Bolcom and Morris in an evening of The American Song Book
Plus William Bolcom Performing Solo Piano and Joan Morris Offering Readings
Thursday April 24, 2008 at 7 PM  Tickets $35.00

Traversing Broadway, vaudeville and music hall, performing music from the ragtime era to the end of the 20th century, the duo of William Bolcom and Joan Morris have delighted audiences across the United States and around the world since 1973.

Pulitzer Prize and Grammy award winning composer William Bolcom, with his wife mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, has performed in concert for more than 30 years throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad. In addition to performing together, Bolcom and Morris have recorded two dozen albums together. Their first one, After the Ball, garnered a Grammy nomination for Joan Morris.

Vassily Primakov, Piano
Friday May 2, 2008 at 7 PM Tickets $30.00
Performing Chopin Piano Concerti (2 Pianos)

Moscow born virtuoso Vassily Primakov won the Young Concert Artist’s Audition in 2002, making his debut at the 92nd Street Y, and subsequently at the Kennedy Center in D.C. and the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston. He has played with the San Diego Symphony, the Utah Symphony, at Out of Doors Festival at Lincoln Center and Zankel Hall. He was a silver medalist at the Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition. This will be a concert of both Chopin Concerti with Alina Kiryayeva on the second piano.

Piotr Szczepanik, Piano
Wednesday May 7, 2008 at 7 PM Free Event
ESTONIA  PIANOS SCHOLARSHIP CONCERT

Born in Zyradow, Poland in 1983, Piotr Szczepanik graduated from the Krakow Academy of Music where he studied with Andrzej Pikul.  In 2004 he performed Ravel’s complete piano works in a concert series in Poland, and also performed the Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand with the Krakow Philhamonic. Recently he returned to perform the Schumann concerto with the same orchestra.  Winner of first prize in piano competitions held in Warsaw and Krakow, he has recorded works by Barber and Bartok for the Polish Radio and TV Network. Piotr is in his first year of master’s degree studies with Jerome Lowenthal at The Juilliard School, where he is the recipient of the Estonia Piano Scholarship.