Our collaboration with The Chopin Project continues to bring award-winning pianists to the Palladium stage. I am particularly excited about the upcoming concert on Thursday, Dec. 6, featuring Arthur Greene.
Greene, who earned first prize in both William Kapell and Gina Bachauer International Piano Competitions, will be performing an all-Chopin program and sharing stories about he composer and his work from the stage.
Arthur Greene
Greene has played with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco, Utah, and National Symphonies, the Czech National Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony, and many others. He has played recitals in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Moscow Rachmaninov Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Lisbon’s Sao Paulo Opera House, Hong Kong City Hall and concert houses in Shanghai and Beijing.
Here’s what the critics say about Greene’s talent:
“A profound musician” – The Washington Post;
“A masterful pianist” – The New York Times;
“Intoxicating appeal” – Mainichi Daily News, Japan;
“A romantic splendor of sound-colors” –Ruhr Nachrichten;
Working with Greene, who is a professor at the University of Michigan, was a major factor that inspired Fred Slutsky to found what is now The Chopin Project. Greene and his doctoral students performed Chopin’s complete works in chronological order in 2007.
I asked Fred to talk a little about the upcoming performance:
“It’s called An Evening of Chopin: Rarities & Favorites and it will be spellbinding! The Favorites are well-known and well-loved, and the Rarities are either hardly ever performed (and fresh), and one piece in particular, was recently unearthed as a ‘lost’ original edition of arguably the world’s most beloved Nocturne.”
For tickets and more information, you can call the Palladium box office at 727-822-3590 or follow this link for on-line tickets and information.
And here’s a link to Greene performing Chopin’s Nocturne in D-flat Major.
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