DISCOVERY SERIES
LINCOLN THEATER, MIAMI BEACH
May 12 – May 16, 2004

May 12, 2004

8:15 PM

Grand Opening
Chamber Music Concert
Featuring past Festival Artists

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PROGRAM HAS CHANGED*


Ilya Itin (piano)
Misha Dacic (piano)
Ariana Kim (violin)
Vesna Gruppman (viola)
Mark Kosower (cello)

Schubert     Piano Trio op. 99 in B-flat major D 898
Brahms Piano Trio op. 8 in B major * 
Chausson   Piano Trio op. 3  in g minor                                

May 13, 2004

7:15 pm
 Lecture by Gregor Benko
"What Makes a Pianist Great?" 

8:15 pm

Paul Lewis (England)
 

“Lewis is one of the exceptional artists who compels you to concentrate closely on the music, because his playing is so obviously the product not merely of acute stylistic instinct, but also deep interpretative thought……”

Geoffrey Norris – Daily Telegraph, 2002
  Chopin Barcarolle op.60  in f sharp major
BusoniI Elegy no.2 'All'Italia' (in modo Napoletano)
BusoniI Elegy no.1 "Nach der Wendung"
Scriabin 5 Preludes op.74
Busoni Elegy no.5 "Die Nachtlichen" (Waltz)
Chopin Ballade No 4 in f minor, Op 52
Beethove: Piano Sonata no. 27  in e minor op.90
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 32 in c minor op. 111
10:00 pm 
Artist Reception


May 14, 2004
7: 00 pm 

Lecture by Matthew Gurewitsch        

The Universal Language – Music in Thomas Mann’s “Dr. Faustus.” 

8:15 PM

 Nelson Goerner (Argentina)

 Warmth, exquisite taste, and arresting technique…" 
Chris Pasles in the Los Angeles Times

Schubert Sonata in d major, D 850
Chopin 24 Preludes, Op. 28
10:00pm
 Artist Reception 
May 15, 2004

4:00 PM

Prodigious Jazz Marvel Eldar Djangirov

 “. . . whatever doubts about Djangirov’s pianistic skills were . . . blown away by the sheer power of his remarkable technique.  He is truly a virtuosic musical prodigy.”  -
Los Angeles Times

 

May 15, 2004

7:15 pm

Lecture with Geoffrey Norris

The Acorn and the Oak: Roots and Fruits of Russian Piano Music.

8:15 pm

Pietro De Maria (Italy)

 

“A young pianist……. with astonishing maturity… and a depth that denotes an especially rich musical personality, Pietro De Maria has all it takes for a great career”   -Tribune de Genčve
 

Chopin     Ballade no. 1 op. 23 in G minor
Chopin     Ballade no. 2  op. 38, in F Major
Chopin     Etudes op. 10 
 Chopin     Ballade no. 3, op. 47,  in A-flat Major
 Chopin     Ballade no. 4, . op. 52,  in F minor                                Chopin     Etudes op. 25

10:00pm
 Artist Reception

May 16, 2004

4:00  pm

“Prodigies & Masters of Tomorrow”

This unique program presents three exceptionally gifted young artists focusing  on their musical lives and exploring the development of prodigy talent into that of a mature artist in the future.

Featuring  

Ji-Yong (13 year old pianist)
 Eugene Ugorsky (14 year old violinist)

 

7:00 pm

Lecture with Ivan Davis
"Listening with Ivan"

8:15 pm

Boris Giltburg (Israel)

“His interpretation was, without doubt, an extraordinary musical event. Boris Giltburg is still very young but his ideas are clear. May nothing detour him from his artistic path.”

Reinhard Schulz,  Neue Musikzeitun  2002
 

BACH-BUSONI Chaconne in D minor
BEETHOVEN Sonata op.53 in C major (“Walstein”)
LISZT “La leggierezza”
RACHMANINOV 3 Etudes-Tableaux
op. 39 No. 1 in C minor
op. 39 No. 2 in A minor
op. 39 No. 6 in A minor
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

     
10:00 pm
 Artist Reception

Lecture Series and Panel Discussions

Geoffrey Norris – Chief Music Critic for the Daily Telegraph, London - England
Frank Cooper – Professor at the University of Miami
Mattew Gurewitsch– Free lance writer for The New York Times & The Wall Street Journal
Gregor Benko– Director and Founder of the International Piano Archives in Cleveland, Ohio

The Discovery Series will offer an inside look and different views at the most beloved pieces of repertoire by Festival’s artists. In addition to the discussion there will be live illustrations of the same piece by different artists to show their points of view.