ALEX PRIOR ON KLCS-TV:
Alex will be a featured artist in a documentary
on LA's public education station KLCS-TV in April
2010. The three-part series begins airing Sunday,
April 11 and is titled The World's Greatest Musical
Prodigies. Alex has just completed with distinction
his fourth year at the St. Petersburg Conservatory,
studying Symphonic and Opera conducting with Alexander
Alexeev, a pupil of Hans Svarovsky, and composition
with Anatoly Korolev. Local media in Seattle and
the Pacific Northwest, as well as international media,
is showing a great deal of interest in this remarkable
young man:
Boy wonder will have none of mere mortals'
doubts
British teen leads Seattle Symphony Orchestra
17-year-old to help lead the Seattle Symphony
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FANTASTIC REVIEWS FOR SIMON TRPCESKI & VASILY PETRENKO
SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE: "The playing is
quite assertive in the bravura passages, though very
lush and mellow, featuring sensitive phrasing, in the
lyrical passages … outstrips even Vladimir Horowitz.”
SF GATE: "It's not merely that he can deliver
these formidable virtuoso showpieces with vigor and
technical polish … he makes you hear beyond
the glitter to the dimly flickering musical inspiration
beneath it.”
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MARK O’CONNOR IN CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Violinist Mark O'Connor laughs at musical boundaries
that others observe. So while classical musicians
rarely dare to improvise jazz, and bluegrass fiddlers
do not typically compose violin concertos, O'Connor
swings among all these genres—and others—with
extraordinary grace. His free-ranging efforts have
established him as not only one of the most versatile
soloists in American music but also that rarest kind
of jazz violinist: one who can control pitch and
phrase on par with the best classical players, while
also improvising with remarkable fluidity."
HECTOR PARRA AT THE GUGGENHEIM
Coming in May—Harvard physicist Lisa Randall,
Spanish composer Hector Parra, and artist Matthew
Ritchie collaborate on a new site-specific monodrama,
which inverts and renovates the genre of opera with
an experimental score suggesting the expanding reality
of a fifth dimension. The CD will be presented in
conjunction with the exhibition Contemplating The
Void: Interventions at the Guggenheim Museum, currently
on view (February 12 through April 28).
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