UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER
COLLEGE OF MUSIC MEDIA RELEASE
Faculty Tuesday Series
From Beethoven to Bernstein! 
Andrew Cooperstock, piano
March 20, 2012 
  CU-Boulder College of Music Press ReleaseFor Immediate Release  
February 29, 2012

Event:  Faculty Tuesdays
Date:  Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.
Description:  Andrew Cooperstock performs sonatas and other short works by Beethoven and Bernstein

Program:
BEETHOVEN: "Andante favori"
                         "Appasionata" Sonata, Op. 57
BERNSTEIN: Piano Sonata
                       Transcription of Copland's "El Salón Mexico"

Location:  Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th St. & Euclid Ave.
Admission:  Free and open to the public
Public Contact:  music.colorado.edu or 303-492-8008

COOPERSTOCK PERFORMS BEETHOVEN AND BERNSTEIN
ON FACULTY TUESDAY SERIES  

On Tuesday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Grusin Music Hall, Andrew Cooperstock presents a recital of works by two of the great piano composers, Beethoven and Bernstein. The program includes Beethoven's piece for solo piano, "Andante favori" along with his "Appasionata" Sonata. Bernstein's tour-de-force transcription of Copland's "El Salón México" will complete the evening. 

 

This concert is free and open to the public. Call the CU Presents Box Office at (303) 492-8008 or visit music.colorado.edu/events/faculty-tuesdays/ for more information.   

Biographies
Andrew Cooperstock

        

Heralded as a "technically impeccable and musically Andrew Cooperstockprofound" pianist, Andrew Cooperstock performs widely as soloist and chamber musician and has appeared throughout six continents and in most of the fifty states. Winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs Artist Competition and the New Orleans International Piano Competition, Andrew Cooperstock has performed at New York's Alice Tully, Merkin, and Weill concert halls. An advocate for new music, Andrew Cooperstock has premiered works by such American composers as Lowell Liebermann and Aaron Copland. He has also commissioned works by Eric Stern, Robert Starer, and Dan Welcher. He has served as juror for the New Orleans International Piano Competition, the Music Teachers National Association national competitions, the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artists Competition, the Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition, the Iowa Piano Competition, and the China National Giant Cup Art Talent Contest, among others, and he has presented master classes widely, from  

Beijing to Nice to Vladivostok.


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About the College of Music
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