Pianist:
Abel Sanchez-Aguilera
Abel Sánchez-Aguilera was born in Madrid, Spain. He studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid, where he graduated in 1999. He has given recitals in the United States, Spain, France, Austria and Brazil, including a performance of Pierre Boulez’s Second Sonata at the Mozarteum (Salzburg, 2010), performances of Chopin’s complete Etudes, and the premiere of the work “Brevedades” by C. M. González-Portela. He has won prizes at the international amateur piano competitions of Boston (2009) and Chicago (2010). Also since 2009 he has attended the Piano Interpretation and Performance seminar series with Ya-Fei Chuang at New England Conservatory. Abel obtained a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2006 and is currently performing research on blood cell formation and leukemia at Children’s Hospital Boston, where he will be completing his postdoctoral training in May 2011.

Program:
Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to a piano recital in benefit of DKMS that will take place next Friday, May 20th, at Vanderbilt Hall (Harvard Medical School). Pianist and Children's Hospital Boston Research Fellow, Abel Sanchez-Aguilera, will perform works by Scarlatti, Brahms, Albeniz and Scriabin.

DKMS is the largest bone marrow donor center in the world. Our mission is to save lives by recruiting bone marrow donors for leukemia patients. Michael Guglielmo, ambassador for DKMS Americas for New England, who was inspired by his 6 month old son Giovanni, who suffered from a rare immunodeficiency, to register over 43,000 donors, saving the life of 71 people to date, will address the audience.

-Suggested donation: $10.

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Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Sonata in B minor, K.27
Sonata in D major, K.96
Sonata in D minor, K.141
Sonata in A major, K.24
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) Eritaña (from Iberia, book IV)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Sonata no.7, Op.64
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op.35
(books I and II)
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Seats may be limited, so if you wish to attend please RVSP to :
Elena Levantini elevanti@bidmc.harvard.edu
Abel Sanchez-Aguilera abelsanchezaguilera@gmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you there,
Abel and Elena