Wednesday, October 29th at 6:00p.m. Fee: $40 (including a glass of Sangria (red or white) & hors d’oeuvre)

Program

L. V. Beethoven

Sonata Quasi una Fantasia in C-sharp minor Op.27 No.2 “Moonlight”

Adagio Sostenuto

Allegretto

Presto agitato

F. Chopin

Nocturne in B-flat minor Op.9 No.1

Nocturne in C-sharp minor Op.27 No.1

Scherzo in B minor No.1 Op.20

——— Intermission ———

S. Rachmaninoff

Prelude in C-sharp minor Op.3 No.2

Prelude in G minor Op.23 No.5

F. Liszt

Sonetto del Petrarca No.104

Après une lecture du Dante (Fantasia quasi Sonata)

Emilio De Mercato

Italian concert pianist, composer and conductor, Emilio De Mercato holds Master’s Degrees in Piano and in Composition from the Conservatory of Music “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan, Italy, and the Konzertdiplom in Piano from the Hochschule für Musik in Bern, Switzerland. Since his move to Canada in 2012, he has been a featured pianist and conductor on many stages, performing in numerous tours and festivals. Since 2015 he is the founder and Music Director of the Alberta Symphony Orchestra which presented events such as Symphony of Hope, Celebrate The Season at the Alberta Legislature Building, A Stradivarius for the People, Tribute to Renoir, Music in the Air, Ode to Humanity 2022/23 Series, Verdi-ssimo, and Tribute to Glenn Gould for Canada’s 150th anniversary at the Winspear Centre for Music in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, featuring 55-piece ASO and Emilio as the pianist and conductor. In 2017 Emilio debuted in a piano recital at the renowned 63rd Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Italy. He is a member of the Piano Faculty at the Mount Royal University Conservatory in Calgary. In 2025 Emilio performed a Piano Tour with stops in Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver, leading up to his piano recital debut in New York at the Carnegie Hall. Full biography and concerts schedule available at www.emiliodemercato.com.