SCRIABIN AND MESSIAEN Sound & Colour The Mystery of Synesthesia Prize-winning pianists KONSTANTIN SOUKHOVETSKY IGOR LOVCHINSKY MINJU CHOI KOJI ATWOOD GABRIELIUS ALEKNA Works included excerpts from Vingt regards sur l’Enfant Jesus and Cantelodjaya by Messiaen & Valse, Poemes, Etudes Op. 65 and Sonata No. 8 by Scriabin Remarks by Jerome Lowenthal, Juilliard School of Music | Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:30 p.m. Steinway Hall 109 West 57 St. New York City |
Scriabin Society of America presents FAUBION BOWERS ON VIDEO
In conjunction with the Bible Society’s Special Exhibition “Holy Russia” in Tuscany, Italy Museum of Russian Icons, Peccioli, Italy Collection of Francesco Bigazzi Camera Three Video, 1975 with Faubion Bowers and Anton Kuerti Scriabin: Again and Again, 1966 Faubion Bowers introducing Scriabin’s Tenth Sonata played by Daniel Kunin, (Premiere) Recordings of the Tenth Sonata by Christopher O’Riley and Vladimir Ashkenazy | Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:00 p.m. |
SCRIABIN — MUSIC FOR THE DANCE
Mazurkas, Polonaises & Waltzes A Salute to the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg, Russia Pianists HALIDA DINOVA, INESSA ZARETSKY & SERGEI DREZNIN, with introductory remarks by Dancer/Director George de la Pena | Thursday, April 10, 2003 7:30 p.m Steinway Hall 109 West 57th Street New York City |
SCRIABIN REVEALED:
EXPLORATION THROUGH DIALOGUE AND PERFORMANCE
Scriabin Society of America presents ALEXANDER TORADZE, PianistEXTRAORDINARY EVENT INCLUDING THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF PROMETHEUS FOR 3 PIANOSAlexander Toradze is universally recognized as a masterful virtuoo in the grand romantic tradition. He has enriched the great russian piano heritage with his own unorthodox interpretative conceptions, deeply poetic lyricism and intensely emotional excitement. Also appearing at this gala will be some musicians from the Toradze Piano Studio who will perform sonatas of Scriabin at the Marathon Rock Hotel Pianofest at the Ethical Society on halloween. This will include a light show!!! | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 Steinway Hall 109 West 57th Street New York City |
130th Anniversary Gala
A gala evening in the presence of the Ambassador of the Russian Federation and Mrs. Uyri V. Ushakov to celebrate the 130th Anniversary of the birth of the great Russian composer. The program includes performances by pianists Konstantin Soukhovetski, Dmitri Novgorodsky, Nino Sanikidze and Jerome Lowenthal and soprano Susan Narucki. | April 23, 2002 Residence of the Ambassador 1125 Sixteenth St. N.W. Washington, D.C. |
Symposium
Scriabin 2001: A Re-Evaluation in the New MillenniumPanelists include Jerome Lowenthal, Pianist and Professor, The Julliard School; Jay Reise, Composer; Robert Weiss, Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania; and Gunther Schuller, Composer, Conductor, former President, New England Conservatory. Moderated by Joseph Bloch, Prefessor Emeritus, The Julliard School. | October 18, 2001 The Julliard School |
Gala Concert
Pianist Dmitri Novgorodsky Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 11 (1879)Pianist Ilya Itin Two-Poems, Op. 32 (1904) Sonata #10, Op 70 (1913) Two-Etudes, Op. 8 (1895) Sonata #4, Op. 30 (1907) Andante — Prestissimo volando. | April 19, 2001 7:30 p.m. Steinway Hall New York |
Mikhail Voskresensky
Program to include: Scriabin Prelude and Nocturne, Op. 9 Four Preludes, Op. 22 Two Poemes, Op. 32 Two Pieces, Op. 57 Liszt Sonata in b minor | April 11, 2001 7:30 p.m. Steinway Hall 109 West 57 St. New York |
Pianist Peter Laul
1st Prize winner of the Scriabin International Piano Competition held in Moscow in June 2000, Peter Laul studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia with Professor A. Sandler.Peter Laul’s all-Scriabin program at Steinway Hall included Sonatas #3 and 4, all seven preludes from Op. 17, two Poemes Op. 32 and Op. 69, as well as two Etudes from Op. 42. This Gala Benefit Concert arranged by the Scriabin Society of America was part of his first prize and included performances in Seattle, Honolulu and another New York appearance at Greenwich House on Friday, October 13. This program included works by Haydn, Schubert, Chopin in addition to other works by Scriabin. | September 28, 2000 7:30 p.m. Steinway Hall 109 West 57th St. New York |
Yakov Kasman & Jerome Lowenthal
Yakov Kasman Four preludes, op. 22 Four preludes, op. 37 Waltz, op. 38 Sonata No. 3, op. 23 Jerome Lowenthal Sonata No. 6, op. 62 four etudes from op. 8 | April 6, 2000 7:00 p.m. Steinway Hall |