New York Piano Festival
2015
DiMenna Center for Classical Music 450 W 37th Street New York, NY 10018
Sunday, June 7th, 6 PM Mary Flagler Cary Hall Frederic Chopin
Barcarolle Op. 60
1810 - 1849 Leoš Janáček
In the Mists
1854 - 1928
Matei Varga (Piano)
Giuseppe Verdi
1813 - 1901
Rigoletto’s Aria “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata” from Opera Rigoletto Act II
Salvatore Cardillo
Core ‘ngrato (Neapolitan Song)
1874 - 1947 Manuel Esperón
No te miro con los ojos (Mexican Song) piano arrangement by Arturo Marquez
1911 - 2011
José Adán Pérez (Baritone) & Alexander Beridze (Piano) Intermission Frederic Chopin
Three Mazurkas Op. 59
1810 - 1849
Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. Posth. Magdalena Baczewska (Piano)
Alexander Scriabin
1872 - 1915
Two Etudes from Op. 8 No. 9 in G sharp minor No. 12 in D sharp minor Alexander Beridze (Piano)
Juan Carlos Cobian
Los Mareados
1835 - 1921 Horacio Salgan
A Don Augustin Bardi
1918 Astor Piazzolla
Adios Nonino
1921 - 1992 Angel Villoldo
1816 - 1919
El Choclo Carlos Franzetti (Piano)
Saturday, June 13th, 6 PM Mary Flagler Cary Hall Johann Sebastian Bach
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue BWV 903
1685 - 1750 Domenico Scarlatti
Two Sonatas in B Major
1685 - 1757 Jean-Philippe Rameau
Pièces de Clavecin in E minor
1683 - 1764 Louis Couperin
Prelude and Passacaille in C Major
1626 - 1661
Arthur Haas (Harpsichord) Intermission Johannes Brahms
Sonata No.3 for Piano and Violin in D minor Op.108
1833 - 1897
Allegro Adagio Un Poco Presto e con sentiment Presto Agitato
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840 - 1893 Niccolo Paganini
1782 - 1840
Melodie from Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op.42 Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op.7 3rd Movement Rondo La Campanella
Misha Keylin (Violin) & Alexander Beridze (Piano)
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Saturday, June 20th Students’ Gala Concerts Norman S. Benzaquen Hall Recital 1 - 11:30 AM Recital 2 - 2 PM Free Admission After a month of intensive work, students will present an exciting program for the closing concert of the New York Piano Festival 2015. New York Piano Festival is a great learning experience in a positive and friendly environment. Its goal is to bring together musicians of all ages to share the joy of music to motivate and develop their technical and artistic skills. Students will have the opportunity to meet great performers and talk with them, to ask for professional advice.
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Students will be able to learn not only from highly qualified teachers and performers, but also from one another. In order to participate in our final concerts, each applicant will be required to take at least three lessons with New York Piano Festival’s faculty members. Our lessons will focus on basic approaches of technique and interpretive issues. Our goal is to supply and enhance the basic tools for piano performance, bringing the student’s talent, personality, and prior training to a harmonious blend of artistry.
DiMenna Center for Classical Music Orchestra of St. Luke’s built The DiMenna Center in 2011 as New York City’s only acoustically-optimized rehearsal and recording space dedicated to classical music. It has quickly become an unparalleled resource serving the entire musical community—from soloists to symphony orchestras—through affordable, state-of-the-art facilities. In response to the great need for space dedicated to classical music rehearsal, recording, and learning in New York City, Orchestra of St. Luke’s created The DiMenna Center for Classical Music.
450 W 37th Street New York, NY 10018
Arthur Haas, harpsichordist, is one of the most sought-after performers and teachers of Baroque music in the U.S. today. He holds a master’s degree in historical musicology from UCLA, where he studied harpsichord with Bess Karp. He also studied with Albert Fuller at The Juilliard School and with Alan Curtis in Berkeley and in Amsterdam. Mr. Haas was awarded the top prize in the Paris International Harpsichord Competition in 1975, and then lived for a number of years Arthur Haas in France, performing in many of the major European early music festivals and teaching at the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Angoulême. While in Paris, he joined the famed Five Centuries Ensemble, known for its performances and recordings of both early and contemporary music. In 1985, his formal American debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall was highly praised by the New York Times. He is a member of the Aulos Ensemble, one of America’s premier early music ensembles whose recordings of Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann, and Rameau have received critical acclaim in the press. He is also a member of Empire Viols and Aula Harmoniæ. Mr. Haas participated in the first recording of the Bach Goldberg Variation Canons with Alan Curtis, and has also recorded suites for two harpsichords by Gaspard LeRoux with William Christie. His solo CD’s of Pièces de clavecin by Jean-Henry D’Anglebert, Suites de clavecin of Forqueray, music by Henry Purcell and his contemporaries, and suites of Jacquet de la Guerre and François Couperin have been widely praised in the press. Known for his expertise as a continuo player, Mr. Haas has toured with such distinguished early musicians as Marion Verbruggen, Jaap ter Linden, Julianne Baird, Laurence Dreyfus, Bruce Haynes, and Wieland Kuijken. In 2001, he recorded Bach’s Cantata #199 and songs of Henry Purcell with the soprano Dawn Upshaw. Annual summer workshop and festival appearances take him to the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and the Amherst Early Music Festival, where he has served as artistic director of the Baroque Academy since 2002. Mr. Haas is professor of harpsichord and early music at Stony Brook University, where he directs the award winning Stony Brook Baroque Players, and is also on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music and Juilliard’s recently created historical performance program. Mr. Haas is also faculty member at the Yale School of Music where he teaches harpsichord and early music courses.
From symphonies to big band jazz, from chamber works to Latin American music and film scores – Carlos Franzetti has no limits. He has won 4 Latin Grammy® Awards for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Best Instrumental Album, and Best Tango Album. He has been a Grammy® Nominee for Best Instrumental Arrangement, Best Contemporary Composition, and Best Classical Crossover Album. Carlos Franzetti has received many Carlos Franzetti outstanding grants and awards, including the New Jersey Council on the Arts Composers’ Fellowship, The Yamaha Composers Award, The Trofeu Laus from Spain, a Clio Award, The Prensario Award, ACE Award and Premio Konex from Argentina, The Foundation for New American Music, The Penfield Music Commission Project, several grants from Meet The Composer, and two gold records. Carlos Franzetti’s compositions and arrangements have been performed and recorded by the International Sejong Soloists, the New World Symphony, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas the Moab Music Festival, and the Queens Symphony Orchestra; he conducted his arrangements of music by Steve Kuhn (with Mr. Kuhn performing) at the Caramoor Festival and at the Israel Opera in Tel Aviv. He performs and records with jazz artists Arturo Sandoval, Steve Kuhn, David Sanchez, Terence Blanchard, Jane Monheit, Jon Faddis, Ruben Blades and Paquito D’Rivera and scores films for major producers and directors Sidney Lumet, Alan Pakula, Jerry Schatzberg, Harry Belafonte, and Edgardo Cozarinsky. Credits include “La Pelicula del Rey,” “Q&A,” “Misunderstood,” “Beat Street,” “The Mambo Kings,” “See You in the Morning,” “Dans le rouge du couchant,” “Ronda Nocturna,” and “Tango Fatal.” A citizen of the United States for many years, Carlos Franzetti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1948. He began his musical studies at age 6 at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires. He later studied piano privately with Guillermo Iscla and Lucia Maranca and composition with Manuel Juarez. During the years 1971 - 1973 he studied composition with Humberto Hernandez Medrano in Mexico. After coming to the United States in 1974, he studied conducting with Vincent LaSelva at the Juilliard School.
www.carlosfranzetti.com
A native of Mazatlán, México, Baritone José Adán Pérez is an alumnus of Los Angeles Opera Plácido Domingo’s Young Artist Program, the AVA of Philadelphia, Aspen Opera Theater, IVAI Israel and SIVAM Opera Program. After his operatic debut in LA Opera as Marcello in “La Bohème” under the baton of Maestro Plácido Domingo, he has collaborated with NY City Opera, Teatro Massimo Bellini in Italy, Theater Basel in Switzerland, Bellas Artes Opera, PORTopera José Adán Pérez of Maine, LoftOpera, Opera North of New Hampshire, LA Philharmonic, Phoenix Symphony, LA Opera Orchestra, LA Master Chorale, Pasadena Pops, Colburn Chamber Music Society, OFUNAM, Bellas Artes Opera Orchestra, Jalisco Philharmonic, Michoacan Symphony, Yucatan Symphony, Sinaloa Symphony of the Arts, Angela Peralta Chorus, to mention some. Also performing at the Aspen Music Festival, Cervantino International Arts Festival, Guadalajara Cultural Festival, Credomatic Music Festival of Costa Rica and Sinaloa Cultural Festival. Mr. Pérez has been part of important recording projects like the world premiere of Daniel Catán’s “Il Postino” with the Los Angeles Opera releasing a DVD later broadcasted on PBS Great Performances; the american premier of Schreker’s “Die Gezeichneten” with Los Angeles Opera; Fauré’s Requiem with the UNAM Philharmonic Orchestra; and the recent Latin Grammy nominated album “Únicamente la Verdad” a contemporary opera composed by Gabriela Ortiz. His voice has served the distinguished batons of Plácido Domingo, James Conlon, Gustavo Dudamel, Michele Mariotti, Grant Gershon, Israel Gursky, Angel Romero, Michael Christie, Will Humburg, Nikša Bareza, Marco Balderi, Eduardo Diaz-Munoz, Douglas Kinney Frost, Marco Parisotto, Enrique Patrón, José Areán, Ivan Lopez Reynoso, Juan Carlos Lomónaco, James Demster, among several. Before beginning his musical pursuits, Mr. Pérez, a Bachelor of Science from Tecnológico de Monterrey, worked several years in the automobile industry as a quality engineer.
Since his New York Carnegie Hall début at age 11, violinist Misha Keylin has continued to earn critical and audience acclaim for his exuberant musicality, keen interpretive insight and rare tonal beauty. Noted for a wide range of repertoire, Keylin attracted particular attention with his world-premiere three CD series, featuring all seven of Henry Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concertos, released on the Naxos label. These recordings have sold over 120,000 copies worldwide and have garnered Misha Keylin numerous press accolades and awards (such as “Critic’s Choice” by The New York Times, Gramophone and The Strad). In a career already spanning forty-five countries on five continents, Keylin has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Roberto Benzi, Irwin Hoffman, Eliahu Inbal, Vakhtang Jordania, Theodore Kuchar, Fabio Mechetti. John Nelson, Marco Parisotto, Alexander Schneider, Jörg-Peter Weigle, Bruno Weil and Takuo Yuasa. He has been guest soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, Marseille Philharmonic, NDR Philharmonic of Hannover, Budapest Philharmonic, Israel Sinfonietta, Bologna Philharmonic, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Brandenburg Philharmonic and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Chile. United States concerto and recital appearances have brought him to major venues in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle, Charlotte, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Denver and San Francisco. As an active chamber musician, he is a regular guest artist with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and has participated at the Aspen, Ravinia and Australian Chamber Music festivals, amongst others. In 2011, Keylin became a founding member of the Hermitage Piano Trio together with renowned soloists – Sergey Antonov (cello) and Ilya Kazantsev (piano). Misha Keylin began musical studies with his mother in St. Petersburg, Russia. He immigrated to the USA at nine and was immediately accepted as a student by the legendary Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School. After winning New York’s coveted Waldo Mayo Award as “Best Young Performer of the Year,” Keylin went on to capture top prizes in the prestigious Hannover (Germany), Paganini (Italy), Sarasate (Spain) and Viña del Mar (Chile) competitions. Keylin has been a Career Grant recipient of the Clarisse B. Kampel Foundation and he currently resides in New York and performs on a violin made by Antonio Gagliano in 1831 and a bow made by Dominique Peccatte.
www.keylin.com
Born in Poland to a family of musicians, Magdalena Baczewska [baCHEVska] has enjoyed a multifaceted career as a pianist, harpsichordist, educator, and an administrator. Her performances, hailed as “eloquent and technically flawless” (The Washington Post), have been broadcast on radio stations across America, including WQXR, NPR, Voice of America, and on European Radio and Television. This season’s highlights include a solo debut with the San Magdalena Francisco Symphony Debut at the Davies Baczewska Symphony Hall, a solo debut with the China National Symphony at the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing, piano master classes in Beijing’s Central Conservatory. This Summer she will tour Milan, Paris, and New York City performing Bach’s Goldberg Variations on the piano and the harpsichord. Magdalena Baczewska resides in New York City, where she is a full-time faculty member and Director of the Music Performance Program at Columbia University. Baczewska is a laureate of international piano competitions including the International Chopin Competition at the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Mieczyslaw Munz Competition, and the Dorothy MacKenzie Recognition Award, Prix du piano at the École Américaine in Fountainebleau, France. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Polish Minister of Culture, and a laureate of the Award for Outstanding Polish Citizen Abroad. Baczewska’s debut album,“A Tribute to Glenn Gould” was hailed by the American Record Guide as “world-class.” Her subsequent three albums, “Music for Dreams,” were released in collaboration with BlueSleep®, a medical team specialized in research and treatment of sleep disorders. Baczewska has earned her Bachelor and Masters degrees from the Mannes College The New School for Music. While pursuing her doctoral degree at the Manhattan School of Music (DMA ’08), Baczewska worked in the Artist Relations Division of Yamaha Artist Services, a subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation of America. She has since taught music at the Mannes College New School for Music, Montclair State University, Manhattan School of Music, New York Piano Festival, and the International Keyboard Institute. As a Yamaha Artist, she also uses Yamaha Disklavier® and the Remote Lesson technology.
www.MagdalenaNYC.com
Matei Varga
“The greatest young Romanian pianist” before the public today (Enescu Festival News, 2013), Matei Varga is firmly established as the true heir of an incomparable pianistic tradition that includes Dinu Lipatti, Clara Haskil, Mindru Katz, and Radu Lupu. Mr. Varga’s artistry has garnered superlative reviews from critics around the world, who have found his performances “magical” (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2009), “colorful, vivacious [and] engaging” (Le Diapason, 2012), “luminous” (ConcertoNet2011), and “spectacular” (Adevarul, 2013).
A “musician who can imbue even the simplest of melodic lines with meaning” (Fanfare, 2012), Mr. Varga is equally at home in staples of the pianistic repertoire and works written by today’s foremost composers, as evidenced by his recent commission to perform the European premiere of Michael Hersch’s “insanely difficult” second piano concerto, which left the audience “astonished” (Neue Musikzeitung, 2013). A top prizewinner at numerous piano competitions, including Maria Canals and George Enescu, Mr. Varga has appeared as a soloist and recitalist in many of the world’s leading concert halls, among them Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall (New York), Konzerthaus (Berlin), the Auditorium du Louvre, Salle Gaveau, and Salle Cortot (Paris), Royal Dramatic Theater (Stockholm), Palau de la Música (Barcelona), Casals Hall (Tokyo), Rebecca Crown Auditorium (Jerusalem), and the Romanian Athenaeum and Radio Hall (Bucharest). Highlights of Mr. Varga’s 2014-2015 season include planned appearances in the United States, Europe, and Asia, as well as the release of three new recordings: Tchaikovsky/Matt Van Brink’s “Swan Lake Fantasy” on Schnitzel Music, a cello and piano album featuring Laura Metcalf on Sono Luminus and a solo recital on Sheva Collection. Mr. Varga holds degrees from the Romanian National University of Music, where he studied with Ana Pitis, Ioana Minei, and Sandu Sandrin, and the Mannes College of Music, where he studied with Pavlina Dokovska. Mr. Varga is represented by New York-based Veloce Arts Management.
www.mateivarga.com
Hailed by American Record Guide as an “exceptional artist,” pianist Alexander Beridze thrills audiences and critics alike with his dazzling precision and range, as well as his insightful eloquence and sensitivity. Gold Medalist of the 2009 World Piano Competition, Beridze made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2011 where critics called his performance “brilliant, superb and simply electrifying” and “a splendid one that passed by almost too quickly.”
Alexander Beridze
A native of the Republic of Georgia, Beridze has performed as soloist with the major orchestras in his home country, including the Tbilisi State Symphony, the Georgia National Symphony Orchestra, and the Republic of Georgia State Opera and Ballet Symphony. He made his US concerto debut performing under the direction of Vladimir Feltsman in New York in 2004. Attending conservatory as his country was suffering from the devastating effects of separating from the collapsed Soviet Union, Beridze persevered in his study of piano performance, winning the major Georgian competitions, receiving Georgia’s President’s Grants in 2001 and 2005, and the Vladimir Spivakov Award in 2003. He first came to international attention as the winner of the 2004 Jacob Flier International Piano Competition, run by legendary pianist Vladimir Feltsman, who invited Beridze to move to the United States to study with him at the Mannes School of Music. In the Republic of Georgia, Beridze received undergraduate and advanced degrees at Tbilisi State Conservatory. Upon arriving in the United States, he earned a Professional Studies degree at the Mannes School as a student of Vladimir Feltsman and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey. Beridze also holds a doctorate in journalism from Tbilisi State University. As a correspondent for Krivis Palitra, a weekly newspaper in the Republic of Georgia, he was the author of more than 500 articles on music and interviewed many of the world’s most renowned musicians, including Rostropovich, Rozhdestvensky, Bashmet, and Vengerov. In 2009, he founded the New York Piano Festival, where he serves as Artistic Director, organizing an international concert and master class series and providing concert opportunities to young students to perform in venues throughout New York City. Dedicated to raising funds for cancer research, he has produced and performed numerous charity concerts.
www.alexanderberidze.com
New York Piano Festival Honorary Board Dale Coudert Irwin Ackerman Edwina Sandys Richard Kaplan Barbara Hines Valery Kourtey Princess Diana Bagrationi Mikhail and Alla Barash Margaret Zawadzka Peter Becker Artistic Adviser Vladimir Feltsman Founder and Artistic Director Alexander Beridze Executive Director Mai Kagaya
Organizing Partner Diana Bagrationi Foundation
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