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Howland Chamber Music Circle Presents Piano Series
The Howland Chamber Music Circle will launch its popular Piano Series on January 20, with a recital by the Georgian pianist Alexander Korsantia, followed on February 10 by Bosnian pianist Pedja Muzijevic, and on March 2, by Simone Dinnerstein, well known to the Howland Center's audience.
Dubbed a major artist by the Miami Herald and a quiet maverick by the Daily Telegraph, pianist Alexander Korsantia has been praised for the "clarity of his technique, richly varied tone and dynamic phrasing" (Baltimore Sun), and a "piano technique where difficulties simply do not exist" (Calgary Sun). The Boston Globe found his interpretation of Pictures of an Exhibition to be "a performance that could annihilate all others one has heard." The Birmingham Post gushed that his "intensely responsive reading was shot through with a vein of constant fantasy, whether musing or mercurial." Ever since winning the First Prize and Gold Medal of the Artur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition and the First Prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition, Korsantia's career has taken him to many of the world's major concert halls, collaborating with renowned conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Christoph Eschenbach, and Paavo Jarvi.
Season 2007/08 brings him to the Pacific Symphony, Omaha and Elgin symphonies following a summer stint with the Israel Philharmonic under Rafael de Burgos where he performed Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and the 2nd Brahms Piano Concerto nine times. In Europe he has toured with the Toulouse Symphony, as well as with the Noeburg Chamber Orchestra across Germany. He is scheduled to give recitals at the Festival Piano Jacobins in Toulouse, and in Calgary, Lodz, and his hometown, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Alexander Korsantia began his musical studies at an early age. In 1992, he moved his family to the United States and joined the famed piano studio of fellow Georgian, Alexander Toradze, at Indiana University. Korsantia resides in Boston where he is a Professor of Piano on the faculty of the New England Conservatory.
For his recital at the Howland Center Mr. Korsantia has chosen to play Haydn's Sonata in F major, Hob. XVI/23, three pieces by Chopin: the Nocturne in F major, Op.15, No.1; the Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op. 52, and the Scherzo No.1 in b minor, Op. 30. After the intermission he will play Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in its original piano version.
The concert will take place on Sunday, January 20, at 4pm at the Howland Center, 477 Main Street, Beacon, and will be followed by a reception to meet the artist.
Tickets are by subscription to the series at $80 ($30 for students), tickets to individual concerts are $30 ($10 for students) and can be reserved by calling 297-9243. Further information on this and other presentations by the Howland Chamber Music Circle can be found at www.howlandmusic.org
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