Piano Master Class with Daniel Lessner
Fri, April 25th, 2008
4:15 pm
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Master Class in piano with Daniel Lessner.
Daniel Lessner returns to Williams after joining conductor Ronald Feldman and the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra to perform Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto in December 2007. This evening of music will include Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, opus 13.
Lessner has thrilled audiences around the world with his dazzling performances and poetic interpretations of the great masterworks of the piano repertoire. Critics have hailed his playing as “brilliant and blazing” and have called him “a musician of pristine artistic taste and discernment.”
Lessner has won countless local and national prizes, including the Irene Muir Scholarship Award for the top young talent in the state of Florida and the First Prize award at the acclaimed Interlochen Music Camp’s Concerto Competition, and the Tchaikovsky Concerto Competition which he performed with the Juilliard Orchestra in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, under the baton of Massimo Freccia.
Mr. Lessner was a winner in the sixth Palm Beach International Piano Competition, and was the only American to reach the finals. He was recognized for most outstanding performance in the works of Chopin and Liszt, and also performed the Goldberg Variations of Bach. As a result, he was contracted by the Orchestra de San Luis for a special concert tour throughout Argentina and South America, where he performed the Beethoven Concerto #4 in G.
Mr. Lessner will perform a Piano Recital on April 26 at 8:00pm in Chapin Hall.