TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS
AWARD-WINNING CLASSICAL PIANIST
EMANUEL AX
PERFORMING AN ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011, 8:00 P.M.
IN BATES RECITAL HALL

7:00 P.M. PRE-PERFORMANCE LECTURE BY DR, MICHAEL TUSA

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BUTLER SCHOOL OF MUSIC

“…playing of rare intelligence, intimacy and a quiet, steady grace.”
– New York Times

PROGRAM
Franz Schubert:
Four Impromptus Op. posth.142, D. 935
Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D. 664
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960

Texas Performing Arts welcomes back one of today’s pre-eminent classical pianists performing an all-Schubert program, Thursday, February 10, in the rich acoustics of the intimate Bates Recital Hall. Described as a rare and marvelous artist and winner of numerous major awards, Emanuel Ax receives raves for his poetic temperament and unsurpassed virtuosity.

Born in Lvov, Poland, Ax moved to Canada at an early age. His studies at the Juilliard School were supported by the Epstein Scholarship Program of the Boys Clubs of America, and he subsequently won the Young Concert Artists Award. Ax captured public attention in 1974 when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975, he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.

Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. Recent releases include the Mendelssohn Trios with Yo Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman, Strauss’ “Enoch Arden” narrated by Patrick Stewart, and discs of two-piano music by Brahms and Rachmaninoff with Yefim Bronfman. Ax has received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano with cellist Yo Yo Ma.

Campus & Community Engagement Event:
Join us for a 7:00 p.m. pre-performance lecture in the Bates Recital Studio, MRH 2.608 with Dr. Michael Tusa.

Michael Tusa, Professor of Musicology, has been a member of the Musicology faculty since 1981. His interests include nineteenth-century opera, the study of the compositional process, and the history of piano music. His research has focused primarily on Carl Maria von Weber and Ludwig van Beethoven and has published articles on Weber, Wagner, and Schubert.

CALENDAR LISTING

February 10, 2011, 8:00 pm–Texas Performing Arts presents the Emanuel Ax, piano at Bates Recital Hall (2350 Robert Dedman Dr). A map of the campus: TexasPerformingArts.org/visit/maps_directions. Tickets ($36 / Limited $10 student tickets / discounted tickets available for UT faculty & staff, seniors and Military) are on sale now at authorized ticket outlets, which include the Bass Concert Hall Box Office, most H-E-B stores and all Texas Box Office outlets, online at TexasPerformingArts.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060 or (800) 982-BEVO (2386).

PRESS CONTACT:
Gene Bartholomew
512.471.0632
gbartholomew@TexasPerformingArts.org