
Piano on the Rocks International Festival
10th Anniversary
April 25-27, 2025
Brady Hall - Verde Valley School
3511 Verde Valley School Rd, Sedona, AZ 86351
From Paris to Sedona
April 25, 2025
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo (b.1968)
Hymn to Sedona
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano; Barbara Di Toro, soprano; Sara Catarine, soprano; Sonja Bruzauskas, mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Peña, narrator
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Dolly Suite op. 56 for piano four hands Berceuse Mi-a-ou Le jardin de Dolly Kitty-Valse Tendresse Le pas espagnol
Jean-Marc Luisada, piano; Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Banalites: Hotel Voyage à Paris Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire
Les Chemins de l’amour, poem by Jean Anouilh
Sara Catarine, soprano; Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano
Intermission
Madeleine Hehn (b. 2003)
Hope is the Thing with Feathers, poem by Emily Dickinson
Sonja Bruzauskas, mezzo-soprano; Madeleine Hehn, piano
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, Op. 119
James Palmer, piano
Maurice Ravel (1875 -1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
I. Prelude
II. Fugue
III. Forlane
IV. Rigaudon
V. Toccata
Cynthia Raim, piano
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Waltz for 2 pianos, eight hands
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, Cynthia Raim, piano 1; James Palmer, Madeleine Hehn, piano 2
April 26, 2025
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Deux mélodies hébraïques, (Two Hebrew Songs)
I. Kaddish
II. L'énigme éternelle, The Eternal Enigma
Sara Catarine, soprano - Madeleine Hehn piano
Gabriel Fauré (1945-1924)
Nocturne No. 2 in B Major, Op. 33
Madeleine Hehn, piano
5 Melodies (from Venise) Op. 58, poems by Paul Verlaine
Mandoline - Mandolin
En Sourdine - Muted
Green - Green
A Clymène - To CLymène
C’est l’extase langoureuse - It is languorous rapture
Sonja, Bruzauskas, mezzo-soprano; Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano
Intermission
Domenico Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Sonata in D major
Sonata in B minor
Sonata in D major
Cynthia Raim, piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) Op. 12
Des Abends - In the Evening
Aufschwung - Soaring, literally Upswing
Warum? - Why?
Grillen - Whims
In der Nacht - In the Night
Fabel - Fabel
Traumes- Wirren - Dream’s Confusions
Ende vom Lied - End of the Song
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, Piano
April 27, 2025
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1885)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op. 42
Cynthia Raim, piano
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Danza de Jalisco
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano 1 - Cynthia Raim, piano 2
Poème Op. 32 No. 1 in F Sharp Major
Madeleine Hehn, piano
Sonate No. 4 in F sharp Major, Op. 30
James Palmer, piano
Intermission
Anna Rubin (b. 1946)
Strata of Silk and Rock
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Der Rosenkavalier - the rose-Bearer for 2 pianos James Palmer, Piano 1; Madeleine Hehn, piano 2
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) The Stars and Stripes Forever for 2 pianos , eight hands - Arranged by
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, Cynthia Raim; piano 1; Connor Chee, Madeleine Hehn, Piano 2