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New York Concert Artists & Associates in Review

New York Concert Artists & Associates: Evenings of Piano Concerti, Season V Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, New York, N.Y. May 17, 2013

 

To attend one of NYCA’s Evenings of Piano Concerti is to feel part of something quite special, and the concerts are clearly on the upswing if one can judge by [...]

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Adamant Music School: 72nd Anniversary in Review

Adamant Music School: 72nd Anniversary Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y. March 10, 2013

Tadeusz Domanowski

 

Each year in Vermont’s historic quarry village of Adamant, pianists of all stripes converge for practicing, lessons, master classes, and relaxation at the Adamant Music School. For 72 years the school has [...]

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Fourth Olympic Challenge Competition in Review

Fourth Olympic Challenge Competition Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y. February 10, 2013

The title “Olympic Challenge Competition” may seem to suggest athletics rather than the more subjective field of music, but the name does suit the heroic efforts showcased recently in a concert of its young winners, ages 5-18, [...]

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Jean Muller in Review

Jean Muller, piano Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y. January 18, 2013

Jean Muller

Following the 2012 release of a well-received all-Chopin recording on the Fondamenta label, Luxembourgian pianist Jean Muller kicked off a world tour with largely the same repertoire in a fine recital at New York’s Weill [...]

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Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts: Claude Debussy 150th Anniversary Year in Review

Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts: Claude Debussy 150th Anniversary Year Complete Piano Preludes Min Kwon, Director Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y. December 19, 2012

Min Kwon, Director; Photo Credit : Doug Boyd

 

Marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Debussy (1862-1918), the year 2012 [...]

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Ivan Ženatý, violin, and James Vaughan, piano in Review

Ivan Ženatý, violin, and James Vaughan, piano Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall December 3, 2012

Ivan Ženatý, violin; Photo: Tomáš Lébr

When excellent Czech violinist Ivan Ženatý strides onstage with his pianist James Vaughan, one is in for an evening of artistry, probably whatever the program; presented by Mid-America Productions in [...]

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Kyung-Hye Baek in Review

Kyung-Hye Baek, piano Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York October 15, 2012

Kyung-Hye Baek

If musical career-building were analogous to cooking, Kyung-Hye Baek might be said to have “the recipe.” Among the sought-after ingredients these days – conservatory studies (a doctorate from Peabody), the requisite recital and orchestral performances (various [...]

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New York Concert Artists Associates: Rising Artists Evening II in Review

New York Concert Artists Associates: Rising Artists Evening II Jayoung Hong, piano; Jiaxin Tian, piano; Mariko Miyazaki, piano; Kazuo Kanemaki, conductor Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church June 2, 2012

What could be a better way to spend an evening than to hear – after Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings (Waltz) – four accomplished pianists playing [...]

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New York Concert Artists and Associates Winners Evening: Evenings of Piano Concerti in Review

New York Concert Artists and Associates Winners Evening: Evenings of Piano Concerti Wael Farouk, piano; Alexei Tartakovski, piano; Vince Lee, conductor, NYCA Orchestra Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, New York, N.Y. May 19, 2012

 

Anyone looking only to the larger musical venues of New York is missing out on some once-in-a-lifetime concerts at the [...]

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Georgy Tchaidze, Pianist in Review

Georgy Tchaidze, piano, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall April 27, 2012

Canada’s Honens International Piano Competition, held every three years, offers the largest prize of any piano competition ($100,000 CAN and a half-million-dollar three-year career development award) to “the Complete Artist” – characterized as “a sensitive musician, a consummate collaborator, an awe-inspiring virtuoso, [...]

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