For Immediate Release, Revised Press Release
Contact: Gloria Gottschalk, New School University
             (212) 229-5667, ext. 239
              Patricia Ann Neely, Mannes College of Music
              ( 212) 580-0210, ext. 228

(September 8, 2000 – New York, NY) Pianist Vladimir Feltsman, one of the most imaginative and interesting musicians of our time, will perform Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (Book I) at Mannes College of Music on Wednesday, September 27 at 8 PM. The concert will take place at the Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85^th Street, NYC and inaugurate Mannes’s new Steinway Concert Grand. Mr. Feltsman will also work with Mannes students in a Master Class on Tuesday, September 26 at 4 PM. Tickets for the September 27^th performance are $50/per person and are available at the door. The Master Class is free. For information on these events, call 212/496-8524.

Mr. Feltsman’s vast repertoire encompasses music from the Baroque to the 20^th Century composers. Recently, he has devoted his performances to the music of J.S. Bach in a cycle of concerts, which included major clavier works of the composer and spanned four consecutive seasons, 1992-1996, at the Tisch Center for the Performing Arts at the 92^nd Street Y. He continues his work on the cycles with his Bach performance at Mannes.

Mr. Feltsman also believes in sharing the great tradition of piano playing, and teaches at Mannes College of Music and at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the founder and artistic director of the International Festival-Institute Piano Summer at New Paltz, a comprehensive month-long training program for advanced piano students, which offers a unique, multi-faceted approach to all aspects of piano performance and attracts musicians from all over the world.

Mr. Feltsman has appeared with most of the major orchestras in the United States and on the most prestigious concert series and music festivals around the world. Upcoming orchestral engagements for Mr. Feltsman in the 2000-2001 season include appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Kirov Orchestra with Valery Gergiev in Costa Mesa, CA, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, and the Indianapolis Symphony. Mr. Feltsman will play recitals in New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and La Jolla, CA.

His extensive discography includes six albums of clavier works of J.S. Bach, recordings of Beethoven’s last five piano sonatas, solo piano works of Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, and Messiaen, as well as concerti of Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev. He records on SONY Classical, Music Masters and Meloyida labels.

In addition to Mr. Feltsman, Mannes’s prestigious piano faculty includes Pavlina Dokovska, Edward Aldwell, Stephanie Brown, Richard Goode, Grant Johannesen, Lilian Kallir, Jerome Rose, Peter Serkin, among others.