Awadagin Pratt, piano
December 4
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Gates Concert Hall
Audience: Alumni, Current Student, Faculty, Neighbor or Friend, Prospective Student, Staff
Making his FCM debut, Awadagin Pratt gained international recognition after winning the renowned Naumburg International Piano Competition in 1992 and being awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is hailed as "one of the great and distinctive American pianists and conductors of our time" (WGBH).
PROGRAM:
Philip Glass:听Glassworks
Francois Couperin:听Les Barricades Mysterieuses
Peteris Vasks:听Castillo Interior
Fred Hersch:听Nocturne for Left Hand Alone
Rachmaninoff: Prelude, Op. 28, no. 2
Chopin: Nocturne in B, Op. 62, no. 1
Tchaikovsky: Intermezzo from听The Nutcracker Suite
Liszt: Sonata in B minor
Presented by Friends of Chamber Music