From tedslu at hotmail.com Fri Jan 14 14:26:26 2005 From: tedslu at hotmail.com (Ted Slusarczyk) Date: Fri Jan 14 14:30:43 2005 Subject: [Yuliya's Performances] Live Internet Broadcast: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 Message-ID: Dear Friends, This coming Monday, January 17, 2005, at 8 PM I will be playing Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 with the Roanoke (Virginia) Symphony. The performance will be broadcast live over the Internet. To listen to this performance, point your web browser to: http://www.wvtf.org/broadcastschedule.htm and then click on "Listen Live." Please go to this web site before the concert to make sure you will be able to listen. The web site has information about the software you need to listen ("Real Player") and how to get it if you don't already have it. I hope you will be able to tune in at 8:00 PM (US Eastern Standard Time or 01:00 GMT). All the best, Yuliya Gorenman From tedslu at hotmail.com Wed Jan 19 19:05:19 2005 From: tedslu at hotmail.com (Ted Slusarczyk) Date: Wed Jan 19 19:06:14 2005 Subject: [Yuliya's Performances] Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto # 1 Reviewed Message-ID: Dear Friends, I am sending you the review of my performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto # 1. The review appeard in the Roanoke Times (http://www.roanoke.com) today, Jan. 19. ________________________________ Wednesday, January 19, 2005 Piano professor's playing delightful By Seth Williamson 981-3341 The Roanoke Times The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra has had many fine soloists in the decades I've been attending concerts. Among the best have been icy technicians who can play anything set before them, passionate lovers of their instruments, difficult prima donnas and personable human beings. But none has played with the joie de vivre displayed Monday night by pianist Yuliya Gorenman. The young Russian-born American artist, who is professor of piano at American University in Washington, D.C., played the Piano Concerto No. 1 of Peter Tchaikovsky with a muscular joy that was a pleasure to hear. If her appearance with David Wiley and the orchestra at the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre is any indication, she loves performing more than anything else, and it would take a difficult audience indeed not to be swept away by her happiness in being at the keyboard. It was probably no coincidence that she ended the concert with more encores than I can remember hearing from any RSO soloist in over two decades. She reeled off four (count 'em, four) solo piano treats after the Tchaikovsky came to a thunderous close, and gave the distinct impression that she could have kept at it all night if her audience didn't have to get home to bed on a work night. Monday night's three-warhorse program began with Bedrich Smetana's reliable tone poem "The Moldau." This is a musical depiction of the great river that flows across Bohemia and eventually into Prague, and it is a miracle of Czech melodiousness from beginning to end. This performance was notable for beautiful work from the RSO's horn section, which played the horn calls thrillingly (where the river flows past a hunting party). The musical heart of the evening was a full-bodied performance of the "Enigma Variations" by Sir Edward Elgar, a piece that was recognized from the night of its first hearing as an undoubted masterpiece. As these variations progressed - all of them depictions of members of Elgar's own circle of family and friends - a sense of cumulative power and control began to emerge. The RSO is a fine orchestra for as small a region as Roanoke, but in this performance I seemed to detect a depth of interpretive insight that equals readings I have heard from far better known ensembles and conductors. This was especially obvious in the "Nimrod" variation, which is the heart of this piece, as the Variations themselves were the heart of this program. This music shines with a nobility and humanity that rank it among the most deeply moving pieces ever written by any composer in any era. Though he was to create many more great works, in a sense Elgar (nor anybody else in the 20th century) never surpassed the sustained nobility of utterance he achieved here. I am happy to say that Wiley and the RSO players responded to Elgar's vision. As they entered this magical section, Wiley barely seemed to move, communicating with only the smallest gestures and facial expressions. It was a performance fine enough to summon tears, and I have to rank it among the best moments I have heard from this orchestra in two decades. It was no surprise to learn that the RSO musicians dedicated their performance of this section of the work to the memory of the tsunami victims in the Indian Ocean. After moments such as this "Nimrod," the Tchaikovsky that followed in the second half - as tuneful an audience pleaser as it is - seemed perhaps just the slightest bit vulgar. Placing it after this Elgar was asking too much of it. But as Yuliya Gorenman leaned into the crashing opening chords, she made it easier to get into the sound world of this piece, full of great melodies and emotionalism. Gorenman played with athletic power - getting successfully from one end of this concerto to the other makes huge physical demands on the soloist. But her strength is probably what enabled her to handle the difficult passage work as clearly as she did. And she was a master at creating tension with judicious touches of rubato, slightly retarding the melodic line here, making up the time a bar or two later. It was a performance that transcended the usual crashing and banging that devotees of this piece must accustom themselves to. The audience recognized this with an immediate standing ovation, recalling Gorenman to the stage several times. She rewarded them with four encores: Debussy's beloved "Clair de Lune," the Rachmaninov C-sharp Minor Prelude, the Nocturne for the Left Hand of Aleksandr Scriabin, and finally a Bach prelude. Seth Williamson produces feature news stories and Morning Classics at public radio station WVTF (89.1 FM) in Roanoke. From tedslu at hotmail.com Mon May 2 23:33:49 2005 From: tedslu at hotmail.com (Ted Slusarczyk) Date: Mon May 2 23:33:31 2005 Subject: [Yuliya's Performances] Yuliya Gorenman's Recital at Phillips Collection, Sunday, May 15 Message-ID: Dear Friends, I would like to inform you that I will be performing a solo piano recital at the Phillips Collection on Sunday May 15 at 5 PM. Program: Robert Schumann Arabeske op. 18, Carnaval op. 9 Franz Liszt Sonata in B minor 1600 21st Street, NW Washington DC For more information please call (202)387-2151 or visit www.phillipscollection.org I hope to see you there! Sincerely, Yuliya Gorenman From tedslu at hotmail.com Thu May 12 23:32:59 2005 From: tedslu at hotmail.com (Ted Slusarczyk) Date: Thu May 12 23:33:03 2005 Subject: [Yuliya's Performances] Yuliya Gorenman's Recital at Phillips Collection, Sunday, May 15 (reminder) Message-ID: (Reminder) Dear Friends, I would like to inform you that I will be performing a solo piano recital at the Phillips Collection on Sunday May 15 at 5 PM. Program: Robert Schumann Arabeske op. 18, Carnaval op. 9 Franz Liszt Sonata in B minor 1600 21st Street, NW Washington DC For more information please call (202)387-2151 or visit http://www.phillipscollection.org I hope to see you there! Sincerely, Yuliya Gorenman From tedslu at hotmail.com Mon Oct 17 18:24:23 2005 From: tedslu at hotmail.com (Ted Slusarczyk) Date: Mon Oct 17 18:24:27 2005 Subject: [Yuliya's Performances] Yuliya Gorenman - Concert at American University Message-ID: American University presents: Yuliya Gorenman and the Katzen Chamber Players in an evening of Mozart Program: String Quartet K.V. 80 in G major Piano Concerto in A major K. 414 Flute Quartet K. 285b in C major Piano Concerto in E flat major K. 449 Friday November 4th, 2005 at 8 PM Katzen Arts Center 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC Yuliya Gorenman, piano Jonathan Baumgarten, flute Teri Lazar, violin Kim Miller, violin Osman Kivrak, viola Nancy Jo Snider, cello www.tix.com (202)885-3634 From tedslu at hotmail.com Fri Oct 28 12:09:55 2005 From: tedslu at hotmail.com (Ted Slusarczyk) Date: Fri Oct 28 12:10:00 2005 Subject: [Yuliya's Performances] Mozart at American University, Friday November 4 Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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