Maki Sekiya (piano)

Piano Works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schumann, Gershwin, Bach, Brahms, Schillinger and Jeremy Arden.

We are delighted to host Oxford-based pianist Maki Sekiya’s new Tête-à-Tête with Composers series in the coming years. Maki, who is affiliated with Green Templeton College, is an insightful and beguiling interpreter of the classical and romantic piano repertoire, with a specific interest in contemporary music. In each of her Tête-à-Tête programmes, Maki invites a composer to present their own works for piano alongside the music that most inspired them, to form a kind of pianistic ‘Private Passions’ recital. The first of these concerts focusses on the work of composer Jeremy Arden, who celebrates his 60th birthday this year. Schillinger’s music features in the programme and Jeremy has kindly offered to give a pre-concert talk focussing on the Schillinger System of Musical Composition at 6.30pm, something that should be of great interest to composers and theorists alike.

Pre-concert talk, 6.30pm: The Musical Theories of Joseph Schillinger (Jeremy Arden).