2010-11 Gina Bachauer Concert Series (SLC: Oct 1 - April 29, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 3, 2010



Contact: Julie Anderson
Tel: (801) 297-4250

E-mail: julie@bachauer.com
Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation

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2010-11 GINA BACHAUER CONCERT SERIES ANNOUNCED
Four concerts slated by internationally acclaimed pianists


The Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation has announced the schedule of its 2010-11 Concert Series, featuring four performances of internationally-renowned pianists.

Konstantin Lifschitz (co-sponsored by the University of Utah School of Music)
October 1, 2010
7:30pm - Libby Gardner Hall (University of Utah)
Tickets: $25 (Students $5) - http://www.kingsburyhall.org/ - (801) 581-7100

Performing works of Bach and Rachmaninoff, and the expressive B-flat Sonata of Schubert

"This pianist is extraordinary...a range of feeling from passion to delicacy." The Independent
“His ear is extraordinary, particularly in its sensitivity to details of dynamics, articulation, and, most of all, texture. He goes for broke all the time.” The Boston Globe

His graduation recital of Bach's Goldberg Variations at age 17 from Gnessin Special Middle School of Music in Moscow was released by Denon Records and nominated for a Grammy Award.  The recording moved critic Edward Rothstein (The New York Times) to proclaim Lifschitz’s performance "the most powerful pianistic interpretation since Gould."

He has also performed widely throughout Holland, France, Austria, Germany, Spain and Japan. In 1995 he won the German Echo Classic Record Prize for "New Young Artist."
 

Alessio Bax (co-sponsored by the University of Utah School of Music)
November 16, 2010
7:30pm - Libby Gardner Hall (University of Utah)
Tickets: $15 (Students $5) - http://www.kingsburyhall.org/ - (801) 581-7100

Performing works of Bach, Brahms, Granados, and Bartók

First Place winner of the Hamamatsu and Leeds International Piano Competitions, Alessio Bax is an accomplished recording and recital artist.   For his recent CD "Bach Transcribed" Gramophone lauded the Italian native’s "stylistic perception and palette of tone-colours ... together with a level of technical control that gives new meaning to the word awesome."  

“His playing quivers with an almost hypnotic intensity.”  Gramaphone“


Jason Hardink
February 16, 2011
7:30pm - Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138 W. 300 S. Salt Lake City)
Tickets $15 (Students $5) - http://www.arttix.org/ - (801) 355-ARTS

Performing works of Schubert and Schönberg


Principal Keyboard of the Utah Symphony, Jason Hardink graduated from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and went on to receive his Master of Music in piano performance from Rice University, where he was awarded the Sallie Shepherd Perkins Prize for Best Achievement in Music. He has recently completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree as a student of Brian Connelly, also at Rice.

“… a remarkable pianist. His performance … was a tour de force …nothing short of brilliant.”  Deseret News

Ning and Jie Lu
April 29, 2011
7:30pm - Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138 W. 300 S. Salt Lake City)
Tickets $15 (Students $5) - http://www.arttix.org/ - (801) 355-ARTS

Performing works of Mozart and Chopin, and the Porgy and Bess Fantasy of Gershwin

This acclaimed husband-and-wife duo performed in the 2007 Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival and has served on the jury of many Bachauer Competitions.

Ning Lu is Associate Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Group Piano at the University of Utah.  Born in China, he made his professional debut and first recording at the age of nine and studied piano at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he won the first prize in piano competition of the Central Conservatory of Music. His recent performance with the University of Utah School Music Faculty Soloists was praised as “More highly charged and dramatic reading of the concerto…stormy passion and romantic intensity to his interpretation.”(Deseret Morning News, April 4, 2006).

Jie Lu is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Piano Preparatory Division of the University of Utah.  She has won several piano competitions in the U.S., and has appeared with the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra, SummerArts Orchestra, and Salt Lake Symphony. Recently, she was appointed the guest professor at Nanjing University in China.


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