Pianist Marouan Benabdallah to Appear at Castleton Festival Sunday, July 24

To Perform Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3

under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel

Moroccan pianist Marouan Benabdallah will perform Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 on Sunday, July 24 at 4pm as part of the closing concert of the 2011 Castleton Festival in Rappahannock County, VA.  Lorin Maazel conducts the Castleton Festival Orchestra.  This performance follows on the heels of Mr. Benabdallah's highly acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut in New York City several weeks ago.

PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

MAROUAN BENABDALLAH, Piano

Sunday, July 24 at 4 PM

2011 Castleton Festival, Festival Tent

663 Castleton View Road, Castleton, VA

(60 miles southwest of Washington, DC)

Program:

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - Scheherazade

PROKOFIEV - Piano Concerto No. 3

PROKOFIEV - Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet

Castleton Festival Orchestra

Lorin Maazel, conductor

Tickets

$60 general admission/$20 students

To purchase tickets online, click here. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marouan Benabdallah (son of a Hungarian musician mother and a Moroccan physicist father) was born in Morocco in 1982 and had his first piano lessons when he was 4. He received his later training at the Béla Bartók Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Marouan began his international career in 2003 following his successes at both the Hungarian Radio Piano Competition and the International Piano Competition "Premi Principat d'Andorra." Recitals and concerto performances followed in Canada, France, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, India, China, and Morocco. He made his U.S. recital debut at Carnegie Hall on May 26, 2011 as part of the French Institute Alliance Française's annual World Nomads festival. Anthony Tommasini wrote in his New York Times review of the concert: "He played with rich colorings and flair, and brought tenderness to the lyrical musings and vigor to the bursts of chords and dizzying passagework." 

For more information about Mr. Benabdallah, please visit: www.marouan.org  

Mr. Benabdallah's 2011 season is generously supported by OCP (Office chérifien des phosphates), the Moroccan Phosphates Company.  

NEXT U.S. APPEARANCE:  D.C.  

Marouan Benabdallah's next US recital appearance will be presented by the Washington Performing Arts Society at the Terrace Theater of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 2 PM.  For details about Mr. Benabdallah's Washington recital debut, please visit: www.wpas.org

ABOUT THE CASTLETON FESTIVAL 

Launched in the summer of 2009, the Castleton Festival is the centerpiece program of The Chateauville Foundation, established in 1997 by Lorin and Dietlinda Maazel. The Foundation's mission is "to nurture young artists, foster collaborative artistic enterprise and create opportunities within the community for shared cultural experience." The Foundation presents artists and ensembles of the highest caliber through a regular season of a dozen or more presentations each year.

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