October 10, 2014 •Chuck Johnson
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
6:30 pm
M. Steinert & Sons
162 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Please join us for a recital by international concert artist Lise de la Salle. Ms. de la Salle will perform works by Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, and Chopin.
A reception with the artist will follow the recital.
Admission to this special event is free, but seating is limited. Please reserve your seat by ordering online or by calling (617) 426-1900.
About the Artist
Before the age of twenty, Lise de la Salle was already recognized as “a talent in a million” by Gramophone magazine. Lise has awed critics with her artistry and mesmerized audiences throughout the United States and Europe. Her most recently released recording, LISZT out now on Naive, received widespread critical acclaim in print and online.
Lise de la Salle has already had an impressive international career, performing at the major concert halls of Europe, the United Stated and Asia. She plays regularly with major orchestras and has worked with the conductors Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, James Conlon, Osmo Vänskä, Philippe Herreweghe, Semyon Bychkov, Alexander Dimitriev, Lan Shui, James Gaffigan, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Lawrence Foster, Dennis Russel Davis and many others. She has also worked with Sir Charles Mackeras.
Her many festival appearances include the Ravinia Festival, La Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo, the Moritzburg Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Weilburger Schlossfestspiele, Aspen Festival, and more.
Ms. de la Salle has plalyed concerts in London (Wigmore Hall), New York, Moscow, St. Petersburg, in Berlin (Philharmonie), in the Lousianna Museum, in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Paris, Munich, Boston, Montréal, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Moritzburg, Lucerne, Buenos Aires and others, as well as Orchestra concerts with the Vienna Symphony in New York, with Boston Symphony, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lucerne Symphony orchestra, NDR Hamburg, Orchestre National de France, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Orchestra, NHKSO, the Tschechische Philharmonie, London Philhamonia, St. Petersburg Symphony orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar, Chicago Symphony, Munich Philharmonic and many others.
She toured amongst with Bamberger Symphoniker, Orquesta Nacional do Porto and she will tour with the Dresdner Kapellsolisten (Southamerica), Prague Philharmonia, Rotterdam Philharmonia.
Born in 1988, Lise de la Salle started to play the piano at the age of four and gave her first concert, broadcast live by Radio France, when she was nine. From 2003 until 2005 she studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris – CNSM, where she enrolled the post-graduate cycle. From 1997 until 2004 she worked closely with Pascal Nemirowsky and has also been guided by Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux. Ms. de la Salle has won numerous competitions among them the first prize at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York which gave her the opportunity to make her debut in New York and Washington.