The 23rd Annual Music
Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 24
to August 17, 2014
Concerts
and Master Classes
Admission free.
Suggested Donation $5 at door
Monday, July 28, 2014, 7:30 PM
at Boswell Recital Hall
Bruce Brubaker,
Piano Master Class
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Program |
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Chopin: Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op.
60
Xiting Zhang
Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses Op. 54 in D minor
Victor Xie
Schumann: Kreisleriana Op. 16, Nos. 1,2,6,7,8
Xiaoyi Xu
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Steinway piano provided
by M. Steinert & Sons
Meet The Artists |
Bruce Brubaker,
piano
Bruce
Brubaker joined the New England Conservatory faculty as piano chair in
2005. In live performances from the Hollywood Bowl to New York’s Avery
Fisher Hall, from Paris to Hong Kong, and in his continuing series of
recordings for Arabesque—Bruce Brubaker is a visionary virtuoso. Named
“Young Musician of the Year” by Musical America, Bruce Brubaker performs
Mozart with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Philip Glass on the BBC.
Profiled on NBC’s "Today" show, Brubaker’s playing, writing, and
collaborations continue to show a shining, and sometimes surprising
future for pianists and piano playing. His blog “PianoMorphosis” appears
at ArtsJournal.com.
Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post critic Tim Page has said: “I
wouldn't trade Pollini, Argerich, Richard Goode, Peter Serkin or Bruce
Brubaker (to mention a terrific younger artist) for any handful of
Horowitzes!” Brubaker was presented by Carnegie Hall at Zankel Hall in
New York, at Trifolion in Echternach, at Michigan’s Gilmore Festival,
and at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, as the opening-night
performer in the museum’s acclaimed new Diller Scofidio +
Renfro-designed building. He is a frequent performer at New York City’s
Le Poisson Rouge.
Bruce Brubaker’s CDs for Arabesque include Time Curve (music by Philip
Glass and William Duckworth), Hope Street Tunnel Blues (music by Glass
and Alvin Curran, featuring Brubaker’s transcription of a portion of
Glass’s opera Einstein on the Beach), Inner Cities (including a live
recording of John Adams’s Phrygian Gates and Brubaker’s transcription of
part of Adams’s opera Nixon in China), and the first CD in the series,
glass cage, named one of the best releases of the year by The New Yorker
magazine.
Brubaker has premiered works by Glass, Nico Muhly, Mark-Anthony Turnage,
and John Cage. He performed at Sanders Theater in collaboration with
Cage during the composer's tenure as Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer at
Harvard University. Of Brubaker's playing at a later recital at Harvard,
The Boston Globe wrote: “A big-toned, brainy, firebrand kind of music
making that made you think of—dare one say this?—Rudolf Serkin.”
Following his New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall,
Brubaker was awarded a solo artist grant from the National Endowment for
the Arts. His London debut at the Wigmore Hall led to his first
broadcast concert on the BBC, an all-Brahms recital. Brubaker has
appeared at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher
Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, London’s Wigmore Hall, Leipzig’s
Gewandhaus, Antwerp’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Finland’s Kuhmo
Festival.
Bruce Brubaker has appeared on RAI in Italy and is featured in the
documentary film about the Juilliard School, made for the PBS “American
Masters Series.” As a member of Affiliate Artists Xerox Pianists
Program, he presented residencies and performed with orchestras
throughout the United States.
At NEC, in addition to his teaching duties, Brubaker has coordinated
schoolwide celebrations of the music of Chopin, Haydn, Messiaen, Mozart,
Schuller, and Shostakovich that have included performers outside the
piano department, as well as Preparatory students performing alongside
College piano majors. For 2011, Brubaker is organizing performances at
NEC of the complete piano music of Liszt. Under Brubaker's guidance, the
weekly Piano Seminar has exposed piano majors and curious members of the
public to a wide range of performers and thinkers.
Brubaker has given masterclasses and forums at the Sibelius Academy in
Helsinki, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Columbia University,
Leipzig’s Hochschüle für Musik, the École Normale in Paris, Ghent’s
Orpheus Instituut, North Carolina’s Eastern Music Festival, and the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Brubaker's articles about music have appeared in The Wall Street
Journal, USA Today, Piano Quarterly, Dutch Journal of Music Theory, and
Chamber Music magazine. He was co-editor and a contributor to Pianist,
Scholar, Connoisseur: Essays in Honor of Jacob Lateiner (Pendragon
Press, 2000), a collection paying homage to his former teacher. His
essay “Time Is Time” appears in Unfolding Time (2009), available in the
U.S. from Cornell University Press. He presented the closing recital in
Harvard University’s Crosscurrents conference in 2008. He is the U.S.
representative for "Behind the Music: The Performer as Researcher," a
research initiative based in Australia.
Prior to coming to NEC, Brubaker was the creator in 2000–2001 of
“B-A-C-H,” a six-concert series in New York examining the connections
between J. S. Bach and the composers who followed him. The previous
year, at the turn of the millennium, he organized “Piano Century,” in
which 100 pianists performed 101 twentieth-century pieces in eleven
concerts. In 2004, Brubaker created and performed Pianomorphosis, a
70-minute multidisciplinary performance piece for the Gilmore
International Keyboard Festival in Michigan. Brubaker's performance
piece Haydnseek, was created together with Nico Muhly. Brubaker is the
founder and artistic director of the chamber music festival SummerMusic
in his native Iowa.
Well known in the music profession as an identifier and nurturer of
musical talent, Brubaker's students have won major international
competitions and prizes, and built recording and performing careers
throughout the world.
Brubaker trained at the Juilliard School, where he received the school's
highest award, the Edward Steuermann Prize, upon graduation. At
Juilliard, where he taught from 1995 to 2005, he has appeared in public
conversations with Philip Glass, Milton Babbitt, and Meredith Monk.
B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. in piano, The Juilliard School. Principal piano
studies with Jacob Lateiner; chamber music with Felix Galimir and Louis
Krasner; analysis with Milton Babbitt. Recordings on Arabesque and Vital
Music. Former faculty of the Juilliard School.
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Thank you
for your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2014 |
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