Double Piano Extravaganza!

Works by Bach, Brahms, Liszt and Ravel

Saturday February 26th, 2011 - 7:30pm
Full Sail Live - Full Sail University

Featuring pianists
Tzimon Barto "[...] One of the most multi-faceted, inexhaustible and best pianists of our time." (Magazine Spiegel Online: September 23, 2009)		Laurent Boukobza "...recipient of the First Prize of Piano and Chamber Music from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Parisis, and he is regularly invited to perform around the world."

 

Sell out performance anticipated- early tickets advised

 

Tickets:
Call FIPC office: 407.645.2525
For Credit Card Purchases only visit: Red Chair Project

Ticket Type	Price Adult	Price Student/Senior
VIP Ticket - Includes VIP seating and post performance reception with the artists	$45.00
Level A:	$25.00	$15.00
Level B:	$20.00	$10.00

 

Please Note:

We are pleased to announce that this performance will be videotaped by the staff and students of Full Sail University, for the promotional benefit of the Florida International Piano Competition and of Full Sail University. Please note that your attendance at the event is implicit permission to allow your person, image or likeness to be videotaped and/or photographed solely for this promotional use.

 

Programme:
Brahms	Sonata in F Minor for 2 pianos	Tzimon Barto & Laurent Boukobza
INTERMISSION
Liszt	“Apres une Lecture de Dante”	Laurent Boukobza
Liszt	Second Hungarian Rhapsody in C Sharp minor	Tzimon Barto
Ravel	“La Valse” for 2 pianos	Tzimon Barto & Laurent Boukobza

Tzimon Barto

"…One of the most multi-facetted, inexhaustible and best pianists of our time."  (Magazine Spiegel Online: September 23, 2009)

 

Tzimon Barto grew up in the deep South in the United States, the only son of Southern Baptists, in a dynasty of plumbers. Early on and inexplicably for his surroundings, he preferred playing the piano to playing football. He had his first piano lessons with his grandmother who taught him to play hymns and Broadway songs, and recognizing his talent, took him on expeditions to hear concerts in the nearest big city, Orlando. He graduated from a local public school and went on to study at Julliard.

He had his international breakthrough in the mid-1980s, when he appeared at the Vienna Musikverein and the Salzburg Festival at the invitation of Herbert von Karajan, and has since performed with nearly every internationally renowned orchestra. During his 25-year career he has often collaborated with conductor Christoph Eschenbach. Tzimon Barto has recorded numerous piano works on CD: after releases with works by Rameau and Ravel for the Ondine label, he has published most recently a CD with selected Haydn sonatas as well as a recording, dedicated to Schumann, which features Tzimon Barto as soloist of the NDR Sinfonierorchester and as duo partner of Christoph Eschenbach (piano). A double CD with works by Franz Schubert was released on the Capriccio label in summer 2010.

In 2006, his home town of Eustis, in north-central Florida, founded an international
composition competition for piano solo, called the "Barto Prize."

Tzimon Barto speaks five languages fluently, reads ancient Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and is studying Mandarin Chinese. In addition to his career as a pianist, he is also a writer. His first book "a lady of Greek origin" was published in 2001, and recently re-published by Jan Oidium Press. A stage version of this book was performed in Frankfurt and Vienna, and has been issued as a DVD by Oidium. In 2010 Oidium Press also published the novel "Harold Flanders".

Future Engagements
For the 2010/11 season concerts with numerous renowned orchestras have been scheduled, among them are the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Wiener Symphoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra Washington.

Laurent Boukobza

A Parisian native, Laurent Boukobza is a prize winner of many international competitions including First Prize in Piano and Chamber Music from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris and from the prestigious International Academy Maurice Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz,
France. A recording artist with several CDs, he tours widely in Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. His teachers include Catherine Collard, Germaine Mounier, Yvonne Loriod and Michel Beroff. He presents annual master classes in France at "Academie des Arcs" and in Belgium "International Academy." He is regularly invited to the festivals of Vichy, Fontevrault, Conques, Evian, Les Arcs, Les Ecrins and Salzburg has performed in Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Romania, Singapore, Poland and the United States. He is currently Professor of Piano and Chair of Piano Studies at the University of Central Florida, the first All-Steinway school in Florida. His CDs are available at www.amazon.com.