BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1444@poonamusic.com DTSTART:20180204T130000Z DTEND:20180204T130000Z DTSTAMP:20180124T120856Z URL:https://poonamusic.com/events/stephen-kovacevich-piano/ SUMMARY:Stephen Kovacevich\, piano DESCRIPTION:In a programme of Bach : Partita No. 4\; Schubert : Sonata D. 9 59 in A Major\;  \;Brahms : Ballade Op. 10 No. 4 in B major\, Intermez zo Op. 119 No. 1 in B minor\, Intermezzo Op. 76 No. 3 in A flat Major and Beethoven : Sonata in A flat Op. 110\n\nStephen Kovacevich is one of the m ost searching interpreters\, never afraid to take both technical and music al risks in order to achieve maximum expressive impact. As a pianist he ha s won unsurpassed admiration for his playing\, non-more than from Leopold Stokowski who wrote: “You do with your feet what I try to do with my Phi ladelphia Orchestra”.\n\nBorn in Los Angeles\, Stephen Kovacevich laid t he foundation for his career as concert pianist at the age of eleven.  \; After moving to England to study with Dame Myra Hess\, Stephen made his European debut at Wigmore Hall in 1961. \; Since then he has appeared with many of the world's finest orchestras and conductors including Hans Graf\, Bernard Haitink\, Kurt Masur\, Simon Rattle and Georg Solti. In add ition\, he has forged many longstanding professional relationships\, most notably with Colin Davis with whom he made numerous outstanding recordings \, including the legendary Bartok Piano Concerto No.2 with the BBC Symphon y Orchestra.\n\nRecent and upcoming recital highlights include an extensiv e tour of the Far East\, recitals in Paris\, Berlin\, Boston\, Zagreb\, Du blin and Cardiff\, alongside two live BBC Radio 3 broadcasts from St Georg e's Hall\, Bristol and Wigmore Hall. His recent concerto highlights includ e a triumphant return to Montreal Symphony Orchestra (under David Zinman)\ , Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (with Sylvain Cambreling)\, Malaysian Philharmonic (Jacek Kaspszyk)\, Orchestre de chambre de Paris (John Nelson ) and Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Vladimir Ashkenazy). \; Stephen recen tly performed to a sell-out audience for his recital at the International Piano Series at the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London. \; In addition\, S tephen is a regular soloist at the Verbier and Lugano festivals.\n\nKovace vich is a committed chamber musician who has collaborated with Jacqueline du Pré ( with whom he recorded their celebrated recording of Beethoven's Sonatas No. 3 and 5)\, Martha Agerich\, Steven Isserlis\, Nicola Benedetti \, Nigel Kennedy\, Lynn Harrell\, Gautier Capuçon\, Renaud Capuçon\, Kyu ng-wha Chung\, Truls Mørk\, Emmanuel Pahud\, Anna Larsson\, Alina Ibragim ova\, Philippe Graffin\, Joseph Suk and the Amadeus\, Belcea and-Cleveland Quartets.\n\nStephen Kovacevich has enjoyed an illustrious long-term rela tionship with recording companies Philips and EMI. \; To celebrate his 75th birthday\, Decca has released a Limited Edition 25 CD Box Set of his entire recorded legacy for Philips. \; In 2008 Stephen Kovacevich rec orded Beethoven's Diabelli Variations exactly 40 years after his first rec ording of the work. This Onyx recording won him the 2009 Classic FM Gramop hone Editor's Choice Award and the 'Top Choice' by Gramophone Magazine in September 2015\, to quote: “his seasoned yet fearless mastery reveals so mething new with each hearing”.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://poonamusic.com/pms_wp/wp-content/uploads /2017/12/Stephen-Kovacevich-2-Pequena.jpg CATEGORIES:Piano recitals LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India GEO:18.5198845;73.87824479999995 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Mazda Hall:geo:18.51 98845,73.87824479999995 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR