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The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in Review
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in Review David Bernard, Music Director and Conductor Ted Rosenthal, Piano Bernstein, Beethoven, Rosenthal (World Premiere), and Gershwin All Saints Church; New York, NY May 15, 2011 The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s performance of Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony was captivating throughout; the clarity of rhythm and the musical conviction of…
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Aglaia Koras, Pianist in Review
Aglaia Koras, Pianist in Review Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; New York, NY May 9, 2011 Aglaia Koras devotes much of her performing to the music of Frederic Chopin, and on May 9th, she continued her passion for his music with some Nocturnes, Mazurkas and Etudes, among others. This concert, performed for a packed…
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Samuel Magill, cellist in Review
Samuel Magill, cellist in Review Beth Levin, piano Bruno Walter Auditorium New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center, New York, NY May 7, 2011 Samuel Magill is a very fine cellist. His technique is solid and disciplined, his tone warm, sonorous and variable, his expressive projection direct and immediate. Trained at the…
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Lori Sims, Pianist in Review
Lori Sims, Pianist in Review Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall; New York, NY May 7, 2011 Pianist William Masselos (1920-1992) was honored in a most special way this past weekend, in a tribute piano recital by Lori Sims, presented by the organization Hausmusik. Widely recognized not only as a great pianist in diverse…
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Continuum in Review
Continuum Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY May 1, 2011 You can be fairly sure you are at a Continuum concert when the “earliest” music on the program dates from 1998, when everything else is a New York or World Premiere, and when you hear music differently for at least several days afterward.…
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Joyce El-Khoury, Soprano in Review
Joyce El-Khoury, Soprano in Review Olga Koussevitzky First Prize Winner; The Musicians Club of New York Natalia Katyukova, piano The A&D Building; 150 E. 58th Street; New York, NY April 28, 2011 Joyce El-Khoury has an absolutely glorious voice that can easily project to the last row of the balcony in any opera house.…
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Alexander Beridze, pianist in Review
Alexander Beridze, pianist in Review Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, NY April 19, 2011 A large audience packed Alice Tully Hall this week to hear Georgian pianist, Alexander Beridze, representing the Cincinnati-based World Piano Competition as its 2009 Gold Medalist. In a year flooded with news stories about troubles in the…
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New Asia Chamber Music Society in Review
New Asia Chamber Music Society in Review Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall April 19, 2011 There is an infusion of fresh blood in the chamber music world, if the recent performance by the New Asia Chamber Music Society is any indication. This newly formed ensemble, comprised of many young and gifted players, is an…
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Alexej Gorlatch, Pianist in Review
Alexej Gorlatch, Pianist in Review Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall April 14, 2011 Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall, part of the Carnegie Hall complex, presented Alexej Gorlatch on April 14th as the First Prize winner of the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition. Gorlatch, who is 22 (born in Kiev, in 1988), was also the Silver…
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Jourdan Urbach, Violinist in Review
Jourdan Urbach, Violinist in Review Karen Beluso, Piano Le Poisson Rouge; New York, NY April 1, 2011 April 1st was host to a Children Helping Children benefit concert held at Le Poisson Rouge, a popular music venue and bar in downtown Greenwich Village. CHC’s young, exuberant founder and director, Jourdan Urbach, delivered a vibrant,…