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WIPF is proud
to present internationally acclaimed pianists as part of its concert series.
The cost of tickets is included in the participants' tuition. The concerts
are open to the community, and tickets to individual concerts can be purchased
at the door or reserved by emailing us at washingtonpianofest@gmail.com. Ticket
Prices: Aaron
Diehl (Ward Recital Hall, CUA, Sunday, July 29) Aaron
Diehl PROGRAM TBA This
concert is made possible in part by the support of the American
Pianists Association and will be presented by the APA's President
Joel Harrison.
Young
Pianist Showcase Concert Details to follow shortly Ivo
Kaltchev and Liu Chongxiao Solo and Piano Duo Recital PROGRAM TBA
Dr. Kaltchev has performed in musical centers throughout the world, including Carnegie Weill Concert Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Malii and Rachmaninov Halls, St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, Salle Moliere (Lyon, France), Teatro Verdi (Salerno, Italy), Tel Aviv Museum Recanati Auditorium (Israel), Mendelssohn Hochschule für Musik Hall (Leipzig, Germany), Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium, the Library of Congress, and the Bulgaria Great Hall.
He has performed and taught at music festivals throughout the world including
the Washington International Piano Festival (Washington DC), the European
Academy for Music and Arts (Montepulciano, Italy), the Chinese-American
International Piano Institute (Changdu, China), the Perugia International
Music Festival (Italy), Nancyphonies International Music Festival (France),
Mozart International Music Festival (Frankfurt, Germany), the Toledo International
Music Festival (Spain), the Sofia Music Weeks International Festival (Bulgaria),
the Lincoln Center French Music Festival, the Prague Spring International
Music Festival (Czech Republic), the Varna Summer International Festival
(Bulgaria), the Rutgers SummerFest (USA), Vivace International Music Festival
(USA), and Florida University Young Pianist Festival (USA). Some of the
highlights of recent seasons include both a solo recital and a concerto
performance with the New York Festival Orchestra (now EOS Orchestra) in
Alice Tully Hall, performances of the complete solo piano works of Debussy
and the complete songs of Henri Duparc as well as concerts in the U.S.,
China, Russia, Germany, Spain, Finland, Bulgaria, Italy, France, Czech
Republic and the Virgin Islands. A respected chamber musician, Mr. Kaltchev
has collaborated with the New York Metropolitan Opera soloists Sharon
Christman, Fabiana Bravo and Patrick Carfizzi; pianist Ilana Vered; Essex
Quartet; French actress Marie Christine Barrault as well as members of
the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra
and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. His engagements for the 2010-11 concert
season include recitals and master classes in the United States, Thailand,
Singapore, Portugal, Switzerland, Mexico, and China. Mr. Kaltchev holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University (USA), the Master of Music degree from Yale University (USA), the Bachelor of Music degree from the Sofia State Academy of Music (Bulgaria) and a Diploma from the Franz Liszt Hoscschule fur Musik (Weimar, Germany). His principal teachers include pianists Ilana Vered, Boris Berman, Milena Mollova as well as chamber musicians from the Guarneri and Tokyo String Quartets. Dr.
Kaltchev is a recipient of pedagogy awards for teaching excellence from
the Piano Teachers Society of America and the Princeton Steinway Society.
He has presented lectures, workshops and master classes at the World Piano
Pedagogy Conference, the European Piano Teachers Association Conference,
the American College Music Society Conference, the Improving University
Teaching International Conference, the Yale University as well as in the
United States, Europe, China, Korea and the Virgin Islands. Dr. Kaltchev
is an active adjudicator and has judged the following international piano
competitions: Maria Clara Cullell International Latin American Piano Competition
(Costa Rica), Louisiana International Piano Competition (USA), Vladigerov
International Piano Competition (Bulgaria), Jacinto Guerrero Piano Competition
(Spain), Florida International Piano Competition (USA), Andorra International
Piano Competition, International Young Artist Piano Competition (USA),
Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition (USA) and Los Angeles International
Liszt Piano Competition (USA). Mr. Kaltchev's students are prizewinners
of more than 20 piano competitions and have performed with numerous orchestras
including I Solisti di Perugia (Italy). Dr. Kaltchev is the Founder and
Artistic Director of the Bulgarian Music Society Concert Series at the
Bulgarian Embassy in Washington DC.
Young
Pianist Showcase Concert Details to follow shortly José
Feghali PROGRAM TBA
Equally active as a recitalist, José has appeared on such prestigious stages as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Ambassador Auditorium and Chicagos Orchestra Hall. He has also performed in the major concert halls of the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and Latin America. An avid chamber musician, he has participated in many chamber festivals in the US and abroad, as well as in collaboration with James Galway, Truls Mørk, Antonio Meneses, Alisa Weilerstein, Edgar Meyer, David Shifrin, Olivier Charlier, Régis Pasquier, Tokyo String quartet and John Vickers. He has been a judge at several international piano competitions, gives regular masterclasses and is a member of the faculty at both the PianoTexas and Mimir Chamber Music Festivals. His recordings are available on the Naxos , Koss and VAI labels. José has worked as producer, recording and mastering engineer in over 50 commercial and non-commercial recording projects, and was the remastering engineer for the Van Cliburn Competitions Retrospective series of CDs on the VAI label. New CDs, including solo and chamber recitals, will be released next season. José is Coordinator of Internet Technologies for TCUs School of Music , where he was awarded the Mike Ferrari Award for his work with Internet2 and video conferencing and streaming technology. He was invited to give presentations at the annual Performing Arts conferences of both Internet2 and the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA) on the application of Microsoft Researchs ConferenceXP software in music and arts education. While investigating the programs capabilities for possible use in long-distance music events, he discovered and corrected a flaw in the softwares code that had until then made it incapable of utilizing high fidelity sound in real-time conferencing applications. Selected
WIPF Participants' Concerts (FREE ADMISSION)
Auditions (free and open to public) will be held on Monday, July 3, 4:00 pm-9:00 pm in Ward Recital Hall on CUA's campus. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO WIPF PARTICIPANTS: Due to time limitations, we recommend to select a piece (group of pieces) that is 5-10 minutes in length. back to top Alexander
Kobrin PROGRAM TBA
Alexander Kobrin is the winner of numerous international piano competitions - notably the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He also won top prizes at the Neigauz, Busoni, Hamamatsu, Glasgow, Caltanissetta, and the Warsaw Chopin International Competitions, as well as receiving numerous special awards for his brilliant technique and musicality, and for emotionally engaging with the audience through music. Since receiving the prestigious Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in June 2005, Kobrin solidified his reputation with an outstanding first tour of the United States, including recitals at Bass Hall for the Cliburn Series and for the Washington Performing Arts Society, followed by further debuts at La Roque d'Antheron, Ravinia Festival, Beethoven Easter Festival, Hannover Prize winners Series, Turner Sims and at the renowned Klavier-Festival Ruhr, with critics praising his "interpretative musicianship [and] considerable insight", "elegance, grace and spirit". He now divides his time between performing around the world and teaching - and is "glad to have this balance between performing and teaching trying to continue on the path of the emotional approach [to music]". Alexander Kobrin has been a real inspiration to many students. He served on the faculty of the Gnessin's Academy of Music from 2003 to 2010; since 2006 he has been on the faculty of the IKIF at Mannes College of Music, and is now the "L.Rexford Whiddon Distinguished Chair in Piano" at Schwob School of Music of Columbus State University. Alexander also regularly undertakes recording projects working with various well-known labels (Quartz, King Records, Fondamenta, Harmonia Mundi). In addition to the Van Cliburn Competition disc for Harmonia Mundi (2005), three volumes of Essential Chopin and a Rachmaninov disk he released a Brahms CD (op.79, op.116 & op.119) in the summer of 2010; a new disk of Haydn and Schumann is due to come out this spring, and another large-scale project is planned for 2012. His biggest passion in life is for performance - and every year he adds new impressive collaborations to his ever-growing CV, touring extensively in Europe, Asia and the US. He has collaborated with many major orchestras such as New York Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Verdi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Moscow Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Berliner Simphony, Chicago Sinfonietta and many others. His recent and upcoming engagements include a German tour with the Beethoven Academy Orchestra performing Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 in Munich, Frankfurt and Dortmund; Swedish Radio Symphony with Juraj Valcuha; Ulster Orchestra with Kenneth Montgomery; Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin with Ludovic Morlot; Warsaw Philharmonic with Eiji Oue; KBS Symphony Orchestra with Claus Peter Flor; BBC Symphony Orchestra with Krzysztof Urbanski; Phoenix Symphony with Michael Christie; the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras. In the US his engagements include the Fort Worth Symphony, Florida West Coast Symphony, Fox Valley Symphony, Fairbanks Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony and Columbus Symphony Orchestras, his "awe-inspiringly assured" technique consistently admired by presenters. His appearances worldwide have featured recitals and performances in many major halls, including the Louvre Auditorium and Saller Cortot in Paris, Wigmore Hall and Albert Hall in London, Munich Herkulesaal and Berliner Filarmonia Hall in Germany, Kennedy Centre in Washington, Avery Fisher Hall in New York, the Great Hall at the Moscow Conservatoire, Sheung Wan Civic Centre in Hong Kong, as well as the Esplanade Concert Hall, Sala Verdi in Milan, and many others. He has also performed at Salle Gaveau, Paris, where both Mezzo and ARTE broadcast his recital. Alexander has also made appearances and given masterclasses at the Festival Musique dans le Grésivaudan and the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in Mannes as well as at the International Piano Series and the Busoni Festival, and has given a recital tour of Italy including cities such as Milan, Verona, Palermo Varese and etc. Alexander
Kobrin's debut with the New York Philharmonic at both the Avery Fisher
Hall and for the inaugural concert of the Bethel Woods Arts Centre was
hugely successful, with critics writing about his "lyricism, which
he couched in a thoughtfully shaped, singing line.
When he addressed
the barnstorming passages on their own terms, he did so with a steely
edge and ample - if thoroughly controlled - force".
Closing Concert of the 2012 WIPF Participants (FREE ADMISSION)
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