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They say that those who can, do. And those who can't? They
can do a lot, too.
Consider Giselle Brodsky. She studied piano in New York as
seriously as such friends as Murray Perahia and Richard Goode,
who went on to establish distinguished keyboard careers.
"I realized I didn't have that kind of gift," Brodsky says.
"I knew what I had and what I didn't have. But always said
that if I was ever in a financial position to help talented
pianists, I would do something."
Thanks in large measure to her marriage to Jack Brodsky
- "He was a musician, but, thank God, he became an economist!"
- she was as good as her word.
For the third year in a row, the organization the Brodskys
founded, Patrons of Exceptional Artists, is bringing a group
of young pianists to South Florida, with additional support
from Community Concerts. The "Miami Festival of Discovery,"
which already has introduced such enormous talents as Kontantin
Lifschitz and Kemal Gekic to the area, promises to reveal
another remarkable array of technical and above all, interpretive
abilities.
The advance word on festival opening Freddy Kempf, for example,
is especially glowing; European reviewers are pulling out
all the stops for the London-born pianist. Praise has likewise
been heaped on the others heading to the Lincoln Theatre in
Miami Beach - Denis Burstein and Ilya Itin from Russia; Francesco
Libetta from Italy; and return engagements for the festival,
the Croatian Gekic and Polish-Hungarian Piotr Anderszewski.
Giselle Brodsky brings a keen set of ears to the search for
talent. She also reads reviews from around the world and consults
colleagues here and elsewhere. Libetta, for example, was brought
to her attention by Miami-based keyboard specialist and pedagogue
Frank Cooper, who sent her a video of the pianist.
"It was unbelievable," Brodsky says. Libetta brings something
very different to his playing. It is mind - boggling to see
what he can do. He lives in a little town in Italy. When I
reached him by phone and asked him to be in the festival,
he couldn't believe he was coming to America."
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