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Extractions: Tell me more privacy The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents the world premiere performance of New Zealand composer; Jack Body's commission dedicated to Carmen Rupe. This tribute to the life and personality of Carmen, transgender pioneer, featuring Australian guitarist, Slava Gregoryian, will be performed in Wellington and Auckland only as part of the final NZSO subscription nation-wide tour during October and November.
NZSO Plays Up A Storm In 2004 the NZSO in 1994, stephen kovacevich, who took 2002 Gramophone Awardwinner stephenHough performing pianist stephen Gosling, will premiere John Psathas Piano http://www.artscalendar.co.nz/article/435/
Extractions: season with a mix of music from the 18th to the 21st century, plus a new look. It embraces some of the world's best including, fast-rising New Zealand singer Jonathan Lemalu Lang Lang , one of the most exciting pianists of our time, and Hilary Hahn who has recently been hailed as 'America's Best Young Classical Musician'.
Extractions: Home Listen Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Artist: Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Album: Schubert: Piano Sonata No.21 etc. Cat. #: Discs: Label: EMI Usually ships: 2 - 4 days Normally: NZD OpusCDs Price: NZD Qty: Stepeh Kovacevich was born in Los Angeles in 1940 and studied with Lev Schorr and later Myra Hess. He made his reputation as a most unshowy virtuoso pianist with a busy recording schedule and a successful international concert career. Nowadays he tends to concentrate on his preferred composers (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin) and brings to their music a wealth of experience and depth of understanding. Disc 1: Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat, D960
Extractions: Total time: 63:24 Genre: Classical Content: Stereo/Multichannel Media: Hybrid Recording type: Analogue Recording info: Recorded in London (Wembley), Brent Town Hall - December 1974 add to recommendations add to wish list start discussion report errors Related titles: Beethoven/Mendelssohn: Symphonies - Davis Buy now from... amazon.ca amazon.co.uk amazon.com amazon.de CD Universe Reviews: add review Review by madisonears October 12, 2003 Performance: Sonics: My first Pentatone disc, and I'm happy to report it's a winner in every respect. Sound is open, three dimensional and transparent, with smooth string tones and the customary Philips weight to the bottom end. The piano is nearly perfect, with just the right balance between percussiveness and sonority, at the proper proportion to the orchestra. This is nearly the finest piano tone I have heard yet on any SACD, and really shows up some DSD recordings which feature metallic ringing overtones. Performance is excellent, as well. Neither prissy nor overwrought, it seems to be exactly between classical and romantic in nature, which is historically appropriate. One can hear Mozart's influenece in the earlier concerto, yet hear Beethoven's powerful creativity emerging with full force in the later one.
The Classical Station: CD Reviews Beethoven Piano Sonatas (stephen kovacevich, pianist); EMI Classics/2001.by Mark Calder. stephen kovacevich is an accomplished pianist http://140.239.61.3/cgi-bin/univ/univ.pl?page=mc_reviews.html&station=wcrb
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Yoel Levi conductor stephen kovacevich piano MOZART Symphony No a colourful Frenchoverture, a lively SaintSaens concerto with star pianist stephen Hough, and http://www.nzso.co.nz/2004subs.htm
Extractions: Friday April 23 at 6:30pm (Series 1) Music Director James Judd opens The 2004 Season with soprano Margaret Medlyn and some of the most heart-rending music ever written. Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs , which are perfectly complemented by Mahler's large-scale and thrilling Seventh Symphony. James Judd conductor Saturday April 24 at 8pm (Series 2) This concert opens with Norway's captivating 'folk tales in music' followed by the world premiere of leading NZ composer John Psathas' piano concerto. There's a tempting brief encounter introduced by Maestro Judd before the night's highlight - Brahms' magnificent Third Symphony.
Pianist (under construction) pianist,Year, Nationality, Note. Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937, stephen kovacevich, 1940-, http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~jhwang/music/pianist.html
Hough, Stephen At Edifying Spectacle It is the equal of kovacevich s interpretation, though MacDowell Price $9.98 CustomerReview Spectacular pianist. stephen Hough takes technique to a new level http://edifyingspectacle.org/thanks/type_browse/mode_49125/
Extractions: Hough, Stephen Edifying Spectacle Thanks for helping, Richard Home Music Styles Classical ... ( H ) / Hough, Stephen Search All categories Baby Books Classical Music DVD Electronics Kitchen Magazines Office Products Popular Music Computers Software Toys Videos Video Games Cell Phones Books, Music, DVD Books I was privileged to hear Stephen Hough play Hummel's Piano Sonata in F sharp minor last year, and his performance made a deep impression on me and so led to my purchase of this CD. Hummel is one of those composers who have been unjustly neglected after his death. Much of the credit for the new... more info Customer Rating: Just as the Gilels/Jochum interpretation was "the" interpretation for the last generation, so the Hough/Davis recording is "the" version of this generation. Where Gilels is rumative and reflective, Hough is bold and incisive. Where Gilels is philosophical and human, Hough is leonine and direct. I... more info Customer Rating:
Pianist A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young WilhelmKempff; Olga Kern; Evgeny Kissin; stephen kovacevich; Katia Lab?ue; Marielle http://www.wikisearch.net/en/wikipedia/p/pi/pianist.html
Extractions: Main Page Also see: A pianist is a person who plays the piano A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble , or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists. A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Liszt Frederic Chopin ... Robert Schumann , and Sergei Rachmaninov were all virtuoso pianists. Some pianists have special preferences as to which composer's music they play. Most western forms of music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of forms and styles to choose from, including jazz classical music , and all sorts of popular music Well-known or influential classical pianists: Martha Argerich Claudio Arrau Vladimir Ashkenazy Gina Bachauer Wilhelm Backhaus Daniel Barenboim Simon Barere Bart Berman Boris Berman Idil Biret Jorge Bolet Alfred Brendel Ferrucio Busoni Bruno Canino Robert Casadesus Shura Cherkassky Dino Ciani Aldo Ciccolini Van Cliburn Harriet Cohen Jean-Philippe Collard Alfred Cortot Clifford Curzon Georges Cziffra Bella Davidovich Alicia de Larrocha Vasso Devetsi Peter Donohoe Barry Douglas Hans Eijsackers Vladimir Feltsmann Annie Fischer Edwin Fischer Leon Fleischer
Bishop En Davis: één Met Brahms De samenwerking tussen de pianist stephen Bishopkovacevich en de dirigent ColinDavis in de zeventiger jaren heeft geleid tot opnames waar de Penguin CD-Guide http://www.nopapers.nl/km/muz2/1/muze0167.html
Extractions: Bishop veroorlooft zichzelf niet veel met betrekking tot temposchommelingen en andere vrijheden. Overigens kan bij de introverte indruk die hij mede daardoor wekt, zeker in dit eerste deel, de opname een rol spelen. De registratie is aan de timide kant en van Bishops gebruikelijke expressiviteit gaat het een en ander verloren in de enigszins benepen pianoklank. Eigenlijk wordt de pianist niet helemaal recht gedaan. De klank is overigens niet steeds onder de maat: tegen het einde van het eerste deel lijkt het geheel aan kracht en openheid te winnen. De opname is dus op de eerste plaats aan de onevenwichtige kant. Het fraaie tweede deel, waarin Brahms zijn overleden vriend Schumann herdacht, wordt wonderlijk mooi gespeeld. Ook hier doet de opname de musici iets te kort, maar bijvoorbeeld het zachte fluitspel staat er weer heel goed op. Wederom is het heilig ontzag van de uitvoerenden voor deze muziek hoorbaar. Juist in een van de glasheldere passages met fluit is er een moment dat er een hoge noot voor het einde van zijn duur verstikt. Nooit eerder heb ik zo'n mooie fout gehoord. Dit is, wat de Engelsen noemen, "live music making". Het is musiceren op het scherpst van de snede. Het Rondo laat Bishop en Davis op hun best horen. Net als in het eerste deel wordt er gespeeld in een bijna uitzonderlijk hoog tempo. Nergens wordt er ingehouden, en het welhaast Hongaarse dans-karakter is hier nog sterker aanwezig. Wie hier naar luistert, moet maar niet letten op de schelle opnameklank en het smalle orkestbeeld: men krijgt er voldoende in muziek voor terug. Ik heb de laatste tijd heel wat opnames gehoord van Brahms' eerste pianoconcert, maar nergens wordt er met een zo volkomen inzet gespeeld als hier. Bishop en Davis doen meer dan alleen Brahms spelen, ze herscheppen zijn muziek in de meest volstrekte zin van het woord. Bishops toegift, de Rhapsodie in b mineur, opus 79 nr.1, sluit mooi aan op het concert, naar keuze en naar speelwijze. De opname is van zeven jaar later en klinkt iets beter dan de voorgaande.
Artist Recital Tickets Series. The fourevent season includes Apollos Fire; Steven Isserlis,cello; the Lanier Trio; and pianist stephen kovacevich. A http://www.oberlin.edu/thedance/press/00-01/artist_recital_tickets_pr.htm
Oberlin Online Past Stories: April 9-15, 2001 Tuesday $5 Student Rush Tickets Available for pianist stephen kovacevich April 10Concert pianist stephen kovacevich, renowned for his radical interpretations http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/weeks/april9-15_2001.html
Extractions: What started as a Winter Term project ended as an award-winning experience for two art students. Brie Abbe and Pauline Shapiro submitted photographs they took over Winter Term to the Fireland's Association for Visual Arts (FAVA) annual photography show, and each won an award. One of Abbe's photographs also won a purchase prize in a competition sponsored by the Ohio Art League and was donated to the Columbus Museum of Art. She received the League's Bosco Award for her entry. Monday: Black River Theater Company to Hold Auditions for Twelfth Night
Stephen Montague worked as a freelance composer, conductor and pianist based in Gutman, Marc-AndréHamelin, Rolf Hind, Julian Jacobson, stephen kovacevich, Joanna MacGregor http://composers21.com/compdocs/montagus.htm
Extractions: he Living Composers Project Montague Stephen (b. March 10, 1943, Syracuse, New York). American-born British composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, piano, and electroacoustic works that have been performed by major ensembles worldwide; he is also a pianist and active conductor. Mr. Montague spent his early years in the USA, but has lived in Europe since 1972 and in the UK since 1974. He was an Associate of Arts at St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida in 1964 and earned a BMus in piano (with honors) at Florida State University in 1965. He then received a Certificate in Conducting from the Salzburg Mozarteum in 1966, earned his MMus in theory and analysis at Florida State University in 1967 and a DMA in composition at Ohio State University in 1972. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant in 1972 for work in electronic music at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire. In addition, he was a Fulbright Fellow in composition at the Warsaw Music Academy and the Experimental Music Studio of Polish Radio (1972-74). He has received numerous awards, including the London Dance and Performance Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Music (1988) and First Prize at the Concours International de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges for his String Quartet No in memoriam Barry Anderson and Tomasz Sikorski In 1995, he received the Ernst von Dohnányi Citation for Excellence in Composition (USA), and in 1996, received the Distinction Award from the Ars Electronica Prix in Linz for the same quartet as above and was named to the Composers Hall of Fame by
The Music Show - 24/06/2000: Saturday 24thJune , 2000 THE MUSIC SHOW 24/6/2000 THEME PERPETUUM MOBILE JEFFES Penguin Cafe OrchestraSIGNS OF LIFE EEGCD 50 2.30 GUESTS stephen kovacevich, pianist Truls Mork http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/mshow/s143266.htm
French Culture | Music : People : Emmanuel Pahud: Discography violist Hariolf Schlichtig and cellist JeanGuihen Queyras, and a disk of works byDebussy, Prokofiev and Ravel with pianist stephen kovacevich, mezzo-soprano http://www.frenchculture.org/music/people/pahud/disco.html
Extractions: Discography Introduction Emmanuel Pahud has an exclusive contract with EMI Classics covering concerto, recital, chamber, and cross-over projects. He has made recordings of repertoire ranging from Haydn to Dutilleux and Messiaen. Mr. Pahud's first disk for EMI Classics, which features the two Mozart flute concertos and the composer's Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic, received the Diapason d'Or "CD of the Year," a Fono-Forum award, and the "Gaijitsu" award from the Japanese recording industry as the year's favorite recording. The disk was also voted the favorite recording in a 1997 Radio France listeners' poll His other EMI recordings include "Paris!", a collection of twentieth-century French works by Poulenc, Dutilleux, Ibert, Milhaud, Messiaen, Sancan and Jolivet, with pianist Eric Le Sage, and a disk of flute concertos and scherzandos by Joseph and Michael Haydn with the Haydn-Ensemble Berlin. Mr. Pahud has also recorded several tracks on a Teldec disk of Brazilian music "Brazilian Rhapsody" with pianist Daniel Barenboim and several Brazilian musicians, which was released in May 2000. In autumn 2000, he will be recording works by J.S. Bach with the Berliner Barock Solisten.
Extractions: BM '65, MM '67 MU Dr. Montague received a doctorate from Ohio State University(DM '72) and won a Fulbright Fellowship to work in Warsaw, Poland, 1982-74. From Poland he went to England first as a musician with Strider Dance Co., but since 1975 has worked as a freelance composer based in London but touring world-wide. His music has been widely performed, featuring in numerous international festivals including the BBC Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall (London), Warsaw Autumn Festival, Paris Festival d'automne, Singapore, Hong Kong and The Kennedy Center (Washington DC). Major commissions have included a piano concert for the BBC Proms, Hilliard Ensemble, pianist Stephen Kovacevich, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, International Computer Music Association, and a 35 minute work for narrator and orchestra for the BT Celebration Series premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, London with a further 14 performances by other leading British orchestras throughout the British Isle. Stephen Montague was a founder of Sonic Arts Network (UK), Chair of the Society for the Promotion of New Music, 1993-97 (UK), and Artistic Director, 1998-99. He was Associate Composer with The Orchestra of St. Johns, London 1995-97, Featured Composer for the City of Oxford, 1997-98 and Festival Composer for the Cambridge Music Festival 2000, UK. He was a guest professor at the University of Texas-Austin, 1992, 1995, 2000 and at University of Auckland, NZ, 1997. He is a Featured Composer at the Montpellier Festival, France, 2001. He was awarded the FSU Ernest von Dohnanyi Faculty Citation for Excellence in Composition in 1995.
American Composers Forum include the Royal Festival Hall (London), Aldeburgh Festival (UK), Hilliard Ensemble,percussionist Evelyn Glennie, pianist stephen kovacevich and the BT http://www.composersforum.org/member_profile.cfm?oid=2741
Scoop: NZSO Listings - July - September 2004 Yoel Levi conductor stephen kovacevich piano MOZART Symphony No 35 Haffner BEETHOVEN theastonishing talent and musicianship of the young pianist, Lang Lang http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0405/S00113.htm
Extractions: Press Release: NZ Symphony Orchestra Listings - July - September 2004 New Zealand Sympony Orchestra Subscription Tour 3 Friday 18 June, 6.30pm MICHAEL FOWLER CENTRE WELLINGTON Friday 2 July, 6.30pm TOWN HALL AUCKLAND Yoel Levi returns with one of the year's most dramatic programmes - two vivid Russian works separated by sorbet - Mendelssohn's highly enjoyable piano concerto. Even the gothic soundscape of one of Mussorgsky's best-known works is surpassed by the immense, unforgettable score of Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony. Yoel Levi conductor Diedre Irons piano MUSSORGSKY Night on the Bare Mountain MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto in G Minor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 'The Year 1905' Thursday 24 June at 8.00pm REGENT ON BROADWAY PALMERSTON N'TH Conductor Yoel Levi presents a concert of music from the heart of the repertoire. Mozart's delightful Haffner Symphony heralds a highly enjoyable Mendelssohn piano concerto, the gothic soundscape of Mussorgsky and the Romantic world of Robert Schumann. Yoel Levi conductor Diedre Irons piano MOZART Symphony No 35 Haffner MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto in G Minor MUSSORGSKY Night on the Bare Mountain SCHUMANN Symphony No 1 Friday 25 June, 8pm MUNICIPAL THEATRE HAWKE'S BAY Saturday 26 June, 8pm MICHAEL FOWLER CENTRE WELLINGTON Thursday 1 July, 8pm FOUNDERS THEATRE HAMILTON Saturday 3 July, 8pm TOWN HALL AUCKLAND
Rulas Romantic Revealing Role (from Croydon Guardian) The London Mozart Players will be in the masterful hands of distinguished LondonbasedAmerican pianist and conductor stephen kovacevich for their Croydon http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/leisure/music/display.var.480023.0.rulas_romant
Extractions: Part of the thisisLOCAL LONDON network ... Weather Leisure Croydon Champions Competitions Best Bar None Bar news ... Back to index Stephen Kovaceviche The London Mozart Players will be in the masterful hands of distinguished London-based American pianist and conductor Stephen Kovacevich for their Croydon concert, on April 24, at 8pm. The programme will feature Kovacevich playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No1. Kovacevich has enjoyed a glittering career and is a recognised authority on the music of Brahms and Beethoven. The programme begins with Mozart's Symphony No 25, before Kovacevich takes to the piano for what is sure to be a memorable performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No1; the concert is completed with one of the great romantic symphonies Brahms' Symphony No 3. There will also be a free pre-concert talk at 6.30pm in which LMP managing director Antony-Lewis Crosby will interview Stephen Kovacevich. Tickets from £8 to £25 are available from the box office on 020 8688 9291. 3:09pm Wednesday 14th April 2004
