I’m so excited to again partner with The Chopin Project for a series of piano concerts by some of the finest artists in the world.
The 2019-20 series kicks off next Monday, Nov. 25, with the return of a young artist who is already a favorite with Palladium audiences. Matthew Graybil will be performing works by Chopin, Schubert, Brahms and Liszt.
For tickets and more information on that concert please call our box office at 727-822-3590 or follow this link for on-line tickets and info.
So you can plan ahead and perhaps pick up a subscription to the entire series, I’ve included all the concerts below:
Monday, November 25, 2019, at 7:30 PM
The Chopin Project® Music Series at The Palladium
Matthew Graybil, in solo piano performance
DANCES AND TALES
This program sits at the intersection of comedy and tragedy, dance and song. It will explore the interaction between the lighthearted and profound sides of a composer’s nature. It will also reveal the communion of the two and showcase how these seemingly opposing elements have more in common than we might think.
World-renowned pianist Matthew Graybil’s exceptional talent on display in a solo piano performance featuring the music of Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, and Liszt.
Matthew Graybil
ABOUT MATTHEW GRAYBIL
Praised by the New Yorker as an “exceptional young artist” and by The Southampton Press as “hypnotic and compelling,” American pianist Matthew Graybil has performed as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., Canada, France, Holland, and Mexico. He made his orchestral debut at age 14 with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and has subsequently performed with the Fort Worth Symphony and the National Chamber Players. He completed his Master’s program at Juilliard and debuted his first album in 2012 featuring the works of Brahms and Schubert. A second album of Chopin’s Etudes, Opus 10 has also been released on the Chopin Project label.
Monday, January 13, 2020, at 7:30 PM
The Chopin Project® Music Series at The Palladium
Renana Gutman, in solo piano performance
CHASING CHOPIN
Internationally acclaimed pianist, Renana Gutman will be “chasing” Chopin as she presents works by Chopin and the composers he influenced including Gabriel Faure, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, and others with elegant commentary that weaves their music and their stories.
ABOUT RENANA GUTMAN
Renana Gutman
Praised by The New York Times for her “passionate and insightful” playing, Israel native Renena Gutman has performed across four continents as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and collaborative artist, performing at such notable venues as The Louvre, Carnegie Recital Hall, the Grenoble Museum, and St. Petersburg’s Philharmonia in Russia, to name a few. She was a founding member of the award-winning piano trio “Terzetto” with violinist Diana Cohen and cellist Tanya Ell. The trio performed regularly in festivals and concerts across North America from 2007-2011. Ms. Gutman’s recording of Chopin’s Etudes, Opus 25 is featured on Chopin Project’s Rarities & Favorites, Volume 4.
As a pedagogue, Renana joined the piano faculty of Boston’s Longy School of Music of Bard College in 2019. She had previously been on the piano faculty of the Yehudi Menuhin Music School in the UK, and of Bard Pre-College and the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Ms. Gutman also plays an active role in the NY Chapter of Music for Food, a musician-led initiative for hunger relief.
Sunday, March 22, 2020, at 7:30 PM
The Chopin Project® Music Series at The Palladium
Inna Faliks, in solo piano performance
POLONAISE-FANTASIE: THE STORY OF A PIANIST
Making her West Coast Florida debut, pianist, Inna Faliks shares a hybrid of a piano recital and an autobiographical monologue, one she considers the most personal project she has ever done. “It is my hope that in sharing this story, I offer audiences a glimpse into the life of a performing musician, as well as my own journey — one that has enabled me to become the artist I am today.”
ABOUT INNA FALIKS
Inna Faliks
“Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker) Ukranian-born American pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most exciting, committed, communicative and poetic artists of her generation. A Yamaha Artist and current professor and head of piano UCLA, Faliks has made a name for herself through her commanding performances of standard piano repertoire that have taken her around the world to some of the most esteemed venues.
Faliks’ genre-bending interdisciplinary projects and inquisitive work with contemporary composers has earned her additional acclaim from The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Lucid Culture, and Audiophile Audition. Inna is also the founder and curator of the award-winning poetry-music series Music/Words, creating performances in collaboration with distinguished poets as well as conducting masterclasses and traveling to Artist Residencies in major conservatories and universities around the world.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020, at 7:30 PM
The Chopin Project® Music Series at The Palladium
Igor Lovchinsky, in solo piano performance
AN EVENING OF CHOPIN, SCHUMANN AND LISZT
Having made his West Coast Florida debut in 2019, Igor Lovchinsky returns to celebrate the lives and legacies of Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, all of whom were born within one year of each other 210 years ago. Lovchinsky has been hailed by Gramophone as a “star of the future” and acclaimed by Germany’s Piano Magazine for the “elegance and rapturous beauty” of his music-making.
ABOUT IGOR LOVCHINSKY
Igor Lovchinsky
Born in Kazan, Russia in 1984, Igor Lovchinsky began playing the piano at the age of 2. Very quickly, he showed extraordinary promise — not only as a pianist but also as a composer and improviser and by age 4 was playing entire recitals for friends and families. In 1989, he entered the Kazan Special Music School for Gifted Children and after coming to the U. S. in 1994, garnered first prizes at the Eastman International Piano Competition and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition.
Lovchinsky has performed internationally at the Nation Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, the American Embassy in Beijing, and the Rosza Centre in Calgary. Recent tours have included performances in Poland, Lithuania, and Brazil. In addition to his Bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School and a Master’s degree from the New England Conservatory in Boston, Lovchinsky also holds a Ph. D. in Physics from Harvard University.
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