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BORIS BERMANhorowitz piano series
Robert Blocker, Dean
november 7, 2012
Morse Recital Hall · Wednesday at 8 pm A Hundred Years Back: Music written in or around 1912
Presenting
Alexander Scriabin1872—1915
Sergei Prokofiev1891—1953
Claude Debussy1862—1918
Sonata No. 7, Op. 64
Sonata No. 9, Op. 68
Sarcasms, Op. 17TempestosoAllegro rubatoAllegro precipitatoSmaniosoPrecipitosissimo
intermission
La boîte à joujoux (The Toy Box), Ballet for piano
Projections designed by Shawn Boyle ’15dra, under the guidance of Wendall Harrington, based on the artwork from the original edition by André Hellé (1871–1945)
Peter Francis James, narrator
boris berman, piano
November 7, 2012 • Sprague Memorial Hall
As a courtesy to the performers and audience, turn off cell phones and pagers. Please do
not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.
Peter Francis James has most recently appeared in: Signature Theater, The Lady From Dubuque (Lortel Nomination). Broadway: The Merchant of Venice, On
Golden Pond, Drowning Crow, Judgment at Nuremberg. U.K.: The Lady From Dubuque (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), Cymbeline (RSC /TFANA). The Public: Stuff Happens (OBIE, Lucille Lortel Awards), Much Ado, Venus. CSC: The Maids (OBIE Award).
Pianist Boris Berman is well known to the audiences of close to fifty countries on six continents. He regu- larly appears with leading orchestras, on major recital series,
and in important festivals. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the distinguished pianist Lev Oborin. An active recording artist and a Grammy nominee, Boris Berman has previously recorded all the works on tonight’s program.
Mr. Berman was the first pianist to record the complete solo works by Prokofiev (Chandos). Other acclaimed releases include all the Scriabin piano sonatas (Music and Arts) and a recital of Shostakovich piano works (Ottavo), which received the Edison Classic Award, the Dutch equivalent of the
About the Artists
Grammy. The recording of three Prokofiev concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Neeme Järvi conducting (Chandos), was named Compact Disc of the Month by CD Review. Other recordings include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Franck, Weber, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Joplin, and Cage.
In 1984, Mr. Berman joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music, where he is professor of piano, coordinator of piano, and music director of the Horowitz Piano Series. He also gives master classes throughout the world, and in 2005 he was named an honorary professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2000, Yale University Press pub-lished Mr. Berman’s Notes from the Pianist’s Bench, which has since been translated into several languages. In 2008, the same publisher released Mr. Berman’s book Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer.
Regional: Guthrie, Ahmanson, Mark Taper, Baltimore Center Stage, McCarter, Yale Rep, Williamstown, others. Film/ Television: The Losers, The Rebound, The Messenger, Joe Gould’s Secret, The Rosa Parks Story, “Oz,” “ Royal Pains,” “Gossip Girl,” “Kings,” “Simple Justice,” ”The Ruby Bridges Story,” all three “Law & Order” series. Teaching: Since 2000 he has been a lecturer at the Yale School of Drama and at BADA/Oxford since 2006. His work as a narrator includes television programs, commercials and more than 50 books. He is a graduate and Associate of The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Robert Blocker, Dean
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