Steinway
Piano Series
Artistic Director – Svetozar
Ivanov
Sponsored by The
Music Gallery
Authorized Dealer of the Steinway
& Sons Pianos
5990 Ulmerton
Rd., Clearwater, FL 33760
www.musicgalleryclearwater.com
2011-2012 season:
Grand Season Opener
Steinway Piano Series and WUSF present:
John O’Conor
Sunday, November 6, 4pm, Concert Hall
Works by Haydn, Field, Beethoven, and
Schubert
"Impeccable technique and musicality
... it would be hard to imagine better performances” - Sunday Times (London)
“…the world's premier Beethoven
interpreter” – CD Review
John O’Conor
appears by exclusive arrangement with Diane Saldick,
LLC, 225 East 36 Street, New York, NY 10016
www.dianesaldick.com
European
Fantasies
Saturday, Nov. 19, 4pm, Concert Hall – free admission
Works by J. S. Bach, Schubert, Scriabin, and
Prokofiev performed by
USF
Emerging Artists
Arthur
Greene
Sunday, December 4, 4pm, Barness Recital
Hall
The Sonatas of Alexander Scriabin
“A masterful pianist” – The New York Times
“Intoxicating appeal” – Mainichi Daily News
Cathal Breslin
Sunday, December 11, 4pm, Barness Recital Hall
Works by
Schubert-Liszt, Grainger, Philip Hammond, Prokofiev, and Chopin
“He likes to quicken his audience's
pulse...engaging musical personality" - The Irish Times
This concert
is part of the "Imagine Ireland" project -
Culture Ireland's year long
celebration of Irish Artists in America in 2011
Paul Orgel
Sunday, January 15, 4pm, Barness Recital
Hall
Works by Chopin, Dvorak, Weber, and
Schubert
“All is accomplished with
warmth and beauty of sound”
- Times-Argus
Vassily Primakov
Sunday, January 29, 4pm, Concert Hall
Works by Chopin and Liszt
“He caressed the lyrical,
elegiac passages and illuminated the spiky undertones coursing
through this theatrically high-spirited,
burlesque framework”. – The
New York Times
John Milbauer
Sunday, February 5, 4pm, Barness Recital
Hall
Works by Mozart, Ravel, Ponce, Cage, Davidovsky
"A virtuoso of the first order” - La Republique du Centre
Chantal Stigliani
Debussy and Ravel: Common and Paradox
A two-day
special seminar/master class with the renowned French musician
Monday - Tuesday, February 27 - 28, 3pm,
Barness Recital Hall – free admission
Mary
Kathleen Ernst
Sunday, March 4, 4pm, Barness Recital
Hall
Women’s Work - A program of American Music for Piano
“…total conviction, absolute
involvement, and a forceful pianism.” - Levante, Spain
Rebecca Penneys
Sunday, March 18, 4pm, Barness Recital
Hall
Works by Boulanger, Debussy, Schumann, DeFalla, and Chopin
“A sensational effect was created by the
playing of Rebecca Penneys.
She is a genius of the piano...” - Express Wieczorny,
Warsaw
Henry Kelder
Sunday, April 1, 4pm, Barness Recital
Hall
works by Liszt, Blanck, and Bortkiewicz
“An exemplary, read perfect performance,
which seems to be the most reliable
interpretation” - Dagblad vh Noorden
Two Piano, Eight Hands Extravaganza
May 20, 2pm, Barness
Recital Hall
A
light-hearted concert to end the 6th season of the Steinway Piano
Series!
This is a
program of original and arranged music for 2-Pianos, 8-Hands performed by
pianists
Rebecca Penneys, Nicola Melville, John
Milbauer and Ormi Shimron
If
you would like to become a Patron of the Steinway Piano Series,
please
contact Svetozar Ivanov:
(813) 974-2311, svetozar@usf.edu
For additional information or to purchase tickets call the arts
box office at 813-974-2323
Concerts: Advance Sales - $8 students/seniors, $12 adults; Day of
Performance - $10 students/seniors, $15 adults
University of South Florida
School of Music
4202 E. Fowler Ave, MUS 101
Tampa, FL 33620
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