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Extractions: Pianist Emanuel Ax to Give Master Class at Smith College World-renowned, Grammy award-winning pianist Emanuel Ax will conduct a master class at Smith College at 4 p.m. Tuesday, February 8, in Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall. The event-which is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis-will begin with Ax offering a musical critique to performing students followed by a question and answer period. The doors will open at 3:30 p.m. Ax, who will be performing later in the day at a WFCR Radio fundraiser at the Calvin Theater, is known in equal measure for his concert, chamber and recital performances. Highly regarded for his poetic lyricism and brilliant technique, he first gained the attention of the classical music world in 1974 when, at the age of 25, he won first prize in the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. Devoted to chamber music, Ax regularly performs duo recitals with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, their recordings together earning them three Grammy awards. He also plays regularly with Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, and his wife, the pianist Yoko Nozaki, with whom he'll be performing at the Calvin Theater.
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Extractions: Artist's Biography Pianist Emanuel Ax enjoys an international career that brings him acclaim in equal measure for his concert, chamber and recital performances. Highly regarded for his poetic lyricism and brilliant technique, he first won the attention of the classical world in 1974, when at the age of twenty-five he took the top prize in the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. He has been a busy and respected figure on the international concert scene ever since. An exclusive Sony Classical artist since 1987, Ax has recorded for the label a wide range of concert, chamber and solo piano music, from Classical works to twentieth-century music. His most recent Grammy Award-winning recordings for Sony Classical include the first volume in his ongoing cycle of Haydn piano sonatas and a disc of the clarinet trios of Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart (with Yo-Yo Ma and Richard Stoltzman). Los Tangueros, a recent Sony Classical recording, represents a striking departure for Ax, in which he collaborates with pianist Pablo Ziegler in new two-piano arrangements of tangos and milongas by Astor Piazzolla. Ax recently completed his first period-instrument recording for Sony Classical, playing the Chopin Piano Concerto no. 2 on an 1853 Erard piano. Future plans include recording the first Chopin piano concerto, also on period instruments, and the Brahms Piano Concerto no. 2 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink.
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Profile Emanuel Ax Next season emanuel ax will be pianist in residence for the Berlin Philharmonicdevising and performing four chamber concerts with members of the BPO and http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/meettheorchestra/players/emanuelax/
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Extractions: Skip to the Navigation skip to content Log In Home Page The Orchestra ... Esa-Pekka Salonen Emanuel Ax Susan Bullock Live Chat Listening Guide TristanTheMovie ... The Forum Enlarge Acclaimed for his poetic lyricism and brilliant technique, pianist Emanuel Ax is one of today's best known and most highly regarded musicians. He first captured public attention in 1974 when, aged 25, he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. Five years later he took the coveted Avery Fisher Prize in New York An RCA recording contract followed, and many of his recordings won top honours. In 1987 Ax became an exclusive Sony Classical artist. Recordings on this label include the two Liszt Concertos paired with the Schoenberg Concerto, two discs of solo Brahms, tangos by Piazzolla and Haydn Piano Sonatas (part of an ongoing Haydn cycle) for which he won a Grammy award. Other discs that have recently been released are the Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink and a CD with music for 2 Pianos by Rachmaninov with Yefim Bronfman.
Klassik In Berlin He wrote it with emanuel ax in mind; the pianist premiered and recorded it withthe Cleveland Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnányi. In this performance with http://www.klassik-in-berlin.de/seiten/nachlese/2004-en/bphil-040219-en.html
Extractions: Emanuel Ax - Piano Special concert on the occasion of the opening of "MoMA in Berlin" by Nancy Chapple John Adams's 1997 piano concerto, Century Rolls Koyaanisqatsi , changes in the patterns come within a much more compressed time period. The second movement, Manny's Gym , is gentle jazz, with a paraphrase of a Satie in the middle. It gave Ax lots of opportunities to show off his singing tone. In the bebop Hail Bop third movement, too, you can swing along (and the principal viola and trumpeters definitely did so), but you can't quite find the beat. At one point, the xylophone, trumpets and upper register of the piano really let loose. Rattle, Ax and Adams took many bows together. The second half of the concert, in which the orchestra was joined by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, consisted of Maurice Ravel's
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Emanuel Ax And Yo-Yo Ma Play Sergei Rachmaninoff And Sergei Prokofiev and with the virtuosic talent and skill of pianist emanuel ax. That there isso much subtlety in such a grand instrument is almost unbelievable, http://www.greenmanreview.com/cd/cd_rachmaninoff_prokofiev_sonatas.html
Extractions: Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sergei Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev Cello Sonatas [Emanuel Ax, piano; Yo-Yo Ma, cello] (Sony Classical/Legacy, 2003) Of all the instruments of the orchestra, the cello is perhaps the most "human," for lack of a better word. If you close your eyes, you can almost imagine the sounds the instrument produces emanating from the mouth of an exquisite vocalist. Its tone and colour do not seem to enter the body through the ears, but rather through one's feet, traveling up from the ground, reverberating in the torso, finally coming to rest right in the middle of one's chest. Even its size and shape call to mind the human form; seeing it played and played well is like watching a vibrant, sensual dance. In the hands of an expert performer or composer particularly both the cello becomes almost a weapon, affecting the listener with any emotion the artist desires, leaving him or her wholly at the mercy of the music. It is a most benevolent and gentle form of cruelty and Yo-Yo Ma is its master. But let us not discount the affect of the piano, either especially when dealing with composers of the caliber of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sergei Prokofiev, and with the virtuosic talent and skill of pianist Emanuel Ax. That there is so much subtlety in such a grand instrument is almost unbelievable, and that it can be showcased so perfectly in the relatively short form of the sonata is testimony to the genius of both the creator and the interpreter.
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Extractions: Monsanto Guest Artist Internationally recognized as one of todays leading conductors, Leonard Slatkin is in his eighth season as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra. He is also in his fourth season as Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. His performances throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East have been distinguished by imaginative programming and highly praised interpretations of both the standard and 20th-century repertoires.
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Extractions: In just a decade, Switzerland's annual Verbier Festival has become one of the premier international musical celebrations, attracting a who's who of world-renowned artists to the Swiss countryside, in the shadow of the Alps, for more than two weeks of classical music performances. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the festival, a group of the world's greatest pianists gathered to play arrangements of classical favorites for four to 16 hands on one to eight pianos. Pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Nicholas Angelich, Martha Argerich, Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, James Levine, Mikhail Pletnev, and Staffan Scheja perform works by Mozart Wagner , Rimsky-Korsakov, Smetana, Sousa , and Gottschalk. Also featured is Bach Perhaps Switzerland's tony ski resorts of St. Moritz, Gstaad, and Zermatt are more widely known, but the attractions of Verbier extend beyond skiing to include its annual summer classical music festival. The dream team of pianists performing together on the same stage at Verbier is a rare sight, and one perhaps more common to concerts from past centuries. Learn more about the origins of this type of piano extravaganza in the essay by writer Marc Geelhoed. Meet one of the evening's noted international piano stars, Leif Ove Andsnes, from Norway, in
Concert Association Of Florida - Miami / Broward Classical Symphony Music Multiple Grammy® Awardwinning pianist emanuel ax is renowned not only for hispoetic temperament and unsurpassed virtuosity, but also for the exceptional http://www.concertfla.org/home.asp?page=EVENTSCALENDAR&serieid=&eventid=126
Yale Bulletin And Calendar Acclaimed pianist emanuel ax will kick off this year s season of the HorowitzPiano Series on Oct. 2. Jazz luminary, virtuoso pianist to play at Sprague http://www.yale.edu/opa/v32.n4/story12.html
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CD REVIEW Brahms Handel Emanuel Ax emanuel ax seems as eager as the composer to share the wealth of ideas, suddenturns, This recording reveals a pianist who has all the tools impeccable http://www.jamesweggreview.org/Reviews_Classical/Brahms_Handel.htm
Extractions: Whatever drew Brahms to Handels eight bars of stately, constrained melody, whose range is limited to an octave and whose notes never stray outside the eight notes of their Bb major home scale, will remain a musicological mystery! But compositionally their very simplicity is ideal for the incredible journey penned by the master variationist of his time. I last heard Ax some fifteen years ago where he tossed off the fiendishly difficult Khachaturian concerto at an American Symphony Conductor (now defunct) under the direction of my mentor Kazuyoshi Akiyama. His mastery of the keyboard was dazzling but at the time he wouldnt have been my first choice for the subtleties and breadth of another piano master. How wrong I can be!
