Pianist Kae Hosoda-Ayer in Solo Faculty Recital

Kae Hosoda-Ayer, Associate Professor of Piano and Director of Collaborative Piano at Baylor University, will present a faculty recital on Thursday, October 28, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Roxy Grove Hall. Dr. Hosoda-Ayer holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance (with emphasis in chamber music and collaborative arts) from The University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Music degree and Graduate Diploma in piano performance from New England Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, Japan.
Her Baylor recital will open with Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83. This three-movement work, one of Prokofiev’s so-called “War Sonatas,” dates from 1940 and has acquired the nickname of “Stalingrad.”
Also to be heard is French composer Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit from 1908. Subtitled “Trois poèmes pour piano d’après Aloysius Bertrand,” each of the three movements in this suite are based on a poem by Bertrand. Gaspard de la nuit is famous for its fiendish difficulty, partly because Ravel intended the final “Scarbo” movement to be even more pianistically challenging than Balakirev’s Islamey.
This recital by Kae Hosoda-Ayer is free of charge and open to the public. It is also available for livestreaming at baylor.edu/music/live.