TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS

ANTON KUERTI

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010, 8:00 P.M.
AT THE McCULLOUGH THEATRE

Join us for a post-performance talkback in the hall with the Anton Kuerti and UT Butler School of Music Professor Anton Nel immediately following the performance.

“…awe-inspiring interpretive and technical prowess…confirmed his position as one of the top-ranked pianists today.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Texas Performing Arts presents an evening with one of the world’s most celebrated classical pianists. Anton Kuerti performs at the McCullough Theatre on Friday, February 5 at 8p.m.

Born in Austria, Anton Kuerti grew up in the U.S. and has lived in Canada for more than 35 years. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin. At the age of 11 he performed the Grieg Concerto with Arthur Fiedler and, while still a student, he won the famous Leventritt Award. In 2007 he received two more prestigious awards, the Schumann Prize of the Schumann Gesellschaft in Germany, and the National Arts Prize of the Banff Centre in Canada.

His distinguished performing career has included tours to nearly forty countries, including Japan, Russia, and most of Europe. He has performed with most major U.S. orchestras and conductors, such as the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony (Menuhin), Cleveland Orchestra (Szell), Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy), and the orchestras of Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and San Francisco. His vast repertoire includes some 50 concertos, including one he composed himself.

Anton Kuerti is one of today’s most recorded artists, having put on disc all the Beethoven Concertos and Sonatas, the Schubert Sonatas, the Brahms Concertos and works by many other composers. His recordings are heard almost daily on the CBC. Soon to be released is a CD of works for piano and orchestra by Schumann, and a world premiere release of works for violin and piano by Czerny.

McCullough Theatre Program:
Beethoven:
Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, opus 81a, “Les Adieux”
Sonata No. 23 in F minor, opus 57, “Appassionata”
33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in C major, Op. 120

Campus & Community Engagement Event:
Join us for a post-performance talkback in the hall with the Anton Kuerti and UT Butler School of Music Professor Anton Nel immediately following the performance.

ANTON NEL is a professor of piano and chamber music at the Butler School of Music where he heads the division of keyboard studies. He is the winner of the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition and has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. He has regularly collaborated with some of the world’s foremost instrumentalists and singers.

CALENDAR LISTING
Friday, February 5, 2010, 8:00 pm –Texas Performing Arts presents Anton Kuerti, piano at the McCullough Theatre (2350 Robert Dedman Dr). A map of the campus: http://www.TexasPerformingArts.org/visit/maps_directions. Tickets ($35 / $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 www.TexasPerformingArts.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060 or (800) 982-BEVO.

PRESS CONTACT:
Gene Bartholomew;512.471.0632 gbartholomew@TexasPerformingArts.org

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