Sundays with Classics
From Brazil, Flavio Varani

Flavio Varani will perform mostly compositions by French composers.

Varani's new French composers CD will also be available for sale.

Tickets are as follows:

$20.00 for general admission,
$10.00 for the Steinway Society members.

Please call 248.310.0877 for tickets or email Cathy Loudon.

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FLAVIO VARANI

Born: Sao Paulo, Brazil 

Flavio Varani began his distinguished piano performance career at the age of 7 as a featured soloist on Brazilian Radio and TV. Two years later he toured with the Brazilian National Symphony Orchestra. At 13 he received a scholarship from the French Government to study with the legendary Magda Tagliaferro in France. 

Mr Varani, based in Paris for seven years, was heard in concerts in the Russie and Europe. When he was 18 years old he won First Prize at the Chopin International Competition in Majorca, Spain. In the United States he studied with Rosina Lhevinne and Artur Balsam at the Julliard School of Music. He later received the prestigiuous Harold Bauer Award from Manhattan School of Music. 

Flavio Varani has performed in major music centers and festivals throughout the world including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Moscow Conservatory, Munich Gasteig, the Newport Music Festival, Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Meadow Brook Festival and the Cotignac Festival in France. Among his numerous orchestral engagements have been appearances with conductors Gunther Herbig, Sir Neville Marriner, Semyon Bychkov, Lukas Foss, Eleazar de Carvalho, Eduardo Rahn, Constantin Becker, Roberto Minczuk e Georg Schmöhe. 

Among his many awards are : “Musician of the Year” from the Michigan Foundation for the Arts; “Best Soloist of the Year” from the Brazilian Art Critic's Association; and from the Detroit Music Foundation, “Outstanding Classical instrumentalist of 2001”. In 2003, Flavio Varani was awarded a gold medal in honor of his years performing as a Steinway Artist. 

Flavio Varani returns annually to Japan as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. In the year 2000, he joined the concert-master and principal cellist of the "Orchestre National de France" to form the Gallia Trio. Their successful inaugural concerts in Tokyo resulted in yearly return engagements to Japan and in concert tours of Brazil. 

His CD of Heitor Villa-Lobos piano music was designated “Outstanding Classical Recording of 1999” by the Detroit Music Foundation, USA. In 2005, he collaborated with Eduard Perrone and musicians of the DSO, recording a “Fantaisie for piano and orchestra” and 40 solo piano pieces representing the entire piano output of Paul Paray. Most recently, in the Glenn Gould Studios/Toronto, he recorded all the Etudes by Debussy and Miroirs by Ravel, (to be released in 2012). 

When not on tour, Mr. Varani divides his time between Brazil and the United States

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Sundays with Classics
Katherine Collier and Yizhak Schotten

The repertore will consist of Haydn, Brahms, Prokofiev, and Kreisler.

We'll provide more details at a later date.

Tickets are as follows:

$20.00 for general admission,
$10.00 for the Steinway Society members.

Please call 248.310.0877 for tickets or email Cathy Loudon.

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Katherine Collier and her husband, violist Yizhak Schotten, are founders and music directors of the Maui Classical Music Festival in Hawaii and were music directors of the Strings Music Festival in Colorado for fifteen years.A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, she was awarded the Performer's Certificate and was the winner of the National Young Artist's Competition and the National Cliburn Scholarship Competition, and was the recipient of a Rockefeller Award.  She won a Kemper Educational Grant for postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music in London, England. Ms. Collier has been soloist with numerous orchestras and is an active recording artist. She is on the University of Michigan faculty in Ann Arbor and tours extensively with her husband.

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He has also performed at Tanglewood, Chamber Music Northwest, Montreal, Skaneateles, Juneau, Festival Internacional de Musica Clasica in Mexico, Taipei Philharmonic Festival in Taiwan, and the Amsterdam Kamermuziek Festival in Holland.

He is Music Director of the Maui Classical Music Festival in Hawaii and was director of the Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado for fifteen years. 

Schotten's numerous recordings have been critically acclaimed by STRAD Magazine, chosen for three months as "Critic's Choice" in High Fidelity Magazine, and included on Pearl Records "History of the Recording of the World's Finest Violists."

Sundays with Classics
Mostly Debussy

Please save the date for our November 11th concert: Lori Sims from Western Michigan University will perform mostly Debussy in this program.

More details soon.

Tickets are as follows:

$20.00 for general admission,
$10.00 for the Steinway Society members.

Please call 248.310.0877 for tickets or email Cathy Loudon.

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Sundays with Classics
Piano Extravaganza - A 12 piano concert

This concert will include Michigan pianists performing works of Gershwin, Souza, Rossini, Bach and more.

Producer: Judith Moslak

Children are welcome to this family friendly program! (No age limit)

Tickets:
Steinway Society members: $15.00
Non-members: $20.00

Please call (248) 560-9200 for tickets or email Cathy Loudon.

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For more information: Call Judy Moslak
at 248-496-3808

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Biography for Judith Moslak
Producer, A GRAND Extravaganza!

After retiring from teaching public school vocal music in Farmington Public Schools, Ms. Moslak founded the Orchard Lake Philharmonic Society (OLPS), co-sponsor of A GRAND Extravaganza!, and serves as its President.   

Being a private piano teacher, Ms. Moslak is also actively involved in several area piano teacher organizations: Livonia Area Piano Teachers Forum, where she co-chaired the student Monster Concerts; Oakland Piano Teachers' Forum (Past President), where she produces a student piano ensemble recital each year; Friends of Four Hands (Past Vice President), where she enjoys playing piano ensembles with her friends. 

Ms. Moslak is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Madonna University, teaching music education classes to future classroom teachers and training music majors to become certified music teachers.

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 Inspired by the work of John Kozar, publisher of the original manuscripts of the First Piano Quartet and producer of spectacular multi-piano ensemble concerts in New York and other cities, Ms. Moslak decided to produce a scaled-down version in our area! Since she is actively involved in many piano teacher organizations, she was able to attract 37 pianists to join her in the effort. This includes her dear friends, Steinway Artists Yuki and Tomoko Mack and Kazimierz Brzozowski! 

Ms. Moslak is thrilled to work with such enthusiastic participants and is very grateful to Tim Hoy and the entire Steinway Piano Gallery staff for their support of this project. 

If you would like to read more about this, please visit www.JudyMoslak.com and www.OLPSmusic.org

Joel Hastings Performance

We'll provide program information soon, but we wanted to let you know the dates of this Steinway Society performance so you can hold the date in your calendars!

The program will consist of Rachmaninoff, César Franck, George Gershwin/Percy Grainger, Carter Pann, and Franz Liszt.

Tickets are as follows:

$20.00 for general admission,
$10.00 for the Steinway Society members.

Please call 248.310.0877 for tickets or email Cathy Loudon.

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Joel Hastings Biography

Canadian-born Joel Hastings was the winner of the 2006 8th International Web Concert Hall Competition and the 1993 International Bach Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
After delivering a stunning performance at the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, one reporter designated Hastings the "audience favorite" while another declared, "the kinetic fingers of this young Canadian reminded me strongly of his late countryman, Glenn Gould." In a Newsweek review he "pulled the audience to their feet after a wild performance of Franz Liszt's Totentanz." Reviewers have described his playing as passionate, mesmerizing, hypnotic, and transcendental.

A Steinway Artist, Hastings has performed solo recitals across Canada and the United States, while his orchestral engagements have included the Toronto Philharmonic; the Detroit, Ann Arbor, Oakville, Okanagan, Windsor, Kamloops, Niagara, Racine, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie and the University of Michigan Symphonies and Symphony Band; the Kitchener-Waterloo and Michigan Chamber Orchestras; the Huntsville Festival Orchestra and the Ann Arbor Concert Band. Recently, he performed at the American Liszt Society National Festival and at the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival. This coming season, he will play concerts in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Virginia, North Carolina and at the Florida State Music Teachers Annual Conference in Daytona Beach. Acclaimed American composer Carter Pann has written a new piano cycle dedicated to him that he will be premiering this year.

His discography includes Franz Liszt's song and operatic transcriptions, Frederic Chopin's 24 Etudes, and selections of works by Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn, and Scriabin. His latest CD, Songs and Dances, includes works by Grieg and Respighi with transcriptions of music by Bach, Schubert, Wagner and Gershwin. His recordings have been selected for Canadian critic's awards and featured on CBC national radio as well numerous stations throughout the United States.

Hastings earned his ARCT diplomas in piano and organ from the Royal Conservatory of Music, receiving a gold medal for the highest score in the country. He holds a doctorate in piano and a degree in organ from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His teachers have included Nina Lelchuk, Louis Nagel, Logan Skelton, Sergei Babayan and Robert Glasgow. As a student at the University of Michigan, he won the school's concerto competition three consecutive times. Across North America and abroad, he has given masterclasses and adjudicated competitions, and has taught piano performance at the University of Windsor and Eastern Michigan University. Currently he is an assistant professor of piano at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

All Russian Composers

Join us for an evening concert with Ivan Moshchuk All Russian Composer's Concert

This all Russian program will consist of Medtner, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff.

The program will also include some works that Horowitz performed himself.

Click here to download artist biography

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Program:

(No intermission)

Pieces Horowitz performed are marked by an asterisk:

Nikolay Medtner (1880-1951)
Fairy Tale in A major Op. 51 No. 3*
Sonata 'Reminiscenza' Op. 38 No. 1

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Sonata No. 2 in G-Sharp minor Op. 19
i. Andante
ii. Presto

Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Preludes from Op. 23
No. 3 in D minor
No. 4 in D major

Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat minor Op. 36 (Revised 1931)*
i. Allegro agitato
ii. Non allegro
iii. Allegro molto