Texas Performing Arts Presents EMANUEL AX 2/10
By: Gabrielle Sierra Jan. 12, 2011
Texas Performing Arts welcomes back one of today's pre-eminent classical pianists performing an all-Schubert program, Thursday, February 10, in the rich acoustics of the intimate Bates Recital Hall. Described as a rare and marvelous artist and winner of numerous major awards, Emanuel Ax receives raves for his poetic temperament and unsurpassed virtuosity.
Born in Lvov, Poland, Ax moved to Canada at an early age. His studies at the Juilliard School were supported by the Epstein Scholarship Program of the Boys Clubs of America, and he subsequently won the Young Concert Artists Award. Ax captured public attention in 1974 when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975, he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. Recent releases include the Mendelssohn Trios with Yo Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman, Strauss' "Enoch Arden" narrated by Patrick Stewart, and discs of two-piano music by Brahms and Rachmaninoff with Yefim Bronfman. Ax has received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn's piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano with cellist Yo Yo Ma.Join us for a 7:00 p.m. pre-performance lecture in the Bates Recital Studio, MRH 2.608 with Dr. Michael Tusa.Michael Tusa, Professor of Musicology, has been a member of the Musicology faculty since 1981. His interests include nineteenth-century opera, the study of the compositional process, and the history of piano music. His research has focused primarily on Carl Maria von Weber and Ludwig van Beethoven and has published articles on Weber, Wagner, and Schubert.
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