Extractions: The Las Vegas Philharmonic enjoyed a splendid conclusion to its 2003-2004 season Saturday night with a superb guest soloist and grand work by its own musicians. The orchestra, under the direction of Harold Weller, performed before a near-capacity crowd at Ham Hall on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Guest pianist Valentina Lisitsa was the star of the evening, receiving a standing ovation after her scheduled offering, Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43," and each of her two solo encores. Orchestra members, too, applauded or tapped bows against their instruments in appreciation. Lisitsa, who is Ukrainian, made her first stage appearance at 4 and earned a scholarship to the Kiev Conservatory at 7. Wearing a full, burgundy formal, her long blond hair streaming down her back, her fingers literally pounced on the keys, then swept on to others in what seemed to be feral delight. The Rachmaninoff is a familiar piece, considered among the most joyous of his compositions. It includes two dozen variations on a single theme, all based on a caprice for violin. (Beethoven also wrote variations on the pieces.)
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Extractions: Vintage 1953-1955 performances led by Ernest Ansermet (1883-1969), mathematician and conductor extraordinaire, known for the chaste and self-effacing literalism of his style, which eschewed aggrandized subjectivity. Ansermet's reputation, somewhat like that of Munch and Inghelbrecht, lies mainly in French music, but his range was quite broad and embraced Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bartok, Bloch, Falla, Handel, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky. A strong similitude of taste and style exists between Ansermet and Igor Markevitch, although the latter tends to be more fiery in temperament. But I recall that one of Ansermet's last records for London Decca, his performance of the Lalo Scherzo, had my telephone ringing at WHRW-FM, where I broadcast it for the SUNY Binghamton station. At least two inscriptions included by Testament are noteworthy: La Peri, from 1955, is in sterling, stereo sound, and it has strong personality and lovely, arched phrasing. It omits the more famous fanfare, but the ballet proper is exalted Dukas. The Debussy ballet Jeux received its second commercial recording here under Ansermet, the first belonging to Vittorio de Sabata on RCA. This music, an interwoven rondo-burlesque, still mystifies even after ninety years of existence. Ansermet makes smooth logic of its elusive figures. More successful as melos are the six Ancient Epigraphs in Ansermet's own orchestration, vividly colored and nuanced, delicately rendered. The two popular pieces, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Danse macabre, are certainly poised and balanced, perhaps a bit less neurotically effective than the Stokowski and Mitropoulos versions which provide more earthy electricity.
Bright Star Season Presents Prague Chamber Orchestra January 27 Viterbo College Bright Star Season will host the worldrenowned Prague ChamberOrchestra, with a special appearance by noted pianist valentina lisitsa. http://www.viterbo.edu/campnews/releases/archives/spring1998/prague.htm
Extractions: On January 27, the Viterbo College Bright Star Season will host the world-renowned Prague Chamber Orchestra, with a special appearance by noted pianist Valentina Lisitsa. The show promises to be one not soon forgotten. Each musician is a maestro, heralded an American critic during the first North American tour of the Prague Chamber Orchestra Without Conductor (translation of its full Czech title). An ensemble of 36 musicians, the Orchestra plays without conductor, sustained instead by the superb musicianship of each player, and is renowned for its exquisite precision, intonation and balance. In rehearsal and performance, each individual contributes as an interpreter, similar to more intimate chamber music ensembles. The Orchestras repertoire ranges from Baroque to the twentieth century and often includes compositions of todays leading and active composers. The New York Times characterized the Orchestra as a marvelous precision instrument. The Washington Post described the ensembles musical sound as light, clear, perfectly articulated and fresh as a spring gust of wind. Romes Il Giornale dItalio wrote: They demonstrated the highest form of artistic discipline, not blind and passive discipline to a conductor but an enlightened and conscious one. After its successful tour in February of 1996 in the eastern part of North America, Prague Chamber Orchestra makes its eagerly awaited thirteenth North American Tour in 1997?98 season with the remarkable young Russian pianist Valentina Lisitsa and the acclaimed Russian trumpeter, Sergei Nakariakov.
98.7WFMT Program Highlights | WFMT Carlos Kalmar conducts the orchestra and pianist valentina lisitsa in Hailstock sCelebration; Barber s Souvenirs; Hanson s Symphony No. http://www.wfmt.com/playlists/highlights.html
Extractions: To support Southern Journeys , an exhibition of works by African-American artists. The museum seeks to educate and engage Central Louisiana audiences, particularly students, by featuring 75 artists whose oeuvre reflects the South's influence from the nineteenth into the twenty-first century, as well as through related activities, such as local visual arts workshops conducted by exhibited artists and dissemination of a curriculum workbook to all area schools. Altoona Symphony Orchestra To support the opening classical concert of the 2004-05 season. An orchestral work by composer-in-residence Todd Goodman will premiere. The other works to be performed include Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major , with guest violinist Ju-Young Baek.
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NZSO Plays Up A Storm In 2004 pianist Stephen Gosling, will premiere John Psathas Piano Concerto, and the NZSOwelcomes Russianborn valentina lisitsa making her first New Zealand http://www.artscalendar.co.nz/article/435/
Extractions: season with a mix of music from the 18th to the 21st century, plus a new look. It embraces some of the world's best including, fast-rising New Zealand singer Jonathan Lemalu Lang Lang , one of the most exciting pianists of our time, and Hilary Hahn who has recently been hailed as 'America's Best Young Classical Musician'.
FOCM - Past Artists Artis Quartet with valentina lisitsa (piano) Peter Zazofsky (violin), WilliamDe Rosa (cello), valentina lisitsa (piano) http://www.miamichambermusic.org/artists/past.html
Extractions: Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Institute with Miriam Fried (violin) Yefim Bronfman (piano) with The American String Quartet The Fine Arts Quartet with Paul Posnak (piano) The Ysaye Quartet with The Paris Trio Bruno Leonardo Gelber (piano) Artemis Quartet I Musici de Montreal, Chamber Symphony Horacio Gutierrez (piano) The Guarneri Quartet Roberto Diaz (viola), Valentina Lisitsa (piano), Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet) Ken Noda (piano) Ysaye Quartet with Paris Trio Cho Liang Lin (violin), William De Rosa (cello), Andre Michel Schub (piano) Takacs String Quartet Guarneri String Quartet Artis Quartet with Valentina Lisitsa (piano) Artis Quartet with William De Rosa (cello) and Carrie Dennis (viola) The Colorado String Quartet with Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet) Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Ken Noda (piano) and Lyubov Petrova (vocal) Guarneri Quartet Parisii Quartet with Jean-Claude Pennetier (piano) Lincoln Center Chamber Players with Cho Liang Lin (violin) and Kyoko Takezawa (violin) Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Tokyo String Quartet Ken Noda (piano), Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet), Lyubov Petrova (vocal)
Piano Duo To Perform In Chicago (11/05/00) CHICAGO The piano-duo of valentina lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff, both formerstudents at the Kyiv Conservatory who have been winning critical acclaim http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2000/450020.shtml
Extractions: Piano duo to perform in Chicago CHICAGO - The piano-duo of Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff, both former students at the Kyiv Conservatory who have been winning critical acclaim since coming to the United States in 1991, will appear in their third concert performance at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, on Sunday, November 19, at 2 p.m. The husband-and-wife piano duo made their United States debut in Chicago, securing the following response from the Chicago Tribune's music critic, John von Rhein: "... I cannot recall when I have heard a more exciting or more accomplished two-piano team. They have the colossal technique and temperament you associate with pianists of the Russian school; they also have virtually flawless ensemble, the kind most duos labor for years to achieve, if they are even so fortunate." Ms. Lisitsa and Mr. Kuznetsoff, while still students at the conservatory, decided to give up solo piano study and work as a two-piano team with Lumdilla Tsvierko in Kyiv. In 1990 they won first prize at the Ukrainian Chamber Music Competition. In 1991 the duo was awarded first prize in the Third International Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition held in Miami. Shortly thereafter, the couple made their home in the United States as scholarship students of Alexander Toradze, head of the piano department at the University of Indiana in South Bend.
January 22, 1999 Lisitsa And Kuznetsoff Duo Pianists . lisitsa and Kuznetsoff Newspapers across the country proclaimthe Ukrainian piano duo, valentina lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff, http://www.calvin.edu/january/1999/lisitsa.htm
Extractions: Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff "Duo Pianists" Newspapers across the country proclaim the Ukrainian piano duo, Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff, as the most "exciting," "accomplished," and "uncommon" two-piano team in the world. During the 1996-97 season, the award-winning husband-wife duo participated in an important North American tour as soloists with the Orchestre National de France under the direction of Charles Dutoit, which included performances at New York's Lincoln Center, Boston, and Miami. Young, gifted, and flawless in their execution of a full repertoire of classical music, Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff create together what critics say is a "technically effortless, interpretively cohesive" experience for listeners. Now living in the U.S., Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff bring to Western Michigan a rare opportunity to see and hear duo-piano perfection. This concert is not available for broadcast.
January 26, 2000 Lisitsa & Kuznetsoff DuoPianists . valentina lisitsa Alexei Kuznetsoff lisitsa and Kuznetsoff makebeautifully nuanced music with two pianos, raising the phenomenon of http://www.calvin.edu/january/2000/pianists.htm
Extractions: "Duo-Pianists" Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff make beautifully nuanced music with two pianos, raising the phenomenon of multiple pianos above gimmickry to artistry. When they met at the Kiev Conservatory, they each had already won both national and international recognition in solo piano and chamber music competitions. When this Ukrainian piano duo exploded onto the American musical scene in their formal debut in Miami in 1991, their flawless ensemble and unified musicianship captured the enthusiasm of audience and critics alike. Last year's appearance on The January Series was part of a 29-city tour. They are back this year by popular demand.
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Duopianists Women pianists as members of an established piano duo, performing at thenational/international level and/or valentina lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff http://www.pianowomen.com/duopianists.html
Extractions: Duos begun [1900-1920's] [1930's-1940's] [1950's-1960's] [1970's-1980's] ... [1990's] Women pianists as members of an established piano duo, performing at the national/international level and/or recording artists. This list is roughly chronological, based upon the time the duo was formed, beginning with the early 1900's and continuing down to today. Duos begun 1900-1920's Rosina (b. Kiev, Mar, 28, 1880; d. Glendale, Calif., Nov. 9, 1976) and Josef Lhevinne ... (b. Moscow, Dec. 13, 1874; d. New York, Dec. 2, 1944) Married in 1908, after Rosina's graduation from the Moscow Conservatory, Josef had an active solo carer throughout Europe, and Rosina made performances in 1910-1912. He made his U.S. debut in 1906 and in 1919 they moved to New York where they established a music studio. Josef began teaching at Julliard in 1922 and she later joined him there. Early on they performed together occasionally, but by the 1930's they included two-piano music in most of his performances. Their biography is A Century of Music-Making by Robert Wallace (1976).
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Bosendorfer's 175th Anniversary Celebration There were also three classical pianists valentina lisitsa, Alexeij Kuznetsoff,and Mariam Nazaram. From left to right Manfred Aichinger, DD Jackson, http://www.savagerecords.com/bosendorfer175.htm
Extractions: Bosendorfer's 175th Anniversary Celebration October 20, 2003 On October 20 th , Bösendorfer New York, owned by Lisa and Gerhart Feldmann, held a celebration to mark its moving to a beautiful new showroom and its parent companys 175th year in business. Matt was honored to be one of six Bösendorfer piano artists invited to perform at this celebration. There were three jazz pianists Matt, D.D. Jackson, and Seth Kaufman. There were also three classical pianists Valentina Lisitsa, Alexeij Kuznetsoff, and Mariam Nazaram. From left to right - Manfred Aichinger, D.D. Jackson, Seth Kaufman, Mariam Nazaram, Valentina Lisitsa, Alexeij Kuznetsoff, Matt Savage (front) Bösendorfer, in celebration of its 175 years in business, crafted six elaborate and exquisite one-of-a-kind pianos. Each standard Bösendorfer piano is handmade and takes a full year to build. But THESE pianos are unlike anything you have ever seen. The Bosendorfer "Artisan" Piano One piano is a collaboration design with Swarovski Crystals and contains over 8,000 crystals on it. Even the lacquer of the piano has small crystals imbedded within. Another piano is called The Porsche and is sleek, modern, and painted with the same paint used on the car. There is a replica of an ornate and gold-gilded piano that had been given to the Japanese Emperor by Austria hundreds of years ago, and an inlaid piano called The Marquis. There is a piano that looks like a beautiful, old-style Viennese piano, with carved latticework and curves.
Winners 1991 lisitsa and Kuznetsoff Piano Duo valentina lisitsa and Alexi Kuznetsoff1991- Lewis and Perry Piano Duo Kathryn Lewis and Martin Perry http://www.dranoff2piano.org/winners.htm
Eye Spy LA CELLIST LYNN HARRELL AND FRIENDS In Hollywood Joining Mr. Harrell are the prizewinning Ukrainian-born pianist valentina Lisitsaand violinists Helen Nightengale and Bruce Dukov. http://www.eyespyla.com/www/thebuzz.nsf/0/cf4c6786032adeb38825704c007cf54b?OpenD
UMM In The News Russian pianists, valentina lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff, virtually explodedonto the American musical scene in their formal US debut. http://www.mrs.umn.edu/news/00stories/archives/2000/pianists101100.shtml
Extractions: Russian Duo Pianists "Extraordinaire" to Perform Russian pianists, Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff, "virtually exploded onto the American musical scene in their formal U.S. debut." The husband and wife "duo extraordinaire" have won every major competition for two pianos worldwide. Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, in Recital Hall of the Humanities Fine Arts Center at the University of Minnesota, Morris. The concert is sponsored by the Glenn Nielson Family of Glenwood, formerly residents of Wheaton, and is a celebration of the establishment of the Karyn Nielson Memorial Scholarship. "I cannot recall when I have heard a more exciting or more accomplished two-piano teamÅ ," said Chicago Tribune music critic, John von Rhein. The brilliant husband and wife team from Russia came to the United States with an impressive list of competition prizes to its credit and is winning critical acclaim in the U.S. as gifted artists making a genuine contribution to the marvelous, but seldom-heard, literature for two pianos. In 1990, after only a few weeks of preparation, Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff captured the first prize at the Ukrainian Chamber Music Competition. In 1991, they were awarded the first prize in the 3rd International Murry Dranoff Two Piano Competition. Shortly after their victory in Miami, they made their home in the United States and recently became American citizens. Their recent orchestra engagements have included tours as soloists with the Orchestra National de France with performances at New York's Lincoln Center and Boston Symphony Hall among other places. They have performed at such respected venues as the Tisch Center for the Arts at New York's 92nd Street Y, Van Cliburn Recital Series in Fort Worth, Grant Park Festival in Chicago, among others. The duo has recorded two CDs for the Audiofon label.
