Contacts:
Gloria Gottschalk, New School University
212-229-5667, ext. 239
[email protected]
Lauren Erlichman, New School University
212-229-5667, ext. 206
[email protected]
Patricia A. Neely, Mannes College of Music,
212-580-0210, ext. 228
[email protected]
VLADIMIR FELTSMAN TO PRESENT
A MASTER CLASS AT MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC
ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2001 AT 4 PM
(New York, NY – August 24, 2001) Pianist Vladimir Feltsman
will present a master class at Mannes College of Music, a division of New School
University, on Tuesday, October 9, 2001 at 4 PM. An artist of immense range
and insight, Vladimir Feltsman is recognized as one of the most imaginative
and interesting musicians of our time. The master class will take place at the
Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street, NYC. (Take the #1/9 train to 85th
Street.) Admission is free. For further information, call 212/496-8524.
Mr. Feltsman’s vast repertoire encompasses music from the
Baroque to the 20th Century composers. His most recent project, "Masterpieces
of the Russian Underground," will present an array of Russian contemporary
music in the form of a survey of piano and chamber works by fourteen different
composers.
Upcoming orchestral engagements for Vladimir Feltsman in the 2001-2001
season include appearances with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony
Orchestra (Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27), the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
(Strauss’s Burleske in D Minor), Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM (Schumann’s
Piano Concert in A Minor) and with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra (Rachmaninoff’s
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini). In October and November, he will be performing
as a soloist on the U.S. debut tour of the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra,
making an appearance with the Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher
Hall on October 21, 2001. He will also be making a Carnegie Hall appearance
with the Kirov Orchestra (Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini)
on December 14, 2001. Mr. Feltsman will play recitals at the Tisch Center in
NYC and at Michigan State University, among others.
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.
Mr. Feltsman teaches at Mannes College of Music and also holds the Distinguished
Chair of Professor of Piano at SUNY at New Paltz. He is 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, multifaceted approach to all aspects of piano performances
and attracts musicians from all over the world.
Mr. Feltsman’s master class is part of the year-long festival
"The Schumanns and Their Circle" (Pavlina Dokovska, Artistic Director),
which features Mannes College of Music students, faculty and alumni in performances
around New York City, as well as master classes by eminent musicians. Contact
the Mannes festival line at 212/580-0210, ext. 255 for information on all festival
events.
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.
Pianist Claude Frank will be presenting a master class at Mannes College of Music on October 19 at 3 PM.
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Mannes College of Music, a division of New School University,
was founded in 1916. It is one of the world’s major conservatories of music.
Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a Professional
Studies Diploma program. Joel Lester is Dean of the College. For further information
on Mannes College of Music, call 212/ 580-0210 or go to the Web site at www.mannes.edu
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and 25,000 continuing education students, is comprised of seven academic divisions:
The New School, the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, Parsons
School of Design, Eugene Lang College, Mannes College of Music, the Robert J.
Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, and the Actors Studio
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