"An all-Gershwin Affair" - Sean Sutherland, Piano Recital
October 18, 2023 |
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
2023-10-18 07:00 PM
2023-10-18 08:30 PM
"An all-Gershwin Affair" - Sean Sutherland, Piano Recital
Gordon Lightfoot Concert Hall
America/New_York
Pianist Sean Sutherland performs two of Gershwin's most important and captivating works: the iconic "Rhapsody in Blue" and the dazzling "Concerto in F".
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Recital Program
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
Benjamin Smith – orchestra
George Gershwin – Concerto in F (1925)
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro con brio
Younggun Kim – orchestra
Venue
Avenue Road Music and Performance Academy (Gordon Lightfoot Concert Hall)
460 Avenue Road
Toronto, ON, M4V 2J1
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About Sean Sutherland
Born in St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Sean Sutherland serendipitously discovered the piano as a child and was instantly enamored. At 15, Sean was offered a scholarship to study piano at one of the Royal Schools of Music in the United Kingdom but had to decline under strong parental directive, as he had not yet completed high school. Even though his opportunities for studying piano were limited in St. Vincent, Sean remained active training choirs and accompanying singers and instrumentalists. Upon his arrival at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he resumed his studies while earning a bachelor’s degree in Music, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
After working in several industries, Mr. Sutherland pursued an MBA at McGill University in Montréal. Following this degree, he started a niche tutorial service that specialized in standardized test preparation (SAT, ACT, SSAT, and GMAT) and lectured at McGill as an adjunct professor of international finance and information systems. Given his interest in education, Sean completed a master’s degree focused on Learning and Design Technologies at Stanford University in 2017. Sean currently lives in Toronto and works there as a Product Manager.
Over the years, Sean has continued to pursue his passion for classical piano music as an amateur pianist and has performed solo recitals in the US, Canada, Germany, and throughout the Caribbean. Sean has also collaborated with many instrumentalists and singers and has a keen interest in performing classical music on the steelpan. Sean has performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue as a soloist with the National Steel (Steelpan) Symphony Orchestra of Trinidad and Tobago in 2011 and 2014 respectively. Having competed on the amateur piano circuit, Sean has performed creditably: a semifinalist in the Van Cliburn Amateur Piano Competition; a finalist at the Boston Amateur Piano Competition in 2017 and the Piano Bridges Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2019; a second place in Category A (age 40-50) at the Piano Lovers Over 40 in Milan, Italy, in 2019; and, most recently, the winner of the 2021 Chopin Amateur Competition in Warsaw. In 2021, Sean also received the 2021 Anthony Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in the Arts and Letters.