Eliane’s uncommon musical range and unique programming have garnered her award recognition from the California Arts Council as well as solo appearances in multi-media productions with the Marin Theatre Company, Ma Fish Dance Co and Chronique d’un Piano-Femme in Europe and the US. A captivating stage presence, Eliane’s visionary innovative programming, and remarkable audience rapport include presenting works of enormous range, from new solo American tangos composed for her, to speaking pianist pieces, to the traditional masterpieces of the classical piano repertoire.
Some of Eliane’s programs:
Love Notes:
The Piano Music of
Robert & Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann, Mazurka Opus 6 N. 5, Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Opus 20
Robert Schumann, Davidsbündlertanze, Opus 6
Hot New Tangos
New American Tangos for solo piano by John Cage, Jeffrey Miller*, William Bolcom, Scott Pender*, Virgil Thompson, Ron McFarland*, Scott Joplin, Samuel Barber, Michael Sahl* Robert Elkjer*, William Schimmel,* Frederic Rzewski*, Robert Berkman*, Darius Milhaud, Dane Rudhyar*, Igor Stravinsky and more *composed for or premiere by Eliane
Schubert’s Lasts
Sonata in A Major, Opus Posthumous D. 959
Sonata in B-Flat, Opus Posthumous D. 960
La Valse Française
French waltzes for solo piano by Ravel, Chausson, Milhaud, Saint-Saens, Satie, Poulenc and Debussy
American Masters & Mavericks
American masterpieces for solo piano by Ives, Copland, Adams, Glass, Joplin, Tatum, Shere, Barber, Rzewski, Lang, Picker, Thomson, Gershwin, Gould, Godowsky, Cage, Gottshalk
Next-to-Last Sonatas —
Les Avants-dernières
Beethoven, Sonata N. 31 in A-Flat, Opus 110
Satie, Avant-dernières pensées, 1915
Schubert, A Major Sonata, Opus Posthumous
Scriabin, Sonata N. 9, Opus 68 “Black Mass”
Mendelssohn, Songs Without Words
for solo piano, complete, 1830-45
Fantasie
Mozart, c minor Fantasy, K. 475
Leo Ornstein, Three Fantasy Pieces, 1960-61
Scriabin, b minor Fantasie, 1900
Schumann, Fantasy, Opus 17
The Last Three
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Opus 109, 110 and 111
Dances of the World
From Antilles, Brazil, France, Poland, Spain, Russia, USA, Norway, Spain, Hungary, Germany by Albeniz, Bartok, Bolcom*, Borodin, Brahms, Carlson, Chausson, Couperin, Debussy, Ginastera, Grainger, Granados, Guastavino*, Nazareth, Mompou, Muller*, Piazolla, Ravel, Rzewski*, Stravinsky, Thomson*, Villa-Lobos
*premiere by Eliane
Songs With and Without Words
Rzewski, Melodramas for a speaking pianist*
Mendelssohn, Songs Without Words (1830-45)
*premiere by Eliane
The Art of the Prelude
by Bach, Shostakovich, McFarland: Les Hommages*, Scriabin and/or Chopin
*premiere by Eliane
Lust plays Lude
Frederic Rzewski, 24 Ludes for piano* (90-91)
Frederic Chopin, 24 Preludes, Opus 28
*premiere by Eliane
Berceuse
Lullabies of the world from Brazil, France, Poland, Spain, Russia, USA, Norway and Germany
by Brahms, Brubeck, Couperin, Grainger, Grieg, Landowska, Mozart, Mompou, Persichetti, Carreno, Antheil, Janacek, Montfort*, Billy Joel, Shere*, Satie, Villa-Lobos
*composed for and premiere by Eliane
Prayer
Bach-Siloti, Gluck, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Picker, Lang, Liszt, Miller*
*composed for and premiere by Eliane
Piano with Spoken Word
Rzewski (texts by Oscar Wilde*,
Mother Goose* & more),
Schumann (texts by Hebbel, Shelley),
Liszt (texts by Tolstoi),
Philip Glass (texts by Ginsberg),
John Cage (texts by himself)
*premiere by Eliane