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Airapet
Arakelian

Daniil Trifonov |
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Saturday,
February 23 at 8:00 pm in the Florence Gould Theater
Airapet
Arakelian, saxophone
Daniil
Trifonov, piano
Born in Armenia
in 1991, Airapet Arakelian first studied, from 1999 to
2003, with Prof. Alexander Manukyan, and since 2005 with Prof. Daniel
Gauthier at the Koln "Hochschule fur Musik." He has won
many prizes, including First Prizes at the 2005 Yamaha Saxophone Competition,
the 2002 International Saxophone Competition in France, and the 2001 National
Saxophone Competition in Armenia.
He has performed
at such festivals as Val d'Oise (France), Hamilton (Canada), Tarragona
(Spain), "Delphic Games" International Competition-Festival
(2004, Moldova), "Palaces of St. Petersburg" (Russia) and the
first Pan-Armenian Cutural Festival. He has earned scholarships
from the International Spivakov Fund, "New Names" of Armenia,
the Aram Khachaturian Charitable Fund, and has been a Guzik Foundation
Award Winner in 2004 and 2006.
Airapet has performed
with the National Symphony Orchestra of Armenia, the Russian State Academic
Chamber Orchestra, Armen Hakob Symphonic Orchestra, "Serenada"
Chamber Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and the Moscow
Chamber Orchestra conducted by Constantine Orbelian (San Francisco, 2005).
He has concertized in France, Belgium, Luxembour, Germany, Austra, the
UK, Czech Republic, Spain, Slovenia, Greece, Ukraine, Georgia, Canada,
Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, UAE, Italy, and the USA.
Daniil
Trifonov , born in Nizhniy Novgorod in 1991, has been studying
music from the age of five. Currently he studies at the Moscow Gnesins
Special Middle Music School, in the class of Docent Tatiana Abramovna
Zelikman.
Daniil
was Prize Winner of the Moscow Open Artobolevskaya Competition for
Young Pianists (First Prize, 1999), the International Television Competition
for Young Musicians (Grand Prize, 2003), the Chamber Ensembles Festival
“The Return” (2005), the Romantic Music Festival for Moscow Young Musicians
(2006), and the Fifth International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists
(Beijing).
He
has been a recipient of the Yuri Rozum International Charity Foundation
Scholarship, the Scriabin Scholarship, the “New Names” Scholarship, the
“Young Talents of Russia” Foundation Scholarship, and, in 2007, has been
a Guzik Foundation Award Winner.
Daniil has performed with many orchestras, and has participated in music
festivals in Russia, Germany and Austria. He also composes piano and orchestra
music.
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Konstantin
Alexeev

Sergey Dogadin |
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Sunday,
February 24 at 2:00 pm in the Florence Gould Theater
Konstantin
Alexeev, piano
Sergey
Dogadin, violin
Konstantin
Alekseev, born in Moscow, started his musical education at the
age of five. In 2003 he graduated with honors from the Academic Music
College and entered the Moscow Academic Chopin College, studying with
the distinguished pianist Alexei Nasedkin. In 2006 he entered the Moscow
State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, continuing his studies with Professor
Nasedkin.
Konstantin
won the First Prize in the competition “Musicalia” (Athens, 2000) and
prizes in “The Teacher and the Schoolboy” (Moscow, 2001), Vladimir Krainev's
Young Pianists' Competition (Kharkov, 2002), the Seiler Competition for
Young Pianists (Germany, 2003), and the Moscow Frederic Chopin Competition
(2004). He was a laureate of the Young Moscow Chopin Festival in both
2005 and 2006.
He
has performed with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, on tour in Warsaw,
Krakow, and Japan, and in such Moscow concert halls as the State Moscow
Conservatory, the Moscow International House of Music, the Armory Museum,
Slobodkin Concert Hall, the Glinka, Pushkin and Scriabin Museums, and
the Lenin, Turgenev, and Chekhov Libraries.
Konstantin
has been a recipient of the presidential program “Russian Children,” the
Spivakov International Beneficial Fund, the Ministry of Culture Fund,
and the Krainev International Beneficial Fund. This is his first year
as a Guzik Foundation Award Winner.
Sergey
Dogadin was born in St. Petersburg into a family of well-known
musicians. Presently, he studies in the class of Professor Ovtcharek at
the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
He
won First Prize in nine international violin competitions, including the
Alexander Glazunov International Violin Competition (France, 2001), Dombrovsky
Violin Competition (Latvia, 2002), the Andrea Postaccini Violin Competition
(Italy, 2002), and the Paganini International Violin Competition (Russia,
2005). Sergey has been a recipient of the Ministry of Culture Fund and
the Foundation “New Names.” In addition he is a laureate of the “Temirkanov's
Prize.”
Sergey
has toured Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Estonia, Latvia,
Hungary, the Netherlands and the UK, performing with the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Ulster Symphony Orchestra, Nordic
Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra,
Mishkolz Symphony Orchestra, Izmir State Symphony Orchestra, Estonian
National Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg
Philharmonia, the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia and others.
Sergey
has enjoyed the honour of performing on Niccolò Paganini's violin
as well as on Johann Strauss's violin.
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"Sheer
elegant beauty - masterful!" -
The New York Times
"An
almost guilt-inducing creaminess" -
San Francisco Chronicle |
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The Miró Quartet,
founded in 1995 at the Oberlin Conservatory, met with immediate success,
winning first prize at the 50th annual Coleman Chamber Music Competition
in April 1996, and taking both the first and grand prizes at the Fischoff
National Chamber Music Competition two months later. Earning first prize
at the 1998 Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Miró
Quartet also won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 2000.
In 2005, the Quartet was the first ensemble to be awarded the coveted
Avery Fisher Career Grant, and received the Cleveland Quartet Award that
year as well.
The Miró Quartet has
been Faculty String Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Texas at
Austin for three years. Its members - violinists Daniel Ching and Sandy
Yamamoto, violist John Largess, and cellist Joshua Gindele - teach and
coach chamber music there, while maintaining their active international
touring schedule.
Recent Miró Quartet seasons
have included concerts in some of the world's most important concert venues,
such as Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Berlin Philharmonic's Kammermusiksaal,
the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and at the Dresden Music Festival. The Miró
Quartet has been Quartet-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center Two, and was named to the Distinctive Debut Series of Carnegie
Hall, which provided for a local concert and debut appearances in Cologne,
Stockholm, Brussels, London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Athens.
The Miró Quartet has
been heard on numerous national radio broadcasts, including National Public
Radio's Performance Today and Minnesota Public Radio's Saint Paul Sunday.
Internationally, it has been featured on radio networks across Europe,
Canada and Israel. The Quartet has also been seen on NBC's Today Show,
ABC's World News Tonight and on various programs of the Canadian Broadcasting
Company. At the invitation of Isaac Stern, the Quartet performed in a
live broadcast at the Jerusalem Music Center in Israel and was featured
in the PBS-TV "American Masters" documentary "Isaac Stern:
Life's Virtuoso".
The Miró Quartet is named
for the Spanish artist Joan Miró, whose surrealist works —
with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy
— are some of the most original of the 20th century.
Mozart Quartet
K. 499
Takemitsu String Quartet No. 1, "A way a lone"
Beethoven Quartet
Op. 59, No. 2
The
Miro Quartet website
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"His
mastery of the clarinet and his impeccable musicianship are no secret
by now, but one who has not heard him play for a time can easily forget
how rich and fluid the instrument can sound from top to bottom of its
range. If Mr. Stoltzman is not one of a kind, who might the others be?"
- The New York Times
Click
HERE to see a video of Richard Stoltzman performing.

David Deveau
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Clarinetist Richard
Stoltzman's virtuosity, musicianship and sheer personal magnetism
have made him one of today's most sought-after concert artists. As soloist
with more than a hundred orchestras, as a captivating recitalist and chamber
music performer, as an innovative jazz artist, and as a prolific recording
artist, two-time Grammy Award winner Stoltzman has defied categorization,
dazzling critics and audiences alike throughout many musical genres.
Stoltzman graduated from Ohio State University with a double major in
music and mathematics. He earned his Master of Music degree at Yale University
while studying with Keith Wilson, and later worked toward a doctoral degree
with Kalmen Opperman at Columbia University. As a ten-year participant
in the Marlboro Music Festival, Stoltzman gained extensive chamber music
experience, and subsequently became a founding member of the noted ensemble
TASHI, which made its debut in 1973.
Since then, Stoltzman's unique style of playing the clarinet has earned
him an international reputation as he has opened up possibilities for
the instrument that no one could have predicted. He gave the first clarinet
recitals in the histories of both the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall,
and in 1986, he became the first wind player to be awarded the Avery Fisher
Prize. This season he was awarded the prestigious Sanford Medal by the
Yale School of Music. His talents as a jazz performer as well as a classical
artist have been heard far beyond his annual tours. He has performed or
recorded with such jazz and pop greats as Gary Burton, the Canadian Brass,
Chick Corea, Judy Collins, Eddie Gomez, Keith Jarrett, the King's Singers,
George Shearing, Wayne Shorter, Mel Tormé, and Spyro Gyra founder
Jeremy Wall. His commitment to new music has resulted in the commissioning
and premiere of numerous new works for the clarinet, including the recent
"Landscapes with Blues" by Stephen Hartke, and a concerto by Einojuhani
Rautavaara which premiered with conductor Leonard Slatkin and the National
Symphony at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.
Richard Stoltzman has a discography numbering over 50 releases on BMG/RCA,
SONY Classical, MMC, BIS, Albany and other labels, including a Grammy-winning
recording of Brahms Sonatas with Richard Goode. Among Stoltzman's most
beloved releases are "Amber Waves", a CD of American works, and the Trios
of Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart with Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma, which won
Stoltzman his second Grammy Award. Recent releases include the acclaimed
recordings of Hartke's "Landscapes with Blues" with IRIS, conducted by
Michael Stern (Naxos), a New York Times "Best of 2003", and
Rautavaara's Clarinet Concerto recorded with Leif Segerstam and the Helsinki
Philharmonic, released on Ondine (2005). Tom McKinley's "RAP" with the
Boston Modern Orchestra Project and an all-Bach recording are two forthcoming
releases.
Past season highlights have featured Stoltzman with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra at Ravinia and at New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, marking
Stoltzman's 25th appearance at the Lincoln Center festival as well as
performances throughout the US, Canada and Europe of Einojuhani Rautavaara's
Clarinet Concerto.
Duo recitals with pianists Emanuel Ax and Lukas Foss, as well as performances
and tours with the American, Emerson, Orion, Takacs, and Tokyo String
Quartets are also highlights. Especially memorable are concerts of jazz
and classics with his son, pianist Peter John Stoltzman. Father and Son
have performed together around the globe and were recently featured on
NPR's "Performance Today" and "Weekend Edition" as well as "Voice of America"
radio. For their extraordinary talent on the stage, in the classroom,
and throughout the community, WGBH radio in Boston called the Stoltzmans
"New England's First Family of Classical Music".
Pianist
David Deveau has earned international acclaim for his
arresting and individual interpretations of solo piano repertoire, chamber
music, and new music. He has been heralded by such publications as the
New York Times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Miami
Herald, the San Diego Union-tribune, China Daily, le Figaro and the American
Record Guide.
His
major orchestral engagements over the last three decades include performances
with the Boston Symphony (Haitink), Boston Pops (John Williams, Keith
Lockhart), San Francisco Symphony (Blomstedt), Minnesota Orchestra (Silverstein),
as well as the Houston, St. Louis, Miami and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras;
the Inland Empire and Pacific Symphony orchestras (CA), Portland, and
many others. In Boston, where he resides, he has appeared as soloist with
virtually every orchestra including the Handel and Haydn Society, the
Boston Philharmonic, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Civic Symphony of Boston,
New Philharmonia, and the Newton Symphony. Abroad, he has appeared as
soloist with the Qingdao (China) Symphony, L'Orchestre du Capitole de
Toulouse (France) and many other regional and metropolitan orchestras.
He has also been soloist with the Juilliard and New England Conservatory
Orchestras.
In
solo recital, David Deveau made his critically acclaimed New York debut
at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center in 1982 as the recipient of a prestigious
Solo Recitalist Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Prior
to this, in 1978, he was winner of the Concert Artists Guild Award (in
chamber music) which resulted in his chamber music debut at Weill Hall
at Carnegie Hall. He has since performed frequently in New York at Town
Hall, Merkin Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, and Lincoln
Center. Around the nation, he has appeared in recital at San Francisco's
Herbst Theater, Seattle's Benaroya Hall, Minneapolis's Orchestra Hall,
Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall, the Troy, New York Savings Bank Hall, Atlanta's
Spivey Hall, and myriad other series throughout the US and Canada. Internationally,
Mr. Deveau made his debut concert tour of mainland China in early 2005,
where he performed a New Year's solo recital in Beijing at the Zhong Shan
Music Hall in the Forbidden City, and the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.
1 in Qingdao. Both performances were broadcast on CCTV, and were featured
on nationally televised morning news programs. He has also performed as
soloist in England, Scotland, France and Germany. In January, 2006 Mr.
Deveau will performed a recital presented by the Bank of America Celebrity
Series at Jordan Hall which garnered rave reviews in all the major Boston
newspapers, and was later proclaimed one of the ten best classical concerts
of 2006 by Lloyd Schwartz in the Boston Phoenix.
In chamber music, David Deveau
is currently in his thirteenth year as Artistic Director of the Rockport
Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts. At Rockport and other festivals,
Mr. Deveau has performed with members of the Juilliard, Shanghai, Borromeo,
Muir, Kronos, Orion and St. Lawrence string quartets, the Diaz and Jacques
Thibaud string trios, and has been a guest artist with the Boston Chamber
Music Society on several occasions. Much in demand on chamber music series
and festivals, he has appeared in concert at Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, Caramoor,
the la Jolla Music Society, Mainly Mozart (San Diego), Seattle Chamber
Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains (Colorado), the Montana Music
Festival, the Viennese Sommerfest of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo
(Ontario) concert society, Olympic Music Festival (WA)and Bay Chamber
Concerts in Maine. He is pianist of SONOS, a piano quartet based in Boston.
Mr. Deveau has recorded for Centaur and EcoClassics. He has served on
the music faculty of MIT since 1988, where he teaches piano, chamber music,
and music history.
Schubert
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano in D major, D. 384, No. 1
Schumann Fantasiestucke
for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73
Sculthorpe Songs
of Sea and Sky for Clarinet and Piano
Bernstein Sonata
for Clarinet and Piano
Brahms Sonata
No. 1 in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120, No. 1
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At age 17 this
Scottish-born genius won the silver medal in the Segovia International
Guitar Competition. BBC soon dubbed him Musician of the Year, and
his innovative recordings have won multiple Grammy nominations and linger
on the “Top Ten” charts. This deeply musical trailblazer has conquered
continents with the intense beauty that he creates on his custom-designed
eight-string guitar; he practically hypnotizes the audience - it's a remarkable
experience!
“Exhilarating
beyond compare ... a joy.” - Guitar Review
“A landmark
in the history of guitar” - Gramophone
“Exceptional
artistry”- The New Yorker
"Magnificent!"
- Andrés Segovia
William Byrd
Pavan and Galliard “Sir William Petre”
Lennox Berkeley Theme and Variations for Guitar,
opus 77
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No.4
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in A-flat major, D. 557
W.A. Mozart Piano Sonata in F major, K. 280
Paul
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Renowned pianist and conductor
Leon Fleisher is a native of San Francisco, where he began his
keyboard studies at 4 and gave his first public recital at 8. One year
later he became a student of the legendary Artur Schnabel, who was his
most important mentor both as a pianist and as a teacher. In 1944, at
age 16, Mr. Fleisher made his debut with the New York Philharmonic under
Pierre Monteux. He went on to become the first American to win the Queen
Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Belgium. Regular appearances
with orchestra and in recital on the world's great concert stages followed.
His celebrated collaboration with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra
resulted in a series of recordings, among them the Beethoven and Brahms
Piano Concertos, that have remained touchstones of the classical catalogue
to this day.
Midway through the 1964-65 season,
Mr. Fleisher's illustrious career was interrupted by the onset of a debilitating
ailment affecting his right hand, later diagnosed as repetitive stress
syndrome. During the intervening years, he devoted his musical career
to work as a teacher, to conducting (which he has pursued actively since
1967) and, eventually, to the left hand alone piano literature. His performances
and recordings of the repertoire for the left hand, beginning in the 1980's,
won him immediate critical and popular acclaim, as well as two Grammy
nominations for his Sony Classical recordings (both solo works for the
left hand and the Ravel and Prokofiev Concertos). It was in 1995, at a
concert with Cleveland Orchestra, that Mr. Fleisher was able to play the
Mozart Concerto in A Major, K. 414 successfully with both hands again.
He now performs both the left-hand repertoire and select works for two
hands.
Over the past few seasons, Mr. Fleisher has performed the Brahms Piano
Concerto No. 1 with the San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestre de Paris
(under Carlo Maria Giulini) and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra (under
Daniel Barenboim), among other orchestras. He has also continued to play
the Mozart Concerto, K. 414 with such orchestras as the Boston Symphony,
theChicago Symphony (at Ravinia) the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the New
York Chamber Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (which he also
conducted) and the Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand with the Toronto Symphony,
the Indianapolis Symphony, the BBC Symphony, and the Orchestra de Paris
(as soloist on its European tour in the fall of 1997). His recitals, which
in 1998-99 included appearances in Vienna and London (Wigmore Hall), combine
two-hand and left-hand alone repertoire. He has also played chamber music
at the Verbier and Santa Fe festivals.
Holder of the Andrew W. Mellon
Chair at the Peabody Conservatory of Music since 1959, Mr. Fleisher also
serves on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia
and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. From 1986 to 1997, he
was Artistic Director of the Tanglewood Music Center. Teaching activities
have been an important element of his activities at the Aspen, Lucerne,
Ravinia and Verbier festivals, among others. He has also given master
classes at the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Paris Conservatory, the Ravel Academy
at St. Jean de Luz, the Mishkenot in Jerusalem and the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York.
Leon Fleisher holds honorary doctorates
from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Towson State University
and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1994 Musical America named him "Instrumentalist
of the Year." He has also been the recipient of the Johns Hopkins
University's President's Medal.
In this recital, Mr. Fleisher
will perform both solo, and four-hand works with Katherine Jacobson
Fleisher.
Schubert Fantasy
in F minor for piano four hands
Ravel La
Valse, for piano four hands
Schubert Piano
Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960
Concert sponsored in part
by The Ross McKee Foundation
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“An
illuminating and potent performance, bristling with vigor and intelligence”
San Francisco Chronicle, 2005
“The Trio is the non
plus ultra in its genre of chamber music... they play with
keen insight and easy execution”
Boston Globe
“Pressler's joyous
pianism is technically faultless, stylistically impeccable, and
emotionally irrepressible... he is a national treasure.”
Los Angeles Times
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FAREWELL! After more than
50 years of superb performance, the world's most celebrated piano trio
is retiring at the top of its game. This, the legendary ensemble's
bittersweet final performance in their final touring season, will be the
chamber music event of the year - don't miss it!
This
ensemble’s superb artistry, exhilarating musicianship, and lauded
discography have earned it a unique perch in the pantheon of chamber music.
The Beaux Arts Trio's mark in American culture has been far-reaching.
The ensemble has played a major and ongoing role in the programs of important
cultural and educational centers throughout North America, with annual
concert series at such revered institutions as the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York, the Celebrity Series of Boston and the Library of
Congress, where the Trio is in residence. Its repeated annual engagements
extended to numerous associations and chamber music series, including
those of Vancouver, Denver, Portland, Kansas City, Louisville, Saint Paul,
Detroit, Philadelphia, Toronto, Cambridge and New York. The Trio's
engagements at major North American music festivals have included Mostly
Mozart, Caramoor, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Ottawa and Orford.
The Trio's regular University
performances have included appearances at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Johns
Hopkins, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The Trio's annual international engagements
have included appearances at the festivals of Edinburgh, Lucerne, Vienna,
Helsinki, Warsaw, Hong Kong and Israel, as well as performances in the
chamber music series of the world's major foreign cities.The Beaux Arts
Trio's performances, always fresh and vibrantly engaging, are notable
for their interpretive insight and impeccable ensemble.
Dvorak
Trio in E minor, Op. 90 ("Dumky")
Kurtág Trio
Schubert Trio in B-flat major, op. 99
Click
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In October 2005, in an electrifying
outing this 20 year old Polish virtuoso swept the field at at the 15th
International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, winning:
- The Gold Medal (unanimously awarded; the Silver Medal was not granted)
- Best Performance of the Mazurkas
- Best Performance of the Polonaises
- Best Performance of a Concerto
- Best Performance of a Sonata
The first Pole in 30 years to win this prestigious competition (since
Krystian Zimerman), Blechacz began his piano studies at the age of five
and is currently completing his studies at the Feliks Nowowiejski Music
Academy in Bydgoszcz with professor Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron.
The young artist has already won many awards and prizes at the international
piano competitions worldwide. Among them were the Second Prize at the
Artur Rubinstein Young Pianist Competition in Bydgoszcz (2002),
the top prize(shared with Alexander Kobrin) at the 5th International Young
Pianist Competition in Hamamatsu, Japan (2003), and the First Prize at
the 4th International Piano Competition in Morocco (2004).
The Gold Medal at the Chopin Competition has opened the door for him to
the most prestigous concert halls all over the world. The pianist has
been invited to perform at the Warsaw Philharmony Hall (March 2006), the
Tchaikovsky Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Mariinsky Orchestra
under Valery Gergiev (May 2006), Tonhalle in Zurich (September 2006),
12 recitals in major concert halls in Japan including Tokyo Opera City
(November 2006), Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (December 2006), Herkules
Saal in Munich (March 2007), Wigmore Hall in London (April 2007), Auditorio
Nacional in Madrid (May 2007), re-invitation performances in Japan, including
Suntory Hall in Tokyo (May-June 2007), Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels
(September 2007). The latest artist's performances at the Summer festivals:
Ruhr, Verbier and La Roque d'Antheron (July-August 2006) were enthusiastically
received by the critics. Rafal Blechacz’s calendar is now fully
booked 2 years in advance and includes more than 120 performances at the
major cultural centers of Europe and the Far East.
In 2006 Mr. Blechacz signed an exclusive 5 year contract with Deutsche
Grammophon for three recording productions. The first CD will be released
in 2007.
Mozart Piano
Sonata No 9 in D major, KV 311
Szymanowski Variations
in B flat minor, Op. 3
Chopin 24
Preludes Op. 28
Concert sponsored by James
N. and Arlene H. Sullivan
Rafal
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See
Ms. Dinnerstein playing Bach, and speaking about the Goldberg Variations,
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Simone
Dinnerstein is a fast-rising
star adulated by audiences and critics alike for her recitals at the Salle
Cortot in Paris, London's Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, Berlin's
Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Her CD of the Goldberg
Variations , issued in mid-September, 2007, immediately
shot to #1 on the Billboard classical charts, and stayed in the Top 10
for 23 weeks!
“An
utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation, Ms. Dinnerstein
brings her own pianistic expressivity to the “Goldberg” Variations, probing
each variation as if it were something completely new. This Telarc album
has became one of the success stories of the year.”
– The New York
Times, Critic Anne Midgette's Best of 2007 Classical CDs.
“Listening
to the Goldberg Variations, as performed by Simone Dinnerstein,
is the single most striking musical experience of my life.”
– William
F. Buckley in Gramophone magazine,
November 2007
The
disc also appeared in such “Best of 2007” lists as The L.A. Times
, The New Yorker , iTunes “Editor's Choice Best Classical,”
Amazon.com, ArkivMusic, Soundstage.com, and Barnes & Noble.
J.S. Bach
Goldberg Variations
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