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Saturday November 19, 2011. Jewish Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Carl Petersson (piano) and Estera Rajnicka (cello) perform Alkan's Sonate de concert op.47, for cello and piano, and piano solos by Alkan and Offenbach.

Sunday November 20, 2011. Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London W1A 2AA at 15.00. Karl Lutchmayer (piano) plays Beethoven/Alkan Piano Concerto 3, 1st movt, Liszt's transcriptions of Saint Saens's Danse Macabre, Bach/Busoni Chaconne and Beethoven Sonata 'Les Adieux'.

Monday November 21, 2011. Liceum Muzyczne Ułańska 7b Katowice, Poland at 19.00. Tomasz Kamieniak (piano) plays Alkan - Souvenirs: Trois Morceaux dans le genre pathétique, op.15 nr 3 Morte and music by J. Wieniawski, Liszt and Thalberg

Sunday November 27, 2011. Hindhead Music Centre at 16.00. Karl Lutchmayer (piano) plays various virtuoso transcriptions, including Beethoven/Alkan Piano Concerto 3, 1st movt, Liszt's transcriptions of Saint Saens's Danse Macabre, and Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (March to the Scaffold), together with Haydn's Sonata in C, Hob. XV1:62 and Liszt's Cypress I, and Totentanz

Saturday December 3rd, 2011 Venue: Felstead Road, London E11 2QJ at 14.00. Colloquium: Alkan: the Esquisses. Following the success of all our previous colloquia, we are now holding our fifth colloquium on the Esquisses Op.63. We meet at the home of Julian Haxby, and Richard Murphy again leads the proceedings. All members and their guests are welcome to take part, playing, discussing or listening. Those who play are asked to prepare one or more of the following Esquisses: 7, 13, 20, 25, 27, 28, 36, 42 & 47. Members may also play other Esquisses (or other works). This session may be of particular interest to pianists and teachers in search of interesting new repertoire. For further information contact the Society Secretary or the Society Treasurer.

Saturday 10th December, 2011. Radio France will broadcast a concert at which Alkan’s Trio will be performed by violinist Ayako Tanak, cellist Jeremie Maillard and pianist Catherine Cournot, members of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, in the Salle 400 of the Le CentQuatre arts centre in Paris.

Sunday 11 December 2011. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland OH at 14.00. Recital by Pierre Réach (piano): Alkan Grande Sonate and Berlioz/Liszt Symphonie Fantastique.

Wednesday February 22, 2012. Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London at 18.15. Lecture by David Conway on his new book, 'Jewry in Music', which includes extensive discussion of Alkan. Admission free.

Sunday February 26, 2012. Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 at 12.30, as part of Jewish Book Week. David Conway and Michael Portillo discuss David's new book, 'Jewry in Music', which includes extensive discussion of Alkan. With live performances by Mark Viner (piano) and Claudia Conway (soprano) to include Alkan, Mendelssohn and Isaac Nathan.

Friday March 12, 2012. Deadline for receipt of application form for the Alkan-Zimmerman International Piano Competition, Athens, Greece. Forms to be sent to Mrs Eleni-Letti Pappa, Despere 3, 54621, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Thursday March 15, 2012 Cellist Alexandre Dmitrev and pianist Christophe Sirodeau will perform Alkan: Sonate de Concert at the Chapelle des Jesuites, Carcassonne, France.

Monday April 2, 2012. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Terrace Theater), Washington DC, USA, 19.30. Marc-Andre Hamelin presents The Enigma of Paris: Charles-Valentin Alkan, Frédéric Chopin and the French-Jewish Romance highlighting the connections between the artistic languages and musical friendship of two masters, Chopin and Alkan. The programme includes Alkan: Souvenirs “Trois Morceaux dans le genre pathétique,” op.15/1 'Aime-moi' and Symphonie op.39, and Chopin's Sonata in B minor op.58, Nocturne in Db op.27/2 and Barcarolle op.60.

Wednesday April 11 2012. Laeiszhalle, Hamburg at 20.00. Piano recital by Francesco Libetta, to include Alkan Allegretto alla barbaresca op. 39/10 , and works of Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt.

Wednesday July 4 2012. Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands, East Clandon, near Guildford, Surrey GU4 7RT. Lunchtime recital, with Elizabeth Walker (playing an unaltered flute of 1859 by Louis Lot) and Richard Shaw (playing Chopin's Pleyel piano of 1847-8). Includes works by Boehm, Chopin, and Alkan: Fantasietta alla Moresca (from the first volume of Impromptus Op.32), a work that may have been played (by Alkan or Chopin) on this particular piano in Chopin's apartment in Square d'Orleans.