Bernadette Harvey in Recital

Bernadette Harvey is Senior Lecturer in Piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. An acclaimed international performer and teacher, she was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2000 by then Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, for her contribution to Australian Music. Dr Harvey has won many accolades since her first medal in a Sydney Eisteddfod at the age of two and a half, including the ABC ‘Young Performer of the Year’ in 1987.

Her playing has been described by one reviewer as: “Gifted with a rare physical control of the instrument and intellectual and interpretative qualities to match…dispatched with a Horowitz-like virtuosity…blisteringly virtuosic…It drew me to the edge of my seat.” (Neville Cohn, West Australian​).

Program
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.7 in D major Op.10 No.3; I. Presto; II. Largo e mesto; III. Menuetto. Allegro; IV. Rondo. Allegro

Peggy Polias: Sonata Ode; I. Crown; II. Storm; III. Be it Known; IV. Light

Frédéric Chopin: Études Op.10; No.5 in G♭ major Black Keys; No.6 in E♭ minor ‘Lament’; No.8 in in F major Sunshine

Ross Edwards: Piano Sonata; I. Allegro; II. Lento e mesto; III. Animato