Pianist Tomer Gewirtzman Performs Juilliard's 7th Annual Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Recital on Friday, November 30, 2018, at 7:30pm in Weill Recital Hall

Program Features Works by Beethoven, Brahms, Medtner, Scriabin, and Shostakovich

NEW YORK –– Juilliard presents pianist Tomer Gewirtzman at Weill Recital Hall on Friday, November 30, 2018, at 7:30pm performing Juilliard’s seventh annual Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Recital. The program features Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, Op. 87, No. 24; Beethoven’s Andante favori in F Major, WoO 57; Medtner’s Fairy Tale, Op. 51, No. 3; Scriabin’s Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 19 and Three Etudes, Op. 65; and Brahms’ Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5. 

Free tickets will be available on the day of the recital beginning at 7pm at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street.

The Juilliard School is deeply grateful for the gift from the Estate of Leo B. Ruiz, which is making this recital possible. Leo B. Ruiz was founder and executive director of Artists International Presentations, Inc., a nonprofit organization that promoted talented artists from all over the world from 1972 to 2009, including many musicians from Juilliard. Thanks to his passion for presenting young musicians to the world, and to his generous gift, Juilliard is now able to award a recital at Weill Recital Hall to one gifted young artist each year. This recital program honors the legacy of Ruiz, a generous individual who had a great impact on the careers of many performing artists.

About Tomer Gewirtzman

Hailed by The Washington Post as an artist of “formidable virtuosity and stylistic sensitivity,” pianist Tomer Gewirtzman has impressed audiences around the world. His performances with orchestra have taken him from New York’s Carnegie Hall (the Bartók Concerto No. 3 with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by David Robertson), to Israel (with the Israel Philharmonic, Israel Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, Israeli Chamber Orchestra and New Haifa Symphony Orchestra) to St. Petersburg, Russia (with the Mariinsky Orchestra) to locations throughout the U.S. (with the Charlottesville Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, the Aspen Concert Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony, North-West Florida Symphony, Bucks County Symphony and South Arkansas Symphony).

This season, Gewirtzman gives numerous performances and educational residences as a Fellow of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect and this recital at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall as the winner of Juilliard’s Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Recital Award. He won first prize and five performance prizes at the 2015 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and gave recital debuts on the YCA series in New York and in Washington, D.C. (co-sponsored by the Washington Performing Arts series).

Tomer Gewirtzman earned his master’s degree and Artist Diploma from Juilliard, where he worked with Sergei Babayan, won Juilliard’s Concerto Competition, and received the Kovner Fellowship award. His bachelor’s degree is from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv, where he studied with Arie Vardi.

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Program Listing:

Friday, November 30, 2018, 7:30pm, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

Juilliard’s 7th Annual Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Recital

 

SHOSTAKOVICH Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, Op. 87, No. 24

BEETHOVEN Andante favori in F Major, WoO 57

MEDTNER Fairy Tale, Op. 51, No. 3

SCRIABIN Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 19

SCRIABIN Three Etudes, Op. 65

BRAHMS Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5

 

Free tickets will be available on the day of the recital beginning at 7pm at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street.