Haller Lake Music Series: David Brooks, piano
$20
Felix Mendelssohn — Fantasy in F-sharp minor, Op. 28 "Sonate écossaise" ("Scottish Sonata")
David Brooks — Escherisms
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Württemberg Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Wq. 49 H. 30
Alberto Ginastera — Danzas Criollas Op. 15
David Brooks, piano
CPE Bach – Sonata in A minor ("Wurttemberg No. 1")
Brooks – Escherisms (2014)
Mendelssohn – Fantasy, Op. 28 (“Scottish Sonata”)
Chopin – Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1
Ginastera – Danzas Criollas, Op. 15
About the artist
Pianist David Brooks enjoys a multi-faceted life in music. As a performer, he plays a repertoire ranging from Alkan to Zwilich, spanning the avant-garde and neglected romantics, as well as the established greats.
David has performed across the United States and Europe, recently performing a solo recital in Paris at La Cathédrale Américaine. In 2009, he performed at Boston’s Gardner Museum and Brown Hall, and the Boston Globe called his playing “especially lush.” Compass News said of a performance, “Brooks left the audience stunned and speechless.”
As a composer and transcriber, David has transcribed a wide array of works for solo piano by composers ranging from Bach to Penderecki. In 2013, his song cycle First Steps was performed in Romania, and in 2014 his Escherisms will be premiered at SymphonySpace in New York.
A dedicated teacher, David teaches Music Theory at Adelphi University, and at the Pre-College Academy of Stony Brook University. At SUNY Suffolk he is an Adjunct Professor of Piano. Previously he also taught a studio of award-winning piano students at the University of Washington in Seattle.
David currently lives in New York and studies with Christina Dahl at Stony Brook in the Doctoral program. David holds degrees in both piano and viola performance from Western Washington University, where he studied piano with Jeffrey Gilliam, viola with Eric Kean, and violin with Walter Schwede. While at WWU, he was awarded the Presser Foundation Scholarship, Western’s highest honor, and was the violist of the Ravenna String Quartet. David still regularly performs chamber music as a violinist and violist.