April 9 - April 12, 2002
Lincoln Theater, Miami Beach, Florida

Tuesday, April 9, 2002

7:00 PM

Lecture: Frank Cooper & Kemal Gekic
"Conversations on Piano Styles"

8:00 PM

Concert: Pietro De Maria
"One of the brightest stars in our pianistic firmament" -
La Republica

Mozart- Sonata in B-flat K 333
Beethoven- Sonata Op. 57 "Appassionata"
Mendelssohn- Fantasy in F-sharp minor, Op. 28
Ravel- Gaspard de la Nuit

10:00 PM

Artist Reception

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

7:00 PM

Lecture: Frank Cooper & Pietro De Maria
"Conversations about the Piano"

8:00 PM

Concert: Mihaela Ursuleasa
"Whoever goes through the list of Mihaela Ursuleasa's achievements up to now cannot help but be astonished at an age which a lady need not fear to disclose. To characterize her playing means to speak of elegance, poetry and power." -Stuttgarter Zeitung

Schubert- Klavierstucke D 946
Enesco- Sonata No. 3 in D Major
Bartok- Romanian Dances Op. 8 No. 1 and No. 2
Schumann- Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 14 in F minor

10:00 PM

Artist Reception

Thursday, April 11, 2002

7:00 PM

Lecture by Bruce Payne:
Piano Stories: "Listening and Self-Discovery in American Life"

8:00 PM

Concert: Steven Osborne
"The range of timbres and textures he can elicit from the piano is simply astounding, from thundering but finely detailed explosions to the barest whispery filaments of sound." -San Francisco Chronicle

Bach- Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor
Debussy- Preludes Book 2
Rachmaninoff- 13 Preludes, Op. 32

10:00 PM

Artist Reception

Friday, April 12, 2002

7:00 PM

Lecture by Geoffrey Norris:
"The Heart's Secret", Rachmaninoff lived his life in a perpetual minor key: Myth or Reality?

8:00 PM

Concert: Emanuele Arciuli
"In the hands of the ardent Emanuele Arciuli everything has been conceived not as your conveniently neutral pitch-generator and theory tester but for the piano as its glorious self." -Richard Buell, The Boston Globe

Szymanowski- Sheherazade (From Masques)
Beethoven- Sonata Op.111
Debussy- Preludes Book 1
Rzewski- Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

10:00 PM

Artist Reception