WWU Guest Artist Recital: Russian Escapee & Pianist Mikhail Voskresensky
Friday, October 20, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall,
Bellingham,
WA,
United States
$10-$49
- Mikhail Voskresensky, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331/300i
Ludwig van Beethoven — 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — The Seasons, Op. 37a
Franz Liszt — Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor S. 244/11
Ludwig van Beethoven — 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — The Seasons, Op. 37a
Franz Liszt — Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor S. 244/11
Voskresensky was a professor and the chair of the piano department at the Moscow Conservatory until he fled Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.
He has performed in more than 60 countries and recorded over 60 discs, featuring the works of Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich. He is a recipient of the City of Moscow Prize (2011) and a Knight of Japan's Order of the Rising Sun. Voskresensky's students have been prize-winners on 130 occasions at international competitions, winning first prizes 57 times.