Program I

Pianist Chetan Tierra
Works by Clementi, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky

Critically acclaimed for his "warm tone" and "soulful manner," (The Times-Picaynne) emerging young American pianist Chetan Tierra has been seen on concert stages in North America and Europe since the age of six. He holds prizes in over twenty competitions including first prize and the gold medal at the Eighth California International Young Artists Competition, first prize at the Twenty-Eighth Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, and second prize at the Eighteenth New Orleans International Piano Competition. He has been featured on Italy's "teleblu" tv channel, as well as on WCLV and KUSP radio stations.

Among many performances, Mr. Tierra made his Carnegie Hall debut in November, 2006. Other noteworthy performances include appearances with the Santa Cruz Symphony, the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, and the TSO orchestra at the Brevard Music Festival. Upcoming engagements include concerto performances with the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Viana do Castelo Music Festival Orchestra in Portugal, and solo performances in New York, New Orleans, San Diego, and Santa Cruz.

Mr. Tierra gives most of his credit to current teacher and world class pianist, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and his gifted former teacher, Hans Boepple. He has also had the priviledge to work with Peter Serkin, Misha Dichter, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Sergei Babayan, Daniel Shapiro, Paul Schenly, Emma Tahmizian, Alvin Chow, Pawel Skrzypek, and Bruce Murray. Currently residing in Cleveland, Ohio, Chetan is completing his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

For more information on Chetan Tierra visit www.chetantierra.com/

 

Date, time:	Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 3 PM
Location:	Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall, VAPA 5001
Price:	Ticket Prices from $14 - $25
Ticket sales:	Cabrillo Box Office, Bldg 2100 A 479-6 331 M-F 9:30 – 4:30 Tickets may be purchased online at TicketGuys.com 831-656-9507

 

 Program II

Pianist Andrew von Oyen

Program: Chopin : 24 Preludes op.28
Chopin : Ballade No.1 in g minor op.23
Liszt : ‘Nuages gris'
Liszt : Ballade in b minor
Wagner-Liszt : Elsa's Bridal Procession from Lohengrin
Verdi-Liszt : Rigoletto Paraphrase

Andrew von Oeyen has already established himself as one of the most captivating pianists of his generation. Since his debut at age 16 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mr. von Oeyen has performed to critical acclaim in recital and orchestral appearances around the world.

Already commanding an extensive and diverse repertoire, Mr. von Oeyen has recently performed Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 with the San Francisco Symphony, Ravinia Festival Orchestra and Cincinnati Symphony, Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Detroit Symphony, Rachmaninoff No. 3 and Rach/Pag in summer and subscription appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” with the National Symphony and Atlanta Symphony, Liszt concerti with the Rochester Philharmonic and the North Carolina Symphony, Beethoven No. 4 with the Detroit Symphony and Slovak Philharmonic, Bartok No. 2 at the Spoleto Festival USA, Barber with the Utah Symphony, and Mozart concerti at the Bellingham Festival of Music. As both soloist and conductor he has led concerti and orchestral works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel and Kurt Weill at Spoleto Festival USA. On July 4, 2009 , von Oeyen performed at the U.S. Capitol with the National Symphony in "A Capitol Fourth," reaching millions worldwide in the multi-award winning PBS live telecast.

Mr. von Oeyen has recently appeared in recital at Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall in London, Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Zürich's Tonhalle, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Grand Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Dublin's National Concert Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, Zipper Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, in Toronto, Santa Fe, Bologna, Bucharest, Hanoi, Macao and in all the major concert halls of Japan and Korea. Of his Kennedy Center recital debut, Tim Page of the Washington Post wrote, “The Hayes Piano Series concluded triumphantly Saturday afternoon with a smart, varied and altogether engrossing recital by Andrew von Oeyen...In fact, I would go so far as to say that von Oeyen played the finest all-around performance of Franz Liszt's Sonata in B Minor that I have heard in many years." During the 2009-2010 season, he will tour Japan twice, performing the Beethoven Emperor Concerto with the Berliner Symphoniker Orchestra, and later that season in recital. He will also appear in recital with violinist Sarah Chang throughout Europe , North America and Asia , which will culminate in a recording for EMI Classics, in addition to regular guest appearances with orchestras worldwide. This season also sees the release of a new album of Liszt works, including the Sonata in B Minor, Vallée d'Obermann and Wagner and Verdi opera transcriptions.

In recent seasons, Mr. von Oeyen has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Singapore Symphony, the Slovenian Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic and Zagreb Philharmonic and has appeared at the festivals of Aspen, Ravinia, Grant Park, Spoleto, Festival del Sole (Napa Valley), Grand Teton, Bratislava and Gilmore. He won the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award in 1999 and also took First Prize in the Leni Fe Bland Foundation National Piano Competition in 2001.

Born in the U.S. in 1979, Andrew von Oeyen began his piano studies at age 5 and made his solo orchestral debut at age 10. An alumnus of Columbia University and graduate of The Juilliard School, where his principal teachers were Herbert Stessin and Jerome Lowenthal, he has also worked with Alfred Brendel and Leon Fleisher. He lives in New York and Paris .

For more information on Andrew von Oeyen visit www.vonoeyen.com

Date, time:	Sunday, November 14, 2010 at 3 PM
Location:	Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall, VAPA 5001
Price:	Ticket Prices (call for infomration at 831-688-1518)
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 Program III

Pianist Frank Wiens
Program: Works by Soler, Albeniz, De Falla, Liszt, Rodrigo, Granados, Turina, and Bizet

“Musical strength...commanding manner...very convincing...grandeur and power...the phrases firmly and decisively sculpted...”
London Times

“Technical brilliance, a clarity of color, richness of imagery, and sincerity of performance...a nobility of artistic manner...Frank Wiens is a brilliant representative of the American school of piano technique.”
Yaroslavl, USSR

“Eloquent phrasing and nobility of conception”
Los Angeles Times

“There is much to admire in Mr. Wiens's playing. He has a secure technique and built Aaron Copland's “Piano Variations” block by sonic block into a starkly majesterial conception. One also admired his assured way with Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor...Mr. Wiens proved himself capable of tenderness...”
New York Times

“Frank Wiens ...is a major pianist. His performance of the Rachmaninoff concert Saturday night was the kind for which you drag out all the big adjectives-tremendous, titanic, sensational, superb-and then disgustedly put them back again because they aren't good enough. It delivered the very soul of this Romantic masterpiece with all its dazzle, ache and love.”
Sacramento Bee

“Great tenderness and delicacy...a flowingly sensitive performance.”
Florida Times-Union

“Wiens is unexcelled in concerto program”
Denver Post

For more information on Frank Wiens visit www.frankwiens.com

Date, time:	Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 3 PM
Location:	Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall, VAPA 5001
Price:	Ticket Prices from $14 - $25
Ticket sales:	Cabrillo Box Office, Bldg 2100 A 479-6 331 M-F 9:30 – 4:30 Tickets may be purchased online at TicketGuys.com 831-656-9507

 

 Program IV

Pianist Evgeny Sudbin
Works by Chopin, Ronald Stevenson, Franz Liszt, and Maurice Ravel

No pianist of any generation has, in my experience, captured Scriabin's volatility so vividly as Sudbin... All these performances are flecked with personal touches and brilliances above and beyond even Scriabin's wildest demands...This, put suitably euphorically, is a disc in a million.

Editor's Choice— Bryce Morrison, Gramophone

For more information on Evgeny Sudbin visit www.yevgenysudbin.com

Date, time:	Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 8 PM
Location:	Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall, VAPA 5001
Ticket Sales:	Ticket Prices from $16 - $28 Cabrillo Box Office, Bldg 2100 A 479-6 331 M-F 9:30 – 4:30 Tickets may be purchased online at TicketGuys.com 831-656-9507

 

 

 

 

 

 

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