[Yuliya's Performances] (Text-only Version) American University Presents The Gorenman Beethoven Project at the Katzen Arts Center

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American University’s Department of Performing Arts Presents Internationally Acclaimed Pianist Yuliya Gorenman in “The Gorenman Beethoven Project”

 

Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 8 p.m.

 

Russian-born pianist Yuliya Gorenman will perform the first four of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, the most significant body of work written for the piano, at 8 p.m., Saturday, October 6 in Abramson Family Recital Hall at American University’s Katzen Arts Center.

 

This concert series, “The Gorenman Beethoven Project,” is the culmination of a four-year effort for the pianist.  While studying at the Peabody Institute, Gorenman first experienced the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven in 1993 when she and her fellow students performed them all, with each performer taking on two or three sonatas.  Thinking back to the experience, Gorenman remarked, “that is when I first dared to dream about performing them all myself.”

 

While it has been a long-time dream of Gorenman to play all the sonatas, this is not her first ambitious Beethoven project.  She has also recorded all the Beethoven piano concertos and the Triple Concerto in live performances with the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra in France and Switzerland.  Her connection to Beethoven goes beyond mere appreciation of his work as a composer.  Gorenman can trace her musical lineage back to Beethoven through two centuries of teachers and students.

 

Gorenman has performed extensively both nationally and internationally, and is currently a professor of piano in American University’s Department of Performing Arts.  To listen to select audio clips of her performances, visit her website at http://www.yuliya.com.

 

Her fall performance will include Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1 (1795); Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2 (1795); Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3 (1795); and Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, Op. 7 “Grand Sonata” (1796-1797).

 

More information on “The Gorenman Beethoven Project” and all of American University’s 2007-2008 performances is available online at http://www.american.edu/katzen and http://www.american.edu/greenberg

 

Tickets are $15 general; $10 AU community; $5 students.  For tickets, p lease visit our website at http://american.tix.com

 

Group tickets are available by calling 202-885-3634.

 

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