The Fryderyk Chopin Society of Connecticut & New Britain Museum of American Art Presents
Michael Lewin Piano Recital
The New Britain Museum of American Art
56 Lexington Street, New Britain, CT.
Biography
Michael Lewin is one of America’s best-known and most active concert pianists, winning over audiences in 30 countries with playing of “majestic power and searing emotion.” His career was launched with top prizes in the Franz Liszt International Competition, the American Pianists Association Award and the William Kapell International Piano Competition. His recordings have won a Grammy Award and the Roundglass Music Award.
He has appeared as orchestral soloist with the Netherlands Philharmonic, Cairo Symphony, China National Radio Orchestra, Bucharest Philharmonic, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, State Symphony of Greece, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Phoenix, Indianapolis, Miami, North Carolina, West Virginia, Nevada, New Orleans, Colorado, Guadalajara, and Puerto Rico Symphonies. Solo appearances include New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Taiwan’s National Concert Hall, Hong Kong’s City Hall Theatre, Holland’s Muziekcentrum, Moscow’s Great Hall, the Athens Megaron, the National Gallery of Art, the Newport, Ravinia and Spoleto Festivals and PBS Television. His extensive repertoire includes over 40 piano concertos, with particular interest in the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy and American and Latin American composers.
Mr. Lewin’s award-winning discography on Sono Luminus, Naxos and Centaur includes a pair of acclaimed Debussy recordings entitled “Beau Soir” and “Starry Night”, the complete piano music of Charles T. Griffes, Scarlatti Sonatas Vol. 2 for Naxos, “Michael Lewin plays Liszt,” “A Russian Piano Recital”, “Bamboula,!” piano music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the Bolcom Violin Sonatas with Irina Muresanu, “Piano Phantoms” and “If I Were a Bird.”
Michael Lewin is Professor and Head of Piano at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Classical Music Director for Ethos Music in China. He gives master classes worldwide, directs the Boston Conservatory Piano Masters Series and has mentored many prize-winning pianists. He is a Juilliard School graduate and a Steinway Artist. His own teachers included Leon Fleisher, Yvonne Lefebure, Adele Marcus and Irwin Freundlich. Please visit www.michaellewin.com.
Program
Domenico Scarlatti
Four Keyboard Sonatas
E Major, K. 380: Andante commodo
A minor, K. 3 : Presto
D minor, K.32 : Aria
D Major, K. 492 : Presto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Major, Op. 54
In tempo d’un menuetto
Allegretto; Più Allegro
Ferruccio Busoni
Chamber-Fantasy on Bizet’s “Carmen”, Sonatina No. 6
Claude Debussy
Ondine (from Préludes Book 2)
Maurice Ravel
Ondine (from Gaspard de la Nuit)
Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47
Ballade No. 1 in g minor, Op. 23