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Datebook
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Jan. 13 & 14: Montreal
Stefan Jackiw
Montreal Symphony
Mendelssohn: Violin Cto.
Jan 15,16,17: Houston
Kirill Gerstein
Houston Symphony
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Ravel Cto. in G major
Jan. 17: New York, NY
Inon Barnatan
Le Poisson Rouge
Jan. 18: New York, NY
Joshua Roman
Le Poisson Rouge
Aaron Jay Kernis 50th birthday
Jan. 21 & 22: La Coruna & Vigo, Spain
Kirill Gerstein
Royal Philharmonic
Rachmaninoff: Piano Cto. 2
Jan. 23: New York, NY
Inon Barnatan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mendelssohn with Shanghai Quartet
Jan. 24 & 25: St. Pölten & Vienna, Austria
Kirill Gerstein
WDR Sinfonie-Orch. Köln
Mendelssohn: Piano Cto. 1
Jan. 26: Cleveland
Inon Barnatan
Cleveland Institute of Music
Recital with Alisa Weilerstein
Jan. 28 & 30: Santander, Spain
James Valenti
Palacio Festivales de Cantabria
La bohčme with Cristina Gallardo-Domas
Jan 29: Gstaad, Switzerland
Kirill Gerstein
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Mendelssohn: Piano Cto. 1
Jan. 29-31: Ontario
Stefan Jackiw
Kitchener Waterloo Sym.
Tchaikovsky: Violin Cto. in D
Feb. 3: Baltimore
Joshua Roman
Mobtown Modern: Music of Alexandra Gardner
Feb. 4: St. Thomas
Inon Barnatan
Recital with Alisa Weilerstein
Feb. 6: Baltimore
Stefan Jackiw
Peabody Conservatory
Chamber music with Tessera Quartet
Feb. 6: Washington, DC
Inon Barnatan
Washington Performing Arts Society recital with Alisa Weilerstein
Feb. 6-7: Memphis
Kirill Gerstein
Memphis Symphony
Rachmaninoff: Piano Cto. 2
Feb. 7-22: Chicago
Suanna Phillips
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Donizetti's Elixir of Love (Adina)
Feb. 9: Seattle
Brooklyn Rider
Town Hall
Feb. 10 - 12: Irvine & La Jolla; Albuquerque
Brooklyn Rider
Irvine Barclay Theater, The Loft@UCSD,
The Andaluz Hotel Ballroom
Feb 11, 12: Czech Republic
Kirill Gerstein
Brno State Philharmonic
Rachmaninoff: Piano Cto. 2
Feb. 11 & 13: Seattle
Stefan Jackiw
Seattle Symphony
Barber: Violin Concerto
Feb. 12: Amsterdam
Inon Barnatan
Concertgebouw concert with Rubens Quartet
Feb. 12-March 23: London
Pablo Heras-Casado
English National Opera
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore
Feb. 14: River Forest, IL
Brooklyn Rider
Dominican University PAC
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About 21C Artists To Watch
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21C Artists To Watch is an image- and awareness-building
program for artists on the brink of major careers in classical music.
Each month, 21C Media Group publishes an e-newsletter profiling several
members of this select group and highlighting their recent and upcoming
activities. Read past newsletters here.
For inquires regarding any of 21C Artists To Watch, please contact:
Wende Persons
Program Director
21C Media Group
ph (917) 691-1282
click here to e-mail
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Kirill Gerstein receives 2010 Gilmore Artist Award
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 The New York Times broke the story last week that Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein is the recipient of the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award. Only the sixth musician to have been so honored, Gerstein receives the award that is given to an exceptional pianist who, regardless of age or nationality, possesses broad and profound musicianship and charisma, and who desires and can sustain a career as a major international concert artist. Previous recipients are Ingrid Fliter (2006), Piotr Anderszewski (2002), Leif Ove Andsnes (1998), Ralf Gothóni (1994), and David Owen Norris (1991).
Times reporter Daniel J. Wakin wrote in his extensive feature: "Mr. Gerstein is the latest winner of one of the arts world's great windfalls: the $300,000 Gilmore Artist Award, given every four years to an unsuspecting pianist... The award is music's answer to the MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grants." Read more
Daniel R. Gustin, Director of the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, stated: "Over the past ten years we have observed Kirill Gerstein develop into one of the most compelling and profound musical artists of his generation. He is the epitome of what we seek in the Gilmore Artist - a musical thinker and performer who will continue growing and who can, and we believe will, attain a career as a major concert pianist for the 21st Century."
At the Gilmore Festival, the 30-year-old pianist will give a solo recital on May 3, a master class on May 5, and play two concertos with the Kalamazoo Symphony on May 8. Upcoming highlights include "combo" performances of Ravel's G major Concerto and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Houston Symphony this weekend; debuts with the Chicago and Atlanta symphonies in March; and Gerstein's Boston Symphony debut at Tanglewood in July.
Listen to Gerstein perform two excerpts from his July 2009 Verbier Festival recital.
For more information, visit KirillGerstein.com or CM Artists web site. |
Brooklyn Rider releases third album
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 This week, the adventurous, genre-blending string quartet Brooklyn Rider is announcing the release of Dominant Curve on In a Circle Records. Following the critically acclaimed 2008 recordings Passport (also for In a Circle) and Silent City with Persian kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor (World Village/Harmonia Mundi), Dominant Curve charts a new direction for the ensemble. It celebrates the pioneering vision of Claude Debussy and his ongoing influence on music today. Centered on a fresh and vivid interpretation of Debussy's String Quartet in G minor, Dominant Curve includes four like-minded works created for Brooklyn Rider within the past year by Kojiro Umezaki (Japan), Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (Uzbekistan), Justin Messina (in the New York-based composer's electro-acoustic arrangement of John Cage's 1948 In a Landscape) and Brooklyn Rider violinist Colin Jacobsen.
"We see the combination of pieces on this recording as a dominant curve," says violinist Johnny Gandelsman, who is also founder of the In a Circle label. "Debussy's bold visions continue to set amazing creative energies in motion." Jacobsen concurs: "We like to juxtapose things that we think make sense together or illuminate each other. They may be from seemingly disparate cultures, but there are often incredible connections."
Read the press release and listen to excerpts from the new album. Click here to request the CD for review.
For more information, visit Brooklyn Rider.com and Opus 3 Artists. |
Inon Barnatan plays up & downtown
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 This month pianist Inon Barnatan is making appearances at three different NYC venues. On January 10 he participated in the star-studded America-Israel Cultural Foundation Gala at Carnegie Hall. This weekend he is sharing an evening downtown with the Amsterdam-based electronic pop duo Controllar at the multimedia art café Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village. The program fuses poetry of T.S. Eliot, Samuel Coleridge and others with music of Dowland, Ravel, Thomas Adčs and Gregory Spears.
Mendelssohn is the main event for Barnatan's January 23 concert uptown with the Shanghai Quartet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Seeking Mendelssohn: Lost Works & Found Treasures" will showcase rarities by the 200-year-old composer. Barnatan will play the world premiere of a rare edition of Songs without Words, Op. 19, No. 2 - a Mendelssohn autograph from Horowitz's personal library, as well as two other U.S. premieres. WQXR's Elliott Forrest hosts a pre-concert panel discussion.
Upcoming highlights for the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner include a solo recital at London's Wigmore Hall in May and his Philadelphia Orchestra debut this summer at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.
For more information, visit InonBarnatan.com or the Opus 3 Artists web site.
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21C Artists To Watch in the news
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Symphony magazine - Heidi Waleson - Jan/Feb 2010 (Stefan Jackiw & Inon Barnatan): "Extra Credit" feature on how today's emerging artists are increasingly vital to the presentation of classical music.
Birmingham News - Michael Huebner - 12/31/09 (Susanna Phillips review): "It was the voice of soprano Susanna Phillips that lit up the Alabama Theatre brighter than the ball in Times Square... Phillips is, simply, an extraordinary talent."
Seattle Weekly - Gavin Borchert - 12/29/09 (Joshua Roman): 2009 "Moments to Remember" - premiere of David Stock's Cello Concerto tops list; "Most memorable is the electrifying solo cadenza right before this finale, with Roman - who can not only play anything but sell anything - scampering up and down his instrument."
Saint Paul Pioneer Press - Ron Hubbard - 12/28/09 (Kirill Gerstein): Best of 2009 Classical Concerts - debut with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; "'Spectacular' is an appropriate word for Gerstein's performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto."
Ionarts - Charles T. Downey - 12/24/09 (Susanna Phillips):
"Top 10 Live Performances of 2009" (D.C.) - "An exceptionally beautiful recital... Those in attendance received a preview of the delectable program of songs Phillips will present later this month at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall."
Korea Times - 12/15/09 (Stefan Jackiw feature): Sony Asia CD release of the Brahms Sonatas: "'Stefan has a young violinist's fire and energy but also maturity, rare depth and understanding,' said pianist Max Levinson."
Seen and Heard International - Jeffrey Edelstein - Nov. 2009 (Inon Barnatan review): "In a rewarding effort, Inon Barnatan, an impressive young pianist and curator of the three-concert series 'Schubert Ascending' devoted to music from the composer's last year, unlocks the sideboard and hands the fine crystal to his guests."
Detroit Free Press - Mark Stryker - 10/23/09 (Kirill Gerstein review): "The big news was Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein's charismatic reading of Rachmaninoff's technically demanding Third Piano Concerto, one of the most famous knuckle-busters in the repertoire."
NPR's Best Classical CDs of 2008 (on Brooklyn Rider's previous CD, Passport): "This wildly eclectic CD reflects its members' omnivorous tastes... Brooklyn Rider is recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble."
Photos: Marco Borggreve (Gerstein, Barnatan); CD art: Lennie Peterson (Brooklyn Rider)
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