Another of our Super Pianists

 

Michael Lewin, piano

 


Concert CANCELLED

-owing to Ontario rulings -


[changed from 8:00]


Note: you’ll have to be doubly vaccinated or have a recent negative test to be admitted.


Tickets $40 (students $25)

Tickets, as always, from www.ticketscene.ca/kwcms


program (somewhat changed from previous printing):


4 Scarlatti Sonatas: in E, k. 380;   a, k. 3; d, K. 32; and D, k. 492

Beethoven: Sonata Op. 54

Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue.

Osvaldo Golijov: Levante (Fantasy on a chorus from the St. Mark Passion)

Debussy: Onbdine (from Preludes, ?Book 2)

Ravel: Ondine (from Gaspard de la Nuit, 1908)

Liszt; Mephisto Waltz no. 1




Michael Lewin is one of America’s most active and popular concert pianists, bringing charisma, emotive intensity and high-wire virtuosity to audiences in over 30 countries. His career was launched with victories in the Franz Liszt International Competition, the American Pianists Association Award and the William Kapell International Piano Competition. His numerous recordings have won a Grammy Award and a Round Glass Music Award.


Lewin’s orchestral appearances include the Netherlands Philharmonic, Cairo Symphony, China National Radio Orchestra, Bucharest Philharmonic, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, State Symphony of Greece, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Phoenix, Indianapolis, Miami, North Carolina, West Virginia, Nevada, New Orleans, Colorado, Guadalajara, and Puerto Rico Symphonies. Recital appearances include New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Taiwan’s National Concert Hall, Hong Kong’s City Hall Theatre, Holland’s Muziekcentrum, Moscow’s Great Hall, the Athens Megaron, the National Gallery of Art, the Ravinia, Newport and Spoleto Festivals and PBS Television. His extensive repertoire includes over 40 piano concertos, with particular interest in the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy and American and Latin American composers.


Mr. Lewin’s recordings include two discs of Debussy: “Beau Soir” and “Starry Night,” as well as “Piano Phantoms,” “If I Were a Bird,” the complete piano music of Charles Griffes, Scarlatti Sonatas, “Michael Lewin plays Liszt,” “A Russian Piano Recital,” "Bamboula!" piano music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and the Bolcom Violin Sonatas with Irina Muresanu. They are available on Naxos, Centaur and Sono Luminus. A recital of Latin American piano music is in preparation.


Michael Lewin is Professor and Head of Piano at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and Director of Classical Music for Ethos Music in China. He gives master classes worldwide, directs the Boston Conservatory Piano Masters Series and has taught many prize-winning pianists. He is a Juilliard School graduate and a Steinway Artist. His own teachers included Leon Fleisher, Yvonne Lefebure, Adele Marcus and Irwin Freundlich. Please visit www.michaellewin.com 


 
January 16, 2022

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