GUEST ARTIST RECITAL

JAMES TOCCO, Piano

Thursday, February 8, 1990 8:00p.m. in the Shepherd School Recital Hall

RICE UNIVERSITY ~rd SchOol Of Music PROGRAM

Sonata inC Major, Op. 2 No. 3 Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro con brio (1770-1827) Adagio Scherzo: Allegro Allegro assai

Three Pieces from Miroirs Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Oiseaux tristes Une barque sur l'Ocean Alborada del gracioso

Sonetto No.104 del Petrarca Franz Liszt ( 1811-1886) Mephisto - Waltz No. 1

We invite you to attend a master class with Mr. Tocco tomorrow at 5:30p.m. in the Shepherd School Recital Hall. BIOGRAPHY

Pianist JAMES TOCCO first came to international prominence by winning the Munich Competition in 1973. Since then he has enjoyed a career as recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and chamber musician that has taken him to the musical centers of Europe, the , Canada, South America, the , Japan, Australia and the Middle East. He is a frequent soloist with the world's greatest orchestras, among them the Berlin, Los Angeles, London, Munich and Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, the Chicago, Pittsburgh, London and NHK Symphony Orches­ tras, and the Orchestre de Ia Suisse Romande. He has appeared with many of today's prominent conductors, among them Christoph von Dohnanyi, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Georges Pretre, Antal Dorati, , Hugh Wolff, James Conlon and Esa-P ekka Salonen. Major festival appearances include those of Salzburg, Vienna (where he replaced the indisposed Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli), Holland and Dubrovnik. Mr. Tocco has also been featured at the Meadowbrook Music Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, Spoleto-USA Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, theLockenhaus FestivalandWolfTrap. He is increasingly sought after as a partner for chamber music with such ensembles as the Cleveland and Fine Arts Quartets, and musicians such as Miriam Fried, Gidon Kremer, Dmitri Sitkovetsky and Janos Starker. He has appeared in solo performance at the White House, and on the CBS, NBC and PBS television networks. James Tocco's discography includes the world premiere recording of the complete piano solo music of Leonard Bernstein and an album ofAaron Copland's music, both on the Pro Arte label. He has also recorded the complete preludes of Chopin, the complete piano music of Charles Tomlinson Grijfes and the four piano sonatas of Edward MacDowell for Gasparo Records. Forthcoming releases will include the complete Bach- i Liszt transcriptions, works of Busoni, Liszt and Franck, keyboard works by Handel, an album of works by 20th century American composers, and the complete solo piano works of George Gershwin. Since 1977 Mr. Tocco has been a member of the artist faculty of the 1ndiana University School of Music.