Children's Piano Concert

From Canada
Sound Pictures
Jacques Després
Saturday,
October 13, 2012
11:30 AM
Corvallis Public Library Meeting Room
Monroe Ave. at 6th

FREE Admission

Steinway Piano Series

From the United States
Jon Nakamatsu
Sunday, November 4, 2012
4:00 PM
LaSells Stewart Center

Gold medal, 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

Schubert—Impromptus, op. 90, Nos. 2 & 3
Beethoven—Sonata, op 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"
Schumann—Papillons, op.2, Carnaval, op. 9

"Dazzling ... exciting ... forceful playing ... a subtle and variegated touch."—New York Times

From Israel
Inon Barnatan
Sunday, February 10, 2013
4:00 PM
LaSells Stewart Center

2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant

Debussy—Suite Bergamasque
Britten/Stevenson—Peter Grimes Fantasy
Adès—Darknesse Visible
Ravel—La Valse
Schubert—Sonata in A Major, D. 959

"Barnatan was naturally poetic; ... he obtained a hypnotic tone from the piano ... [and] made sounds that might have won the approval of Schnabel himself."—New York Times

"The evening's undisputed star was Barnatan ...."—Washington Post

From Canada
Jon Kimura Parker
Sunday, April 7, 2013
4:00 PM
LaSells Stewart Center

Awarded 1999 Order of Canada
Gold medal, 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition

Prokofiev—Sonata No. 3 in A minor
Stravinsky/Parker—The Rite of Spring
Rachmaninoff—Prelude in G Minor, op. 23, No. 5
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition

"... strength & suppleness of line, variety of touch & generosity of feeling ..."—Chicago Tribune
"Riveting from beginning to end." —Scena