Pianist Seymour Lipkin celebrates the 60th anniversary of his winning the Rachmaninoff Piano Competition with a recital on Monday, October 20 at 8 PM in Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Mr. Lipkin and friends, pianist Robert McDonald, violinist Ronald Copes, violist Samuel Rhodes, and cellist Joel Krosnick, perform works by Schubert and Mozart on Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital

Pianist and Juilliard faculty member, Seymour Lipkin, is joined by friends in recital on Monday, October 20 at 8 PM in The Peter Jay Sharp Theater as he celebrates the 60th anniversary of his winning the prestigious Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition. Mr. Lipkin won the Rachmaninoff Competition at age 19 and went on to appear with all of America’s “top five” orchestras: including multiple appearances with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as with The Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago, and many other major American ensembles. That competition win marked the beginning of a long and respected career as soloist, conductor, chamber musician, artistic director and teacher in which he is active to this day.

Joining Mr. Lipkin for this special evening will be pianist Robert McDonald, violinist Ronald Copes, violist Samuel Rhodes, and cellist Joel Krosnick – all members of Juilliard’s faculty and three of the members of the Juilliard String Quartet. The program features Schubert’s Three Marches for Piano, four-hands with Mr. Lipkin and Mr. McDonald; Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat, D. 960 with Mr. Lipkin; and concludes with Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E-flat, K. 493 with Ronald Copes, Samuel Rhodes, Joel Krosnick, and Mr. Lipkin.

FREE tickets to this recital will be available beginning October 6 at Juilliard’s Box Office located in Juilliard’s newly-renovated lobby at 155 West 65th Street. For further information, call (212) 769-7406 or go to www.juilliard.edu.

Juilliard faculty member, pianist Seymour Lipkin, is currently artistic director of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. A member of the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, Mr. Lipkin is extremely active in chamber music and has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Spoleto festivals (both in Italy and the United States), and the Norfolk Festival. He has performed with Jascha Heifetz, Oscar Shumsky, Uto Ughi, Arnold Steinhardt, William Primrose, David Soyer, and Lawrence Lesser, and toured the U.S., Europe, and South America with the Guarnieri Quartet. He performed a ten-city European tour with the Juilliard String Quartet in 1999 and appeared again with them at the Library of Congress in 2001.

For many years, Mr. Lipkin concentrated on conducting (studying with Serge Koussevitzky and George Szell). After serving as the New York Philharmonic’s assistant conductor, he was music director of both the Long Island Symphony and the Joffrey Ballet. Returning to extensive concertizing as a pianist, he has earned particular acclaim for his Beethoven cycles, which have encompassed not only the five concerts and the thirty-two piano sonatas, but the ten violin sonatas and the five cello sonatas as well. Recently he has performed a cycle of the complete piano sonatas of Schubert. 
       
Mr. Lipkin’s recordings of the complete 32 sonatas of Beethoven have been released on Newport Classic; all 32 sonatas may also be heard on a single MP3 disc, the first time this has been accomplished. His recording of Stravinsky’s Piano Concerto with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic may be heard on the Sony label.

Mr. Lipkin has collaborated with such conductors as Serge Koussevitzky, Fritz Reiner, Charles Munch, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, William Steinberg, George Szell, and Christoph von Dohnányi, and more recently with Kenneth Schermerhorn, Gerard Schwarz, and George Cleve. He was a student of Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski at the Curtis Institute of Music.

FOR LISTINGS:
Monday, October 20, 8 PM, The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 155 West 65th Street
Seymour Lipkin, pianist
Mr. Lipkin is joined by friends in celebrating the 60th anniversary of his win at the Rachmaninoff International Piano Concerto
Guest artists: Robert McDonald, piano, Ronald Copes, violin, Samuel Rhodes, viola,
Joel Krosnick, cello
Schubert - Three Marches for Piano, four-hands
Schubert - Sonata in B-flat, D. 960
Mozart - Piano Quartet in E-flat, K. 493
FREE tickets available October 6 at the Juilliard Box Office

2008-09 DANIEL SAIDENBERG FACULTY RECITAL SERIES

Thursday, October 23, 8 PM, Juilliard’s Paul Hall, 155 West 65th Street, 1st Floor
Samuel Rhodes, viola
Donald Martino – Three Sad Songs for viola and piano (1993)
Igor Stravinsky – Elegie for viola solo (1944)
Milton Babbitt – Play It Again, Sam for viola solo (1989)
Paul Hindemith Sonata for Viola Solo, Op. 25, No. 1
Hall Overton – Sonata for Viola and Piano (1960)
FREE tickets available October 10 at the Juilliard Box Office

Tuesday, April 7, 8 PM, Alice Tully Hall, 65th Street and Broadway
Juilliard String Quartet
Felix Mendelssohn – Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12
Richard Wernick, String Quartet No. 7 (New York premiere)
Maurice Ravel – Quartet
FREE tickets available March 24 at the Juilliard Box Office

Wednesday, April 15, 8 PM, Alice Tully Hall, 65th Street and Broadway
Juilliard String Quartet Plays Haydn
Works by Franz Joseph Haydn:
Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2
FREE tickets available March 24 at the Juilliard Box Office

Wednesday, April 29, 8 PM, The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 155 West 65th Street
Judith LeClair, bassoon
Robert Langevin, flute
Jonathan Feldman, piano
Program to be announced
FREE tickets available April 15 at the Juilliard Box Office
Tickets are FREE to all concerts. For further information, call the Juilliard Box Office at (212) 769-7406 or go to www.juilliard.edu.