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The Savannah Concert Association presents Marina Lomazov, pianist Marina Lomazov began her education in the Ukraine at the Kiev Conservatory. After arrival in the United States, she earned her MM from The Juilliard School and both BM and Doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, the latter granting her the highly coveted Artist's Certificate - an honor not bestowed upon a pianist for nearly two decades. Dr. Lomazov has been awarded top prizes in several of the world's major piano competitions including Cleveland International (Silver Medal), Kapell International (Carmen Sasmore Prize), Bachauer International (Outstanding Female Performer), and Hilton Head International (First Prize). As a winner of the Young Artist Auditions sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs, she toured the United States from 1997 to 1999. She has appeared with the Boston Pops, Rochester Philharmonic, Graz Hochschulorchester, Ohio and Missouri Chamber Orchestras, South Carolina Philharmonic and Spokane Symphony, to name a few. She performed in the Weill, Merkin and Steinway Halsl, appeared in the Rockefeller University Symphony Hall, Boston’s Steinert Hall, Opéra de Lyon (France), Teatro Sao Paulo (Brazil), and Abravanel Hall (Utah). As a member of the Lomazov/Rackers piano duo, she was the Second Prize winner of the Ellis Competition for duo pianists, the only national duo piano competition in the United States. Recently she and her husband, Joseph Rackers, traveled to the Ukraine to perform with the Filarmonica Orchestra of Chernigoff in Chernigoff and Kiev. Dr. Lomazov, now Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of South Carolina, is a frequent guest artist at music festivals including the Moulin d'Ande Arts Festival (France), Verna International Piano Master Classes (Bulgaria) and Piano Festival Northwest (Oregon), among others. Her live performances are broadcast regularly on National Public Radio, including "Performance Today", "Classics in the Morning" and Boston's WGBH, and "Young Artist Showcase" on New York's WQXR. PROGRAM Six Moments Musical - Schubert Sonata in D minor - Beethoven — INTERMISSION — Polyphonic Notebook - Shchedrin Images, Book One - Debussy Transcendental Etude No. 10, F minor - Liszt PROGRAM NOTES Schubert composed in virtually every musical form during his short life (1797 - 1828). Although chiefly remembered for his songs and symphonies, the Moments Musical show his mastery of pianistic effects. Moment #1 is a pert dialogue that wanders between major and minor. #2 is innately lyrical with outbursts of passion. #3 is a perky tune which makes its way to an extended coda in F Major. #4 has a sixteenth note figuration reminiscent of Bach. #5 has been described as a battleground by one writer, while #6 is a melancholy ode with appogiaturas helping to maintain tension. The thirty-two Beethoven sonatas are the Parthenon of piano composition. Every great pianist has studied all of them. To quote Eugene D'Albert (186 - 1932), one of the most famous Beethoven interpreters, "The Opus 31 No. 2 is a masterpiece. Its first movement, with its beautiful recitative passages, is the most dramatic music that Beethoven wrote for the piano. The Adagio speaks the language of the soul, expressing consoling tenderness. The final Allegretto, notable for its tripart form and rhythmic variety, marks a return to simple gladness." Rodion Shchedrin, born in 1932, is a Russian pianist and composer. His
music is tonal, and often includes snatches of folk music. His Polyphonic
Notebook is a catalogue of contrapuntal forms which, for the sake of the
listener, bear definition. An invention is a short piece in free style
developing one motif in impromptu fashion. A canon is a form in which
two or more parts take up in succession the given subject, note for note. "Three Blind Mice" is sometimes sung by two or more as a canon. Ostinato The two works by Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) from "Images" are excellent examples of the great French impressionist's talent. Colors abound as he proceeds to paint his pictures. Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) was by far the most famous of the nineteenth century pianists, and his 12 Transcendental Etudes still stand as challenges to virtuosos of today. No. 10, in sonata form with an explosive coda, is one of the most difficult yet most popular ones of the set.
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