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Sunday, March 30 - KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ (Russia)
Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Books I & II - 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
“Yet so naturally poetic and expressive was his playing that he made it seem as if the entirety of the modern piano repertory lay nascent in these 48 pieces.”..New York Times, May 2007
In 1994, Russian pianist Konstantin Lifschitz burst onto the international scene with a recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The CD received a Grammy nomination and was praised as the most convincing Bach interpretation since Glenn Gould. Lifschitz was only 17. On March 30, Lifshitz returns to the Master Series for a full day of monumental music making. Konstantin debuted this program at New York’s Town Hall last spring to rave reviews. Traversals of one book or the other in a single sitting are not uncommon. But Mr. Lifschitz interleaves them so that the Prelude and Fugue in C from the First is followed by the corresponding pair from the Second, and so on. The matinee program combines the first 12 preludes and fugues from both books; the remainder will be played in the evening.
7:00 p.m. A free lecture by Miami’s music maven, Frank Cooper prior to the evening’s performance delves into the long history and impact of these extraordinary compositions. Open to the public.
SPECIAL TICKET OFFER: Attend the 3:00 p.m. performance and receive a ticket to the 8:00 p.m. concert for only $10.
NOTE: Himmarshee Bar & Grille (2 blocks from the theater) will be offering a three course prix fixe dinner for $39.00 per person (exclusive of tax and gratuity) on Sunday, March 30 from 5:00 - 7:00pm for those guests attending the Broward Center for the Performing Arts Center. Please call 954-524-1818 for reservations.
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Monday, March
31 - KIT ARMSTRONG (USA)
"Prodigies and Masters of Tomorrow" - 8:00 p.m.
"A unique genius, unquestionably a phenomenon"...Allan Koznin, The NY Times
“Armstrong possesses a staggeringly fluent technique, with a nimble right hand able to toss off complex passagework evenly at lightning velocity.”...Lawrence Johnson, The Sun Sentinel
Bach - Italian Concerto
Mozart - Sonata K. 333 in B-flat Major
Mendelssohn - Variations serieuses, Op. 54
Armstrong - Reflections
Debussy - Images Book II
Chopin - Nocturne Op. 27, No. 2
Chopin - Ballade No. 4
Kit Armstrong is a fifteen-year-old pianist and composer who also displays remarkable gifts for mathematics, science, and languages. At the age of five, he began formal composition and piano studies. At seven, he became the youngest scholarship student in the history of Chapman University in California, attending the university part-time while completing high school. He now studies piano with Alfred Brendel and Benjamin Kaplan, and attends the Royal Academy of Music and the Imperial College in London, England. His symphony, “Celebration”, composed at the age of seven, was premiered by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. In addition to winning a number of state competitions, he has been awarded the Morton Gould Young Composer Award for five consecutive years. Kit Armstrong gave his first "Prodigies and Masters of Tomorrow" performance at age 10, his second at 13, and his development is being recorded as part of an on-going documentary project.
7:00 p.m. – Free Lecturer: Jason Starr, Producer of “What The Universe Tells Me”
- A Film About Mahler’s Third Symphony. Jason Starr is one of the foremost directors for classical music programmes and his eye for beauty results in a work that bears stark contrast to the sometimes-dissonant films we had to become used to in our modern time that, with its fast-paced life, would fain camouflage some of the most disrobing questions that concern all of us: where are we going, why are we here and what is the use of living at all? Open to the public.
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Tuesday,
April 1 - CONCERTO NIGHT!
Miami International Piano Festival Orchestra - 8:00 p.m.
William Noll, Conductor
Kemal Gekic (Croatia)
"The most talented pianist since Horowitz, a genius with limitless talent"...Boston Globe
Brahms
Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Gekic was awarded the position of Artist in Residence at FIU after his thrilling Miami International Piano Festival (and US) debut in 1999. He has become an important fixture in
South Florida's classical music scene ever since.
Sijing Ye (China)
The Festival’s most extraordinary young discovery – “Sijing-Ye's grace, elegance, rhythmic precision, tonal beauty, and technical agility of her performance recalled such famous Chopin specialists as Artur Rubinstein and Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli.”...The Miami Herald
Saint-Saens
Concerto No. 2 in G minor
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