BMC Chamber Music Series presents
Piano Four Hands with Anna Polonsky & Orion Weiss
Sunday, February 5, 4 pm, Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro
Pianists Orion Weiss and Anna Polonsky perform a piano four hands program by Schubert, Schumann, Mozart and Ravel. Orion Weiss was named the 2010 Classical Recording Foundation's Young Artist of the Year. He is one of the most sought-after soloists in his generation of young American musicians. Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician and has performed at venues such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall's Stern, Weill, and Zankel Halls.
TICKETS: $30, $20, $10
Purchase by calling the BMC at 802-257-4523
Or on-line at 4-Hands Piano
Presented with gratitude to Against the Grain Gourmet for sponsorship of this concert.
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On Sunday, February 5, at 4 pm, the Brattleboro Music Center presents pianists Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss in a program of music for piano four hands at Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Sunday’s program includes: Variations on an Original Theme in Ab major, D.813, by Franz Schubert; Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66, by Robert Schumann (Pictures from the East); Sonata in D major, K. 381, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and Rapsodie Espagnole, by Maurice Ravel.
Orion Weiss is one of the most sought-after soloists and collaborators in his generation of young American musicians. His deeply felt and exceptionally crafted performances go far beyond his technical mastery and have won him acclaim from audiences, critics and colleagues in a wide range of repertoire and formats.
Weiss was named the 2010 Classical Recording Foundation's Young Artist of the Year, and will release a recital album of Dvorak, Prokofiev and Bartok this year. He will also be featured in a recording project of the complete Gershwin works for piano and orchestra with the Buffalo Philharmonic and JoAnn Falletta. During the 2011-12 season, Mr. Weiss will perform with numerous orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Albany Symphony, and Mexico City Philharmonic. He also makes his recital debut in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center.
Continuing his close relationships as a collaborator, Weiss performs in this concert and regularly with his wife, Anna Polonsky, as well as working again this season with the Pacifica Quartet and multiple recital partners.
Weiss’s impressive list of awards includes the Gilmore Young Artist Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Gina Bachauer Scholarship at the Juilliard School and the Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship. A native of Lyndhurst, Ohio, Mr. Weiss attended the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Paul Schenly. Other teachers include Daniel Shapiro, Sergei Babayan, Kathryn Brown, and Edith Reed. In 2004, he graduated from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Emanuel Ax.
Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician and has performed at venues such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall's Stern, Weill, and Zankel Halls.
Polonsky has collaborated with the Guarneri, Orion, and Shanghai Quartets, and with such musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, David Shifrin, Richard Goode, Jaime Laredo, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, Arnold Steinhardt, Anton Kuerti, Gary Hoffman, and Fred Sherry. She is regularly invited to perform chamber music at festivals and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Polonsky made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Special Central Music School in Moscow, Russia. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Music diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music, where she worked with the renowned pianist Peter Serkin, and continued her studies with Jerome Lowenthal, earning her Master's Degree from the Juilliard School. Polonsky was a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2003. With the violist Michael Tree and clarinetist Anthony McGill, she is a member of the Schumann Trio. In addition to performing, she serves on the piano faculty of Vassar College. She is a Steinway Artist.
This concert is part of the Brattleboro Music Center’s 2011-12 Chamber Music Series, which continues with: Windscape Woodwind Quintet on Sunday, February 26, 4 pm; Sophie Shao & Friends on Friday, March 16, 7:30 pm; and Les Amies on Saturday, April 21, 7:30 pm. All chamber series concerts are held at Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Piano Four Hands with Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss
TICKETS: $30, $20, $10
Purchase by calling the BMC at 802-257-4523
Or on-line at 4-Hands Piano
Presented with gratitude to Against the Grain Gourmet for sponsorship of this concert. |
