M. Steinert & Sons is proud to present the only Boston appearance of The Genesis Piano Project, a singular concert event featuring award-winning pianists Angelo Di Loreto and Adam Kromelow playing the music of legendary rock band Genesis on dual Steinway grand pianos. It is a sound – and an evening – you will not soon forget. The Genesis Piano Project takes place on Friday, May 17 at 7:30 pm in Steinert Hall, 162 Boylston Street in Boston. Because of the expected high demand for this event, reservations are required and may be made by calling (617) 426-1900. We look forward to seeing you there!

The performance is open to the public but seating is limited.  Please call Brendan Murphy at 617-426-1900 x257 for reservations.

Yakir Arbib Biography

Yakir Arbib was born in Jerusalem on March 6th 1989, and started playing the piano when he was 4 years old. At 7 years old he enrolled at Tel Aviv’s “Stricker Conservatory Of Music” where he studied between the years 1996 and 2007, taking flute, trumpet and ensemble playing in addition to classical piano repertoire. During those early years Yakir performed in many concerts/recitals in the conservatory and has received a number of scholarships.

At the age of 14 his career took a completely different turn when he attracted the attention of the only jazz teacher at the conservatory at the time who started then giving Yakir jazz lessons, and in 2004 he was admitted to the prestigious “Thelma-Yellin Highschool of the Arts” in Tel Aviv where he continued his studies in jazz with some of Israel’s most influencial artists such as Amos Hoffman, Eli Degibri, and the Cohen brothers.

As a jazz player Yakir got the chance to perform as leader in some of the most important jazz clubs and festivals in Israel and Italy including “The Shablool”, “Ha Gada Ha Smalit”, “Charity Jazz Cafe”, “Diavolo Rosso”, “Villa Celimontana”, “Jazz At The Red Sea”, “100% Art”, “Roma Jazz” and has won the “America – Israel Cultural Foundation”(Keren Sharet) jazz performance award for young talents for 4 consecutive years (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009) as well as a scholarship from Berklee College of Music to attend both their Summer program and Full-Time Degree program.

In May 2008 he was selected as finalist to participate in the prodigious “Massimo Urbani International Jazz Award” in Italy, and after winning the first place, he got signed by the highly acclaimed Philology Jazz Records label (most noted for it’s works with Lee Konitz, Chet Baker and Phil Woods) under which he released his first album in trio.

The album “Portrait” (2009) is distributed in Europe, Israel, Japan and iTunes Music – it showcases Yakir’s own original jazz material alongside standards.

In recent years in his constant search for new sounds and new ways of expressing himself, Yakir has made a radical return to classical music, Studying under ‘Berklee College of Music’ Piano Chair Stephany Tiernan and composition Chair Arnold Friedman, composing and performing Avant-Garde classical music; appearing in various prestigious halls such as “Steinert Hall” in Boston, “Felicja Blumental Center” in Tel Aviv, and the “Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” in Washington. His compositions have been performed by the ‘Kalistos Chamber Orchestra’ and the ‘Triple Helix Piano Trio’.

Philip Satterthwaite and Garen Meguerditchian

Joshua and Justin Kim

Rachel Gaufberg and Maggie Barrett

Rebecca Lee and Sophia Gaufberg

Tabitha Chen-Fiske and Mari Chen-Fiske

Ellen Welter and Rachel Gaufberg

Please note the previously scheduled performance for April 26, 2013 has been rescheduled

M. Steinert & Sons is proud to present pianist and Young Steinway Artist Zachary Haroutunian for an Evening with Steinway on Friday, June 14, 2013 at 7:00pm at Steinert Hall!

Zachary Haroutunian is a classical concert pianist and student.  He began his piano studies at age 4 at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School where he currently studies with Ms. Wha-Kyung Byun.  Over the years he has been a pupil of Ms. Ellen Plansky, Ms. Elizabeth Skavish, Dr. A. Ramon Rivera and Ms. Sylvia Chambless.  Zachary’s recent performances include appearances at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, The Nohant Festival, France, and Eglise St. Julien le Pauvre in Paris among other venues.  In April 2012, Zachary Haroutunian was named a Young Steinway Artist.  In becoming a Young Steinway Artist, he joined an exclusive group of under 70 international pianists recognized by Steinway & Sons as committed to representing Steinway’s standard of excellence through their music.  Zachary is the only Young Steinway Artist in Massachusetts, and at the time of receiving his YSA designation, the youngest.  Among the composers represented in this evening’s program is Zachary’s favorite, Franz Liszt.

7:00pm Performance, Reception to follow

Open to the public but reservations are required.  Please contact Vivian Handis as 617-426-1900 x224 or email at vivianh@msteinert.com

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He will be performing Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op. 125

7:00pm Performance, Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow

Open to the public but reservations are required.  Please contact Marianne Jensen at 617-426-1900 x222 or email her at mariannej@msteinert.com

6:00pm Performance

Wine and Cheese Reception to follow

Open to the public but reservations are required.  Please contact Phil Schoonmaker at 627-426-1900 x225 or email at phils@msteinert.com

]]> http://msteinert.com/2013/03/22/ai-ying-recital-beethoven-concert-at-steinert-hall/feed/ 0 http://msteinert.com/2013/03/21/american-liszt-society-concert-at-steinert-hall/ http://msteinert.com/2013/03/21/american-liszt-society-concert-at-steinert-hall/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:32:53 +0000 jeremy http://msteinert.com/?p=1121 Continue reading »]]> M. Steinert & Sons proudly presents the American Liszt Society’s “The Legacy of Franz Liszt” concert on Saturday, April 13 2013 at 3:00pm at Steinert Hall!

The event is open to the public but reservations are required.  Please contact Liz Diamond at 617-426-1900 x 223 or email at lizd@msteinert.com

Four very talented young pianists will be performing their selected pieces, and will then be taught and inspired by Victor Rosenbaum’s insightful direction.  You won’t want to miss this!

The class is free but reservations are required.  Please contact Liz Diamond at 617-426-1900 x223 or email at lizd@msteinert.com

Victor Rosenbaum, pianist 

American pianist Victor Rosenbaum has concertized widely as soloist and chamber music performer in the United States, Europe, Asia, Israel, and Russia in such prestigious halls as Tully Hall in New York and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia.  Described by the Boston Globe as “one of those artists who make up for all the drudgery the habitual concertgoer endures in the hopes of finding the real, right thing,” he has collaborated with such artists as Leonard Rose, Paul Katz, Arnold Steinhardt, Robert Mann, Joseph Silverstein, Malcolm Lowe, and the Brentano, Borromeo, and Cleveland String Quartets, among others.  Festival appearances have included Tanglewood, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Kfar Blum and Tel Hai (in Israel), Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall (Blue Hill), Musicorda, Masters de Pontlevoy (France), the Heifetz Institute, the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York, and the International Music Seminar in Vienna. Concert appearances in recent years have brought him to Chicago, Minneapolis, Tokyo, Beijing, St. Petersburg (Russia), Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, New York and Boston, and other cities.

A student of Elizabeth Brock and Martin Marks in his hometown of Indianapolis, Rosenbaum later studied with Rosina Lhevinne and Leonard Shure while earning degrees at Brandeis and Princeton Universities.  Now a renowned teacher himself, Rosenbaum presently serves on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music in New York and the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he formerly chaired the piano and chamber music departments. He has been Visiting Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music, a guest teacher at Juilliard, and presents lectures, workshops, and master classes for teachers’ groups and schools both in the U. S. and abroad, including London’s Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, and Guildhall School, the conservatories of St. Petersburg and Moscow, Beijing Central Conservatory, the Toho School in Tokyo and other institutions such as the Menuhin School, and the Jerusalem Music Center.  Rosenbaum was Director and President of the Longy School of Music from 1985-2001.

His highly praised recording of Schubert, which Classical disCDigest described as “a powerful and poignant record of human experience,” is on Bridge Records.  The release of the last three Beethoven sonatas on the same label was named by American Record Guide critic Alan Becker as one of the top ten classical recordings of 2005 and Susan Kagan of Fanfare wrote of that disc: “Victor Rosenbaum’s rewarding interpretation can sit proudly among the best.”  Two recent recordings on the Fleur de Son label feature music of Schubert and  Mozart.

(Pictured at left, back row left to right:  Andee Song, 13;  Layla Siraj, 18;  Amir Siraj, 13;  Meghan Tan, 9;  Abigail Zhang, 12;  Christopher Li, 11;  Kyu Il Lee, 18.  Front row left to right: teachers/performers Wanda Pail, Ronald Kmiec, and Helena Vesterman)

RSVP is required so please contact Vivian Handis at 617-426-1900 x 224 or email her at vivianh@msteinert.com

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