 ANN SCHEIN
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 2:00pm Tickets $25.00/Senior, Student & Group Discounts Available
Part of the Adams Foundation Classical Piano Recital Program
About Ann Schein, the Washington Post has written “Thank heaven for Ann Schein…what a relief it is to hear a pianist who, with no muss or fuss, simply reaches right into the heart of whatever she is playing – and creates music so powerful you cannot tear yourself away.”
From her first recordings for Kapp Records, and her highly acclaimed Carnegie Hall recital debut as an artist on the Sol Hurok roster, Ann Schein’s amazing career has earned her high praise in major American and European cities and in more than 50 countries around the world.
She has performed with conductors including George Szell, James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, James dePreist, David Zinman, Stanislaw Skrowacewski, and Sir Colin Davis, and with major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the Washington National Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She has performed at the White House during the Kennedy administration.
In 1980-81, Ann Schein extended the legacy of her teachers, Mieczyslaw Munz, Arthur Rubinstein, and Dame Myra Hess performing 6 concerts of the major Chopin repertoire in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall throughout an entire season to outstanding reviews and sold-out houses, the first Chopin cycle presented in New York in 35 years.
With the great soprano, Jessye Norman, she has appeared in cities across the United States, as well as a tour in Brazil. The artists are featured in songs of Alban Berg on Sony Classical.
She is one of an exclusive roster of pianists chose to present piano recitals in new venues in American cities and communities under the auspices of the Adams Foundation Piano Recital Series. By the end of the 2007 season, the series sponsored 103 recitals in 25 communities in 19 states.
From 1980 to 2000, she was on the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She has been an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 1984. Her performance of the Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto during the 2006 season with conductor Joseph Silverstein was one of the most recent of over 100 performances of this work since the beginning of her career. She was chosen to hold the Victoria and Ronald Simms Chair, awarded to a member of the Aspen piano faculty for two years, for the summers of 2006 and 2007, extended to 2008 in special recognition of her teaching prominence. She has been invited to join the piano faculty of Indiana University as Visiting Professor throughout the 2008-09 season.
In December, 2007, she added another performance of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3 in Bloomington, IN with Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor, and in June, 2008, she performed Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with conductor Stephen Simon in Falmouth, Massachusetts. In July, 2008, she gave a performance of the 4th Concerto of Beethoven in the Masterworks Festival in Indiana, and presented a recital in New Orleans, as well as making numerous appearances throughout the Aspen Music Festival 2008 season.
Recent recordings include a Schumann album of solo works on Ivory Classics, a Chopin CD including the 24 Preludes and the Sonata in b minor on MSR Classics, and a recording of the Walton Violin and Piano Sonata with violinist Herbert Greenberg on the Delos label. In December, 2008, MSR Classics will release her newest recording including Elliott Carter’s 1945-46 Piano Sonata, the Copland Piano Variations, the Copland Sonata for Violin and Piano with Earl Carlyss, violinist, and a new work written for her, “Lakes” by John Patitucci, double-bassist, and one of today’s most celebrated jazz and classical artists.
The 2008-09 appearances include performances in Beijing, Seoul, Korea, Lincoln, Nebraska, the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, New Mexico, Colorado, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, and New York.
She is married to Earl Carlyss who, for over 20 years, was second violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet. He is currently in charge of the freshman Seminar for String Quartet Literature at the Juilliard School, and has served as Director of the Aspen Center for Advanced Quartet Studies since 1984. Earl Carlyss and Ann Schein often perform as a Duo, and in many chamber music appearances throughout each season.
Ann Schein
Program for Thomaston, CT – February 21, 2010
2:00 PM
Frederic Chopin - Polonaise-Fantaisie, Opus 61
Robert Schumann - Davidsbündlertänze, Opus 6Book I
I. Lebhaft (Lively)
II. Innig (Intimately)
III. Mit Humor (Cheerfully)
IV. Ungeduldig (Impatient)
V. Einfach (Simple)
VI. Sehr rasch (Very fast)
VII. Nicht schnell (Not fast)
VIII. Frisch (Fresh)
IX. Lebhaft (Lively)
Book II
X. Balladenmässig, Sehr rasch (As a Ballade – very fast)
XI. Einfach (Simple)
XII. Mit Humor (In a cheerful spirit)
XIII. Wild und lustig (Wild and joyous)
XIV. Zart und singend (Tender and singing)
XV. Frisch (Fresh)
XVI. Mit gutem Humor (With the best of moods)
XVII. Wie aus der Ferne (As from afar)
XVIII. Nicht schnell (Not fast)
INTERMISSION
Frédéric Chopin - Sonata No. 3 in b minor, Opus 58
I. Allegro maestoso
II. Scherzo: Molto vivace
III. Largo
IV. Finale: Presto non tanto |