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October 13, 2010
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Emanuel Ax performs Schubert and Chopin at
The Music Center at Strathmore
on November 10
Washington, D.C.- Pianist Emanuel Ax returns to perform a
concert of works by Schubert and Chopin for Washington
Performing Arts Society at the Music Center at Strathmore on
November 10. This will be his 20th WPAS recital. Said the
New York Times in a review of his July performance at the
Mostly Mozart Festival, “Always a superb Chopin player, he
brought a crisp touch and thoughtful phrasing to [Chopin’s
Piano Concerto No. 2] — particularly in his smoothly flowing
Emanuel Ax
Photo by J. Henry Fair
account of the Larghetto — that showed his connection to this
composer to be deepening as he moves further afield in his
repertory.”
Ax has been a successful and established figure on the classical music scene since
winning the Arthur Rubenstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv in 1974. He won the
Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award
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Program:
Schubert
Emanuel Ax, piano
The Music Center at Strathmore
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Impromptus, Op. 142
Sonata in A Major, Op. 120
Chopin
Barcarolle Op. 60
Three Mazurkas, Op. 59
No. 1 in A minor
No. 2 in A-flat Major
No. 3 in F-sharp minor
Two Nocturnes Op. 27
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 30
Tickets: $28-$80, available at www.wpas.org or
(202) 785-9727
in 1975, followed four years later by the
coveted Avery Fisher Prize.
Recent tours included
performances in Asia with the New
York Philharmonic on their first tour
with Music Director Alan Gilbert and
European tours with both the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe and James Conlon,
as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony with
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Manfred Honeck. As a regular visitor in subscription concerts he also returned to Chicago,
Philadelphia and Boston.
Ax has been an acclaimed and exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987.
Recent releases include Mendelssohn Trios with Yo-Yo- Ma and Itzhak Perlman, Strauss’s
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 Grammywinning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and
piano. Other recordings include the concertos of Liszt and Schoenberg, three solo Brahms
albums, an album of tangos by Astor Piazzolla, and the premiere recording of John Adams's
Century Rolls with the Cleveland Orchestra. In the 2004-05 season, Ax also contributed to an
International Emmy® Award-winning BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that
aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Ax has recently turned his attention toward the music of 20th-century composers,
premiering works by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bright Sheng and
Melinda Wagner. Ax is also devoted to chamber music and has worked regularly with such
artists as Young Uck Kim, Cho-Liang Lin, Ma, Edgar Meyer, Peter Serkin, Jaime Laredo and the
late Isaac Stern.
This performance has been made possible by generous support from Betsy and Robert Feinberg.
Downloadable high-resolution images are available from the press room at www.wpas.org
Funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by
National Endowment for the Arts.
WPAS is committed to making every event accessible for persons with disabilities. Please call the WPAS Ticket Services Office for
more information on accessibility to the various theaters in which our performances are held. Services offered vary from venue to venue and may
require advance notice.
Washington Performing Arts Society has created profound opportunities for connecting the community to artists, in both education and
performance. Through live events in venues that criss-cross the landscape of the D.C. metropolitan area, the careers of emerging artists are
guided, and established artists who have bonded with the local audience are invited to return. In this way, the space between artists and
audiences is eliminated, so that all may share life-long opportunities to deepen their cultural knowledge, enrich their lives, and expand their
understanding and compassion of the world through the universal language of the arts.
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