$15
Sun., February 06, 2011 / 6:30 PM
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About This Event
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7:30 PMDescription:
This is a first come, first serve seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
Program:
Janáček: In the Mist
Szymanowski: Scheherazade, Op. 34
Bartók: Suite, Op. 14
Enescu: Sonata
n celebration of the Naxos release of George Enescu's piano music by noted Romanian pianist Matei Varga, Mr. Varga will perform Enescu's Piano Sonata along with other works from Eastern Europe. “I love the music of Enescu” Mr. Varga says, “not only because it allows me to ‘speak my language’ but also because I believe him to be one of the greatest composers of the modern period, yet to be discovered by the regular concertgoer.”
Program:
Janáček: In the Mist
Szymanowski: Scheherazade, Op. 34
Bartók: Suite, Op. 14
Enescu: Sonata
n celebration of the Naxos release of George Enescu's piano music by noted Romanian pianist Matei Varga, Mr. Varga will perform Enescu's Piano Sonata along with other works from Eastern Europe. “I love the music of Enescu” Mr. Varga says, “not only because it allows me to ‘speak my language’ but also because I believe him to be one of the greatest composers of the modern period, yet to be discovered by the regular concertgoer.”
Artists
Matei Varga, piano
Born in Bucharest in 1980, New York-based pianist Matei Varga is already established
as one of the leading young artists of his native Romania and his prodigious talent is fast
becoming recognized in the United States and Europe. He has already performed in such
important venues as Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, New York; the Auditorium du Louvre
and Salle Gaveau, Paris; the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Casals Hall,Tokyo;
and the Berlin Konzerthaus, where his performance of Schumann’s Fantasy Op. 17 was
hailed by Wolfgang Schrieber of Süddeutsche Zeitung as “magical.” (August 2009).
Naxos has just released Mr. Varga’s CD devoted entirely to the music of Romanian composer George Enescu, produced by Max Wilcox. In November 2010 Mr. Varga performed Chopin’s E Minor Piano Concerto with the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, a solo recital celebrating Chopin and Schumann at the Radio Hall in Bucharest, and a piano duo recital with Ben Schoeman at the Bucharest Athenaeum. He was also a juror at the first edition of the “Dinu Lipatti” competition in Bucharest. In April 2011 he appears with the Hartford Symphony in the Brahms First Piano Concerto.
Matei on Naxos.com
Naxos has just released Mr. Varga’s CD devoted entirely to the music of Romanian composer George Enescu, produced by Max Wilcox. In November 2010 Mr. Varga performed Chopin’s E Minor Piano Concerto with the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, a solo recital celebrating Chopin and Schumann at the Radio Hall in Bucharest, and a piano duo recital with Ben Schoeman at the Bucharest Athenaeum. He was also a juror at the first edition of the “Dinu Lipatti” competition in Bucharest. In April 2011 he appears with the Hartford Symphony in the Brahms First Piano Concerto.
Matei on Naxos.com
music of Enescu, Janáček, Bartók, and Szymanowski