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Till Fellner
October 5 2010 - 8:00pm
Regular - $27.00
Senior - $22.00
Student - $15.00
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Till Fellner was born in Vienna, where he studied with Helene Sedo-Stadler. Further studies led him to Alfred Brendel, Meira Farkas, Oleg Maisenberg, and Claus Christian Schuster. His international career was launched in 1993 when he won First Prize at the Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey, Switzerland. Since then Till Fellner has been in demand as guest soloist with distinguished orchestras, at the major music centres of Europe, the United States, and Japan, and with numerous
important festivals.
He has collaborated with many conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph von Dohnányi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Heinz Holliger, Marek Janowski, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Kent Nagano, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leonard Slatkin, Claudius Traunfellner, Franz Welser-Möst, and Hans Zender. Till Fellner regularly performs as part of a trio with violinist Lisa Batiashvili and cellist Adrian Brendel. He has also collaborated closely with tenor Mark Padmore.
Boris Krajný
December 5 2010 - 2:00pm
Regular - $27.00
Senior - $22.00
Student - $15.00
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 Boris Krajný (b. 1945) is a foremost Czech pianist and piano teacher. He has performed in New York (Carnegie Hall), Washington (Kennedy Center),London (Wigmore Hall), Paris (Salle Gaveau), Berlin,Brussels, Vienna, Salzburg, Moscow (Tchaikovsky Hall), Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón),Tokyo, Sydney (Opera), Baalbek and other towns and cities on five continents. He studied at the Academy of Music in Prague with František Maxián and Ivan Moravec, subsequently winning first prize at the Senigallia competition in Italy and an honourable mention at the Queen Elizabeth competition in Brussels (1975).
His extensive repertoire includes music of many different periods, with an emphasis on Czech works. He has frequently performed Dvořák’s Piano Concerto (including in S. Africa), Ravel’s Concerto in G major, the entire piano works of Janáček (at the Rouen festival), Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety (Prague Spring 1990), Martinů’s 4th Concerto (New York), etc.
Boris Krajný has recorded widely (for Supraphon, Panton, Bonton, CBS, etc.) including Bartók’s and Prokofiev’s concertos (with the Czech Philharmonic), works by Voříšek (with the Prague Chamber Orchestra), quintets by Dvořák and César Franck, piano works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Schulhoff, Martinů, etc. He has recorded the complete works of Maurice Ravel for Supraphon and received the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros (Paris 1982) for his recording of French piano concertos (Honegger, Poulenc, Roussel). Boris Krajný teaches at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
 Alexei Gulenco
January 23 2011 - 2:00pm
Regular - $27.00
Senior - $22.00
Student - $15.00
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A veritable titan of the keyboard, Alexei Gulenco has been a prize-winner at numerous piano competitions, including the International Rachmaninov Piano Competition in Moscow, the International Jose Iturbi Competition in Spain, the International Franz Liszt Competition in Italy, the Louisiana International Competition, and many others.
He has been a featured soloist with such orchestras as the Shanghai Symphony, the Moldavian State Philharmonic, the Latvian National Symphony, the Moscow Symphony, the Orchestra of Music Conservatory “A. Boito,” the Orchestra of Valencia, and the Rapides Symphony. As a recitalist, Mr. Gulenco has appeared in Russia, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Belarus, Latvia, Romania, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Republic of Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, and the United States. His performances have been broadcast on television and radio stations in Moldova, Russia, Hungary, Spain, the United States, and the Netherlands.
Alexei Gulenco began his piano studies at the Rachmaninov Music Lyceum in Chisinau, Moldova. He is a graduate of Moldavian Academy of Music, the Moscow State Conservatory where he studied with Valery Kastelsky, and the Royal Conservatory The Hague, with Naum Grubert as his mentor. In 2008, Mr. Gulenco obtained the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Maryland at College Park under the guidance of Larissa Dedova. Since 2008, Alexei resides in Hamilton, Ontario. In addition to performing, he is on faculty at McMaster University and Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts.
 Valerie Tryon
February 13 2011 - 2:00pm
Regular - $27.00
Senior - $22.00
Student - $15.00
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VALERIE TRYON’s career as a concert pianist began while she was still a child. Before she was twelve she had broadcast for the BBC and was appearing regularly before the public on the concert platform. She was one of the youngest students ever to be admitted to the Royal Academy of Music where she received the highest award in piano playing and a bursary which took her to Paris for study with Jacques Février.
Her place among Britain’s acknowledged artists was assured when a Cheltenham Festival recital brought her the enthusiastic acclaim of the country's foremost critics. Since then she has played in most of the major concert halls and appeared with many of the leading orchestras and conductors in Britain. Her career has latterly taken her to North America where she has appeared in such cities as Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She now lives in Canada where she is the Artist-in-Residence at McMaster University, but spends a part of each year in her native Britain.
Her repertoire is enormous and ranges from Bach to contemporary composers; it includes more than sixty concertos and a vast amount of chamber music. Among British composers, both Alun Hoddinott and John McCabe have dedicated works to her. She is well known for her sensitive interpretations of the romantics — Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninov in particular. When the BBC launched its Radio Enterprises record label, some years ago, Valerie Tryon's performance of Rachmaninov's Etudes Tableaux, op. 39, was the first classical disc to be released. More recently she has recorded the complete Ballades and Scherzos of Chopin for the CBC's "Musica Viva" label, which Harold Schonberg of the New York Times described as “the best Chopin recording of the past decade.” Notwithstanding her involvement in the music of the nineteenth century, she retains a deep love of Scarlatti, whose keyboard sonatas she has delighted in playing in public since her childhood and early youth, and to which she remains deeply committed. Likewise, her ongoing series of the complete piano music of Claude Debussy, represents a special passion: she has twice performed this important repertoire in a demanding cycle of five successive recitals.
One of Ms. Tryon’s chief enthusiasms is chamber music. Two of her best-known duo partners in England were Alfredo Campoli (violin) and George Isaac (cello), with both of whom she made a number of significant recordings. Her performance with Isaac of Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata is now considered to be a collector's item. Since moving to Canada, Ms. Tryon has performed frequently with cellist Coenraad Bloemendal. Both were members of the Rembrandt Trio with violinist Gerard Kantarjian.
Valerie Tryon has been awarded several distinctions for her services to music. She was an early recipient of the Harriet Cohen Medal. More recently the Liszt Memorial Plaque was bestowed on her by the Hungarian Minister of Culture in recognition of her lifelong promotion of Franz Liszt's music.
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