TERRY RILEY and MICHAEL HARRISON
To inaugurate our new expanded performance space Faust Harrison Pianos hosted a rare performances by American composer/pianists Terry Riley and Michael Harrison. Riley and Harrison have been close friends and colleagues for over 20 years, having performed North Indian classical vocal concerts together as disciples of the late master Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath. This is the first time they appeared together in the United States, performing their own piano music. In his first New York solo piano concert in a decade, minimalist icon Terry Riley performed recent piano works and songs and Michael Harrison performed a 45-minute abridged version of his award winning work Revelation: for Harmonically Tuned Piano.
IDITH MESHULAM
Pianist, scholar, and new music mover and shaker Idith Meshulam’s repertoire embraces everything from Bach and Schubert to 20th century pillars such as Arnold Schoenberg, Stefan Wolpe, and Nikos Skalkottas. She recorded the latter’s monumental 32 Piano Piece for the GM label to be released in 2004. Meshulam’s effortless pianism evokes the sound world of her mentor and friend, the late Robert Helps, whose own teacher Roger Sessions’ From My Diary heads a program including works by Nono, Aperghis, and Cowell.
THOMAS OSUGA
A dynamic artist at the piano, Thomas Osuga’s accomplishments include highlighting emerging and established piano repertories. He has performed under the auspices of the New York State Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, Concerts-to-Go (NY), Music for All Seasons, Solo Flights Concert Series, Siyo Society and the Center for Women in Music. His program focuses on the subject of internment, and features new works by Yumiko Morita, Takeo Kudo, Yoshiaki Onishi, Miyuki (Ito), and Jon Jang’s Redress/Reparations Blues.
STEVE SANDBERG
Emmy-nominated composer Steve Sandberg currently scores "Dora the Explorer" for Nickelodeon/CBS. He has toured as keyboardist and vocalist with David Byrne, Ruben Blades and Bebel Gilberto. His studies of North Indian classical singing with Michael Harrison are a major influence in his recent series, Chants, Songs and Musical Landscapes, which he has presented at the Guggenheim Museum and Knitting Factory, alone and with such downtown luminaries as Ken Butler and Robert Dick. This concert devoted to works by Chopin and Bach marks his first classical recital in many years, celebrating his renewed studies with Michael Rogers.
JENNY LIN
Featured on the cover of The New York Times Arts Section and called by Gramophone "an exceptionally sensitive pianist," Jenny Lin has established a distinguished place among performers of her generation. She was awarded the "Best Performer Prize" from the 2000 Golden Music Awards, the "Grammys of Asia," and continues to receive accolades worldwide as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and recording artist whose releases on the BIS label attest to her formidable technique and adventurous programming. Her all-Russian program includes works by Scriabin, Lourie, and the legendary composer/pianist Samuel Feinberg.
KIRK NUROCK
For more than three decades pianist/composer/improvisor Kirk Nurock has resisted easy categorization, whether as arranger for Dizzy Gillespie and Leonard Bernstein, making music with live animals and natural sounds, or generating innovative collaborations with artists like Theo Bleckmann, Meredith Monk, and Jay Clayton. As a solo pianist, however, Nurock’s refined harmonic sense, pellucid touch, and aching expressive economy come to the fore in a rare recital outing.
CHRIS CHALFANT TRIO
An Evening of original works and improvisations for solo piano and trio
Composer-pianist Chris Chalfant, with Tomas Ulrich, cello, and Ken Yamazaki, percussion and drums, will perform new solo works, including "Eliza", and "For Connie," as well as solo and trio improvisations. Chalfant's background encompasses classical, jazz and world music. She studied piano with Margaret Baxtresser at Kent State, and received her MM at New England Conservatory, where she studied with Georige Russell. Chalfant has numerous recordings and has composed over 300 works, in addition she co-directs the Lifetime Visions Orchestra with Joseph Jarman. Chalfant has performed at the Leukerbad International Composers Conference and she led an improvisation workshop at the Darmstadt Festival. She has also produced many festivals, including the Festival of Women Improvisors-Boston and the American Women Composers Marathon.
JEFF & ANNE BARNHART
An Evening of Authentic American Ragtime, Stride and Beyond
The program will consist of early and contemporary American ragtime and stride piano music sprinkled with jazz standards. Included in the program will be the music of Waller, Johnson, Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton and Gershwin. A highlight of the evening will be the world premieres of two contemporary rags written for piano and flute by Hal Isbitz and Fred Hoeptner. Jeff Barnhart began his professional career at age 14 playing four nights a week in a bar. Here he began to learn the classic swing, jazz and ragtime repertoire of the early 20th century. Jeff put himself through college playing throughout New England and in the 1990’s he toured the US and Canada, playing most of the major festivals. The 21st century has seen Jeff in demand as a soloist and band pianist in all corners of the globe. He has been featured as both pianist and vocalist on over 30 recordings including the international labels GHB, Summit-World Jazz Records, Music Minus One, and the two largest jazz labels in the UK, Lake Records and P.E.K. Sound. Flutist Anne Barnhart is a magna cum laude graduate of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. As a result of master-class performances for Jeffrey Khaner and Goran Marcusson, Anne was invited to participate in the Acadmie International dete de Nice in France.
JOSEPH KUBERA
An Evening of Contemporary Piano Music
Village Voice critic Kyle Gann has called Joseph Kubera one of “new music’s most valued performers.” He appears regularly at international events such as the Berlin Inventionen and Prague Spring festivals and has performed with a broad range of new music ensembles in New York. He has worked closely with such composers as Robert Ashley, John Cage, Alvin Lucier and La Monte Young. Compositions to be performed include The Unravelling of the Field by Eric Richards, The Drifter by "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Anamorfosi by Salvatore Sciarrino, plus works by Stuart Saunders Smith and others.
JOSHUA PIERCE
Plays MICHAEL HARRISON
REVELATION: Music for the Harmonically
Tuned Piano
Composed for a new “non-tempered” microtonal
tuning that Harrison invented, this 90-minute magnum opus is a modern
approach to the ancient principles of pure intonation and harmonic resonance.
Revelation introduces never-before-heard combinations of modes, harmonies,
and acoustical phenomenon that have been praised in The New York Times
as “a new harmonic world… generating huge golden balls of
vibrant sound,” and in Stuart Isacoff’s new book Temperament
as “he seemed to free an angelic choir above." This will
be the first time that Revelation has been performed by a pianist other
than the composer.
Composer and pianist MICHAEL HARRISON is one of the
world’s leading composers working with just intonation and rational
number based tuning systems. His work has been hailed as “an indisputable
landmark in Western tuning’s circuitous history” (Kyle Gann,
The Village Voice). In 1986, he created the “harmonic piano”
with the ability to play up to 24 notes per octave. As a disciple of
La Monte Young, Harrison prepared all of the specialized tunings for
Young’s 6-½ hour historical work, The Well-Tuned Piano,
and became the only other person to perform the work. In 1999 Harrison
performed his own epic composition, From Ancient Worlds (New Albion
Records), in Rome at the “Festival 4 Pianoforti.” A celebration
of America’s visionary composer/pianists, the festival featured
full-length solo performances by Harrison, Philip Glass, Terry Riley,
and Charlemagne Palestine. Revelation received its world premiere in
2001 at Germany’s prestigious Klavier Festival Ruhr. In October
of the same year the work was premiered in the U.S. at Composers Collaborative’s
Solo Flights festival at Lincoln Center.
Grammy nominated pianist JOSHUA PIERCE has performed
in prestigious music centers throughout the world as a soloist and with
an extraordinary array of orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic,
London Philharmonia, Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Moscow State Philharmonic,
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra.
He has recorded nearly 200 works including numerous world premieres
as a soloist and with orchestra for EMI Classics, Carlton Classics,
Helicon, Koch International Classics, MMC, Phoenix, Pro Arts, Sony Classics,
Vox and other labels. His landmark series of recordings of Cage’s
music on the Wergo label has earned him tremendous acclaim worldwide.
His twenty-three year collaboration with the pianist, Dorothy Jonas,
as part of the two-piano team, Pierce & Jonas, has resulted in numerous
acclaimed recordings and performances, including a command performance
with the Royal Philharmonic for England’s Royal Family.
CARL TAIT
Carl Tait is a first prize winner of the NYC International
Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs. A New Yorker who grew up in
Atlanta, Carl Tait is a computer scientist with a software research and
consulting company in Manhattan. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University
and his bachelor’s degree with honors from Harvard University. After
starting his musical career at age 8 on the bagpipes, Tait began taking
piano lessons at 13 with Joan Broadhurst. His subsequent teachers have
included Gabriel Chodos, Steven Hall, and Edith Oppens. He is currently
working with Phillip Kawin of the Manhattan School of Music. Tait’s
recital will include works by Bach, Schubert, Chopin, and Griffes.
SAHAN ARZRUNI
Well known to television and radio audiences, pianist Sahan Arzruni enjoys
an international reputation as a recitalist, chamber music partner and
soloist with orchestras. His accomplishments as an ethnomusicologist,
writer, lecturer and composer have also made him a sought after musical
personality. A Steinway artist, Mr. Arzruni has recorded over twenty albums,
focusing primarily on music composed by the masters for younger pianists
and repertoire created by Armenian composers. A long-time stage associate
to Victor Borge, he has given command performances at the White House
as well as British, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic Courts. This evening's
program, titled 'Childhood Memories', will include works by American masters;
Amy Beach, Robert Starer, Ned Rorem, Dianne Goolkasian-Rhabee, Ben Weber,
William Mayer, Miriam Gideon, Louise Talma, Lou Harrison and Roger Sessions
that are rarely, if ever, performed in concert. (Free)
ELENA BAKSHT
Elena Baksht "has deft facility, a keenly orchestral sense for tonal
color and a delightful rhythmic liveliness" (New York Concert Review).
A native of Moscow, Ms. Baksht first came to public attention at age 11,
when she appeared as soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic. She has appeared
in concert halls throughout Canada, Mexico, Europe, and The Netherlands.
Notable career highlights include a Carnegie Recital Hall debut as winner
of the 1998 Artists International New York Debut Award, a New York concerto
debut with the Jupiter Symphony, and chamber performances at Lincoln Center¡¦s
Avery Fisher Hall in New York and the Library of Congress in Washington,
D.C.
I-HEUNG LEE
Praised for "her consumate artistry and manifold style in piano performance"
(The World Journal), Lee has concertized in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia,
Indonesia, and throughout the US. Her program will include works by Ravel,
Liszt, Czerny, Chopin and Chinese composer Li Ying Hai.
JENNY JEE-EL PARK, ALEXANDER WU, SUSAN SHIN
Jenny Park and her impressive duo partners will be performing two-piano
works of Rachmaninoff, Poulenc, Mozart, and Moszkowski, and four-hand
duets of Ravel and Saint-Säens. This recital is a preview of Artists
International's Alumni Series event at Merkin Concert Hall on November
4th.Tilles
NURIT TILLES
"One of new music's most valuable pianists" (Kyle Gann, Village
Voice), Tilles is a solo artist with Lincoln Center Institute and a member
of Double Edge. She works with Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, "Blue"
Gene Tyranny, Eve Beglarian and other distinguished composers. Program
will include works by Samuel Barber and Charles Ives.
JUNG LIN
Jung Lin is hailed by Garrick Ohlson as "a pianist of extraordinary
musicianship…" She will perform Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody,
the great Medtner Sonata-Ballade, and Schulz-Evler's Concert Arabesques
"On the Beautiful Blue Danube".
STEVE RYAN
Winner of the Northeastern Classical Piano Competition for Outstanding
Amateurs, Steve is just back from Paris where he won the Concours les
Grands Amateurs des Pianos. The program will feature Schubert, Chopin,
and Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit.
HECTOR MARTIGNON
Known for his original music that melds jazz, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and
classical styles, Hector Martignon will lead his jazz chamber ensemble
in a program of original compositions, as well as classical and jazz arrangements.
BARBARA HIGBIE
Grammy nominated composer and long time Windham Hill recording artist
known for co-founding the acoustic super group "Montreux", will
be performing original compositions from her newly released solo CD, "Variations
on a Happy Ending".
ALEXANDROS KAPELIS
Alexandros Kapelis has performed extensively in recital and as soloist
on three continents. His "amazing virtuosity, commanding precision
and clarity" combined with his "passionate and lyric playing"
have assured his successful and regular appearances in Europe, including
England, Switzerland, Italy, Malta, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus. Mr. Kapelis
has also performed in North and South America in venues from the United
Nations to Carnegie Hall. Last season, his engagements as a concert pianist
included a series of recitals in New York City, as well as important appearances
in London, Athens, Lausanne, Mallorca, and his debuts in Chicago and at
the Athens Megaron. Mr. Kapelis holds a Master's degree from the Mannes
College of Music. Next season, he will appear as soloist with the Philharmonia
of London under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy.
FUNKHOUSE
FunkHouse is a funky, progressive jazz piano trio, featuring John Funkhouser,
piano; Matt Pavolka, acoustic bass; and Blake Lindberg, drums. Together
for almost four years, the band is tight to the point of telepathy. Their
music is all original and blends modern jazz, funk, blues and European
and American folk music. Listeners may also recognize the influences Medeski,
Martin and Wood, Ornette Coleman, Frank Zappa, and Igor Stravinsky. FunkHouse
recently headlined the Jazz in June festival in Oklahoma Cityl, in addition
to appearances at several major music festivals in the last year, including
the Riverband Festival in Chattanooga, TN, the Mellon Jazz Festival in
Pittsburgh, PA, and Jazz in the Sangres in Westcliffe, CO. They have shared
festival billings with the likes of Tuck & Patti, Javon Jackson, Mose
Allison, Chicago, and Jethro Tull. Members of the Trio have performed
with such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Collins, Dave Liebman,
and George Russell and have been heard a variety of legendary venues including
the Blue Note, Birdland, and Sweet Basil. The band recently completed
its second national tour, performing in nineteen cities, including New
York, Chicago, Washington, DC, Kansas City, and Denver. The band's second
CD of original material is due for release in the fall of 2000.
GLENN JACOBSON
Hailed is an artist of the highest caliber, Glenn Jacobson has
established a career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He has
been praised both in the United States and abroad for his impeccable technique
and virtuoso performances. Since making his New York debut at Town Hall,
he has been heard at such prestigious series as the Library of Congress,
the Phillips Collection and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, the
Philadelphia Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Europe, he
has performed recitals in London, Amsterdam and Munich, in addition to
acclaimed tours of Eastern Europe and South America under the auspices
of the U.S. State Department. Glenn Jacobson currently lives near Honolulu,
Hawaii, where he performs and teaches.
JENNY LIN
Taiwanese pianist Jenny Lin has won top prizes in several international
competitions ("José Iturbi", Valencia, Spain; "Città
di Cantù" and "Umberto Micheli" Milano, Italy).
Her recitals, chamber music concerts and solo appearances with orchestras
have taken her worldwide. In the United States, she made her debuts at
Carnegie Recital Hall and in Washington's Kennedy Center. She has also
been heard in Austria, Belgium (Festival Ars Musica), Canada, France (Festival
de Divonne), Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland (including
a series of performances for more than 6000 children in the city of Winterthur).
Her most recent CD, Chinoiserie (BIS), was selected "Disc of the
month" in July 2000 by the online music magazine ClassicsToday.com
(with the rating 10/10). Jenny Lin enjoys programming rare and unknown
works as well as modern and contemporary composers (Roslavetz, Scriabin,
Cowell, Ornstein, Lourié, Messiaen, Donatoni, Sciarrino, Ligeti...).
As a result of her interest in the new music, she has recently commissioned
a solo piano piece from the Italian composer Stefano Gervasoni - "Studio
di disabitudine" -, a work she premiered at the Ars Musica Festival,
Brussels, in March 2000. She currently resides in New York City. Jenny Lin's program includes Schubert's Sonata in A minor, D. 784; Stefano
Gervasoni's Studio di disabitudine ("Study of Dis-apprehension")
(1999); and Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit.
MARGARET LENG TAN
Internationally celebrated artist Margaret Leng Tan is renowned for her
performances of American and Asian music that defy the piano's conventional
boundaries. She has created a radically individual style fusing sound,
choreography, and performance theater. Throughout her career, she has
premiered works written for her by such composers as John Cage, Alvin
Lucier, Tan Dun, Somei Satoh, Toby Twining, Lois V Vierk, Guy Klucevsek,
Julia Wolfe, John Kennedy, Stephen Montague, Errollyn Wallcon, Ralphael
Mostel, Dary John Mizelle, Christopher Hopkins, and Ge Gan-ru. She has
appeared as soloist with the new York Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic,
the American Composers Orchestra, and the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester,
among others. Closely identified with the work of John Cage, she has performed
his music throughout North America, Europe and Asia, including the PBS
"American Masters" documentaries on John Cage and Jasper Johns.
Margaret Leng Tan's work with extended piano techniques led her to the
toy piano, which she has championed as a bona fide musical instrument.
Her commitment has inspired composers to create a broad and varied repertory
for the toy piano and ancillary toy instruments. Originally from Singapore,
she now lives in Brooklyn with her two dogs, three pianos, and thirteen
toy pianos. Margaret Leng Tan's program features John Cage's 1944 magnum opus, Four
Walls, and the American premiere of selections from the Stundenbuch (Book
of Hours) by the German composer Hans Otte in her own arrangement for
piano, string piano, and toy piano.
HECTOR MARTIGNON
Hector Martignon has few, if any, comparisons in the world of music today.
He has performed, recorded, composed, produced, and arranged music in
the widest spectrum of styles and genres. While studying classical piano
and composition in Freiburg, Germany, he performed with the best Afro-Cuban
and Brazilian bands in Europe, backing such singers as Celia Cruz and
Ismael Quintana, along with such great musicians as Tata Guiness and Arturo
Sandoval. At the same time he was studying composition with Gyorgy Ligeti,
Luigi Nono, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and performed recitals of classical
music in Germany, Italy, and his native Colombia, specializing in Chopin,
Bach, and Debussy. Since arriving in New York, he has been one of the
most sought-after pianists, touring the US, Europe, and South America
with such bands as Mongo Santamaria, Gato Barbieri, Steve Turre, and Don
Byron, among others. He has been a guest artist with the bands of Tito
Puente, Max Roach and his "Project America," Chico O'Farril,
Paquito D'Rivera and Mario Bauza. For eight years he performed and toured
with the bands of the legendary Ray Barretto, where his playing, compositions
and arrangements were fundamental in shaping the sound of the now famous
New World Spirit Sextet. In 1998, he performed with Don Byron as part
of "Foreign Affair" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, joining
Tito Puente's "Top Percussion" and Byron's "Music for Six
Musicians".
JULIE JORDAN
American pianist Julie Jordan has developed a considerable following as
both teacher and performer with a current tour of concerts and masters
classes in Japan, Canada, Greece, Italy and the United States. She has
performed extensively as guest soloist and a first prizewinner with the
Marin Symphony, Music Academy of the West, Pacific Music Society, Diablo
Valley Young Artist, Frank Sinatra Festival, and the Kuhmo Chamber Music
Festival in Finland. Dr. Jordan has authored Speed Reading at the Keyboard
(Three Vols.), has created a piano pedagogy course, and has numerous publications
issued by The Musical Heritage Society. She currently serves on the faculties
of The Juilliard School and The St. Thomas Choir School. Julie Jordan will perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, and Debussy, among
others.
MI-JUNG IM
Korean pianist Mi-Jung Im was the Gold medalist of the 1997 San
Antonio International Piano competition. A worldwide concert artist, she
has performed with the George Enescu Romanian Orchestra, the Sliven Philharmonic
of Bulgaria, the Los Angeles Youth Symphony, the Stony Brook Orchestra,
the Korean Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul National University
Orchestra and the Seoul City Orchestra. Ms. Im has also given recitals
at Carnegie Recital Hall, Lincoln Center, and Symphony Space in New York
City, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C., as well as in Los
Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, and Salzburg, Austria. She has toured extensively
throughout the Far East and United States premiering many piano works
by her husband, Yoon-il Auh and giving master classes. In addition, Ms.
Im is also the music director of WebConcertHall.com which she co-founded
in 1998. Mi-Jung Im's program includes Scarlatti's Sonatas in C major and D minor;
Beethoven's Sonata Op. 2, No. 1; Rachmaninoff's Preludes Nos. 4 &
6, Op. 23 and Nos. 5 & 12, Op. 32, Liszt's Grandes Etudes de Paganini
No. 6; and Yoon-il Auh's Summer Fantasy (1993).
MIKI YUMIHARI
A native of Japan, Miki Yumihari has delighted audiences across
four continents with her musical talent. As a result of winning various
piano competitions, notably the Steinway Competition and Jugend Musiziert
Wettbewerb, she was presented as a featured soloist on national radio
programs in Berlin and Frankfurt. A winner of Artists International's
1996 Piano Award, she was presented in her New York recital debut at Carnegie
Weill Recital Hall during the 1996-1997 season, receiving highest critical
acclaim. Ms. Yumihari has also performed extensively in France, Austria,
Japan, The United Arab Emirates, The United States, and Great Britain.
She has been invited to appear at the "Saga International Music Festival"
in October, where she will perform the Saint-Saëns Second Piano Concerto
with the St. Petersburg Hermitage Chamber Orchestra, as well as several
solo and chamber music concerts Miki Yumihari's program includes the Arensky Trio for violin, cello,
piano, with assisting artists Eiko Tanaka, violin and Sean Katsuyama,
cello; and the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
with Mayu Matsuki, 2nd piano.
JED DISTLER
In his solo recitals, Jed Distler performs a wide spectrum of 20th century
music, including premieres by Lois V Vierk, Frederic Rzewski, William
Schimmel, Richard Rodney Bennett, David Maslanka, Wendy Mae Chambers,
Alvin Curran, and many other living composers. Among his performances
throughout the United States, he inaugurated the "New Music Series"
at Berkeley's Maybeck Recital Hall, participated in the CalArts/Bay Area
Pianists Henry Cowell Festival, and performed an all-Curran recital program
at Mills College. Jed Distler is also a prolific and versatile composer.
His evening-length song cycle for four sopranos and piano, The Death of
Lottie Shapiro, was premiered at The Montclair Art Museum. His Three Landscapes
for Peter Wyer, a suite for toy piano for noted pianist Margaret Leng
Tan, was released on the PointMusic label. Recent commissions include
Ellingtonia Accord, commissioned by Musicians Accord for the Duke Ellington
centenary; a sonata for award-winning violinist Cornelius Dufallo; and
a string quartet based on the "Mister Softee" jingle. As artistic
director of Composers Collaborative, he directs the performance and discussion
series Solo Flights and the Non Sequitur summer festival. Jed Distler will perform a program of variations, including: Frederic
Rzewski;s No Place to Go But Around; Tina Davidson's Mango Songs; Wendy
Mae Chambers'Oceanic Variations; Douglas Geers': For Rosa; and Cordel,
a new work by the pianist.
JITKA FRANKOVA
A native of Czechoslovakia, where she studied at the Ceske Budejovice
Conservatory of Music, Jitka Frankova has won many awards both in her
own country and abroad. At the age of eight, she won 1st prize in the
international "Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte," and in 1988,
she was awarded 2nd prize for solo piano performance at the International
Radio Competition "Concertino Praga" and "absolute winner" for chamber music performance (with Pavel Sporel). In 1995 Ms. Frankova
won 2nd prize at the International Piano Competition in Tabor; and in
1996, at the same competition, she received another 2nd prize and the
Award for Best Performance of a Russian composition. She has performed
with such orchestras as the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Prague
Symphony Orchestra. Jitka Frankova will perform Haydn's Sonata in C major; Smetana's Etude
Op. 17; Janacek's Sonata No. 1 (1905); Chopin's Ballade, Op. 23, No. 1
and Mazurkas Op. 33, No.4, Op. 63, Nos. 1 & 3 ; and Barber's Sonata
for piano, Op. 26.
CLARA PONTY
This impressionistic pianist performs an evening of her own music.
She will be joined by two extraordinary world music virtuosos - Steve
Gorn on bansuri (bamboo flute) and Randy Crafton on frame drums and percussion.
Praised for her "serene often romantic melodies," Clara Ponty's
music melds classical, jazz and contemporary elements with African and
Eastern rhythms into a seamless stream of captivating sounds. The concert
will feature selections from her two Philips Classics recordings: Clara
Ponty: Debut and The Embrace.
JOHN STETCH
This remarkable jazz pianist and composer was the 1st place winner of
the Prix du Jazz at the 1998 Montreal Jazz Festival, received a top prize
in the Thelonious Monk International Competition (for composition), and
has been heard frequently on Marian McPartland's "Piano Jazz"
radio program. He will perform a selection of jazz standards and his own
interpretations of Ukranian folk tunes. "an abundantly gifted artist
who bears watching" JazzTimes
JARON LANIER
This composer and computer scientist coined the term "virtual
reality." His highly unusual music ranges from the tender to the
macabre; his style has been described as a cross between Nancarrow, Scriabin,
and Tatum. He has developed unprecedented performance techniques, such
as live versions of the Nancarrow glissandos and the use of the damping
pedal to play harmonics. This is a rare chance to hear him playing solo
in an intimate setting.
ELIZABETH WOLFF
This outstanding New York-based classical pianist performs Beethoven's
Piano Sonata, Op. 79; Schumann's Kreisleriana; and a multi-media presentation
of Seymour Bernstein's New Pictures at an Exhibition, based on paintings
by Degas, Rousseau, Watteau, Chagall, Klee, and Picasso among others.
SARAH CAHILL
Dedicated Champion of New Music Performs Works By
Distler, Duckworth, Felciano, Harrison, Lockwood, Mamlok, Mumford. Based in the Bay Area, SARAH CAHILL is recognized as a dedicated champion
of contemporary composers with an active career performing both new music
and works from the classical repertoire. Among the many works dedicated
to Ms. Cahill are John Adams' China Gates (1977), Larry Polanky's Casten
Variation (1994), and "Blue" Gene Tyranny's Spirit (1996). She
has also premiered works by such notable composers as Terry Riley, George
Lewis, Chen Yi, and Carl Stone. In recent seasons, Sarah Cahill has performed
solo recitals at the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago, The Gallery Series
at Bucknell University, The Outpost in Albuquerque, and the Kahilu Theatre
in Kamuela, Hawaii. 1997, she organized a major festival celebrating Henry
Cowell's centennial at Hertz Hall at UC Berkeley. Her recent albums of
works by Ravel and Cowell, both on the New Albion label, have met with
critical acclaim.
KATYA GRINEVA
Russian pianist KATYA GRINEVA specializes in the great romantic
piano repertoire. Born in Moscow, she received her early training at the
Moscow Conservatory of Music and completed her studies in New York City
at the Mannes College of Music with Nina Svetlanova and Vladja Mashika.
Ms. Grineva began performing in her native Russia at an early age and
made her American concert debut in 1993 at Joseph Meyeroff Symphony Hall
in Baltimore, MD. Since then, she has performed throughout the United
States and made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 1998. Among the highlights
of last season were recitals at Carnegie Hall on Valentine's Day and for
the prestigious Laurier Society in Paris. She has released two CDs –
From Katya with Love and Katya from the Heart, featuring her favorite
works by Chopin, Schubert and Liszt. Her third CD will be released this
spring. On June 9, 2000, Katya Grineva returns to Carnegie Hall with "An
Enchanting Evening of Romantic Piano," a solo concert of music by
Schubert-Liszt, Ravel, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Chopin. Katya Grineva's program features Schubert-Liszt: Valse-Caprice Nos. 7
and 8 from Soirées de Vienne; Ravel: Jeux d'eau; Scriabin: 2 Etudes
in C-sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1 and Op. 45, No. 5; Rachmaninoff: Prelude
in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5; Chopin: Ballade, No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23,
Berceuse, Op. 57, Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
LIZ HUANG
This New York-based classical pianist and teacher has performed
internationally as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and in chamber
music ensembles. Featured as one of "The Nine Outstanding Young Men
and Women" on ABC television, Ms. Huang has given lecture-recitals
and master classes in several countries. She currently teaches piano at
the Juilliard School, where she received both her Bachelor's and Master's
degrees, and has also established her own school, Piano Study with Liz
Huang. Her program will include works by Bach, Schumann, and Bartok, among
others.
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