by Daniel Hathaway
Today at Noon, Yaron Kohlberg, president of PianoCleveland and second prize winner in the 2007 Cleveland International Piano Competition will play a one-hour concert in the Atrium of the Cleveland Museum of art, and just around the corner, organist Oziah Wales will play J.S. Bach, J.C. Bach, and Johann Pachelbel at the Church of the Covenant (the Covenant recital will also be live streamed).
For details of these and other events, visit our Concert Listings.
NEWS BRIEFS:
Byron Janis, 95. The Hollywood Reporter notes that “Byron Janis, the celebrated classical pianist who studied with Vladimir Horowitz, recorded previously unknown Chopin waltzes from manuscripts he unearthed and became a cultural hero in the U.S. after performing in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, has died.” Read the obituary here.
NEW HENLE PRIZE FOR CIPC
PianoCleveland writes that “G. Henle Verlag, publisher of the world’s most authoritative editions of classical sheet music, has announced it will sponsor an award named the G. Henle Verlag Urtext Prize for the 2024 Cleveland International Piano Competition (CIPC). [Read more…]