ponsored with the Stecher & Horowitz Foundation, this series presents the prize winners of the biennial New York Piano Competition. Admission to each concert is free and open to the public. Enter at the Marvin & Elisabeth Cassell Community House (One East 65th Street). Concerts are held in Greenwald Hall.SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009 • 3 PM
NATALIA KAZARYAN, 22, was born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. At the age of 6 she enrolled at the Tbilisi Music School for Gifted Children under the tutelage of Alla Nakashidze and made her orchestral debut at age of 7 with the Tbilisi State Chamber Orchestra. She has been hailed by the New York Sun as a pianist of “prodigious ability” who “immediately established an atmosphere of strength and confidence.” Read more »
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2010 • 3 PM
LEANN NICOLE OSTERKAMP, 18, of Boulder, Colo., has performed as a solo and chamber artist across the United States and Italy. In 2008 she was awarded a top prize in the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition and was a finalist in the Fourth New York Piano Competition, where she received outstanding recognition for her performance of the commissioned work. Recently she was named a 2009 Presidential Scholar of the Arts through the Obama administration. Leann will perform with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra on New Year’s Eve. Read more »
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2010 • 3 PM
CHARLIE ALBRIGHT, 20, is the first winner in the history of the New York Piano Competition to be the recipient of two first prizes. He received First Prize in the solo category and shared First Prize in the one-piano, four hands ensemble in 2006. A native of Centralia, Wash., Charlie began playing the piano at age 3½ and started taking lessons shortly thereafter. He studied with Nany Adsit of Olympia, Wash., until entering Harvard in 2007 and currently participates in a joint program between the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard College — the first pianist to participate in this collaboration. Read more »
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