ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network Only the driving force behind the project, pianist peter serkin, can honestly boastof the trappings of rebellion, his hirsuteness giving new meaning to the http://www.concertonet.com/exec/review.asp?IndexReview=1775
ECM Records Information The grandson of Adolf Busch and the son of pianist Rudolf serkin, peter serkin studiedat the Cornish Institute in Philadelphia with Lee Luvisi, Mieczsyslaw http://www.ecmrecords.com/ecm-cgi-bin/background?1676
Extractions: RECORDINGS BRAHMS: THE VIOLIN SONATAS Pamela Frank, violinist; Peter Serkin, pianist. London 289 455-643; CD. R eviewed by Bernard D. Sherman "Most current Brahms performances," complains the pianist Stephen Kovacevich, "suggest a comfortable, overweight bank manager reluctantly refusing an overdraft." Many performers, for example, wallow in the First Sonata's opening movement, playing it much more slowly than the "Vivace non troppo" marking suggests. By contrast, Pamela Frank and Peter Serkin find a dancing lilt within the movement's lyricism, playing it faster than anyone else. Their tempo pays off particularly in the second thematic group, which sounds rhapsodic. In general, Frank and Serkin know how to shape a movement, holding back in one place so as to build something more passionate later. Bank-manager Brahmsians often ignore the composer's articulation marks, favoring an all-purpose legato. Frank and Serkin vary their articulation more. Sometimes this takes getting used to, as in the opening of the First Sonata. Ms. Frank whispers the first few notes at "half voice" as Brahms indicates; and she notices that Brahms wants the violin's second note to be detached from the first. If you learned this sonata from hearing one of the many violinists who sustain both notes fully, as if they were pouring out a thick chocolate sauce, the new recording may not sound right.
Extractions: "I am floored by the piano playing of the late Art Tatum. I just can't get enough of his records. [Dubal Interjects: "I think Horowitz also admired Tatum."] How that man could improvise! What harmonic imagination! Classically trained musicians have almost completely lost the art of improvisation. Ironically, Tatum may be in a more direct line of descent from Bach than we are. They could both improvise an eight-part fugue if they had to."
Extractions: The pianist Glenn Gould, that conflicted virtuoso, once criticized J.S. Bach's keyboard concertos for signaling ``the first tentative concessions to the emerging ego of the virtuoso.'' But pianist Peter Serkin, who performed a number of those concertos Monday at Davies Symphony Hall, managed to play without obvious finger-busting heroics and without, it seemed, a whole lot of ego. His piano lines melted into the music and the hush of the accompanying Brandenburg Ensemble, conducted by violinist Jaime Laredo. This wasn't Bach for the purist. Serkin used more than a liberal amount of pedal to create a fluid, romantic sensibility in the music. This was almost Bach played like Chopin, with great delicacy and gauzy textures. At the same time, Serkin managed for much of the concert to mine the essence of Bach the love of dance, the aching beauty of melody, the sense of falling into an out-of-time dream space in the slow movements. This was music of peace and consonance on a night when war was essentially declared by President Bush. The concert, the second half of a two-night run by Serkin and friends, began with a performance of the Concerto in A minor for Flute, Violin and Keyboard, in which Serkin was joined by soloists Laredo and Tara Helen O'Connor, who spun ripe sounds from her gold flute.
Pianist - Wikipedia A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young AndreasSchiff; Artur Schnabel; peter serkin; Rudolf serkin; Craig Sheppard; Solomon; Jean http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pianist
Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A pianist is a person who plays the piano A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble , or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Sergei Rachmaninov Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Franz Liszt Frederic Chopin , and Robert Schumann were all virtuoso pianists. Some pianists have special preferences as to which composer's music they play. Most western forms of music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of forms and styles to choose from, including
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Live! (washingtonpost.com) of the cinema, the orchestra will evoke the film biography of Beethoven in ImmortalBeloved Secret Lovers, a program featuring pianist peter serkin. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54563-2003Feb10.html
Extractions: Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley , violist Michael Tree , and cellist Peter Wiley . The Quartet's newest member, now in his second year, Peter Wiley is well-known to San Diego audiences from his appearances here as a member of the famed Beaux Arts Trio, with which he played over 1,000 performances world-wide. From its founding in 1964, the Quartet has circled the globe countless times, performing in the world's most prestigious halls in Europe, Asia, Australia, Mexico, and South and North America. In the 2000-2001 season, it was the only quartet to appear in all the major New York City venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum series, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, and the 92nd Street Y. The subject of numerous television and radio specials, documentaries and educational presentations, the Quartet has been interviewed by Charles Kuralt on CBS' Sunday Morning, and spotlighted in a full-length film, High Fidelity, released in 1989. Join us as we plan to show this fascinating movie just prior to the concert.
Breaking News American pianist peter serkin has a rich musical heritage that extends back severalgenerations his grandfather was the violinist and composer Adolf Busch http://www.arts4all.com/newsletter/breakingnews/breakingnews.asp?bb=2383&sid=13
Untitled they would seem nonetheless to be the perfect match two fabulously gifted musicians,the composer Toru Takemitsu (19301966) and pianist peter serkin (b. 1947 http://artists-in-residence.com/~ljlehrman/articles/aufbau55.html
Extractions: A generation apart, they would seem nonetheless to be the perfect match: two fabulously gifted musicians, the composer Toru Takemitsu (1930-1966) and pianist Peter Serkin (b. 1947), both self-taught in their youth, who earned the approbation of the masters in their adolescence, and went on to glittering international careers. Takemitsu took to music at age 16, when pneumonia forced him into a convalescence soothed by long hours' listening to the radio, and he decided to become a composer. Two years later he began formal studies. In 1959, Igor Stravinsky called the Tokyo-born composer's 1957 Requiem a masterpiece. Seven years later, Takemitsu created a group called Orchestral Space, in collaboration with Seiji Ozawa, currently (and for the past 24 years) music director of the Boston Symphony. By the end of his life, Takemitsu had created over 90 film scores and dozens of concert works, including no fewer than 7 for Peter Serkin. The great classical pianist Rudolf Serkin (1903-1991), founder of the Marlboro Music Festival and unexcelled in Beethoven and Brahms, refused at first to teach his son Peter the piano. Then in 1959, the twelve-year-old surprised him by learning and performing the Haydn Concerto in D at Marlboro, and the father relented. The son's career would, however, take a very different tack: Though he too would savor the repertoire of Bach (especially the Goldberg Variations), Beethoven, and Brahms (as in the wonderful joint violin-piano recital with Pamela Frank at Tilles last December, featuring Brahms's complete works for that combination of instruments), he would specialize in the works of Webern, Wolpe, Wuorinen, and pieces written for himby Berio, Goehr, Henze, Kirchner, Knussen, Lieberson and Takemitsu.
Chamber Music & Solo Performances BR1022 Alfred Genovese, Oboe, peter serkin, pianist, join David McGill,Principal Bassoonist of the Cleveland and Chicago Symphonies. http://www.bostonrecords.com/chamber.htm
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Clarinet Performances Center. He is also a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players andthe Boston Wind Octet. Biography peter serkin, pianist. Harold http://www.bostonrecords.com/clarinet.htm
Extractions: Harold Wright until his untimely death in 1995 was the Principal Clarinetist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from th 1970-71 season. Born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, he began clarinet at the age of 12. Later he entered the Curtis Institute of Music and studied with Ralph McLane, Principal Clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Wright joined the Houston Orchestra upon graduation. The following year, he became Principal Clarinetist of the Dallas Symphony and subsequently was Principal Clarinetist of the National Symphony until joining the Boston Symphony in 1970. Mr. Wright was the Principal Clarinetist of the Casals Festival Orchestra for 7 seasons and he was a participant in the Marlboro Festival with Rudolph Serkin for 17 seasons. Harold Wright was a frequent guest artist with the Lincoln Center Chamber Concerts, the Mostly Mozart Festival and the Chamber Music Concerts at the 92nd Street Y in New York. He has performed with many of the leading quartets of today - including the Guarneri, Veneer and Juillard Quartets. His many recordings include Copland Sextet, Mozart and Weber (Clarinet) Quintets, Brahms Trio, Schubert Octet and "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen" with Benita Valente and Rudolph Serkin and the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Formally a teacher at Boston University, Mr. Wright presently is a faculty member at the New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Center. He is also a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and the Boston Wind Octet.
Chamber Music Northwest 2001 Season Artists peter serkin was the first pianist to receive the Premio Internazionale MusicaleChigiana in recognition of his outstanding artistic achievement. http://www.cmnw.org/artists2001.html
Extractions: Artists of the 31st Season (2001) violin Ruggero Allifranchini Theodore Arm Ik-Hwan Bae Timothy Fain ... Arnold Steinhardt viola Hsin-Yun Huang Paul Neubauer Cynthia Phelps Steven Tenenbom cello Timothy Eddy Sophie Shao Fred Sherry Ronald Thomas double bass Barry Lieberman Edgar Meyer piano Randall Hodgkinson Anne-Marie McDermott Peter Serkin Victor Steinhardt flute Tara Helen O'Connor oboe Franck Avril Stephen Taylor Allan Vogel clarinet Marianne Gythfeldt Bil Jackson Michael Lowenstern David Shifrin bassoon Mark Eubanks Julie Feves Arthur Grossman saxophone Don Sinta horn John Cox William Purvis trumpet Chris Gekker trombone David Taylor percussion John Ferrari narrator Michele Mariana mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger ensembles American Brass Quintet Brentano Quartet conductor Bill McGlaughlin composers Bruce Adolphe Edgar Meyer Charles Wuorinen lecturer Bruce Adolphe Bill McGlaughlin David Schiff Artists Bruce Adolphe composer lecturer Bruce Adolphe The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination What to Listen for in the World , and Of Mozart, Parrots and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind: A Composer Explores Mysteries of the Musical Mind . Mr. Adolphe is the founding creative director of PollyRhythm Productions , an innovative music education company named after Adolphe's opera-and-jazz-singing parrot and devoted to the creation of educational repertoire and materials in a wide range of media for kids and their families. 6th season.
Chamber Music Northwest 2001 Summer Festival Schedule The SchönbergHaydn Project initiated by pianist peter serkin offers a fascinatingjuxtaposition of two Viennese composers, both extraordinary innovators in http://www.cmnw.org/schedule2001.html
Extractions: All three concerts are at Reed College (Kaul Auditorium) The Schönberg-Haydn Project initiated by pianist Peter Serkin offers a fascinating juxtaposition of two Viennese composers, both extraordinary innovators in the two Viennese Schools. In the first "Classical School" (1770-1830), Haydn established the classical forms of the string quartet, piano trio and symphony. In the second, 1905-1950), Schönberg used expressionism and serialism to explore new musical genres.
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Photo Gallery III 34. pianist Radu Lupu 35. pianist peter serkin 36. Singer Johnny Mathis. http://evanwilson.com/photo_gallery_iii.htm
Extractions: 1. British Tenor Ian Bostridge 2. Boulez 3. Chautaqua Conductor Dr. Nathan Gottshalk 10. Harold in Italy with L.A. Phil 11. Legendary Cab Calloway and Jerry Epstein 12. Maestro Simon Rattle 13. Pianist Mitsuko Uchida 14. Conductor Gunter Herbig 15. Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg 19. Talking music with Itzak Perlman 20. Pianist Yefim Bronfman 21. Conductor Zdenek Macal 25. Flautist James Galway 26. Maestro Eric Leinsdorf 27. Cellist Lynn Harrell, Conductor David Zinman after Don Quixote 28. Cellists Yo Yo Ma and Ron Leonard 29. Hanging out with Michael Tilson Thomas, Art Royval, John Hayhurst 30. Vocal Group Take 6 31. Pianist/ comedian Victor Borge 32.Conductor Andre Previn, cellist Yo Yo Ma 33. Conductor Sir Charles Grove 34. Pianist Radu Lupu 35. Pianist Peter Serkin 36. Singer Johnny Mathis 37. Anne Sophie Mutter, violinist 38. Trumpeter and band leader Doc Severinson 39. Conductor Claus Peter Flor TOP HOME
Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/04/2003 | Lost In Brandenburg Concertos Which is pretty much what pianist peter serkin and violinist Jaime Laredo didSunday afternoon in Verizon Hall with the Brandenburg Ensemble in five Bach http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/music/5098544.htm
Extractions: Musicians these days are allowed to wish Bach into any personality type they want. The accepted freedoms of expression on the one hand, and the discoveries of original instruments and techniques on the other, have widened the scope of available interpretive choices. But choices do need to be made. Anyone who steps out on stage now without a clear point of view risks reducing Bach to FM-radio mush. Which is pretty much what pianist Peter Serkin and violinist Jaime Laredo did Sunday afternoon in Verizon Hall with the Brandenburg Ensemble in five Bach Brandenburg concertos. Serkin is known as a thinking pianist. So with the Steinway grand, rather than an ancient instrument, and a small group of strings using enough vibrato to polish off a Beethoven symphony, it seemed the approach in the well-worn concertos would be one of those in which Bach is reclaimed as a Romantic. Perfectly legitimate. Serkin, in fact, was an expressive player - but in severely limited portions, and within a limited range.
Extractions: FAX: 212-995-4043 American violinist Pamela Frank has established an outstanding international reputation across an unusually varied range of performing activity. In addition to her extensive schedule of engagements with prestigious orchestras throughout the world and her recitals on the leading concert stages, she is regularly sought after as a chamber music partner by todays most distinguished soloists and ensembles. The breadth of this accomplishment and her consistently high level of musicianship were recognized in 1999 with the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists. Ms. Frank has appeared with such orchestras as the Baltimore Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Orchestre National de France, the Houston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the National Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the San Francisco Symphony and the Vienna Symphony. She has performed under many esteemed conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Haitink, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Leonard Slatkin and, most regularly, Yuri Temirkanov and David Zinman. She appears often at numerous festivals in Europe and the United States, including Aldeburgh, Berlin, Blossom, Bravo! Vail Valley, Caramoor, the Hollywood Bowl, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Salzburg, Tanglewood and Verbier.
Hartford Area Chamber Of Commerce - Events American pianist peter serkin is considered one of the most thoughtful and individualisticmusicians performing today, an artist of passion and integrity. http://www.quechee.com/events.cfm
Extractions: Japanese Prints at the Hood Museum of Art Hood Museum of Art Fees: Call for details The Hood Museum of Art will present Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection, an intriguing selection of sixty woodblock prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries featuring the work of such notable artists as Utagawa Kunisada, Kitagawa Utamaro, Ando Hiroshige, Suzuki Harunobu, and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. The prints depict kabuki theatre, courtesan imagery, children, landscapes, and warriors, offering insight into the Japanese popular culture of the times. Allen Hockley, Associate Professor oif Art History at Dartmouth College and curator of the exhibition, will present an opening lecture on Wednesday, March 26, at 5:30 PM in the Arthur M. Loew Auditorium. A reception will follow in the Kim Gallery. For more information:
