Season 2016/17
Concert
Murray Perahia
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach
French suite n. 6 in E Major BWV 817
Franz Schubert
4 Impromptus, op. 142, D. 935
Intermission
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondò in A minor KV 511
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano sonata n. 32 in c minor, op. 111
Artists
Piano
Murray Perahia
Murray Perahia
Perahia was born in New York in 1947 and began playing the piano at the age of four, later graduating at Mannes College. He collaborated with Rudofl Serkin and Pablo Casals at the Marlboro Festival, studied with Mieczysław Horszowski and formed a strong bond with Vladimir Horowitz. Winner of the Leeds international Piano Competition in 1972, the following year he held his first concert at the Aldeburgh Festival, where he worked with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and where he was co-artistic director from 1981 to 1989. Winner of numerous Gramophone Awards and Grammy Awards, an honorary member of the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, he received honorary doctorates from the University of Leeds and from the Duke University. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II bestowed him with a KBE. He is Principal Guest Conductor at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
