I just returned from having spent an afternoon at the Fall for the Arts Festival, sponsored by the Knight Foundation and the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts. Over 100 arts organizations of all sizes and forms were presenting themselves. It was a hot, muggy day with an impending thunderstorm, and the place (parking lot, really) was packed with people. Who says people are not interested in the Arts!
I would like to encourage you to be involved with the Dranoff - come to our concerts, bring your friends, share the newsletters with your circle. Sponsor events, underwrite specific parts of what we do. Consider the Dranoff 100. Join our growing family. Show your interest in our Arts!
Gabriele Fiorentino
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CONTENT
| 2010/2011 SEASON...calendar
THE DRANOFF BOARD...meet us
EVENTS AND CONCERTS....read more
NEWS ...read more
LISTEN - to music read e
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 2010/2011 DRANOFF SEASON
OCTOBER 23
"Land, Sea, Sky"
Percussion and Two Pianos, Duo Stephanie & Saar (New York) with the New World Symphony, Lincoln Theater, Miami Beach.
Dedicated to the director of the European Space Center, Maderna's hip Serenata pays homage to the emergence and disappearance of satellites using a mandolin. It's a musical choose-your-own-adventure as Boucourechliev's Archipel I surrenders itself to the interpretation of the performer. With a hearty and mysterious blend of instruments and electronic sounds, Nicolaou's Navigate is sure to wow you in its U.S. premiere. Ms. Ho and Mr. Ahuvia appear in collaboration with The Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation.Purchase tickets at NWS.
NOVEMBER 4
"New Music for Hammer & Strings" with Duo Seo & Kato (Japan) with the Bergonzi Quartet, 4141 Buliding, Design District, Miami.
This is our second collaboration with the Bergonzi String Quartet. The concert will be of three parts: a duo piano part, a quartet part, and finally the performance of Jerome Moross's Quintet for Piano and String Quartet. The duo piano program will include Berio, Zimmermann, Ravel and Bernstein. More to follow later.
VIP reception following.
FEBRUARY 16
"Mostly Schubert" with Duo d'Accord (Germany) and Frank Levy. University of Miami Gusmann Hall, Coral Gables. The first half of the concert will
present the Duo d'Accord, Lucia Huang and Sebastian Euler (Germany), and in the second half the Julliard scholar and Schubert specialist, Frank
Levy, in an evening of romantic music.
VIP reception following.
MAY 4
"Piano Slam Vol 3", Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts, Miami. This third issue of Piano Slam will bring the Duo Stephanie and Saar back to Miami, to play with a DJ, spoken word artists, and public school poets in a production directed by Theo Castellanos. VIP reception following.
For the Dranoff 100 members: there will be 4-6 Salon concerts. Please look for your email updates. If you are not a Dranoff 100 member but are interested, you can find out more on our website
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THE DRANOFF BOARD
We have not even sent out the PR release about our new board member, so you read it here first:
Nina Cohen, our newest Executive Board member, just joined our growing board.
A common thread found
throughout Nina's background and life in South Florida has been her love
of
music. With musical tastes that
run the gamut from opera to salsa to classical to jazz, she recognizes
and takes
advantage of the incredible offering of music found in our community.
It is this musical passion that has led
her to the Dranoff organization.
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For the past 5 years Nina
Cohen has established a reputation as a successful marketing consultant and
strategic planner to a number of high profile clients in South Florida. Among those companies are the Greater
Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, Miami International Airport and the
Yachts of Seabourn.
Prior to becoming a
full-time consultant Nina was a successful corporate executive holding senior
positions with a number of international companies; BBDO International, Costa
Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line and Miami Air
International.
Welcome aboard!
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CONCERTS
| It is our mission to broaden interest in this ensemble music form, therefore we include in this calendar not only to Dranoff artists. Of course, we focus on the careers of Dranoff winners, even if they perform as soloists.
United StatesOctober 30 - Miami, Florida, Duo Hesse & Pauna. (South Africa) The Weltklassik Goes Grand Piano Series at the Presbyterian Church on Key Biscayne, 160 Harbor Drive. Purchase tickets at WeltklassikOctober 15-18, NC State. Svetlana Smolina (of the Duo Smolina Mogilvskiy) Chopin FestivalNovember 14 -16, Sarasota, Ringling Museum of Art. Svetlana Smolina. Chopin's EuropeGermanyOctober 2 - Erfurt, Schloss Molsdorf, Duo Humburger. Works for 4 hands. November 18 - Soltau, Bibliothek Waldmuehle. Duo Humburger. Mendelsohn, Schubert, Brahms, Ravel, Wagner. Humburger websiteHollandSeptember 17 - Leiden, Jeroen Van Veen September 24 - 26 Culemborg, Jeroen Van Veen October 10 - Amsterdam, Canto Ostinato, Jeroen Van Veen Please go to Jeroen Van Veen websiteRussiaSeptember 7 - Kiev, Two Piano Festival. Duo IM Piano. October 13 - Moscow, International Performing Arts Center Chamber Hall, "Le Carnaval Francais". Duo IM Piano. October 24 - Moscow, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic. Duo IM Piano. November 6 - Moscow, XVIII Festival Art-November, Zvetaeva Museum. Duo IM Piano. Irina Silivanova and Maxim Puryzhinskiy are the IM Piano DuoJapanSeptember 18 - Osaka,Sarada Hall, Duo Deu'or September 23 - Fukushima, Mahora, Duo Deu'or September 25 - Kyoto, Barock Saal, Duo Deu'or October 7 - Tokyo, Tsuda Hall, Duo Deu'or October 15 - Mie, Prefecture Fine Arts Center, Duo Deu'or October 17 - Kyoto, Asny Hall, Duo Deu'or Ocober 22 - Miyazaki, Nobeoka Sogo Bunka Center, Duo Deu'or Please go to Duo Deu'or websiteOctober 22 - Tokyo, Opera City, Works by Ravel, Schumann, Massamuto, Brahms. Shinishiro Kato and Kuni Seo are Duo Seo and Kato
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NEWS
Susan and Sarah Wang - Silver Medal winners in the 2008 Dranoff competition - placed third in the ARD International competition in the subcategory Duo Piano. Congratulations!
Here is the link to the ARD Competition Website.
Maarten Van Veen presents the 2010 Hortus festival, themed "MISIA, the Muse" around the relationship of Coco Chanel, Igor Stravinsky and Misia Sert. Hortus Festival link
Olha Chipak and Oleksiy Kushnir have just issued two new productions: their first son, Julian, and a new CD. The latter is available through their distributor in Germany, Classic Concert.
I would also like to direct you to a great website for lovers of the piano world:The Magnificent Piano
And finally, I believe it is alright to announce that Vincenzo de Stefano, of the Duo de Stefano, is engaged! He just published it on Facebook.
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LISTEN
Duo Per Tengstrand and Shan-Shan Sun play Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos D Major, K. 448; listen to the Andante
Shinishiro Kato and Kuni Seo are playing Tomohiro Moriyama's "Let's play a duet"
Lucia Huang and Sebastion Euler's - Duo d'Accord - new CD is called "Schoenere Welten", music by Franz Schubert for 4 hands. Here is a link to Franz Schubert, Rondo A-Dur D 951 . Their website: Duo d'Accord
Duo Longford Brown, James Longford and Lindy Brown, playing Arnold Bax, Moy Mell, an Irish tone poem
Duo Oleksiy Kushnir and Olha Chipak have various teasers on their website: Duo Chipak-Kushnir
Duo Turgeon - Ed and Anne Luise - from their winning performance in the 1997 Competition: Light, from Chiarascuro by John Corigliano
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About The Dranoff
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The Dranoff was founded in 1987 with the mission to advance two piano music and its artists. Since then, we have contributed 11 new compositions to the literature, and have been a career stepping stone for dozens of piano duos worldwide.
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