February 16, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Maggie Estes, Director of Marketing
mestes@cliburn.org,
817.738.6536
Fort Worth, Texas, February 16,
2011:
Pianist Stephen Hough will take the stage of
Bass Performance Hall as part of the
Cliburn Concerts series on Tuesday, March
1, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in his exclusive
Metroplex appearance this season. Widely regarded as one of the
most distinctive pianists of his generation, Mr. Hough will
captivate audiences with a program featuring some of the most
impressive works for piano solo. Tickets for this concert are
available for purchase through Central Ticket
Office at 800.462.7979 or online at
Cliburn.org.
The Washington Post describes Mr. Hough as "a virtuoso
who begins where others leave off." A consummate and probing
musician, he is a frequent recitalist and has appeared with most
major European and American orchestras and as a guest artist at
festivals such as Salzburg, Mostly Mozart, Aspen, Ravinia, and
Tanglewood. Mr. Hough's recent performances of Franz Liszt's
monumental warhorse, the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, with the
Budapest Festival Orchestra have earned rave reviews: "Hough is a
pianist with virtuosity to spare, even when it comes to Liszt, and
he put those pyrotechnics to good use supplying rare lightness,
wit, and musical depth" (The Telegraph).
The recipient of many awards and accolades, Mr. Hough took top
prize at the Naumburg Festival in 1983 and was awarded a MacArthur
Fellowship in 2001. He has recorded more than 50 albums for the
Hyperion label which have garnered numerous awards and several
Grammy Award® nominations. Most recently, he was honored with the
Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best instrumentalist following
his acclaimed BBC Proms performances of all four piano concertos by
Tchaikovsky.
Mr. Hough currently serves as a visiting professor at London's
Royal Academy of Music and also holds the position of International
Chair of Music at the Royal Northern College in Manchester. In
addition to his active performing schedule, Hough is a noted
composer of numerous vocal and instrumental works. He is also a
contributing writer for London's Daily Telegraph, blogging
on a range of topics from music to contemporary culture.
The complete program will include:
Beethoven Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Major, op. 27,
no. 2 ("Moonlight")
Adagio sostenuto
Allegretto
Presto agitato
Janacek Sonata 1.X.1905 z Ulicy
Presentiment (Con moto)
Death (Adagio)
Scriabin Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Major, op.
30
Andante
Prestissimo volando
Scriabin Sonata No. 5, op. 53
Liszt Sonata in B Minor
About the Van Cliburn Foundation
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music worldwide,
and launches and nurtures young artists' careers through the
quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tours of its medalists,
award-winning documentaries, and a syndicated radio series
dedicated to the competition and its most memorable performances.
By making the competition available in its entirety on the
Internet, the Foundation has extended its outreach to listeners in
every corner of the globe.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van Cliburn
Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists through the
annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches over 30,000 elementary
school students annually with the education programs of Musical
Awakenings®. In 1999, it established the International Piano
Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™, which The Boston
Globe proclaimed "a celebration of music, and the people who
have to make music, no matter what." The sixth Amateur Competition
will be held May 23-29, 2011 at Ed Landreth Auditorium on the
campus of TCU.
Visit Cliburn.org to learn more about the Cliburn as it approaches
the 50th anniversary of the first Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition.
