Originally broadcast Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

Bringing top young pianists from the Americas, Asia, and Europe to Chautauqua each summer, the Piano Program culminates in the Chautauqua Piano Competition, a highlight each season in the programming of the School of Music. In 2022, the competition returned in grand form with a Winners' Recital in the Amphitheater. This recital is a celebratory showcase of the prizewinners’ virtuosity, brilliance, and transcendence. PROGRAM: Third Prize: Alexander Lo, piano Partita in C minor, BWV 826 I. Sinfonia - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Fantasie in B minor, Op. 28 - Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Second Prize: Peijun Wang, piano Images Book II Poissons d'or - Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Morceaux defantaisie, Op. 3 I. Elegie in E-flat minor II. Prelude in C-sharp minor IV. Polichinelle in F-sharp minor - Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) First Prize: Jonathan Mamora, piano Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 (1913 version) Allegro agitato Non allegro – Lento Allegro molto - Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Recorded July 31, 2022

About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.