The Schubert Club's Courtroom Concert Series
2007-2008 Season Opener
Thursday, October 18, 12:05-1:00 P.M.
FREE Admission
Landmark Center, Cortile
Larissa Shahmatova, violin
Stella Branzburg Sick, piano
Sonata in A Major - George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)
Andante
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Sonata in A Major, Op. 47 “Kreutzer” - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Adagio sostenuto – Presto
Vocalese, Op. 34, No. 14 - Serge Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Variation 24 Canone all’ Ottava
Variation 25
Variation 26
Variation 27 Canone alla Nona
Variation 28
Variation 29
Variation 30 Quodlibet
Aria
ARTIST BIOS:
A talented Russian violinist, Larissa Shahmatova was born in Vladivostok, Russia where she began studying violin at the age of six and made her solo orchestral debut when she was ten years old. By the age of 17, Ms. Shahmatova had performed solo recitals and concerts with Russia’s major orchestras, such as the Moscow Philharmonic, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and the St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra. She was a major prize-winner in the Russian National Diaghilev Competition and the First Tchaikovsky International Junior Competition. Ms. Shahmatova came to the United States to study with Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School in New York. She has performed extensively in the United States and Russia including two solo appearances with the Oregon Symphony, concerts at Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall and a recital in California featuring performance of the world premier “The New Life” by composer Mark Vance. Ms. Shahmatova holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and currently resides in Buffalo, NY where she attends the University at Buffalo Law School.
Pianist Stella Branzburg Sick was born in Novosibirsk, Russia. She received her early music education in Novosibirsk, Russia at the Novosibirsk Specialized Music School (College). She was awarded a scholarship “Young Talents of Siberia,” and was a laureate of a National Piano Competition. In 1991 she immigrated to the United States. She earned her Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the Eastman School of Music as a recipient of Lois Roger and Martha Stone scholarships, studying with Nelita True and Natalya Antonova. In 2003 she completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Minnesota studying with Alexander Braginsky, and was a recipient of the prestigious Elinor Watson Bell Fellowship. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota and is a Managing Director of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition.
Since being featured by The New York Times as the pianist "poised for a breakthrough" in 2006, Simone Dinnerstein has performed on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's prestigious Accolades series, debuted with the American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leon Botstein, and signed an exclusive recording contract with Telarc International.
Highlights of her current season include a debut recital at the Salle Cortot in Paris and at the Copenhagen Music Festival. She will open the Moselfestwochen in Germany in June 2007, and will perform at the opening gala concert of the "Metropolitan Museum of Art in Berlin" exhibition at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie. During the 2007-2008 season, she will give debut recitals at London's Wigmore Hall, Berlin's Philharmonie, and at the National Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius. She will appear on the People's Symphony series at New York City's Town Hall and on Lincoln Center's Great Performers series. She will also tour with the Dresden Philharmonic under Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and with the Czech Philharmonic under Zdenek Macal, open the season for the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra with Leon Botstein, and appear with the Württembergische Kammerorchester Heilbronn.
Dinnerstein has performed extensively throughout the United States, including recitals at New York City's 92nd Street Y, and concerto and chamber music performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Mann Center in Philadelphia, Bard Music Festival, the La Jolla Music Society, Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Princeton's Richardson Auditorium, and the Beethoven Society in Washington, DC. She has also performed abroad in Germany, South America, and Britain, appearing at London's Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall at the South Bank Centre, and in Oxford and Cambridge.
She received The Classical Recording Foundation Award for 2006 for her recording with cellist Zuill Bailey of Beethoven's complete works for piano and cello on the Delos label.
Dinnerstein is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she was a student of Peter Serkin. Among her many scholarships and awards at Juilliard were the William Petschek Piano Scholarship, the Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship and the Chopin Award. She also studied with Dr. Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music and in London with Maria Curcio, the distinguished pupil of Artur Schnabel. For two summers, she was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center.
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