Anton Kuerti, Piano Saturday, January 30 at 8:00 Pm Visiting Artist Recital Featuring Robert Spring Convocation Hall, Arts Building with Allison Storochuk, Clarinets
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Upcoming Events; Sunday, January 17 at 7:30 pm Faculty Recital: Sylvia Shadlck-Taylor, piano. Convocation Hall, Arts Building A Celebration Concert. Admission: $10/adult, $5/student/senior New Works...New CD... Sunday, January 24 at 3:00 pm Master of Music Recital: Colin Armstrong, Convocation Hall, Arts Building choral conducting. Program will include works Free admission by Bach, Brahms, Titov and Luengen. Sunday, January 24 at 8:00 pm Faculty Recital featuring pianists Janet Scott Convocation Hall, Arts Building Hoyt(Faculty) with guest Michael Massey. Admission: $IO/adult, $S/student/senior Program to be announced. Monday, January 25 at 12:00 pm Noon-Hour Organ Recital. The recital presents Convocation Hall, Arts Building a variety of organ repertoire performed by Free admission students from the Department of Music. Friday, January 29 at 8:00 pm Music at Convocation Hall Series featuring Convocation Hall, Arts Building faculty members St^phane Lemelln (piano), Admission: $10/adult, SS/student/senior Martin RIseley (violin), and Tanya Prochazka Visiting Artist (cello). Program will include Schubert Piano Trio in E-flat and Tchaikovsky Piano Trio. Anton Kuerti, piano Saturday, January 30 at 8:00 pm Visiting Artist Recital featuring Robert Spring Convocation Hall, Arts Building with Allison Storochuk, clarinets. Program to Admission: $IO/adult, $S/student/senior be announced. m.- Wednesday,January 13,1999 Monday, February 1 at 8:00 pm Music at Noon, Convocation Hall Student Convocation Hall, Arts Building Recital Series featuring students from the at 8:00 pm Free admission Department of Music FrI. & Sat., Feb.5 & 6 at 8:00 pm The Magic ofMozart. Highlights of The Magic Convocation Hall, Arts Building Convocation Hall, Arts Building Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. University of Alberta Admission: $7/aduit, $5/student/senior Alan Ord, director. Saturday, Feb.6 at 2:00 pm Flute masterclass with Robert Aitken. Co-sponsored by the University ofAlberta Winspear Centre for Music Canadian Centrefor Austrian Participant: $40, Auditors: $10 and Central European Studies Sunday, February 7 at 8:00 pm TriBACH Concert. Robert Aitken, flute, and Convocation Hall, Arts Building Janet Scott Hoyt, piano. Program will include Admission: $10/adult, $5/student/senior works by Aitken, Fenoud, Prokofieff and Schubert. Please Note: All concerts and events are subject to change without notice. Please call 492-0601 to confirm concerts (after office hours a fr^-\JkAIuUc recorded message will inform you of any changes to our schedule). Department of Music University of Alberta i Program Pianist Anton Kuerti was bom in Austria, grew up in the USA, featuring and has lived in Canada for the last thirty years. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Newly Discovered Works Serkin. At the age of 11 he performed the Grieg Concerto with Arthur Fielder, and he was still a student when he won the by famous Leventritt Award. Carl Czerny Anton Kuerti has toured 31 countries, including Japan, the with USSR, and most European countries, and has performed with Visiting Artist most major US orchestras and conductors, such as the New York Philharmonic, National Symhony (Menuhin), Cleveland Anton Kuerti, piano Orchestra (Szell), Philadelphia Orchestra(Ormandy), and the orchestras of Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St Louis, and San Francisco. His vast repertoire features some 50 concertos, The nineteenth-century Austrian composer and teacher, Carl including one he composed himself. Czemy (1791-1857), has been well known to generations of piano students for his innumerable etudes, studies and technical In Canada Kuerti has appeared in 115 communities from coast to exercises which have been inflicted on them for almost two coast, and has played with every professional orchestra, centuries. Yet, as the pupil of Beethoven and the teacher of including 35 concerts with the Toronto Symphony. His Liszt, he was not only the transmitter of an important pianistic extensive discography includes all the Beethoven Concertos and tradition, but an imposing composer in his own right. His Sonatas, and a six-CD set of the Schubert Sonatas. pedagogical compositions have so overshadowed his more profound and serious work that much of the latter is only now slowly coming to public attention. These serious compositions presently emerging from obscurity show that Czemy did not This recital is under the distinguished patronage of lack for invention, craft or emotion, and that he was a genius of musical and pianistic creativity that should not be despised or His Excellency, Dr Walther G Lichem forgotten. Austrian Ambassador to Canada Dr Roderick C Eraser The University of Alberta's new Canadian Centre for Austrian President, University of Alberta and Central European Studies, in conjunction with the Department of Music, therefore proposes to mount a "Carl Maestro Grzegorz Nowak Czemy Intemational Symposium and Music Festival" in the Music Director, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra spring of the year 2000. The music festival will feature performances of some of the most important Czemy compositions, many as world premieres from unpublished manuscripts. The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is planning to schedule an all-Czemy concert as part of this festival. Compact discs of recordings by Anton Kuerti will be available for sale in the foyer during intermission. 25% of CD sales proceeds will go to Oxfam, Program Pianist Anton Kuerti was bom in Austria, grew up in the USA, featuring and has lived in Canada for the last thirty years. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Newly Discovered Works Serkin. At the age of 11 he performed the Grieg Concerto with Arthur Fielder, and he was still a student when he won the by famous Leventritt Award. Carl Czerny Anton Kuerti has toured 31 countries, including Japan, the with USSR, and most European countries, and has performed with Visiting Artist most major US orchestras and conductors, such as the New York Philharmonic, National Symhony (Menuhin), Cleveland Anton Kuerti, piano Orchestra (Szell), Philadelphia Orchestra(Ormandy), and the orchestras of Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St Louis, and San Francisco. His vast repertoire features some 50 concertos, The nineteenth-century Austrian composer and teacher, Carl including one he composed himself. Czemy (1791-1857), has been well known to generations of piano students for his innumerable etudes, studies and technical In Canada Kuerti has appeared in 115 communities from coast to exercises which have been inflicted on them for almost two coast, and has played with every professional orchestra, centuries. Yet, as the pupil of Beethoven and the teacher of including 35 concerts with the Toronto Symphony. His Liszt, he was not only the transmitter of an important pianistic extensive discography includes all the Beethoven Concertos and tradition, but an imposing composer in his own right. His Sonatas, and a six-CD set of the Schubert Sonatas. pedagogical compositions have so overshadowed his more profound and serious work that much of the latter is only now slowly coming to public attention. These serious compositions presently emerging from obscurity show that Czemy did not This recital is under the distinguished patronage of lack for invention, craft or emotion, and that he was a genius of musical and pianistic creativity that should not be despised or His Excellency, Dr Walther G Lichem forgotten. Austrian Ambassador to Canada Dr Roderick C Eraser The University of Alberta's new Canadian Centre for Austrian President, University of Alberta and Central European Studies, in conjunction with the Department of Music, therefore proposes to mount a "Carl Maestro Grzegorz Nowak Czemy Intemational Symposium and Music Festival" in the Music Director, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra spring of the year 2000. The music festival will feature performances of some of the most important Czemy compositions, many as world premieres from unpublished manuscripts. The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is planning to schedule an all-Czemy concert as part of this festival. Compact discs of recordings by Anton Kuerti will be available for sale in the foyer during intermission. 25% of CD sales proceeds will go to Oxfam, Upcoming Events; Sunday, January 17 at 7:30 pm Faculty Recital: Sylvia Shadlck-Taylor, piano. Convocation Hall, Arts Building A Celebration Concert. Admission: $10/adult, $5/student/senior New Works...New CD... Sunday, January 24 at 3:00 pm Master of Music Recital: Colin Armstrong, Convocation Hall, Arts Building choral conducting. Program will include works Free admission by Bach, Brahms, Titov and Luengen. Sunday, January 24 at 8:00 pm Faculty Recital featuring pianists Janet Scott Convocation Hall, Arts Building Hoyt(Faculty) with guest Michael Massey. Admission: $IO/adult, $S/student/senior Program to be announced. Monday, January 25 at 12:00 pm Noon-Hour Organ Recital. The recital presents Convocation Hall, Arts Building a variety of organ repertoire performed by Free admission students from the Department of Music. Friday, January 29 at 8:00 pm Music at Convocation Hall Series featuring Convocation Hall, Arts Building faculty members St^phane Lemelln (piano), Admission: $10/adult, SS/student/senior Martin RIseley (violin), and Tanya Prochazka Visiting Artist (cello). Program will include Schubert Piano Trio in E-flat and Tchaikovsky Piano Trio. Anton Kuerti, piano Saturday, January 30 at 8:00 pm Visiting Artist Recital featuring Robert Spring Convocation Hall, Arts Building with Allison Storochuk, clarinets. Program to Admission: $IO/adult, $S/student/senior be announced. m.- Wednesday,January 13,1999 Monday, February 1 at 8:00 pm Music at Noon, Convocation Hall Student Convocation Hall, Arts Building Recital Series featuring students from the at 8:00 pm Free admission Department of Music FrI. & Sat., Feb.5 & 6 at 8:00 pm The Magic ofMozart. Highlights of The Magic Convocation Hall, Arts Building Convocation Hall, Arts Building Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. University of Alberta Admission: $7/aduit, $5/student/senior Alan Ord, director. Saturday, Feb.6 at 2:00 pm Flute masterclass with Robert Aitken.