February 24, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOUR CLIBURN GOLD MEDALISTS TO REUNITE ON ONE STAGE, TUESDAY,
MARCH 17 AT 7:30 P.M.
FIRST TIME FULL EVENING CONCERT SINCE 1989
EVENT INSPIRED BY SURPRISE 2007 PERFORMANCE THAT LEFT
AUDIENCES DEMANDING MORE
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 24, 2009--Cliburn gold medalists
José Feghali (1985), Stanislav loudenitch(2001), Olga Kern (2001),
and Jon Nakamatsu (1997) will make their Bass Performance Hall
debut as an all-star piano team on Tuesday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m.
The Gold Fingers concert follows a memorable performance given by
the same artists at the 2007 International Piano Competition for
Outstanding Amateurs. A You Tube video capturing the event now has
more than 34,000 views from fans worldwide, making it the most
popular video on the Cliburn Channel.
The group's Cliburn at the Bass appearance will showcase
repertoire for two and four players on two pianos, including such
crowd favorites as Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever and
Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee. (See complete program
below.)
The last time four Cliburn gold medalists were gathered for a
concert was in April 29, 1989 with José Feghali, Vladimir Viardo,
Ralph Votapek, and the late Steven De Groote. A live recording of
that historic event was released on a VAI-label CD, which is
available for purchase at the Cliburn gift shop.
TICKETS AND INFORMATION: Single tickets range from $20 to $90.
Tickets are available online or by calling
817.335.9000.
More information is available at www.cliburn.org.
The Van Cliburn Foundation recognizes with gratitude American
Airlines and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation for making possible
this Cliburn at the Bass performance.
Cliburn at the Bass is part of the Cliburn Concerts series,
which is widely regarded as the foremost classical performance
series in the region. It features the world's leading recitalists,
ensembles, and rising stars. Cliburn Concerts is presented in three
venues: Bass Performance Hall, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor of the Van
Cliburn Foundation. American Airlines, Bank of America, City of
Fort Worth, J.P.Morgan, Star-Telegram, Steinway & Sons, and XTO
Energy Inc. are Official Corporate Sponsors, and RadioShack
Corporation is the Cliburn's Corporate Sponsor. Official Sponsors
are the Amon G. Carter Foundation, the Arts Council of Fort Worth
& Tarrant County, the Beaumont Foundation of America, the
Burnett Foundation, and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation.
Star-Telegram is the principal media partner and WRR 101.1 FM is
the official radio station of Cliburn Concerts.
PROGRAM
LISZT
Rákóczy March, S. 244c, Arr. Horn
SCHUBERT
Fantasy in F minor, D. 940
RACHMANINOFF
Waltz from Second Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 17
LUTOSŁAWSKI
Variations on a Theme by Paganini
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Flight of the Bumblebee (from Tsar Saltan), Op. 57, Arr.
Shumway
GOUNOD
Waltz from Faust, Arr. De Vilback
MILHAUD
Scaramouche, Op. 165b
BRAHMS
Selections from Hungarian Dances, WoO 1
SOUSA
Stars and Stripes Forever, Arr. Wilberg
GOLD MEDALIST BIOGRAPHIES
JOSÉ FEGHALI
Gold medalist and winner of the Best Performance of Chamber
Music award at the Seventh Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition (1985), José Feghali has developed a highly successful
career as a professional pianist. He has been featured in more than
800 performances worldwide, including appearances with such
orchestras as the BBC Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Birmingham
Symphony, Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Gewandhaus of Leipzig, London
Symphony, National Symphony of Spain, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal
Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Shanghai and Beijing
symphonies. In the United States, he has appeared in all the major
cities and in virtually every state, performing with the orchestras
of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston,
Pittsburgh, and the National Symphony. He has worked with many
eminent conductors, including Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Masur,
Leonard Slatkin, and Yuri Temirkanov. Recital appearances include
performances at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Orchestra Hall, the Kennedy
Center, London's Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls, and the
Meyerson Symphony Center. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Feghali has
appeared in several festivals in the United States and abroad, as
well as in collaboration with James Galway, Antonio Meneses, Edgar
Meyer, Truls Mørk, Régis Pasquier, David Shifrin, the Tokyo String
Quartet, and John Vickers.
Mr. Feghali is in demand as a producer and recording and
mastering engineer as well, and has been involved with more than
fifty commercial and noncommercial recording projects; next season
he will release a number of CDs, including solo and chamber
recitals. He is coordinator of Internet technologies for Texas
Christian University's School of Music, and was recently awarded
the Michael R. Ferrari Award for his work with Internet2 and
conference-related technology. Mr. Feghali's own recordings are
available on the Naxos, Koss, and VAI labels. He has been a judge
at several international piano competitions, and is a member of the
faculty at both the PianoTexas and Mimir Chamber Music Festivals at
TCU. He has also served as artist-in-residence at TCU's School of
Music since 1990.
STANISLAV IOUDENITCH
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Stanislav Ioudenitch was
recognized from a young age for the strong individuality and
musical conviction that set him apart from other artists of his
generation. In addition to winning the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass
Gold Medal at the 2001 Cliburn Competition, he has netted top
prizes at numerous other piano contests, including the Busoni,
Kapell, and Maria Callas Competitions. He has given concerts in
major cities and venues throughout Asia, Europe, and North America,
and has performed with various orchestras, including the National
Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Russia, the
National Symphony of Ireland, the Münchner Philharmoniker, and
Philharmonie der Nationen, as well as Turkey's Borusan Philharmonic
and the Cape Philharmonic in South Africa.
Mr. Ioudenitch was featured in Playing on the Edge, the
Peabody Award- winning documentary about the 2001 Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition, which has aired on PBS stations
across the United States. His Cliburn Competition performances with
the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Maestro James Conlon are
showcased in the PBS series Concerto. He has studied with Dmitry
Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Grant Naboré, Murray Perahia,
Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Fou Ts'ong, Rosalyn Tureck, and Natalya
Vasinkina, among others.
In 2002, Mr. Ioudenitch was invited to give master classes at
the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, Italy, and became the
youngest teacher ever to have taught there. He currently heads a
new music program at Park University in Kansas City, serving as a
professor of piano and artistic director of the International
Center for Music. He last appeared on the Cliburn Concerts series
in a special program with several of his award- winning students,
presented at the Kimbell Art Museum.
OLGA KERN
With her vivid stage presence, passionately confident
musicianship, and extraordinary technique, Olga Kern has continued
to captivate fans and critics alike since being awarded the Nancy
Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the 2001 Cliburn
Competition.
Ms. Kern has performed in many of the world's most important
venues, including New York's Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls; the
Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; the Great Hall of the Moscow
Conservatory; Symphony Hall in Osaka; Salzburger Festspielhaus, La
Scala in Milan; Tonhalle in Zurich; and the Châtelet in Paris. She
made her London debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in
November 2006 with Leonard Slatkin conducting, and returned in
August 2008 for her Proms debut. Recent European appearances have
included a tour of Austria and Switzerland with the Warsaw
Philharmonic and Maestro Antoni Wit and a tour of Germany with the
Czech Philharmonic and Maestro Zdenek Maçal. In May 2008, Olga Kern
toured North America with Maestro Vladimir Spivakov and the world-
renowned Moscow Virtuosi, presenting concerts in Boston, Chicago,
New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Toronto. A
favorite of festival presenters, she is welcomed back annually to
the Interlochen Festival, and is a frequent guest artist at both
the Bravo! Vail Festival and the Ravinia Festival, where she
collaborates with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and James
Conlon.
Ms. Kern was born into a family of musicians with direct links
to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and began studying piano at the
age of five. She began her formal training with acclaimed teacher
Evgeny Timakin at the Moscow Central School and continued with
Professor Sergei Dorensky at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
She also studied with Boris Petrushansky at the acclaimed Accademia
Pianistica Incontricol Maestro in Imola, Italy. She has made seven
recordings for harmonia mundi usa, featuring works by Balakirev,
Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky. Ms. Kern is now
artistic director of the Cape Town Festival in South
Africa.
JON NAKAMATSU
Since winning the gold medal at the 1997 Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition, American pianist Jon Nakamatsu
continues to draw universal acclaim as a true aristocrat of the
keyboard, whose playing combines deep musical insight with
elegance, clarity, and electrifying power.
Mr. Nakamatsu maintains an almost constant touring schedule,
performing with many of today's leading conductors, as well as in
recital and chamber music appearances at festivals and music
centers worldwide. He has collaborated with many American
orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood
Bowl, the New World Symphony, and the orchestras of Cincinnati,
Dallas, Detroit, Fort Worth, Honolulu, Milwaukee, New Mexico,
Rochester, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and Utah. Together
with the renowned clarinetist Jon Manasse, he regularly tours as a
member of the Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo. The pair assumed artistic
direction of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival in
2006.
Named Debut Artist of the Year by NPR's Performance Today, Mr.
Nakamatsu has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, Reader's Digest,
and is featured in Playing with Fire, a documentary about the 1997
Cliburn Competition. He records exclusively for harmonia mundi usa,
which has released nine of his CDs to critical acclaim. His recent
recording of Gershwin's Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue with the
Rochester Philharmonic remained on Billboard's classical charts for
nearly six months, topping out at Number 3. Most recently, Mr.
Nakamatsu's CD of the Brahms Clarinet Sonatas with Jon Manasse was
selected by the New York Times as one of its top classical
recordings for 2008.
Jon Nakamatsu has studied privately with Marina Derryberry
since the age of six, has worked with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, and has
studied composition and theory with Dr. Leonard Stein of the
Schoenberg Institute at the University of Southern California. A
former high school German teacher, Mr. Nakamatsu is a graduate of
Stanford University and holds a bachelor's degree in German studies
and a master's degree in education.
Contact: Sevan Melikyan Dir. of P.R.
email: sevan@cliburn.org
phone: 817.738.6536
web:
February 24, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOUR CLIBURN GOLD MEDALISTS TO REUNITE ON ONE STAGE, TUESDAY,
MARCH 17 AT 7:30 P.M.
FIRST TIME FULL EVENING CONCERT SINCE 1989
EVENT INSPIRED BY SURPRISE 2007 PERFORMANCE THAT LEFT
AUDIENCES DEMANDING MORE
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 24, 2009--Cliburn gold medalists
José Feghali (1985), Stanislav loudenitch(2001), Olga Kern (2001),
and Jon Nakamatsu (1997) will make their Bass Performance Hall
debut as an all-star piano team on Tuesday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m.
The Gold Fingers concert follows a memorable performance given by
the same artists at the 2007 International Piano Competition for
Outstanding Amateurs. A You Tube video capturing the event now has
more than 34,000 views from fans worldwide, making it the most
popular video on the Cliburn Channel.
The group's Cliburn at the Bass appearance will showcase
repertoire for two and four players on two pianos, including such
crowd favorites as Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever and
Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee. (See complete program
below.)
The last time four Cliburn gold medalists were gathered for a
concert was in April 29, 1989 with José Feghali, Vladimir Viardo,
Ralph Votapek, and the late Steven De Groote. A live recording of
that historic event was released on a VAI-label CD, which is
available for purchase at the Cliburn gift shop.
TICKETS AND INFORMATION: Single tickets range from $20 to $90.
Tickets are available online or by calling
817.335.9000.
More information is available at www.cliburn.org.
The Van Cliburn Foundation recognizes with gratitude American
Airlines and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation for making possible
this Cliburn at the Bass performance.
Cliburn at the Bass is part of the Cliburn Concerts series,
which is widely regarded as the foremost classical performance
series in the region. It features the world's leading recitalists,
ensembles, and rising stars. Cliburn Concerts is presented in three
venues: Bass Performance Hall, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor of the Van
Cliburn Foundation. American Airlines, Bank of America, City of
Fort Worth, J.P.Morgan, Star-Telegram, Steinway & Sons, and XTO
Energy Inc. are Official Corporate Sponsors, and RadioShack
Corporation is the Cliburn's Corporate Sponsor. Official Sponsors
are the Amon G. Carter Foundation, the Arts Council of Fort Worth
& Tarrant County, the Beaumont Foundation of America, the
Burnett Foundation, and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation.
Star-Telegram is the principal media partner and WRR 101.1 FM is
the official radio station of Cliburn Concerts.
PROGRAM
LISZT
Rákóczy March, S. 244c, Arr. Horn
SCHUBERT
Fantasy in F minor, D. 940
RACHMANINOFF
Waltz from Second Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 17
LUTOSŁAWSKI
Variations on a Theme by Paganini
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Flight of the Bumblebee (from Tsar Saltan), Op. 57, Arr.
Shumway
GOUNOD
Waltz from Faust, Arr. De Vilback
MILHAUD
Scaramouche, Op. 165b
BRAHMS
Selections from Hungarian Dances, WoO 1
SOUSA
Stars and Stripes Forever, Arr. Wilberg
GOLD MEDALIST BIOGRAPHIES
JOSÉ FEGHALI
Gold medalist and winner of the Best Performance of Chamber
Music award at the Seventh Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition (1985), José Feghali has developed a highly successful
career as a professional pianist. He has been featured in more than
800 performances worldwide, including appearances with such
orchestras as the BBC Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Birmingham
Symphony, Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Gewandhaus of Leipzig, London
Symphony, National Symphony of Spain, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal
Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Shanghai and Beijing
symphonies. In the United States, he has appeared in all the major
cities and in virtually every state, performing with the orchestras
of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston,
Pittsburgh, and the National Symphony. He has worked with many
eminent conductors, including Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Masur,
Leonard Slatkin, and Yuri Temirkanov. Recital appearances include
performances at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Orchestra Hall, the Kennedy
Center, London's Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls, and the
Meyerson Symphony Center. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Feghali has
appeared in several festivals in the United States and abroad, as
well as in collaboration with James Galway, Antonio Meneses, Edgar
Meyer, Truls Mørk, Régis Pasquier, David Shifrin, the Tokyo String
Quartet, and John Vickers.
Mr. Feghali is in demand as a producer and recording and
mastering engineer as well, and has been involved with more than
fifty commercial and noncommercial recording projects; next season
he will release a number of CDs, including solo and chamber
recitals. He is coordinator of Internet technologies for Texas
Christian University's School of Music, and was recently awarded
the Michael R. Ferrari Award for his work with Internet2 and
conference-related technology. Mr. Feghali's own recordings are
available on the Naxos, Koss, and VAI labels. He has been a judge
at several international piano competitions, and is a member of the
faculty at both the PianoTexas and Mimir Chamber Music Festivals at
TCU. He has also served as artist-in-residence at TCU's School of
Music since 1990.
STANISLAV IOUDENITCH
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Stanislav Ioudenitch was
recognized from a young age for the strong individuality and
musical conviction that set him apart from other artists of his
generation. In addition to winning the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass
Gold Medal at the 2001 Cliburn Competition, he has netted top
prizes at numerous other piano contests, including the Busoni,
Kapell, and Maria Callas Competitions. He has given concerts in
major cities and venues throughout Asia, Europe, and North America,
and has performed with various orchestras, including the National
Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Russia, the
National Symphony of Ireland, the Münchner Philharmoniker, and
Philharmonie der Nationen, as well as Turkey's Borusan Philharmonic
and the Cape Philharmonic in South Africa.
Mr. Ioudenitch was featured in Playing on the Edge, the
Peabody Award- winning documentary about the 2001 Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition, which has aired on PBS stations
across the United States. His Cliburn Competition performances with
the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Maestro James Conlon are
showcased in the PBS series Concerto. He has studied with Dmitry
Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Grant Naboré, Murray Perahia,
Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Fou Ts'ong, Rosalyn Tureck, and Natalya
Vasinkina, among others.
In 2002, Mr. Ioudenitch was invited to give master classes at
the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, Italy, and became the
youngest teacher ever to have taught there. He currently heads a
new music program at Park University in Kansas City, serving as a
professor of piano and artistic director of the International
Center for Music. He last appeared on the Cliburn Concerts series
in a special program with several of his award- winning students,
presented at the Kimbell Art Museum.
OLGA KERN
With her vivid stage presence, passionately confident
musicianship, and extraordinary technique, Olga Kern has continued
to captivate fans and critics alike since being awarded the Nancy
Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the 2001 Cliburn
Competition.
Ms. Kern has performed in many of the world's most important
venues, including New York's Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls; the
Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; the Great Hall of the Moscow
Conservatory; Symphony Hall in Osaka; Salzburger Festspielhaus, La
Scala in Milan; Tonhalle in Zurich; and the Châtelet in Paris. She
made her London debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in
November 2006 with Leonard Slatkin conducting, and returned in
August 2008 for her Proms debut. Recent European appearances have
included a tour of Austria and Switzerland with the Warsaw
Philharmonic and Maestro Antoni Wit and a tour of Germany with the
Czech Philharmonic and Maestro Zdenek Maçal. In May 2008, Olga Kern
toured North America with Maestro Vladimir Spivakov and the world-
renowned Moscow Virtuosi, presenting concerts in Boston, Chicago,
New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Toronto. A
favorite of festival presenters, she is welcomed back annually to
the Interlochen Festival, and is a frequent guest artist at both
the Bravo! Vail Festival and the Ravinia Festival, where she
collaborates with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and James
Conlon.
Ms. Kern was born into a family of musicians with direct links
to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and began studying piano at the
age of five. She began her formal training with acclaimed teacher
Evgeny Timakin at the Moscow Central School and continued with
Professor Sergei Dorensky at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
She also studied with Boris Petrushansky at the acclaimed Accademia
Pianistica Incontricol Maestro in Imola, Italy. She has made seven
recordings for harmonia mundi usa, featuring works by Balakirev,
Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky. Ms. Kern is now
artistic director of the Cape Town Festival in South
Africa.
JON NAKAMATSU
Since winning the gold medal at the 1997 Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition, American pianist Jon Nakamatsu
continues to draw universal acclaim as a true aristocrat of the
keyboard, whose playing combines deep musical insight with
elegance, clarity, and electrifying power.
Mr. Nakamatsu maintains an almost constant touring schedule,
performing with many of today's leading conductors, as well as in
recital and chamber music appearances at festivals and music
centers worldwide. He has collaborated with many American
orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood
Bowl, the New World Symphony, and the orchestras of Cincinnati,
Dallas, Detroit, Fort Worth, Honolulu, Milwaukee, New Mexico,
Rochester, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and Utah. Together
with the renowned clarinetist Jon Manasse, he regularly tours as a
member of the Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo. The pair assumed artistic
direction of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival in
2006.
Named Debut Artist of the Year by NPR's Performance Today, Mr.
Nakamatsu has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, Reader's Digest,
and is featured in Playing with Fire, a documentary about the 1997
Cliburn Competition. He records exclusively for harmonia mundi usa,
which has released nine of his CDs to critical acclaim. His recent
recording of Gershwin's Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue with the
Rochester Philharmonic remained on Billboard's classical charts for
nearly six months, topping out at Number 3. Most recently, Mr.
Nakamatsu's CD of the Brahms Clarinet Sonatas with Jon Manasse was
selected by the New York Times as one of its top classical
recordings for 2008.
Jon Nakamatsu has studied privately with Marina Derryberry
since the age of six, has worked with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, and has
studied composition and theory with Dr. Leonard Stein of the
Schoenberg Institute at the University of Southern California. A
former high school German teacher, Mr. Nakamatsu is a graduate of
Stanford University and holds a bachelor's degree in German studies
and a master's degree in education.
Contact: Sevan Melikyan Dir. of P.R.
email: sevan@cliburn.org
phone: 817.738.6536
web:
