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  • I Musici de Montréal & Katherine Chi

    The second discovery is Katherine Chi, gold medalist of the 2010 Honens Piano Competition. Ms. Chi sat in with I Musici bringing her control and warmth into Turina’s romantic and richly harmonic Symphonic Rhapsody Op.66. She got to show flashes of her technical power in the brief scherzo allegro vivo section before blending back in with the ensemble.

    Ms. Chi showed her chops in a solo performance with a piece written during the Golden Age of Pianism, Godowsky’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss Jr. This show-off piece, full of lightning figurations, arpeggios and change-ups as themes of long beloved waltzes are constructed, deconstructed, and subtly reconstructed adorned with contrapuntal inner linings in motley colours was a treat to hear. Although there is not a hint of clowning in her stage presence, Katherine Chi’s treatment brought out all the fun in this outrageous piece, as though the spirit of Victor Borge were in the hall.

    showtimemagazine.ca | October 3, 2010

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