andante

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Nocturne op.27 no.2 in D flat major, Lento sostenuto

Nocturne op.9 no.1 in B flat minor, Larghetto

Nocturne op.55 no.2 in E flat major, Lento sostenuto

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Study-Tableau op.39 no.5 in E flat minor, Appassionato

Leo Purich (born 1998)

Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 136 (2020)

Reservations

To make a reservation, please click on RSVP (above) and send an interac e-transfer to Viktor by email

viktorlazarov@bell.net $40 for members and $50 for non-members

Biography

Viktor Lazarov is a researcher and pianist specializing in the analysis of performance styles of the Baroque repertoire and piano works by Canadian, Balkan, and East European composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Equally at ease as a lecturer and soloist, Viktor presented his research-creation work at the Second International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology in Utrecht, the Netherlands; at the Ninth Congress on Music and Minimalism in Belgrade, Serbia; at the Montreal Bach Festival; at the BUNT Festival in Belgrade; and at the Paroles de musicians congress at the University of Évry-Paris-Sarclay in France. He also lectured at McGill University, Montreal, and the Eastman School of Music, NY, USA.

Viktor is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Opus Prize for “Article of the Year” awarded by the Conseil québécois de la musique in 2021. He writes for the Canadian magazine of classical music, arts, and culture, La Scena Musicale , as well as in scholarly journals such as Musurgia, CIRCUIT and La Revue musicale de l’OICRM.

Completed at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal under the supervision of professors Caroline Traube and Sylvain Caron, Viktor's doctoral thesis proposes an innovative approach for the development of research-creation in performance using a mixed protocol qualitative and quantitative analysis.

In addition to his Ph.D. in musicology, Viktor earned a Master of Music and a Graduate Diploma in Performance from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, as well as a Bachelor of Music Performance at the University of South Carolina School of Music . He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Business Management from Concordia University's John Molson School of Business.

(photo credit: Laurence Grandbois-Bernard)