AllClassical.org - Playlists 3 in d minor, Op. 30, william wolfram, piano. 0500 PM, Global Maestro, Puccini,Giacomo featuring Benjamin Britten, as a pianist and conductor http://www.allclassical.org/playlists.php?selected_date=2005-05-14
Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players - Guest Artists Benjamin Hochman Outstanding pianist at Verbier ~ winner of the Melbourne william wolfram winner of the william Kapell, Naumburg, and Tchaikovsky http://www.jupitersymphony.com/artists.htm
Extractions: Benjamin Hochman: Outstanding Pianist at Verbier ~ winner of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition ~ member of Chamber Music Society II at Lincoln Center ~ a superb pianist The Globe and Mail ~ a power protagonist in Prokofievs spiritual odyssey ~ Washington Post ~ born in Jerusalem
Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players 2003-2004 Season Calendar william wolfram piano ~ Stefan Milenkovich violin Jan Krtitel VANHAL Concertante in Dmitri Berlinsky violin ~ Cynthia Phelps viola ~ Frank Levy pianist http://www.jupitersymphony.com/Calendar.htm
Kansas City Symphony william wolfram, PIANO INTERMISSION . BEETHOVEN Symphony No. tacked onby an early publisher or pianist because of the grand character of the work, http://www.kcsymphony.org/ConcertCalendar/view_program_note.jsp?id=P2DYSDABASHSG
Brahms Violin Sonatas, Soundpost Online Spring '01 is joined by pianist william wolfram in Brahms Three Sonatas for Violin and Admirably, the Almond/wolfram performances dont fall prey to either. http://www.soundpostonline.com/archive/spring2001/BrahmsViolinSonatas.htm
Extractions: Brahms Without Airs Reviewed by Michael Adams In an era when classical recordings are disappearing from store shelves about as fast as DVD players (but for sadly different reasons), its refreshing to see a disc by a violinist other than the usual suspects, like Shaham, Perlman, Mutter, Kennedy, Zukerman et.al. Frank Almond, concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 1995, is joined by pianist William Wolfram in Brahms Three Sonatas for Violin and Piano. (Boolean Recordings; available at www.sonatabop.com ) Rare are the people who can wear two hats - of both concertmaster and soloist - with distinction. They are very different roles, requiring unique skills. However, this disc shows that the small fraternity that includes Joe Silverstein and Glenn Dicterow might well have a new member. Let me start by saying what this recording does NOT have. There is a refreshing lack of affected gesture, like glissandos, rubatos and agogic accents in the predictable places. Almond is clearly a musician of exquisite taste and technical polish. Missing are distracting instrumental mannerisms which so often get in the way of simple music making. The same can be said of Wolfram. His playing is warm and finely attuned to the unique characters of each sonata, and he handles the often athletic and unwieldy piano writing with great finesse and expressive touch.
Wisconsin Musical Groups: Celebrities Violinist Frank Almond and pianist william wolfram have a CD recording of theComplete Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Johannes Brahms performances of http://my.execpc.com/~regent/celeb.htm
Extractions: Violinist Frank Almond and pianist William Wolfram have a CD recording of the Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Johannes Brahms : performances of Brahms' Violin Sonata No.1 in G, Op. 78; No 2 in A, Op. 100; and No.3 in D Minor, Op. 108. Produced by Frank Almond and Leszek Wojcik for Boolean Recordings. Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Principal Horn William Barnewitz has a solo CD, Functionlust , featuring Donizetti's Dirti Addio , Mozart's Horn Quintet, Berlioz's Le Jeune Patre Breton , and the Brahms Trio. To celebrate the release, Mr. Barnewitz and friends presented an evening of chamber music, benefitting Milwaukee's Hunger Task Force.
Concert Detail Inside the Music Daphnis and Chloé with Kenneth Freed Oct 13 at 630pm; Oct 14 15 at 7pm Postconcert Q A with pianist william wolfram (Oct 15 only) http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/season/event_detail.cfm?id_event=46
News pianist Jie Chen (winner of the 2004 Piano eCompetition) and flutist Sharon André Watts and william wolfram, violinists Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/about/news_story.cfm?id_news=76084614
Albany Records Hibernia, Vol. IV Considering Collinss training in composition and success as a concert pianist, The first, which william wolfram describes as a pastoral work, http://www.albanyrecords.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv Screen=PROD&Stor
C24 Music Playlist For Jun 4, 2005 Emanuel Ax, pianist Richard Stoltzman, clarinet YoYo Ma, cello Sony 57499 213am. Franz Liszt Etude 11 william wolfram, piano Naxos 557014 http://www.jmu.edu/wmra/pgm/06042005.html
Notable Graduates Ariane Haering Ashkenazy Concert pianist, recording artist. Fabiana Biasini Firstprize, william wolfram International performing career http://faculty.ncarts.edu/music/piano/notable_grads.htm
Extractions: Student Testimonials Notable graduates include... Ariane Haering Ashkenazy Concert pianist, recording artist Fabiana Biasini First prize, Ibla International Piano Competition (Italy) Keith Burton Pianist for Boys Choir of Harlem, New York City Robert Chumbley Composer/pianist; Executive and Musical Director/Conductor, Atlanta Ballet Kenneth Frazelle Award-winning composer; commissions for Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Christopher O'Riley. Composition faculty, NCSA Judy Fussell First prize, Josef Hofmann International Piano Competition Caterina Galiotto Vocal coach, Cologne Opera, Paris Opera, La Scala Margo Garrett International performing and recording artist, collaborator with Perlman, Rostropovich, Jaime Laredo, Paul Neubauer, Sharono Robinson, and Kathleen Battle. Faculty member, Piano Department, Juilliard School Carlos Juris Professor of Piano, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland
C24 Music Playlist For Jul 31, 2005 506am. Frederic Chopin Polonaise 1 Artur Rubinstein, pianist RCA 5615 906pm. Franz Liszt A Sigh william wolfram, piano Naxos 557014 http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/data/listings/c24/2005/07/C2050731.html
C24 Music Playlist For Aug 27, 2004 513 am. Franz Liszt Dance of the Gnomes william wolfram, piano Naxos 557014 Frederic Chopin Prelude 15 Raindrop John O Conor, pianist Telarc 80313 http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/data/listings/c24/2004/08/C2040827.html
Artist Roster pianist with the US Army Chorus, educator, member of the Chamber Artists of Robert Weirich The Wentworths Earl Wild John williams william wolfram http://www.baldwinpiano.com/about/roster.html
Extractions: With a high-energy stage show and a steady stream of smart pop songs, Ben Folds Five has become one of the top performing and recording acts today. The group, featuring pianist, vocalist and principal composer Ben Folds at the Baldwin grand piano, is currently on tour around the world to support its latest recording. For more than two decades, Diane Schuur has set the musical world on fire with her jazz-drenched vocal and piano style. She has taken her talent on tour around the world, worked with master musicians including B.B. King, Ray Charles and Quincy Jones, recorded more than a dozen albums and earned two Grammy Awards in the process. John Willams is one of the most respected and honored composers of film and concert music today. He has composed the music for more than 70 feature films including “Schindler’s List,” “Jurassic Park,” “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Star Wars” and "Superman." He has received dozens of Academy Award nominations as well as Emmy, Oscar and Grammy awards.
Richard Conrad's THE BOSTONIANS - Press Featured artists are Philip Lima, baritone, and william Merrill, pianist, but he had the perfect timbre for wolfram; his Abendstern (Tannhäuser) http://www.thebostonians.org/press.htm
Extractions: Contact: June Kfoury McNeil SECOND SEASON OF THE BOSTONIANS' ART OF SONG SERIES The Bostonians (The Bostonian Opera and Concert Ensemble) will present three concerts in their second Art of Song Series at Killian Hall in the MIT Hayden Library, at 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge. SATURDAY, September 17 at 7:30 Richard Conrad, Baritone GALA 70th BIRTHDAY CONCERT (to benefit The Bostonians) String ensemble William Merrill, Pianist Janet Hood, Composer-Pianist Music of Pinkham, Sullivan, Hood, Coward, and Vaughan Williams Tickets for each concert are $25; Seniors and students $20; and can be reserved on line at www.thebostonians.org Once an important part of the concert scene, the song recital, or Liederabend, has experienced a sad decline in the U.S., although it remains a greatly loved genre in Europe and Britain. During the 20th century Boston could boast of twenty to thirty major recitals a year, performed by world class artists. The great Irish tenor, John McCormack, gave eleven Symphony Hall song recitals in one season! In The Art of Song series, The Bostonians will explore this vast repertory, featuring beloved, familiar songs along with lesser known masterpieces. Tickets are $25; $18 for Seniors and Students. To place orders, please call 617-242-4015 or visit our website at www.thebostonians.org where you can charge your ticket order with Visa or MasterCard.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features /2005/02/21/ May 26 and 28, will be Festivalo of Sounds, conducted by the symphony sartistic advisor, JoAnn Falletta, and featuring pianist william wolfram. http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/21/features/story2.html
Extractions: tryan@starbulletin.com Acclaimed classical guitarist Christopher Parkening returns to Honolulu in September to kick off the Honolulu Symphony Halekulani MasterWorks 2005-06 season with a pair of concerts titled "Depth and Passion," featuring Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. Tickets for the 2005-06 Halekulani MasterWorks series go on sale Thursday: Full subscriptions: For 14 Friday or Sunday concerts, prices start at $266. Half-subscriptions: Seven concerts, $143.50 and up
David S Review Corner - July 2005 ALWYN Piano Concertos Nos. 1 Cecylia Arzewski (violin), william wolfram (piano), Robert Kim (narrator), Born in 1911, his younger years were spent as a concert pianist and teacher, http://www.naxos.com/sharefile/review/David_review_corner_JUL.htm
Extractions: ALWYN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2. Derby Day Overture. Sonata all Toccata. Peter Donohoe (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, James Judd (conductor). Naxos 8.557590. (59' 33"). Derby Day , and the spiky 1942 Piano Sonata complete the release. Peter Donohoe's stunning playing returns us to that night many years ago when he took Moscow by storm in the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, the sheer dexterity and detail of his playing being quite remarkable, while the impact of the Bournemouth Symphony is superb. The recording quality is outstanding, the disc as a whole leaving me searching for adequate superlatives to commend it to you. BAX: Tintagel. The Garden of Fand. The Happy Forest. The Tale the Pine Trees Knew. November Woods. Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor). Naxos 8.557599. (74' 08"). No composer in the 20th century created sound pictures with such luminous colours. If you doubt that statement, go out and buy this disc where David Lloyd-Jones inspires the Scottish orchestra to create some of the great performances they have placed on disc. The best known is the rugged seascape of Tintagel on the Atlantic coast of England, a part of the world steeped in history. Debussy and Dukas do lurk in the background, but Bax worked with a much wider tonal range, the big dramatic moments painted in blazing colours.
Metro Magazine pianist william wolfram, guest artist at NC Symphonys first classical concertof the season, featuring Alastair Willis, guest conductor; Sept. http://www.metronc.com/issues/issue09_03/Preview/previewq.html
Extractions: @honolulusymphony.com Variety also spices up the classical season, in the music of the incomparable soprano Rene Fleming, violinist Christopher Parkening, and the formidable family act The Ahn Trio, also starting in September. All concerts will be in the Blaisdell Concert Hall. THE POPS SEASON — "The Righteous Brothers: A Celebration by Bill Medley." Medley created this tribute to his late "brother" in song, Bobby Hatfield, who died in 2003. The Righteous Brothers, known for their "blue-eyed soul," has graced the pop charts with such indelible hits as "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," "Rock and Roll Heaven," and "Unchained Melody" (which was a hit twice, originally in 1964, and in 1990, when it provided an augmented memorable moment in the movie, "Ghost.")
Standing Ovation, But A Half-empty House - The University News - Culture pianist william wolfram joined the orchestra to play Beethoven s Concerto No.5, Emperor. The concerto s grand phrasing and tempestuous solo passages for http://www.unews.com/media/paper274/news/2005/02/07/Culture/Standing.Ovation.But
Extractions: showNetworkBanner(1); var story_id = 855290; Home Culture By Maria Iliakova Published: Monday, February 7, 2005 He who divines the secret of my music is delivered from the misery that haunts the world," Beethoven once said. The all-Beethoven program played by the Kansas City Symphony last weekend resonated in the Lyric Theater to an audience eager to experience the mystery of the music. The concerto's grand phrasing and tempestuous solo passages for piano foreshadow centuries of music to come. The orchestra seamlessly fitted Wolfram's timing and the virtuosity of the score. The Kansas City Symphony outperformed itself with refreshing vivacity and dedication to a dynamically extensive performance. Wolfram's technical ability shone with a nearly tangible splendor. He played passages, especially in the movement I, with incredible balance between treble and clef, at times creating unimaginably delicate and stirring music. Wolfram's apparent love of dramatic show and attachment to the right pedal, however, served to hinder his otherwise sincere movement III. Nevertheless, his technique glided his fingers through difficult arpeggios and scales while details emerged brilliantly during his solo moments.
