Sunday, August
16, 2009, 3 PM
at Boswell Recital Hall
Mr. Russell
Sherman Piano Master Class
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Program
(Mr. Sherman will hear as many as time allows)
1. Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, Op.7 L.V. Beethoven
Cun-Mo Yin
2. Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op.58 F. Chopin
Qiu-Ning Huang
3. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata” L.V.
Beethoven
Xiao-Pei Xu
4. Piano Sonata in C Minor, D. 958 F. Schubert
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
Yan Cheng
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Russell Sherman
Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, New England Conservatory of Music
Pianist Russell Sherman, who made his debut at Town Hall at age 15,
has been acclaimed as a soloist with many major orchestras, including
the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BSO, the
Chicago Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has presented
recitals throughout the U.S., Europe, South America, and the former
Soviet Union. His book of short essays on piano playing and allied
activities, Piano Pieces, is published by Farrar Straus Giroux.
Sherman is the first American to record both Beethoven’s complete
piano sonatas and the five piano concertos. His latest release on GM,
The Beethoven Piano Concertos: Live at Monadnock, also features the
all-star Monadnock Festival Orchestra.
B.A., Columbia College (N.Y.). Piano with Edward Steuermann;
composition with Erich Itor Kahn. Recordings on Advent, Sine Qua Non,
Vanguard, Pro Arte, Albany, GM. |