Solo Piano Recital by Arthur Greene
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Daniel Arts Center - McConnell Theater
Arthur Greene, concertizing pianist and professor at the University of Michigan School of Music, offers a recital of primarily American music, featuring Charles Ives's Piano Sonata no. 2, subtitled "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860." THe program will also include Chopin's Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor, op. 58. In addition to performing these works, the artist will offer an introductory presentation about Ives's Sonata, which portrays the spirit of four significant figures of the Transcendentalist movement: Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau.
Arthur Greene was born in New York, and grew up in Sheffield, Massachusetts. He attended Berrkshire School, and studied piano with Vincent Marlotti, who was on the faculty at Simon's Rock at the time. He went on to Yale University, and then Juilliard where he studied with Martin Canin. He now teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Greene has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco, Utah, and National Symphonies, the Czech National Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony, and many others. He has played recitals in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Moscow Rachmaninov Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Lisbon Sao Paulo Opera House, Hong Kong City Hall and concert houses in Shanghai and Beijing. He toured Japan and Korea many times. He was an Artistic Ambassador to Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia for the United States Information Agency. At the University of Michigan Mr. Greene has won the Harold Haugh Award for Excellence in Studio Teaching.
Contact:
Larry Wallach
Phone: 413-528-7212
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