ANDREW VON OEYEN, piano
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2008 ~ 7:30 PM
MARTHA-ELLEN TYE RECITAL HALL, ISU
Free Workshop
At 4 p.m., on Sunday, September 28, in the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Mr. von Oeyen will direct a master class featuring Iowa State University piano students. This event, sponsored by the ISU music department with the support of the Alvin Edgar Fund., is free and open to the public.
Saturday Program and Reception
Bach’s Partita No.2 in C Minor, three pieces from Debussy’s Preludes, Book I, “Vallee d’Obermann from Liszt’s Annees de pelerinage, and Schumann’s Carnaval.
A reception will follow the concert and members of the audience will be able to talk with Mr. von Oeyen.
The Ames Town & Gown Chamber Music Association opens its 2008-2009 concert season with pianist Andrew von Oeyen.
Mr. von Oeyen began his piano studies at age five and made his solo concert debut at age ten. He has already established himself as one of the most captivating pianists of his generation.
Since his orchestra debut at age 17 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andrew von Oeyen has performed with great orchestras worldwide, including a recent last-minute replacement for a soloist with the Detroit Symphony under Vladimir Ashkenazy.
In 1998, after graduating from Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, California, he moved to New York to study at the Julliard School and Columbia University. In 1999 he won the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist AwardAward; and he won first prize in the Leni Fe Bland Foundation National Competition in 2001. Since that time, his solo recitals throughout the country have garnered high praise. In the words of the Chicago Tribune, “Brilliant techniques can be taken for granted among today’s concert pianists, but von Oeyen’s playing goes a step further. He leaves you convinced that he can do absolutely anything he likes with a keyboard.”
His performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio, and he has been a featured guest on NPR’s “Performance Today.” Presently, he lives in New York and Paris. He has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago’s Grant Park Festival Orchestra, and the Slovak Philharmonic, among others. He has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Ravinia Festival, and throughout Japan.
His appearance in Ames will follow closely on his debut with the Chicago Symphony.
Mr. von Oeyen’s appearance in Ames will follow closely his debut with the Chicago Symphony. In the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall,
The concert on September 27 is presented in cooperation with the ISU Department of Music and with financial support from the Commission of the Arts (COTA), the many Ames Town & Gown season ticket holders and its individual and business donors.