THE MANNES BEETHOVEN INSTITUTE announces 2012 PROGRAM
featuring IGNAT SOLZHENITSYN, DIANE WALSH, Colin Carr & OTHERS

Thomas Sauer, Director
Public Performances: June 5 - 10, 2012
Thomas Sauer, Director of the Mannes Beethoven Institute, will perform on Tuesday, June 5, Wednesday, June 6, and Thursday, June 7
NEW YORK (May 10, 2012) - Mannes College The New School for Music announces the twelfth annual Mannes Beethoven Institute, which will explore Beethoven's sonatas, piano trios, and string quartets in a week of intensive study and public concerts featuring some of the world's leading performers and scholars of Beethoven. The program will run June 3 through June 10, 2012, with public performances running June 5 through June 10.

Participating faculty includes pianists Yuri Kim, Victor Rosenbaum, Thomas Sauer, Ignat Solzhenitsyn and Diane Walsh; violinists Ara Gregorian and Soovin Kim; cellists Colin Carr and Michael Kannen; and musicologists Scott Burnham and William Rothstein.

Faculty concerts will take place on Tuesday, June 5, Wednesday, June 6 and Thursday, June 7 at 8:00 PM. Admission is $20; tickets are available in advance at www.newschool.edu/mannes/beethoven-institute and at the door on the evening of the performances. Students of the Institute will perform on Saturday, June 9 at 7:00 and Sunday, June 10 beginning at 1:00 p.m. Admission to the student performances is free.

The Beethoven Institute will be held at Mannes College The New School for Music at 150 West 85th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues) in NYC. For more information, call 212-580-0210, Ext. 4879, e-mail [email protected] or visit the website at www.newschool.edu/mannes/beethoven-institute

FOR LISTINGS:
Tuesday, June 5 at 8:00 PM
Program: All Beethoven: Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 1 ("Ghost"); Violin Sonata, Op. 47 ("Kreutzer").
Artists: Colin Carr, Soovin Kim, Thomas Sauer, Ignat Solzhenitsyn. With spoken introduction by Scott Burnham of Princeton University.
Wednesday, June 6 at 8:00 PM
Program: All Beethoven: Piano Sonata, Op. 54; Duo "with Eyeglasses Obbligato"; Piano Quartet, Op. 16; Piano Sonata, Op. 53 ("Waldstein").
Artists: Ara Gregorian, Michael Kannen, Soovin Kim, Victor Rosenbaum, Thomas Sauer, Ignat Solzhenitsyn.
Thursday, June 7 at 8:00 PM
Program: All Beethoven: Romance in F, Op. 50; Cello Sonata, Op. 69; "Diabelli" Variations, Op. 120.
Artists: Colin Carr, Ara Gregorian, Yuri Kim, Thomas Sauer, Diane Walsh.
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