Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Alexander Moutouzkine performs scholarship benefit concert at UT Dallas February 15

By Pegasus News wire

Russian pianist Alexander Moutouzkine will perform at The University of Texas at Dallas Conference Center at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15. All proceeds will benefit the Bryce and Jonelle Jordan Scholarship Fund.

Source: UT Dallas

Alexander Moutouzkine

The evening’s program will include Johann Sebastian Bach’s "Toccata in C Minor (BWV 911)", Franz Liszt’s transcriptions of Frédéric Chopin’s "My Joys" and "The Maiden’s Wish", Liszt’s "Reminiscences de Norma" (from Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “Norma”), Gabriel Fauré’s "Barcarolle No.3 in E-flat Major, Op.42" and Sergei Prokofiev’s "Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83."

An accomplished performer, Moutouzkine has won top prizes at numerous international competitions including the 10th Citta di Sulmona (Italy), the Calabria International (Italy), the Maria Canals (Spain), the Pilar Bayona (Spain), the Guerrero Foundation (Spain), the Ignacio Cervantes (Cuba), the 2nd Shanghai International (China), the Mieczyslav Munz (U.S.), the 26th Frinna Awerbuch (U.S.), the Panama International Piano Competition, the New Orleans International Piano Competition, the XI International Piano Competition of Escaldes-Engordany (Andorra) and the Tivoli Compeititon (Denmark).

He earned a Special Award for artistic potential in 2001 at the 11th Van Cliburn International Competition when he was 19. A critic for The Dallas Morning News proclaimed of his performance, “Moutouzkine played Brahms’ Op. 117 Intermezzi more beautifully, more movingly, than I’ve ever heard them. At once sad, tender and noble, this was playing of heart-stopping intimacy and elegance.”

Moutouzkine has performed recitals throughout France, Spain, Germany, England, Italy, China, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Belgium and North and South America. His solo performance at the Fundacion Canal in Madrid was broadcast live on National Spanish Television. Moutouzkine has appeared as soloist with Chamber Music International, the Brno Philarmonic Orchestra of the Czech Republic, the Moscow Conservatory Symphonic Orchestra, the Kiev National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Valencia Philharmonic, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Cuba, the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth, the Richardson Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Panama, the Radio Television Orchestra of Spain and the Gran Canary Symphony and Tenerife Symphony in the Canary Islands.

More information about the concert is available at ah.utdallas.edu/season0708/moutouzkine.htm.

Tickets for the concert are $20 for general admission and free at the door to UT Dallas students with valid Comet Cards. UT Dallas ticket office hours are from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and at the door one hour prior to concert time. For advance ticket purchases using Visa, MasterCard or Discover, please call 972-883-2552.

Source: UT Dallas

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