World-Renowned Pianist Murray Perahia Performs Only Los Angeles Recital at Royce Hall April 8


Date: February 16, 1999
Contact: Renee Johnson ( reneej@ucla.edu )
Phone: (310) 825-5205

UCLA Performing Arts presents one of the premier pianists of our time, Murray Perahia, in his only Los Angeles recital at UCLA's Royce Hall on Thursday, April 8 at 8 p.m. The performance features a CenterStage discussion at 7 p.m. with Dr. Milton Stern, professor emeritus, Cal State University Los Angeles.

Perahia's program features Bach's English Suite #5 in E minor; Beethoven's Sonata in F Major, Op. 10 #2 and "Moonlight Sonata," Op. 27 #2; and Schubert's Sonata in C minor.

Performing in all of the major international music centers and with every leading orchestra in the world, Perahia is recognized as a musician of rare musical sensitivity and masterful technique. His orchestral appearances include engagements with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony and the Berlin Philharmonic. Perahia has performed recitals in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Paris, Hamburg, Geneva, Salzburg, Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei.

Perahia's many recordings include the complete Mozart Piano Concertos, the complete Beethoven concertos as well as numerous solo discs covering a broad spectrum of composers. His recent recording of music by Handel and Scarlatti won the Gramophone Award for the best instrumental recording of 1997. Perahia's latest release, a four-disc set titled "Murray Perahia -- 25th Anniversary Edition," commemorates 25 years of recordings under the Sony label.

Born in New York, Perahia started playing piano at age 4. He later attended Mannes College in New York, where he majored in conducting and composition.

During the summers, Perahia collaborated with such musicians as Rudolph Serkin, Pablo Casals and members of the Budapest Quartet while also studying with Mieczyslaw Horszowski.

In 1972, Perahia won the Leeds International Piano Competition. Engagements throughout Europe soon followed. In 1973 he gave his first concert at the Aldeburgh Festival, where he met and worked closely with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Perahia became co-artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival from 1981 to 1989.

Perahia is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music.

This performance is sponsored by KUSC Classical Radio, 91.5 FM.

Tickets to Murray Perahia are available for $40, $34, $22 and $11 (UCLA students with valid I.D.) at the UCLA Central Ticket Office at the southwest corner of the James West Alumni Center, online at http://www.cto.ucla.edu and at all Ticketmaster outlets. For more information or to charge by phone, call (310) 825-2101.

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