Greetings!
Please join us for October 24th for an extraordinary concert by pianist José Ramos-Santana, presented as a preview of his Carnegie Recital Hall concert in New York the following week. Also: please mark your calendars for a master class with renowned pianist Emanuel Ax on November 9th! Stay tuned for the announcement of upcoming WCM concerts throughout 2010/11. Musically yours, Kathy JuddExecutive and Artistic Director |
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 José Ramos-Santana, piano
Sunday, October 24, 3 pm
Washington Conservatory of Music
One Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, MD 20816
301-320-2770 | Directionswww.washingtonconservatory.org
Free |donations accepted
 Pianist José Ramos-Santana, one of the outstanding piano faculty at The Washington Conservatory, is a native of Puerto Rico. He performs a wide and diverse repertoire, while being an acknowledged master of Spanish music. He has appeared as a soloist with such major orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, 92nd Street Y Orchestra, The New York Virtuosi, Casals Festival Orchestra, Puerto Rico Symphony, and the orchestras of New Mexico, Sioux City, Utah, and Syracuse, among others.
A top prize winner of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, he has performed extensively in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Far East. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Adele Marcus, William Masselos, and Sylvia Rabinof. He has also coached with Leon Fleisher and Alicia de Larrocha. |
Master Class with Emanuel Ax
Washington Conservatory of Music
One Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, MD 20816
Presented in cooperation with the Washington Performing Arts Society and underwritten by the Bruce and Lori Rosenblum Music Education Fund. (Please note: Washington Performing Arts Society will present Emanuel Ax in concert, Wednesday, November 10th at 8 PM at The Music Center at Strathmore. For more information, please visit www.wpas.org.)
Master Class Student Performers
Johann Wiese - Indiana University Matthew Griswold - Oberlin Conservatory
Thomas Hunter - University of Maryland
EMANUEL AX, pianist
 Born in Lvov, Poland, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada with his family when he was a young boy. His studies at the Juilliard School were supported by the sponsorship of the Epstein Scholarship Program of the Boys Clubs of America and he subsequently won the Young Concert Artists Award. Additionally, he attended Columbia University, where he majored in French. Mr. Ax captured public attention in 1974 when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975, he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists followed four years later by the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.
In recognition of the bicentenaries of Chopin and Schumann in 2010 and in partnership with London's Barbican, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony, Mr. Ax has commissioned new works from composers John Adams, Peter Lieberson, and Osvaldo Golijov for three recital programs to be presented in each of those cities with colleagues Yo-Yo Ma and Dawn Upshaw.
In addition to this large-scale project, he will tour Asia with the New York Philharmonic on their first tour with incoming Music Director Alan Gilbert and tour in Europe with both the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and James Conlon as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony with Manfred Honeck. As a regular visitor in subscription concerts he will return to Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston during the spring.
Mr. Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. Recent releases include Strauss's Enoch Arden narrated by Patrick Stewart; discs of two-piano music by Brahms and Rachmaninoff with Yefim Bronfman; and soon to be released Mendelssohn Trios with Yo-Yo- Ma and Itzhak Perlman. Mr. Ax has received Grammy awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn's piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. His other recordings include the concertos of Liszt and Schoenberg, three solo Brahms albums, an album of tangos by Astor Piazzolla, and the premiere recording of John Adams's Century Rolls with the Cleveland Orchestra for Nonesuch. In the 2004-05 season Mr. Ax also contributed to an International Emmy award-winning BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
In recent years, Mr. Ax has turned his attention toward the music of 20th-century composers, premiering works by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bright Sheng, and Melinda Wagner. Mr. Ax is also devoted to chamber music, and has worked regularly with such artists as Young Uck Kim, Cho-Liang Lin, Mr. Ma, Edgar Meyer, Peter Serkin, Jaime Laredo, and the late Isaac Stern.
Mr. Ax is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia Universities. |
Who We Are
The Washington Conservatory is a nationally accredited community music school that serves the greater Metropolitan DC and Bethesda area from two sites: Westmoreland Circle in Bethesda, MD (the border of the District of Columbia and Maryland) and in Glen Echo Park, in Glen Echo, MD. With our exceptional international artist faculty, we offer a personal approach to music for young children, teens, and adults. No audition required. Lessons on all instruments, including voice - ensembles - jazz - early childhood classes - and much more. For lesson information: www.washingtonconservatory.org
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