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PIANO AREA IMPORTANT DATES – Spring, 2008
All events are take place in Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall unless otherwise stated.
January 23 at 5PM
Guest Artist Concert , featuring the music faculty of the University of Richmond
The Music of Bela Bartok
Jennifer Cable, soprano, Matt Albert, violin
Paul Hanson, piano, Joanne Kong, piano
Matthew Duvall, percussion (member of the Eighth Blackbird)
Ray Breakall, percussion
February 10 at 4PM
Piano and Chamber Music Outreach,
Bon Air Presbyterian Church
February 11 at 8PM
Faculty Recital: Dr. Charles Staples
February 12 at 1PM
Piano Convocation
February 15 at 5PM
Guest Artist Recital: Sarah Kapustin, violin
Works by Beethoven, Ravel and Prokofiev
 Sarah Kapustin's musical activities have taken her across North America, Europe and Australia,in performances as both soloist and chamber musician. She has performed with such orchestras as the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University Philharmonic, Juilliard Symphony, and the Pasadena Symphony. Ms. Kapustin has received prizes and honors in numerous competitions, most recently 1st prize in the 2007 International Markneukirchen Instrumental Competition, resulting in a radio broadcast and solo engagements throughout Germany. She has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Kapustin has appeared at several festivals, most notably Chamber Music International (Dallas), Giverny Hors Les Murs ( France), Sarasota (FL), and Marlboro (VT) where she has performed with such distinguished artists as Claude Frank, Joseph Silverstein, David Soyer, and Kim Kashkashian. She also was a prizewinner at the Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions. Her interest in contemporary music has led to collaboration with several composers on their own compositions, including Henri Dutilleux, Kryzstof Penderecki and Ned Rorem.
Sarah Kapustin holds a Masters Degree from the Juilliard School. After receiving a Fulbright Scholarship, she spent the 2006-7 school year in Paris as a student at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique. She was appointed concertmaster of the Orchestre des Laureats du Conservatoire in January 2007, and also plays regularly with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Currently Sarah divides her professional life between Europe and the United States.
February 26 at 1PM
Piano Convocation
 February 29 at 4PM
Guest Master Class with Pascal Rogé
Works by French composers
Pascal Rogé’s playing of Poulenc, Satie, Fauré, Saint-Saëns or Ravel in particular is characterized by its elegance, beauty and delicate phrasing - his name is synonymous with the best playing of French repertory in the world today. Born in Paris, Pascal Rogé is an exclusive DECCA recording artist who has won many prestigious awards including two Gramophone awards, a Grand Prix du Disque and an Edison award for his interpretations of the Ravel and Saint-Saëns concertos. Other recordings feature a Debussy cycle, a Bartok cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra. For the Poulenc Edition 1999 Mr. Rogé recorded both piano concertos, the "Aubade", the Concerto Champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra, all under Maestro Dutoit.
Pascal Rogé has performed in almost every major concert hall in the world. Some of the orchestras he has appeared with include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, l'Orchestre de Paris, l'Orchestre National de Radio France, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Geneva, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and all the major London orchestras.
He appears regularly in the United States, is a frequent guest artist in Latin America, Mexico, Australia and especially in Japan. Among the highlights during the year 1999 were the Poulenc celebrations in Indianapolis, in the UK, Italy, France, with the Residentie Orchestra The Hague and at the Perth Festival / Australia as well as his return to the Philadelphia Orchestra in July 1999, and a highly praised performance of Poulenc's concerto for two pianos with Vanessa Benelli and the New York Chamber Orchestra. Other activities during the season 1999/2000 included appearances with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and with the Vienna Symphony. Recitals in London's Wigmore Hall, in Berlin, Vienna, and at the Sintra Festival ( Portugal), a chamber music tour of Italy and Spain were among the artist's activities during spring of 2000. The season 2000-01 featured appearances at the Grand Teton Festival in Wyoming, in Singapore, and Taipei, concerts with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, recitals in Bergamo, Pescara, Paris, London , to name some. He played concerts at the summer festivals of Chautauqua and Saratoga and went on a 3-months tour of Australia, New Zealand and Japan in the autumn of 2001, dedicated to recitals and chamber music appearances.
March 28 at 9:30
Guest Master Class with Sonia Rubinsky
(part of the VCU Villa-Lobos festival) Works by Villa-Lobos
Ms. Rubinsky began musical studies in her native Campinas, Brazil at the age of five. At age six, she gave her first solo recital and, at age 12, her first performance as soloist with orchestra. Thereafter, she moved to Jerusalem where she continued studies at the Rubin Academy. In Israel, she was selected to play in a masterclass taught by Artur Rubinstein and her performance is documented in a film entitled "Rubinstein in Jerusalem." Ms. Rubinsky holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School. She has studied with Olga Normanha, Benjamin Oren, Irma Wolpe, Vlado Perlemuter, Beveridge Webster, William Daghlian and Jacob Lateiner. Ms. Rubinsky is a recipient of the prestigious William Petschek Award as well as a "Best Recitalist of the Year" award of the Sao Paulo Association of Music Critics. She is the 1984 first-prize winner of the Artists International Competition in New York.
Ms. Rubinsky has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Richmond Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, the Springfield Symphony, and the Phoenix Symphony, among others. As recitalist, she has performed in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Rome, Tel-Aviv and Montevideo. Ms. Rubinsky has toured Brazil extensively, appearing with its most notable orchestras including the Orchestra of the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro and of Sao Paulo, the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, the Campinas Symphony, and the Sao Paulo State Symphony.
Together with her widely acclaimed solo CD recordings of Villa-Lobos Piano Works for Naxos (Volume I was chosen as "One of the best five recordings of 1999", Bryce Morrison, Gramophone Magazine; also nominated for a GRAMMY, 1999) which are available worldwide, Ms. Rubinsky has recorded for Nonesuch/Elektra (John Adams) and Daghlian label (Debussy, Villa-Lobos and Messiaen). Current projects include Ms. Rubinsky's recording of the complete piano works of Heitor Villa-Lobos (total of 8 vols.) for Naxos.
April 3 at 4PM
Chamber Music outreach concert:
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, downtown campus
April 6 at 7PM
Mi Yeon Choi, Senior Recital
April 8 at 1PM
Piano Convocation
April 8 at 5PM
Piano Area Concert
April 11 at 5PM
Guest Artist Concert: the piano faculty of the Northern Virginia Community College
Christine Hagan, Ljiljana Eluhow, Harvey Jacobson & James Jelasic
April 13 at 4PM
Faculty Recital: Dr. Dmitri Shteinberg
Works by Mozart, Schumann and Brahms
April 16 at 5PM
Guest Concert-Lecture: Dr. Barbara Ryland-Wells
The Piano Sonata by Miklós Rózsa
April 16 at 8:30PM
Aaron Thacker and Zoe Park, junior recitals
April 17 at 5PM
Piano Ensembles Concert
April 19 at 5PM
Chamber Music Practicum concert: Harris Hall, Business Auditorium
April 20 at 4PMChamber music outreach concert:
Providence United Methodist Church
900 S. Providence Road, Richmond, VA 23236 276-4289
April 23 at 7PM
Chamber music outreach concert: the Hermitage at Cedarfield
April 29 at 3PM
Jeffrey Castle and Young Soo Yoon – junior recitals |
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