Alfred Brendel - "Viewpoints on Music"; Juilliard Presents Two Programs with Pianist Alfred Brendel on November 19 and 22 in Partnership with Carnegie Hall

Legendary pianist Alfred Brendel shares his viewpoint on music with students and the general public as a lecturer and musical coach in his first New York residency since retiring from the concert stage. Two public programs frame a four-day educational residency based at Juilliard and presented by Juilliard in partnership with Carnegie Hall. Alfred Brendel discusses Light and Shade of Interpretation to open his residency on Thursday, November 19 at 6 PM in Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater (155 West 65^th Street). He focuses on performance practice, interpretation, and the process of approaching the work of particular composers and will perform examples on the piano. These ideas are put into practice in a chamber music concert featuring works by Schubert on Sunday, November 22 at 2 PM, also in The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, programmed and coached especially by Mr. Brendel, featuring musicians of Juilliard and The Academy - a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

Tickets for the talk on November 19 are $10; FREE tickets are required for the November 22 concert. Tickets for both events are available beginning November 5 at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard (155 West 65^th Street). Box Office hours are Monday through Friday from 11 AM to 6 PM. For further information, call (212) 769-7406 or go to www.juilliard.edu.

The program for the November 22 features works by Schubert: Der Schiffer, D. 536 (Mayrofer), Nachtstück, D 672 (Mayrofer), and Wilkommen und Abschied, (first version) D. 767 (Goethe) with tenor Paul Appleby and pianist Natalia Katyukova; Impromptu No. 3 in B-flat Major, D. 935 with pianist Rachel Kudo; Piano Trio in E-flat ‘Notturno,' D. 897 with pianist Gregory DeTurck, violinist Joanna Frankel, and cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir; From Three Klavierstücke, D. 946 with pianist Angelina Gadeliya; and Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965 (Müller)with soprano Devon Guthrie, clarinetist Moran Katz, and pianist Erika Switzer. Mr. Brendel will be coaching the musicians at Juilliard on November 18, 20, and 21 for the November 22 concert.

For 60 years, pianist Alfred Brendel has enjoyed a distinguished international career concentrating on the works of central European composers from Bach to Schoenberg, with particular recognition for his landmark performances and recordings of the complete piano works of Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert. He has been a champion, also, for the works of Liszt and was influential in getting the Schoenberg Piano Concerto recognized as an integral part of the piano repertoire. He has performed regularly at the world's major musical centers and festivals, and with virtually all of the leading orchestras and conductors. His extensive discography for Philips Classics has made him one of the most respected artists of our time. Mr. Brendel performed his final concert December 18, 2008 with the Vienna Philharmonic.

This season, Mr. Brendel tours North America to lecture at Yale, Berkeley, Orange County for the Performing Arts, Princeton, and for the Washington (D.C) Performing Arts Society. He lectures and leads residencies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and at The Juilliard School, co-sponsored by Carnegie Hall, in New York. In Europe, he has lectured at the Klavier Festival Ruhr, at Baden-Baden, and at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, in Dusseldorf and Weimar, and speaks this season in Dresden, Dublin, Vienna and Istanbul.

Alfred Brendel has received honorary degrees from many universities, including Oxford and Yale, and was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1989 for his "Outstanding Services to Music in Britain," where he has made his home since 1972. In 1992 he received the Hans von Bülow Medal from the Berlin Philharmonic and was granted Honorary Membership in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in December 1998. In 2001 he was presented with "Lifetime Achievement" awards at both the MIDEM Cannes Classical Awards and the Edison Awards in Holland, as well as the prestigious "Beethoven Ring" in Vienna. He has received the Léonie Sonning Prize, the Furtwängler Prize for Musical Interpretation, and the Robert Schumann Prize, as well as the 2004 Ernst von Siemens Prize, the 2007 Arthur Rubinstein Prize in Venice, the 2008 Karajan Prize, and was named Praemium Imperiale Laureate by the Japan Art Association in 2009.

Besides music, literature has remained Alfred Brendel's foremost interest and second occupation. He has published two books of essays, Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out, and a volume of collected essays, Alfred Brendel on Music, was published in January 2001 to mark his 70^th birthday. His many published collections of poetry have been translated into French, Italian and Dutch - "A collection of texts which can be numbered among the sparse ranks of genuinely comic literature and which make their author possibly ‘immortal.'" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). Two collections, One Finger Too Many (Random House) and Cursing Bagels (Faber & Faber) are available in English. A book of conversations with Martin Meyer, Ausgerechnet ich, was published in 2001, with the English version (2002) bearing the title, Me, of All People.

For Concert Listings:

Alfred Brendel - Viewpoints on Music

Mr. Brendel's New York residency is presented by Juilliard in partnership with Carnegie Hall

Tuesday, November 19, 6 PM

Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater (155 West 65^th Street)

Lecture: Light and Shade of Interpretation

Sunday, November 22, 2 PM

Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Concert featuring works by Schubert performed by musicians from Juilliard and The Academy - a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

Der Schiffer, D. 536 (Mayrofer)

Nachtstück, D 672 (Mayrofer)

Wilkommen und Abschied, (first version) D. 767 (Goethe)

Tenor Paul Appleby and Pianist Natalia Katyukova

Impromptu No. 3 in B-flat Major, D. 935

Pianist Rachel Kudo

Piano Trio in E-flat ‘Notturno,' D. 897

Pianist Gregory DeTruck, Violinist Joanna Frankel, and Cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir

From Three Klavierstücke, D. 946

Pianist Angelina Gadeliya

Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965 (Müller)

Soprano Devon Guthrie, Clarinetist Moran Katz, and Pianist Erika Switzer.

Tickets for the talk on November 19 are $10; FREE tickets are required for the November 22 concert. Tickets for both events are available beginning November 5 at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard (155 West 65^th Street). For further information, call (212) 769-7406 or go to www.juilliard.edu.