UE Piano Series 1998-99
All recitals take place in Wheeler Concert Hall except where noted.
Paulina Zamora
Thursday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.
Program: Haydn: Sonata in E Minor, Hob. XVI: 34; Debussy: Estampes;
Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op. 3, No. 2, Op. 23, No. 4, 5; Messiaen: Vingt
Regards sur L'Enfant-Jésus: Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus.
Paulina Zamora has played numerous concertos with orchestra, including
those of Antofagasta, Concepcion, and Santiago in her native Chile,
Chautauqua in New York and Bloomington in Indiana. Her solo and chamber
music appearances have taken her to Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, England,
Germany, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela, as well
as throughout Chile and the United States. Ms. Zamora has been a first
prize winner in several international competitions, including the Latin
American Piano Competition in Chile, the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale
Competition, and the Chautauqua International Competition. During the past
five years Ms. Zamora has appeared in the festivals of Ernen and Lausanne
in Switzerland, Chautauqua, and Banff in Canada. A native of Antofagasta,
Ms. Zamora was educated at the University of Chile, The Eastman School of
Music, and Indiana University where she is completing a Doctor of Musical
Arts degree. Her Main teachers have included Mercedes Veglia, Rebecca
Penneys, György Sebök, and Janos Starker.
Garnet Ungar
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Program: Scarlatti: Sonatas K. 27, 427; Brahms: Paganini Variations;
Schubert: Four Impromptus, Op. 142.
Biographical Sketch
Peter Gach
Tuesday, Jan 12, 7:30 p.m.
Program: Ives: Piano Sonata No. 1 (excerpts); Chopin: Ballade in G Minor,
Op. 23; Szymanowski: Piano Sonata No. 3.
". . . performances were sensitive, expressive, and with a vital
spontaneity."
-San Diego Reader
". . . polished keyboard performance . . ."
-Los Angeles
Times
An Evansville native, Peter Gach was a finalist in the Rosanna Enlow
Competition at U of E and performed the Liszt E-flat Concerto with the
Evansville Philharmonic under Minas Christian in 1977. Since then he has
toured extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia, appearing on
radio broadcasts in the Philippines, Hong Kong Television, and Polish
National Television and Radio. He has been endorsed by the National
Endowment for the Arts Music Panel and is a recipient of a fellowship from
the Kosciusko Foundation. Gach's connection with the music of Poland has
led him to perform works of Szymanowski at the composer's home in Poland,
and the Szymanowski society recently invited him to perform there on the
occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the composer's death. Dr. Gach is
a well-known interpreter of twentieth-century music, and has premiered
works by Southern California composers Sherman Storr, James Weld, William
Bradbury, Norman Weston, and Roman Ryterband. He is one of the few
pianists in the world to play the complete First Sonata of Charles Ives
from memory. In addition, Dr. Gach is known for his lively and informative
lecture-recitals and master classes. Peter Gach studied piano at Indiana
University, the University of Arizona, and for several years at the Warsaw
Academy of Music with Chopin authority and chair of the International
Chopin Competition, Jan Ekier. He also earned a degree in Slavic languages
from Indiana University. He is currently Artist-in-Residence at Palomar
College in California.
Anne Fiedler
Program: Carter: Night Fantasies 1980; Mozart: Adagio in B
Minor, K. 540; tba.
Biographical Sketch
Awadagin Pratt
with the
University of Evansville Symphony Orchestra
Lonnie Klein, conductor
Tuesday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.
*Victory Theatre
Program: Beethoven Concerto No. 3; solo selections tba.
Awadagin Pratt won the Naumburg
International Piano Competition in 1992 and two years later was awarded an
Avery Fisher Career Grant. He has played recitals throughout the US,
including performances in New York at Lincoln Center, Washington, D.C. at
the Kennedy Center, Los Angeles at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and
Chicago at Orchestra Hall. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic,
the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Atlanta, National,
Detroit, Indianapolis, Seattle, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati Symphonies as
well as the major summer festivals including Ravinia, Blossom, Wolftrap,
Aspen, and the Hollywood Bowl. Awadagin Pratt has been the subject of
numerous articles in the national press, including Newsweek, People
Magazine, and USA Weekend. Mr. Pratt has performed on the Today
Show, Good Morning America, and Sesame Street, appeared in a
segment of CBS Sunday Morning and was a featured soloist on PBS's
"Live from the Kennedy Center - A Salute to Slava." He has also
performed at the White House at the invitation of President and Mrs.
Clinton. Mr. Pratt records exclusively for Angel/EMI.
