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Faces of classical music
2018-06-05 14:06:00
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in D major – Alex Beyer, George Li (HD 1080p)
[…] Photo by Linda Kane Brinckerhoff Alex Beyer was born in 1994 in Connecticut. He has received warm praise for his performances nationally and internationally. In 2016, he was the bronze medalist in the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and was named one of five finalists of the American Pianists Association Awards. In the last year, he has been a guest soloist with the Brussels Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Royal Orchestra of Wallonia, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, and the Irish National Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Milwaukee, Charlotte, Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, and Bridgeport Symphony Orchestras, among others. He received Sixth Prize at the 2015 US Chopin Competition. He was the recipient of Third Prize, as well as the Beethoven and Irish National Symphony Orchestra special awards at the 2015 Dublin International Piano Competition. Beyer was a 2012 US Presidential Scholar in the Arts.He has studied […]
2017-05-31 13:00:55
[…] John F. Kennedy when he was seven.[9][10] At age eight, he appeared on American television with his sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma, in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein. In 1964, Isaac Stern introduced them on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and they performed the Sonata of Sammartini. He attended Trinity School in New York but transferred to the Professional Children’s School, from which he graduated at age 15.[11] He appeared as a soloist with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations. Ma studied at The Juilliard School at age 19 with Leonard Rose and attended Columbia University but dropped out. He later enrolled at Harvard College. Prior to entering Harvard, Ma played in the Marlboro Festival Orchestra under the direction of cellist and conductor Pablo Casals. Ma would ultimately spend four summers at the Marlboro Music Festival after meeting and falling in love with Mount […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-01-17 00:01:05
[…] 7:00 PM, with an additional matinee on February 5th at 2:00 PM at Agassiz Theater on the Harvard University campus (10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA). Tickets ($10-$20) may be purchased through the Harvard Box Office (1350 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA – 617.496.2222) or at the door pending availability. Tickets to the opening night performance on February 1st will be free. Conductor Sasha Scolnik-Brower ’17 has led multiple orchestras during his time at Harvard including the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, Mozart Society Orchestra, and the Bach Society Orchestra. As a cellist, he is currently enrolled in the dual degree program of Harvard University and the New England Conservatory in the studio of Paul Katz. Stage Director Joule Voelz returns with her second production with the company. Most recently, she staged HCO’s spring 2016 production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and assistant directed the New York dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s summer production of Massenet’s […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-03-04 20:05:03
BSO: Franco-Iberian Impressionism
Javier Perianes (Liza Voll photo) Thursday’s BSO concert mostly provided sheer delight in three masterpieces of Franco-Iberian Impressionism. Charles Dutoit has made a specialty of concert performances of opera on BSO programs. This was the fourth such that I remember, after Stravinsky’s Nightingale and Ravel’s l’Enfant et les sortilèges (October 2012) and Szymanowski’s King Roger (last spring). Last night he brought us a first for the Boston Symphony, Ravel’s first opera, l’Heure espagnole, composed 1907-09 on a one-act libretto by Franc-Nohain. Ravel (1875-1937) was born of Franco-Basque ancestry in Ciboure, a village of St.-Jean-de-Luz very close to the Spanish border. Like Bizet, Lalo, and Debussy, he was a Frenchman who loved Spanish music and embraced it in his own work. Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), by contrast, was a native Spaniard who trained in his native land and then went to Paris to absorb the vitality of Impressionism. The program […]