Thursdays at Noon | A Liminal Space: Asher Ian Armstrong, piano

This recital features beautiful yet rarely-performed solo piano music written by women during the inter-war years. Varvara Gaigerova was an incandescent composer who suffered “re-habilitation” in Soviet Russia; Ilse Fromm-Michaels a talented German pianist-composer persecuted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany; Henriëtte Bosmans a queer Dutch-Jew composer and pianist.

Repertoire:
Varvara Gaigerova - Four Sketches
Ilse Fromm-Michaels - Piano Sonata, Op. 6
Henriëtte Bosmans - selections from Six Preludes

Livestream available on our YouTube Channel.

The Thursdays at Noon series is made possible in part by the Jay Telfer Forum Endowment Fund.