Stephanie McCallum

Stephanie McCallum

Stephanie McCallum (born Sydney, Australia, 3 March 1956) is a classical pianist. She has recorded works of Erik Satie, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Franz Liszt, Carl Maria von Weber, Albéric Magnard, Pierre Boulez, and Iannis Xenakis among others.

Life

Stephanie McCallum studied with Alexander Sverjensky and Gordon Watson at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. After further study with Ronald Smith in the UK, she gave a debut concert at the Wigmore Hall in 1982. Returning to Australia in 1985, she became a founding member of contemporary ensembles AustraLYSIS and the Sydney Alpha Ensemble. She has performed as soloist with most of the major Australian symphony orchestras and in ensembles with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, ELISION and The Australia Ensemble. In a 1985 Wigmore Hall recital, she gave what is believed to be the first ever complete public performance of Alkan's "Three Studies, Opus 76 (for the Left Hand, for the Right Hand, and for the Hands Reunited)". In 2000, she gave the world premier of Elena Kats-Chernin's "Displaced Dances" for Piano and Orchestra (which was written for her) with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and has subsequently performed this work with the Adelaide and Sydney Symphony orchestras. As well as performing and recording, she continues teaching at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as senior lecturer in keyboard.

Repertoire and recordings

Stephanie McCallum has released 12 solo CD albums, and her recordings of the music of Liszt and her popular CDs of French piano music have recently been re-released as boxed sets. Her most recent recording of all of Beethoven's Bagatelles for piano, contains the published sets of Bagatelles, Opus 33, 119 and 126, individual pieces such as the popular Für Elise, and also the first ever recording of what is believed to be the last piano piece that Beethoven wrote, never before published or even catalogued (the piece was edited by Stephanie's husband, the musicologist, Peter McCallum) ["Ludwig Van Beethoven's 'last piano work' found in Berlin Library". Telegraph. 9 September, 2008. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/2711133/Ludwig-Van-Beethovens-last-piano-work-found-in-Berlin-library.html ] ["Scholar finds 'Beethoven's last piano work' in library". The Independent. 9 September, 2008. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/scholar-finds-beethovens-last-piano-work-in-library-923491.html] . She has made a particular specialty of virtuosic nineteenth century music, making a specialty of Alkan, and of contemporary solo and ensemble music. Her performances of Xenakis's "Herma", and Brian Ferneyhough's "Lemma Icon Epigram" have received critical acclaim. She has released CDs of the music of Liszt, Weber, Alkan, Magnard, Pierre Boulez, Xenakis and of contemporary Australian composers. Stephanie McCallum is the only pianist to have recorded both the major and the minor key studies (Opus 35 and 39) of Alkan. In addition to Alkan and Boulez, she has recorded much other music by French composers: Erik Satie, Albéric Magnard, Vincent d'Indy, Maurice Ravel and Guy Ropartz. Her solo CDs include
* Für Elise. Bagatelles for piano by Ludwig Van Beethoven, ABC Classics (2008)
* Gymnopédies: the Exquisite Piano Music of Erik Satie, ABC Classics (2007)
* Alkan: Douze Etudes dans les tons mineurs [Twelve Studies in the Minor Keys] , opus 39 (including Symphonie, Concerto and Overture for solo piano, and Le Festin d'Esope), ABC Classics (2006)
* Liszt: from the "Years of Pilgrimage", ABC Classics (2003)
* The Liszt Album, ABC Classics (2003) (including the "B minor Sonata")
* Perfume: the exquisite piano music of France, ABC Classics (2001)
* Carl Maria von Weber: the Complete Piano Sonatas and other works, ABC Classics (1998)
* Illegal Harmonies: the Twentieth Century Piano, ABC Classics (1997)
* Alkan & Magnard, Tall Poppies (1996)
* Notations, Tall Poppies (1994)
* Alkan, " Twelve Studies in the Major Keys, opus 35" , Tall Poppies (1994)
* Alkan, "Concerto for solo piano" (from op. 39), "Chants opus 70" [first recording] (1990). Stephanie McCallum is a Senior Lecturer in piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

References

* [http://www.stephaniemccallum.com Stephanie McCallum's home page www.stephaniemccallum.com]
* [http://www.elision.org.au/players/mccallum.html Elision page about McCallum]
* "Ludwig Van Beethoven's 'last piano work' found in Berlin Library". Telegraph. 9 September, 2008. [www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/2711133/Ludwig-Van-Beethovens-last-piano-work-found-in-Berlin-library.html
* "Scholar finds 'Beethoven's last piano work' in library". The Independent. 9 September, 2008. [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/scholar-finds-beethovens-last-piano-work-in-library-923491.html]


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